''Year Of The Hare''


They stole all my time and ate all my space...
Sleeve - Front

Sleeve - Back




Stats: 

Tracks: Year Of The Hare B/W California Cold
Year: June 16, 2015
Label: Deathwish DW172
Matrix A: 128650E1/A
Matrix B: 128650E2/A

Pressing Info: 
First Press (Thanks to Rich Rossi @ Deathwish for info):
Black Vinyl - 2048
White Vinyl - 735
Gold Vinyl - 263
Black / Gold Split Vinyl - 53

Inserts:
Lyric sheet (double-sided)
Large poster (single-sided)

Variants:
Four vinyl variants (colour) as above and so below.










Notes:



It comes with a loopy video  "built to piss you off and drive you crazy, play with it now on your computer when u get home: yearofthehare.fuckedup.cc"






Jonah said:
Making this song fractured was important. It was done after the lyrics were written. The lyrics, which are Mike’s, vaguely detail a person unraveling. “Too many ticks, not enough tocks.” In order to make this song interesting, the song had started to take on the qualities of the lyrics itself. Usually you write lyrics to what’s the mood, or if you try to upset that. With this we had the opposite. We had a song which had a set of qualities. Generally speaking, they were standard for Fucked Up. Then the lyrics were written. Then the song was changed to fit the lyrics. It didn’t get changed tonally. It got changed structurally in a very artificial way with gaps. This is representative of a different adaptation of song craft- maybe it’s a focus on technology over the instruments themselves, which drives people to madness sometimes- the loss of the physical world. All of these things which are going away, which were taken for granted- the physical is becoming fetish. And here we have this song, with these people and these instruments, which is supposed to be the most direct line between the participants, the producer, and the receiver, and it’s really being disrupted by the technology in the way. In some way, the format of songwriting itself is being disrupted.



Mike described it to someone like this:


"The theme of 'Year of the Hare' focuses on time, and becoming lost in it.  The modern way of life, getting stuck in time-sucking gadgets and trends, stress and scheduling. This unsolvable video we thought was an appropriate way to premiere the song online - in small little chunks of time that are impossible to navigate through, you can only get lost in them and try to find your way out."


Or in other words:


..
There's a good article with more info HERE.


Alternatively...




Hear hare HERE

S - Slow
W - Fast
I - Incredibly fast
N - New loop
K - Upside down

R - Upside down
U - Upside down

Space Bar - Stop
Enter - Start

USE YOUR KEYBOARD TO ESCAPE THE LOOPS




Source Material 


Like the character's friend, the Hatter, the March Hare feels compelled to always behave as though it is tea-time because the Hatter supposedly "murdered the time" whilst singing for the Queen of Hearts.



Pikachu - the first "Electric-type" Pokémon created, their design intended to revolve around the concept of electricity.






Sleeve Notes

FU FB Post - 06 March 2015
EXCITED for this one. FU have been fans of converge since we were teen agers. HARE is one of the weirdest FU songs in a long time. Jake Bannon artwork. Trippy bside. Cinematic editing. June 16. 



J Banon FB Post - 06 March 2015:
Full wild illustration/collage for the Fucked Up "Year of the Hare" 12"EP, due out on Deathwish Inc. June 16th. My goal was to create something in my style that captured the energy and texture of the music. I'm not particularly good at bunnies, so I went with a human figure adorned with rabbit ears. Just as fitting. Thanks people. -J.





Commodity Fetishism

"Hairy Testies"




Should be swinking...

swink
noun


Definition of SWINK

archaic

: labour, drudgery







R U?





D.I. but not quite Y.

EDIT (Too much information)

I had a copy of Looking For Gold that was missing a back panel...

Russ appears on  mixtape 5,  does Salem Rages and cool sketches, and provides security at FU shows, he's been to more than 30 fucked up gigs and he made this new sketch x cut & paste back panel:

Property of Russ

Happy Christmas

This picture shows a message to Luke Mumford of Genetic Angry, on the back of the Halloween poster in the previous post. The message is from Dave Brown, drummer of Career Suicide, who is pictured pumping a fist in the show picture in the previous post and is also the Richard Branson of Sewercide Records...


