OK. Dude:
I found myself in New York this weekend (and lucky me, the Pot Fest was
held this weekend as well, hehe). I strolled down to a record store in
search of Sunny Day, tracked them down, and flipped thru a pretty
extensive collection. The images on them were relatively crappy, and
there was no mention of SubPop anywhere on many of them, so I presumed
that several kids had put together compilations or live recordings or
whatever, and somehow the store bought them. There were three odd CD
covers on the rack that were simple brown paper with minimal writing. I
grabbed the perfect one, noted the handwriting looked like Jer-yummy's,
but immediately dismissed it, flipped it over to find a heart w/
"Jeremy" written in it, and thought, "How gay. Why the hell would
someone do such a corny thing as pulling the lead singer's name in a
heart? Duh."
As I was making my purchase, I asked the guy behind the counter if the
CDs where made by the public, and he half-scoffingly replied, "We get
stuff through the record companies. Sunny Day's a small enough band
that they'll make a thousand copies of a recording and distribute it."
So idiot girl here, slowly starts to piece all the glaring evidence
together, after being blinded by cynicism. The three brown covers must
have been a product of Jeremy, and whoever else, spending hours upon
hours in a studio next to a stack of live recordings, copying them onto
CDs, armed with paper bags, scissors, glue, a couple different color
pens, and cutesy little stamps, intending to identify and engineer
little pockets for those CDs. Um, dude, that seriously KICKS-ASS! That
is so EXTRAORDINARILY thoughtful, he wins many a_little_red_star for
such an endeavor.
Does anyone know anything about these? Anyone seen them? Any idea how
many exist? Am I completely off-base on them being handmade by the
demi-god himself?
I intended to scan the cover, and I will if anyone wants to see it, but
I can't do it right now...
