“Oh my mama Gina had a sister Angelina…
And if there is a heaven… Though I believe there’s no heaven… she’s probably dancing with you. She liked to dance. She would’ve liked you… When my pretty girlfriend heard you’d died… she cried and cried and cried.” –Mama Gina, 1000 Hurts
Technically he died yesterday but we didn’t find out until today. We were all big fans. Like I keep saying ‘they are the lucky ones. The rest of us have to go on with our lives without them.’
Here’s my favorite quote from my favorite Shellac song (the rest of this is just ripped from wikipedia);
“To the one true god above, here is my prayer. Not the first you’ve heard, but the first I wrote. Not the first but the others were a long time ago. There are two people here, and I want you to kill them…
Her she can go quietly by disease or a blow. To the base of her neck where her necklaces close, where her gardens come together, where I used to lay my face. That’s where you oughtta kill her, in that particular place..
Him just fucking kill him I don’t care if it hurts. Yes I do, I want it to. Fucking kill him but first, make him cry like a woman–no particular woman. Let him hold out, hold fast… Someone or other might come and FUCKING KILL HIM, FUCKING KILL HIM. Kill him just fucking kill him. Kill him fucking kill him, Kill him already kill him. Kill him fucking kill him, kill him just fucking kill him.
AH FUCKING KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM ALREADY KILL HIM KILL HIM FUCKING KILL HIM KILL HIM ALREADY KILL HIM ALREADY…
Kill him, fucking kill him. Kill him just fucking kill him. Kill him, fucking kill him, fucking kill him.
AMEN.”
Albini was born in Pasadena, California, to Gina (née Martinelli) and Frank Addison Albini. On his birth certificate, the middle name section says “(None)” as his father refused to leave it blank.[4] His father was a wildfire researcher. He had two siblings.[5][6][7][8] In his youth, Albini’s family moved often, before settling in the college town of Missoula, Montana, in 1974.[5] Albini was Italian American, and some of his family are from the Piedmont region of Northern Italy.[6]
While recovering from a broken leg, Albini began playing bass guitar and participated in bass lessons in high school for one week. He was introduced to the Ramones by a schoolmate on a field trip when he was 14 or 15. He felt it was the best music he had ever heard and bought every Ramones recording available to him, and credits his music career to hearing their first album.[5][9][10] He said, “I was baffled and thrilled by music like the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Pere Ubu, Devo, and all those contemporaneous, inspirational punk bands without wanting to try to mimic them.”[11]
During his teenage years, Albini played in bands including the Montana punk band Just Ducky, the Chicago band Small Irregular Pieces of Aluminum, Stations, and another band that record label Touch and Go/Quarterstick Records explained “he [Albini] is paying us not to mention”.[12]
After graduating from Hellgate High School,[Albini moved to Evanston, Illinois, to attend college at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where he earned a degree in journalism.[13] He said that he studied painting in college with Ed Paschke, someone he calls a brilliant educator and “one of the only people in college who actually taught me anything”.[14]
In the Chicago area, Albini was active as a writer in local zines including Matter and Forced Exposure, covering the then-nascent punk rock scene, and gained a reputation for the iconoclastic nature of his articles. About the same time, he began recording musicians and engineered his first album in 1981. He co-managed Ruthless Records (Chicago) with John Kezdy of the Effigies and Jon Babbin (Criminal IQ Records). According to Albini, he maintained a “straight job” for five years until 1987, working in a photography studio as a photograph retouch artist.
Also a personal plug if you don’t mind (we’re sad but that doesn’t stop us from needing money to live); we’re trying to open a physical store instead of just being online like we have been since there was only an AOL and Prodigy.
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