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City: International/based in Grand Rapids
State: Michigan
Country: US
Signup Date: 2/1/2005

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 

Current mood:  hungry
Category: Music

(SS-0109) LEVI BAILEY, BRANDON HILL, SAM SNEDEKER - FLIGHT OF THE CHEOPARD
CD $8.00 or FREE STREAM/DOWNLOAD @ ARCHIVE.ORG

Members of Clear Days Always and Hot Tapes getting together one fine afternoon in Brandon's basement to squeeze out some harsh sounds. Blistering, hateful noise. You look up just in time to see the Cheopard droppings landing on your face. You can either buy the plastic thing with the pretty pictures, or you can just listen to it for free. Either way, "fans" of "noise" should check this one out.

Coming Soon: Knox Mitchell, and more from the wonderful Lap Dancer

Love,
Self-Satisfied
Currently listening:
Superunknown
By Soundgarden
Release date: 1994-03-08
4:07 AM 
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Monday, September 08, 2008 

Current mood:  nervous
Category: Music

Today is A Paschal Circus Day at Self-Satisfied. On the very week that their new CD, "Oh Baby! Kick The Dead Horse" was to be released (Tuesday, May 20, 2008), this website took a poop. We're back online now, and letting you know, three months late, that you need to buy this CD. If you haven't heard A Paschal Circus yet, check out their music on MySpace. After being blown away by how good they are, you can buy one (or all) of the four different versions of the CD for only $8.00. More info/pics/links RIGHT HERE. Check it out!

More on the website: We're doing our best to get things in order, but you'll probably find a lot of dead links. If you get taken to a "Not Found" page, try removing "/spitforathenadir" from the address before giving up. That should work. If not, please drop us a line either at selfsatisfied[at]gmail.com or on MySpace and let us know. Thanks a lot. Besides fixing dead links, we're trying to make the whole site a bit more sexy...It's just going to take some time.

Coming Soon: Flight Of The Cheopard
Currently listening:
Blast Tyrant
By Clutch
Release date: 2004-03-30
2:57 AM 
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 

Current mood:  betrayed
Category: Music

(SS-0107)
CCCCCCC - A Crime Of Opportunity Created By Serious Human Error
CD $8.00 or FREE DOWNLOAD
(320kbps mp3s in a .zip) courtesy of steventhomasart.com

CCCCCCC was a Grand Rapids, MI band that was born in and died in 2006. Taylor Harrison (Drums), Joel Schneider (Bass), Steven Thomas (Guitar), and Phil Oleck (Guitar) were together for six months before meeting their vocalist, Levi Bailey, who answered an ad they'd put up in a local music store. They sounded a bit like At The Drive-In, Murder City Devils, and maybe a little Thursday. A few people loved them and a few people hated them. They wrote songs, fought, recorded an album in a professional studio and self-released a CD-R, fought, made some pins and stickers and t-shirts, fought, went on tour, then fell to pieces. They were smart enough to document four of their songs, and here they are. Enjoy. You can either opt for the fancy plastic CD with artwork, or just download the music from Steve's art website via the above links. Buy some art while you're there, too.

We want to get PayPal links for all of our items, so it's easier for you to blow your money on them. We want to upload all our albums to archive.org (like we did with SS-0003), so you don't have to blow your money on them. We want to make fancy posters and stickers, and send them out with every order. We want to carry more distro items, and, in turn, have more distros carry our stuff. It's really fucking hard to stay focused, though, and sometimes we're too tired to lift our arms to pull the levers and push the buttons. Please let us know if you give even half a fuck about us: It gives us a reason to keep swimming.

