"I've walked across the sun. I've seen events so tiny and so fast they hardly
can be said to have occurred at all, but you... you are a man. And this world's
smartest man means no more to me than does its smartest termite."

- Dr. Manhattan, Alan Moore's WATCHMEN


Today is my 38th birthday. as i look back on where i've been during the past two
years and the trials i have faced, now it all seems like a dream.
the circumstances of my life have gone through a subtle metamorphosis in the
last month. i find myself gainfully (and enthusiastically) employed, which is in
and of itself a drastic alteration in what had become a frightening and painful
existence.
the seemingly endless series of rejections heaped upon rejections that i have
gone through since 2007 had begun to crush the absolute center of who i was, and
i'd lost sight of where i wanted my life to go. i've said numerous times in the
month since i got this job that while i am hesitant to use the phrase 'happy' to
describe myself, it is in fact a fairly applicable adjective for how i feel when
i get up and come to work every day.
after month after month of physical inactivity and self-loathing, having to
spend my days in a somewhat hot warehouse, loading and unloading trucks, packing
and hefting large crates and boxes full of solid state stereo equipment and
ridiculously large speakers, has been turning my flab into muscle mass and the
realm of my mind into a far more peaceful landscape.

While the emotional injuries i've suffered in the past year will not be easily
forgotten or forgiven, i do feel better than i have in a very long time,
physically and mentally...

This can only serve to have a positive impact on my artistic endeavours, which
have always suffered when i've found myself in financially dire straits that
lead directly to a severe disquiet of the mind. at present, there are plans in
the works for a series of new releases to come in the year ahead. It seems that
august has often been a time when annihilvs has bloomed after periods of
deathlike silence, and perhaps it's fitting that this is the month when both
myself and the label were born — and reborn.

So, what's coming? without getting ahead of myself and announcing things that
may never come to fruition (something of which i've been guilty far too often),
i can tell you the following should be going into production during the next few
months:

• a series of limited t-shirts for each artist on the current annihilvs roster

• a series of limited t-shirt/cassette/cdr releases by:

THE VOMIT ARSONIST
COREPHALLISM
CONTENT NULLITY

...and more to be confirmed, each includes collaborative material with
THEOLOGIAN

• the long-delayed and long-awaited solo cd, STUDY FOR A THEATER OF CRUELTY by
MARTIN BLADH

• new material from THEOLOGIAN and love is nothing., including a collaborative
cd release with my friends TOURNAMENT



• I've begun to post various distributed items in the GASHDIRECT section of the
annihilvs site. more is coming.



• live events in the works:

THEOLOGIAN live at the NORTHEAST NOISE & POWER ELECTRONICS FESTIVAL
november 6-8 in boston
http://lasciviousaesthetics.blogspot.com

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
STROM.EC
BLOODYMINDED
TWODEADSLUTS ONEGOODFUCK
FIRE IN THE HEAD
HALFLINGS
ANAL CUNT
THEOLOGIAN
KARLHEINZ
MARTIAL CANTEREL
CATHODE TERROR SECRETION
JAPANESE TORTURE COMEDY HOUR
SUFFERING BASTARD
COREPHALLISM
PHARMAKON
JOSH HYDEMAN
XIPHOID DEMENTIA
SHARPWAIST
ROSEMARY MALIGN
SHALLOW WATERS
NURTURE ABUSE
STILLBIRTH
VOMIT ARSONIST
SEWER GODDESS
ANAL HEARSE
SCARD
BEREFT


APEX FEST III
november 13+14 in nyc
lineup to be confirmed


That would seem to be all for the moment. as always, thank you for looking and
listening.