This will serve as the farewell post on DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE’s blog/Tumblr. We’ve had a really good run over these last 3+ years.
I started this off as an experiment in August 2012, just a place to post music-related ephemera like scans, photos and one-off streams of songs. In December 2012, I recorded the first DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO podcast, an endeavor that lasted 64 episodes, and ultimately yielded something like 600 or more “uniques” per episode, which has been fantastic for a faux radio show that’s effectively showcasing the dark and obscure corners of my mp3 collection, as well as my questionable taste. Most of the available episodes are still available to download on iTunes, with several of the final ones also available to stream on Soundcloud or Mixcloud as well.
In late 2013, I took a stab at something I hadn’t messed around with since the 1990s – a print fanzine all about music, reflecting the analog reversion that was resulting in exploding vinyl sales, record-store openings and a deepened interest in non-digital, print-only materials. DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE #1 gave me the chance to interview my rocknroll kingpin hero Chris D. for the second time, and as it turned out, the issue sold really well, to the point where I only have something like 10-15 copies left of the original batch of 700.
Emboldened, Erika Elizabeth and I put together the even larger DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE #2 in late 2014, an 84-page beast modeled after the formative fanzines of our youths – Forced Exposure et al. Of the 10 music fanzines I’ve put out, I think it’s by far the most “interesting” one, at the very least, but my dream of blowing through 1,000 copies crashed on the shore of the reality that outside a few of us freaks, not too many folks are all that interested in Bill Direen, Back From The Grave, Honey Radar and my top 10 favorite dub LPs – or at least in reading about it all. Suffice to say that there are plenty of copies of this one available if you’re interested. I gave several interviews explaining what it was all about here, here and here.
So when it comes to saying my piece about the music I’m into, I feel like I’ve shot my proverbial wad for a while. I built a large archive of music writing with Agony Shorthand from 2003-2006; then again with Detailed Twang after that; and then a bit of dabbling here and there on a blog called The Hedonist Jive that I only recently retired. When it comes to sub-underground rocknroll music from the last five decades, I’ve spoken my piece fairly thoroughly via this site, the two fanzines and the phony radio show.
My current project – and there’s always something: books, beer, motel postcards etc. – is a website about film called THE CELLULOID COUCH. I’m pretty inept, relative to the pros, at describing the signposts and wheretofores of cinema, and I’m perfectly happy to learn on the job. Unlike music writing and/or music fandom, it really and truly feels like film is at a precarious place in its lifetime, and I’d like to try and do my part to dissect it for kicks, and let others write about TV shows & websites & social networks and whatever else is helping the hasten the demise of the cinema I grew up loving in the 1970s.
Please come check it out if that sounds interesting to you. There’s even a Facebook page and a Twitter account.
Have to say that of all the projects I’ve dabbled around in since the democratization of the internet, Dynamite Hemorrhage has been my favorite. There’s still a ton of content, going back over the aforementioned 3+ years, to look at and listen to – so feel free to browse those archives.
Thanks to anyone & everyone who’s followed this site, downloaded a podcast or spent real cash money on one of those magazines. I’m available at thejayhinman(at)gmail(dotcom) if you ever want someone to yammer about music, books, film or hockey with.