Coming: Lap Dancer, Clear Days Always, Knox Mitchell
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 

Current mood:  bitchy
Category: Music
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
(SSB-0056) OAT CRACKS By Levi Bailey Comic Book, $10.00

(SS-0106) SPIT FOR ATHENA - TAMMY CD, $8.00

Two very cool releases today: the new comic from Levi Bailey (creator of Cumic Straps, and the mind behind Clear Days Always), and the fourth album from Michigan "rockers" Spit For Athena. Click on the item links above for more information on both of these fine gems. The comic book is so expensive because it’s full-color, and shipping is included. If you have any questions about Spit For Athena, check out their MySpace. Check them out live, too, and you’ll get a discount on the CD.

Levi is also selling an original work of art on Etsy.com. Check out this blog entry for more information. $50.00 is a lot of money, but when this piece is sold, it’s gone. Oooh...chilling, right?

New addition to our distro section: Jon Zaremba’s amazing CD "Vigilante Romance". Check out his MySpace profile to hear some of his work. The CD ($8.00) is full of great, old-school MIDI goodness, robot music, carefully written, hateful compositions birthed from a man who has been turned away too many times. Don’t make his shitlist: buy this CD from us.

Soon: Techno Birdie, Lap Dancer, CCCCCCC
8:47 PM 
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 

Current mood:  tired
Category: Music
Currently listening:
Icarus
By The Forms
Release date: 25 February, 2003
3:25 AM 
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 

Current mood:  awake
Category: Music

(SS-0105)
CLEAR DAYS ALWAYS/FECALOVE - PASSY OUTEY/MY BODY IS AN EMPIRE OF FUN
CD, $8.00

Italy's Fecalove sent Michigan's Clear Days Always a chunk of rotting meat. Clear Days Always was disgusted and horrified. Clear Days Always could not get Fecalove out of his thoughts, and asked him to do a split. Two huge slabs of rotting noise (17:04 and 18:30, motherfuckers). Listen at maximum and die.

Soon: Spit For Athena, CCCCCCC, Terrible Terrible, Swellzombie
Currently listening:
To Record Only Water for Ten Days
By John Frusciante
Release date: 13 February, 2001
11:43 AM 
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 

Current mood:  sleepy
Category: Music
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
(SS-0103/LMR 04) TROCAR - CITYWATER CD, $8.00
(SS-0104/LMR 02) TROCAR - LIFE ON MARS/MAMBO HARDCORE 7", $8.00

Trocar was a band from Kalamazoo. Here is the band, in a certain nutshell, from the words of former member Chafe Hensley, currently of Hornet. I got this off the Leon's Temple site, a Kalamazoo music tribute database:

" Well, Trocar was a lifetime for me. Many changes, many different styles, but it always produced honest and direct forms of clanging, driving, melodic and dissonant rock jams. It was an avenue for me to connect with communities, to make good music both live and recorded and helped my growth as a person. The bonds with all the members will always be there. I love Kalamazoo.

Trocar was notoriously complicated.

Trocar helped me be a better person. Trocar had it's flaws. I'm glad it's over and I'm glad it was archived.

Check out current bands: Hornet (Kzoo), I.Me.Mine (L.A.) and Perfect Panther (Chicago).

Cheers."

Archived, indeed. Self-Satisfied is re-releasing two Trocar items that first appeared on Chafe's Kalamazoo-based Littleman Records label. The "Citywater" CD is a chunk of fucking amazing. The music fits in ridiculously well with what many bands are up to right now, and with what the guys are doing in Hornet today. Think maybe Hot Snakes with A Minor Forest, or a meaner Sunny Day Real Estate. The other item we're releasing is the clear-red vinyl 7" of "Life On Mars" and "Mambo Hardcore". Both the CD and 7" are in limited supply...when they're gone, they're fucking gone...so maybe you should get off your ass and send us your dirty money. While you're at it, buy Hornet's "Insectuous" CD from Friction Records. Hear tracks off the CD on Trocar's MySpace profile, but don't try contacting them, because it's just a tribute page thingy. To get in touch with the boys, use Hornet's profile. You can also just be a cheap fuck and download the Trocar CD from Leon's Temple, but that's a dick-move when you can own the real thing. But it IS a good way to hear the music and decide that you can't live without that shit.

