some velvet sidewalk    APPETITE FOR EXTINCTION recorded 1987-1989 released 1990
	Appetite for Extinction was a revolutionary album - it changed my life. We did everything as wrong as we could (and some things wrong because we only could) down to keeping it as devastatingly simple and poetic as our lives. Leaves of Grass? How 'bout shattered glass? Things were easy like that. One thing we were very into during this time was self-promotion and using that to create a context for ourselves. We put out a lot of little one- or two-sheet fanzines with names like Snakepit Magazine, some velvet sidewalk news bulletin, or True Reality Rock Report. There was also an irregular tabloid sort of publication from Portland called Snipehunt which Mike King from teh Hell Cows had started basically with the idea of getting advertisers to pay for him and his friends to be able to promote their own music or art. Needless to say we got a lot of good press in this publication and it led to a lot of good stuff for us in Portland for years to come. The little fanzines were great because once they were done they were a great reason to write people and send them the new issue. This was before email, duh, and meant a lot of envelopes and stamps. (A lot of licking gummy surfaces, really, as this was before self-sticking stamps as well.) I was writing people I'd met from Olympia like Tobi and Calvin, Tim Alborn in Boston who had gone to high school in Oregon with Robert and was writing the brilliant Incite! fanzine and had put us on his first Harriet Records compilation, and Shawn Wolfe from Ohio who was running a little tape label called Beatkt and releasing impeccably-packaged cassettes by his band Joe Kafka. It was a tremendous amount of fun and in some way that I wasn't quite sure of, I knew we were building a context for this new kind of rockin' anti-rock that we were chasing around. Appetite for Extinction page two Appetite for Extinction lyrics Shawn Wolfe article from Chemical Imbalance (1988)
	Appetite for Extinction didn't get released until sometime in 1990. When it came out it was available on LP, CD and cassette. The cassette looked somewhat like this.