I had a horrible realization today when I was planning finishing the final “lost” issue of Thumb zine; Thumb #13; the art vs. music issue. Turns out that it is indeed more “lost” than I knew, as it went to digital dust with a new backup drive I bought earlier in 2007 which crashed a couple weeks after. I got it to clear up some space on my hard drive and back up everything as well, instead it cleared up much space than intended, including the unpublished interviews with Black Dice, FS Blumm, Paper Rad, Cory Arcangel, Kim Hiorthøy, Christopher Forgues/Kites, Forcefield, 100’s of Mom’s record reviews, as well as unpublished artwork by the late John Fahey. As it turns out these pieces of artwork have since been lost as well by their owner, so most of these scans were the only remaining documents.
I was planning to do follow up interview, to compare then and now, and make it all happen in the new year. I’m not really sure what to say about this, but I guess 2007 was a good year for losing things for me, so I’m looking forward to the new.
I took this photo of the side of a truck in LA outside my brother’s hotel. It has nothing to do with anything.
shit! i hate to lose things like that…
sorry man
this is sad news
this is sad news
mom album reviews??? suck.
truly a loss– mom reviews seem priceless in their spontaneity. FS Blumm –I imagine you had knowing Q’s for him. but were the interviews in email..? you could recover?..?
sorry for your data loss.
i’ve been lately doing really airbrushy stuff like those water drops.
the interviews were really old, like the FS Blumm one was from before i’d worked with him or toured together. i might still have cassettes with the interviews, but the idea was to do new interviews-to rpint along side the old ones. i can’t recover any of the mom’s reviews though, and i’d built up the biggest collection of those.
more great art lost from the digital age.
what a heart break! you’ll just have to start a new thumb from scratch. do it! i love the issue you gave me.