I don't know what else to say. Buy Trocar stuff. Buy Hornet stuff. Buy Elle Asdee and Planet Of ID stuff. Buy the SS-0100 compilation. I guess it all comes down to THIS.

Coming: Clear Days Always/Fecalove split, The Chanteymen
Currently listening:
In Our Bedroom After the War
By Stars
Release date: 25 September, 2007
3:19 AM 
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 

Current mood:  content
Category: Music
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2007 (LATE E-MAIL)
(SS-0102) ELLE ASDEE - SE DICE VACCA NO MUCCA CD-R, $5.00
Merry Christmas. Elle Asdee, my friends. From Italy, you lucky dogs, a princess of buzz, grind, clack, hiss. Mike Patton, Omar Rodriguez, and Diamanda come to mind. Dark vibes with a sense of humor, open eyes. She's even been gracious enough to offer this fine album for FREE. Download it, enjoy it, then thank her on MySpace. Welcome to the family, dear. There will be much more to come from her in the future, so pay attention.

Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd was absolutely fucking FANTASTIC. His big "thank you" to all you fucks who didn't care for Corpse Bride or Charlie. The bitch is back, assholes.

Coming: Clear Days Always/Fecalove split, Trocar, The Chanteymen, Delightism, Techno Birdie
Currently listening:
Music for Moviebikers
By Kaada
Release date: 11 July, 2006
5:13 AM 
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 

Current mood:  bummed
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
(SS-0101) PLANET OF ID - PAYSKOOL CD-R, $5.00
Here is the Self-Satisfied debut album from Planet of ID. Those of you who bothered purchasing the SS-0100 compilation should have noticed his contribution, "Pick Of The Litter", and it should have melted something on your person or in the room you were in. This CD-R, "Payskool", was recorded entirely on a Playskool tape recorder our guy found in a thrift store in Seattle. For fans of Clear Days Always' "Smith High School", Hot Tapes, being alone with your thoughts, staring, dreaming. The beautiful spray painted CD-R comes in a slimline case, and is also available on cassette directly from Planet of ID. Contact him through his MySpace profile. Help welcome him to the family. We're really happy he's decided to work with us.

Note: I didn't realize until just today that The Blood Brothers broke up.

Note to Self-Satisfied artists who appeared on the Too Much Too Soon compilation: Please e-mail me back with your mailing address, even if you think I have it.  I have a ton of people to send copies to, and it's all a bit much.  Thanks for your help...

On Christmas: Elle Asdee

Sincerely Disgusted,
Self-Satisfied
Currently listening:
Past Worn Searching
By Rainer Maria
Release date: 02 December, 1997
12:47 AM 
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 

Current mood:  rushed
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

(SS-0100) VARIOUS ARTISTS - TOO MUCH TOO SOON: SS-0100 2 CD-Rs, $10.00
Here it is, folks. Our 100th music release. Our 3rd anniversary was yesterday, and we're celebrating today with a compilation featuring previously unreleased material from nearly every member of the Self-Satisfied family, and a few new faces. Two discs, forty-three tracks, over two hours of music. Sarah DeGram made us a nifty little cover image. The first however-many-I-feel-like-it copies will come with a cardboard jacket featuring "artwork" by Levi Bailey. Here is the mind-melting tracklist:

