#raspberry vines

raspberry vines by petite league, from their album no hitter (2016).

“raspberry seeds

stuck in between your baby teeth

blueberry juice

staining your tulip cheeks

baby’s first steps, holding onto my two legs

and i was only 21, your mother was only 18

and i’m trying, trying harder than i’ve tried before

oh baby, i’m trying, trying harder than i’ve tried before

oh, oh, ohhoh

down with the training wheels

this family learns by scraping their knees

you have your mother’s eyes but your face looks a lot like mine

we only take video of memories

your mother is 21, and i turned 25 today”

petite league is a musical duo of singer lorenzo gillis cook & his roommate and drummer, harry schoonmaker. it was lorenzo cook’s introduction to american fuzzy lo-fi basement music upon moving to syracuse that gave him the inspiration for petite league’s eventual signature musical style. petite league on their website describes themselves as, “blending the sweet, bubblegum qualities of bedroom pop and the snot nosed fuzz of garage rock, petite league is swinging for the fences.” one music blogger writes about raspberry vines, “although a stripped version of this same track was released on the sophomore album no hitter – an equally beautiful version – there’s something about this one that feels exponentially more vulnerable, the way that frontman lorenzo gillis cook’s pained, raspy, lo-fi vocals come close to colliding with the walls of thick, impenetrable guitar nearly every single time they coexist. it sounds grainy, out of focus, but coveted, cherished like an old photograph, the narrative expressing those specific images in the form of a father and his child.” petite league has four other albums, slugger (2015), rips one into the night (2017), and rattler (2019).

This family learns by scraping their knees

E anche per l'estate 2018 abbiamo una nuova canzone dei PETITE LEAGUE.

final, for now

got a new PEN. a sakura pigma sensei, 04. dreamy.

anyway, changed some of the imagery and added a few thingies here and there

so we got an eastern garter snake instead of whatever snake that was before. raspberry vines instead of indeterminate vines. and then there's a bee and a dragonfly still at the bottom, helping that crow out... though i am concerned it doesn't look very crow-y. oh well whatever. 

one day something like this will be between my shoulder blades, with an owl swooping off to the top right and a fox running off to the top left, to chase after my rat and rooster respectively.