Here are the first three Sewercide Records. The Genetic Angry 7" in the centre with the plain black sleeve was the second release.

Happy Halloween


Flyer for the 2005 Halloween show - thanks to Luke Mumford for the picture.
The poster includes a message on the back, more about that later. 

Picture from the show, used in the inaugral post on LFG Nov 2005.
Image copied from Ryan Media - click HERE for more pics


"16mm footage of FU performing with pumpkins on their heads, random shots of a record swap in Toronto in 2005, and a couple shots at CIUT while Equalizing Distort is on air - all set to "Color removal" by FU"

What am I, a small creature measuring seven spans of my own hand?


I am enclosed in a pot like universe composed of material nature, the total material energy, false ego, ether, air, water and earth. 



And what is Your glory? Unlimited universes pass through the pores of Your body just as particles of dust pass through the openings of a screened window.


(Bhagavata Purana 10.14.11)

Seedy Arse

Forget vinyl, these things are the future



Highlights include:

  • Different artwork
  • Alternative edit of "Queen of Hearts"
  • ChemMod CD (Similar to ChemCom CD but newer and not so common)
  • The promo stickers referring to shows in London...
Sharing sweat at shows ... collecting promo CDRs... posting pictures of them on the internet = "the decline of being into having and having into merely appearing" (Guy Debord)

Zineography


The Interview site was playing up, so I deleted the link - it's working again now, so there's a new link  there >>>>> on the 'Links' menu. A few scans have also been added:

Epics Ink Sketches #1


There is a stinking in the air but we have learned not to care...



Comps

Now that most of the FU records are safely catalogued (Just Glass Boys to go) I'll be adding a few vinyl compilations and solo projects etc...


Fucked Up + Photocopied


Finally, got hold of a photocopied No Pasaran (above right). These are hand-made pocket sleeves, photocopied, folded, pasted and assembled, probably with loving care, before the proper sleeves arrived. They were given away or sold at early shows, so it's the first available verision of the first 7" and worth a few punk points, even though it looks a bit shonky. This one was given to a member of the Satanic Surfers at a show in Toronto, linking it to the 05/27/02 date below.


More Shouty Shit

"Voce Rubata" (translation: "Stolen Voice") featuring members of the Canadian Opera Company, inspired by "the misleading illusions of liberty and the voice."






Epics in Baiting



Will & Fred




The last man is a term used  Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra to describe the antithesis of the imagined superior being, the Übermensch, whose imminent appearance is heralded by Zarathustra. The last man is tired of life, takes no risks, and seeks only comfort and security.

The last men claim to have discovered happiness, but ''BLINK'' every time they say so.
(That's from Wikipedia, so it's definitely true)




'What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?' thus asks the last man, and blinks. 
The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race is as ineradicable as the flea; the last man lives longest. 'We have invented happiness,'say the last men, and they blink. They have left the regions where it was hard to live, for one needs warmth. One still loves one's neighbor and rubs against him, for one needs warmth...
One still works, for work is a form of entertainment. But one is careful lest the entertainment be too harrowing. One no longer becomes poor or rich: both require too much exertion. Who still wants to rule? Who obey? Both require too much exertion.
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
'Formerly, all the world was mad,' say the most refined, and they blink...
One has one's little pleasure for the day and one's little pleasure for the night: but one has a regard for health.
'We have invented happiness,' say the last men, and they blink."

The Other Side



"Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. 


Paris - May 1968

Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes. The day after the fall of Khrushchev, the editors of Pravda, Izvestiia, the heads of the radio and television were replaced; the army wasn't called out. Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications". 
Umberto Eco



Paris - January 2015:
Leaders, leading...








...huge crowds in unity rally