 DISC ONE (79:14)
1. 2 Mornings - Shadowy
2. Earwig Spectre - Ants Devour Cake
3. Clear Days Always - Dick Joke (Reading Rainblow Version feat. Rachel Goheen)
4. Hidekazu Wakabayashi - Qui Lala
5. My Doppelganger featuring Sure-lock, Ynnod, CMC, Citeznz Arrezt, Gud n' Plenny - Bike Stealers
6. Devil And The Deep Blue Sea - The Pentagram
7. Jesse Stephanopolous - All Known Do-Gooders Need Well-Prescribed Prescriptions Too, Sometimes
8. The MLB - I'm Glad
9. Holy Bubbles - Psychedelic Patrick
10. The Frenchie Perlis Organization - My Mascara Runs Faster Than You (Not-So-Final Mix)
11. The Moms - Meltidbeaphkandi
12. Spit For Athena - Knockoff
13. Sugarglider - Tamborine
14. LingLing - Re-Untitled
15. Brandon Labelle - Poem On A Tablecloth
16. Swellzombie - The Whale Swallowing
17. Uhmericken Moatoars - 22!
18. Spin And Let Go - Cookery
19. Elle Asdee - Christine et Antoine_Mitraglietta Assassina (Piccolo Interludio)_Mercredì Deuxièm    Mercredì Acidulé
20. There Is No Adam West - Chili Dog (Live, Branch County Fairgrounds, Coldwater, MI, 9/15/2001)
21. John Sands - I Don't Sin
22. Pangaea - It's Loneyl At The Top (Live, Kraftbrau Brewery, Kalamazoo , MI, 10/10/2005)

DISC TWO (79:18)
1. Stab Stab Die - Toast
2. Frank Fuzz - Little Birdie
3. Alexander T - Chocolate Vanilla
4. Mikey Die - Rest Assured (Mastered)
5. Jabba - Kids
6. The Chanteymen - Werewolves With Knives
7. Oli Gunglivash - Abboritze Pinalos (Abridged)
8. Charlie Deets - Bad Actress
9. Official Cookie Taster - Androgynous Comes To Mind
10. Groute Gate Gender - Trudgc
11. Uncarved Block - Pied Piper
12. Rabbit Girls - Elements
13. Satchel Jones - Senorita a la Casa
14. Glitterbomb - Shambles
15. Coin - Razing The Dead
16. Planet of ID - Pick Of The Litter
17. Levi Bailey and Brandon Labelle - Going Away
18. Zoon - Carpet Grain
19. Asha and His Holy Righteous Brigade - Seven Colors
20. Levi Bailey, Greig Bloom, Mark Larmee, Matt Wood - 9/26/2004
21. DLSV - It's Feeding Back/The Good Life (Blue Pencil Label Version)

This is a fucking amazing collection of music. I'm pissing-my-panties excited, and you should be, too. As far as the names you don't recognize: look for releases from Planet of ID and Elle Asdee in December, and Jabba, The Chanteymen, and Spit For Athena sometime next year...and more MORE MORE!!!

If I get all gushy and weepy, I won't know when to stop. Suffice it to say that Self-Satisfied is very important to me, and very important to the few people who bother to buy our releases. This has all been a lot of fun, and we can't see any reason to stop. We're shooting for 1000+ releases...that's why we leave that extra zero. We've made it to 100...let's see how far we can get before we all fucking die.

For Seattle people: On December 6th, you can go see Marc Palm's (and other artists') 30 paintings in 30 days for the Forgotten Works challenge. There's some details HERE. If you haven't seen the paintings yet (shame, shame), LOOK HERE.

Back to Michigan: Self-Satisfied artists Clear Days Always, The Chanteymen, and Bradley Post (performing as Gary Neason) will all be sharing the stage at Kraftbrau Brewery tomorrow (Wednesday, November 21, 2007) for the first and last time. HERE is a flyer. There will be copies of the new compilation available, so bring your fucking inheritance money, Richie Rich. Also at Kraftbrau: Friction Records Fest on December 7. Watch for updates on the Disonorato Booking MySpace page.

In other Friction Records news, owner Jeff Vandenberg and his sister have opened The Meanwhile Bar. Check it out if you're in the Grand Rapids, MI area.

Also in Grand Rapids: On December 21, members of The Frenchie Perlis Organization (including Brandon Labelle), Clear Days Always, and Coin, alongside a few other special guests, will be performing acoustic sets at the DAAC. A flyer and more information will be up soon on the Clear Days Always MySpace.

I guess that's it. See you in December.
Currently listening:
System
By Seal
Release date: 13 November, 2007
5:05 AM 
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