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420 Easter is for doughnut breakfast, energy drink lunch, red eye shadow, Bad Religion t-shirt w/ a short skirt, Superheaven bus ride to the afternoon Mark Hoppus book show.

🥀 SH!NER is Jesse, James, Kasey 🥀

ALL QUEER, NO ALLIES ✋🏼🙅🏻‍♀️

My walks without the dogs are almost as important as my walks with them 😅

I wanna talk about “FAMOUS IN HELL” for a minute !! 🥀🔪 There’s so much I never got around to saying about this release. The entire project came together in a hurry as there was a deadline before I was finished even writing the song! Not ideal, but a fun challenge. I DID finish writing in time for the studio sessions + then it was a rush to conceive visuals + artwork. I think the story told in “Famous In Hell” can be easily missed tho much of the lyrics are literal. It’s a song about an outcast who becomes infatuated with a serial killer. But in a meaningful + cathartic way ?? 🥺🫶🏼 There were themes I was interested in tying into the artwork, most directly from a lyric in the bridge: “The second half of ‘83 the world would stop to count our dead.” 1983 became a significant bullet in my brainstorming + research, ultimately landing on the inimitable Joan Jett for primary inspiration. I decided I’d throw together a quick photoshoot + then choose a portrait as the basis for the single artwork. From what I had in my closet I styled two outfits heavily influenced by Joan Jett. No time for shopping!!! 🏃🏻‍♂️ A kind of wild coincidence was finding the New England Patriots t-shirt which I’d thrifted + never worn. The “Pat The Patriot” logo was even era appropriate for my 1983 vision as this was their primary version of the logo from 1960 - 1992. 🤯😂 There’s something hilarious + fulfilling but also tragic in talking about the tiiiiiniest details of a project that end up making it magical to you but go unnoticed by most people who engage with your work haha. But it really was perfect + v exciting. My non-photographer roommate graciously shot all the photos for me. Styling the looks + getting dressed took longer than I’d hoped so we had to race the sun, taking photos in streets + alleyways until we ran out of light. If you look closely at the final artwork you can see text fading into the background, which are real 1983 obituaries that I found thru an online archive. I love creating + getting lost in the world of it. My thoughts, my ideas, my feelings. It’s nice to share some of these insights here. Even 10 months later @ 11:35PM on a Thursday. 👹🖤 SH!NERRrr