November 29, 2011
Thanks to all the DUMMIES who came to Skylight Books on November 19 to celebrate the launch of our second issue, a literature-album hybrid we’ve named Lightness & Darkness.
The theme of the evening was the intersection between music and literature, and we had quite a nice time immersing ourselves in both–as well as caseloads of PBR–throughout the night. Each reading featured a special musical accompaniment, starting with our WaxPhil girl Christina Gubala’s read n’ DJ as well as readings from the DUM DUM website, which paired a song picked by each contributor that inspired them while writing. Monica Hunt did an iPhone reading of her Eagle Rock Fest, Travis Barnes read his zombie bike land CicLAvia piece, and Liska Jacobs introduced her Day in a Life 2011 project–all while streaming Concrete Blonde, James Brown and Blur.
The third part of the evening culminated in the formal ineraction between music and literature, wherein we streamed several sonic-literary tracks from the Lightness & Darkness album. And while its chief collaborators Nicki Yowell and Thee Source ov Fawnation were out of town, Skylight turned off all the lights while we basked in the darkness of the album. DJ Bryan Woods closed out the evening with a tripped out neo-psych DJ set while we danced, sucked on Dum Dum Pops and crackled on Pop Chips before after partying with the dudes at the brand new High Fidelity Records in Los Feliz. We still need our DUM Bucket back, guys.
The only thing missing? Drunk DUM DUM tattoos. Check out more photos from the reading on DUM DUM’s Facebook Page!