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  ***This record has been released for FREE download for YOU because the makers of it believe that art should be free for all. So download the shit out of it! On the house! (It did, however, cost a lot of money and time to make, so you should totally recommend that everyone you know listens to it. EV-ER-Y-ONE. YOU. KNOW.)
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  Hi, How are you? My name is Jess Shulman. Here’s a shitty record - full of songs I wrote from the ages of 16-24. Well, almost 24. It is the end of August in the year 2010 and in one week I move from Australia to the UK and in one week I turn 24. That’s eight years. Eight is my lucky number. You might notice that there are eleven tracks though (yes, I CAN count - tracks 12 and 13 are supposed to be 'hidden'). That means something too.
  
  Some of them are crappy home demos, some of them are less-crappy studio recordings. Some of them are in-between. The in-between stuff is the best. I’ll let you figure those ones out. Every single one of them is me puking out my feelings because I have trouble expressing them in other ways. My friends might attest that my feelings mostly manifest themselves as giant fits of rage. I like to think I am more of a pacifist and that these are songs of love and hope and peace and happiness. (I’m not). (They’re not).
  
  There is only one thing I have learned through all this: feelings are great. Keep ‘em. Use ‘em. Dig ‘em. And don’t let nobody trample ‘em.
  
  Love and hope and peace and happiness hooray, and thanks for listening, and thanks for not laughing. And if you are – fuck off and turf this CD.
  
  - Shulman.
  
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  Massive shout-out to Dave Brown for helping me chuck all these old recordings together and donating so much of his time at the last minute and Todd ‘Mixin’ Dixon for recording pretty much everything since 2006. And Stef and Ant for the Summer of Love and forty-degree-heat, 2007. Huge props to the original JFDE band: Adrian Slattery, James Meese and Ged Winter.
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  To the following, Thanks:
  
  Kate Cooper and Ben Thompson: for everything – you don’t even know how much. Adrian Slattery – for the same. 12 Dawson Avenue Footscray and everything that came with it. Anna and Gav Slattery for all the home-cooked meals, sleepovers, foxtel, and letting us take over the house that summer. Joel at Old Bar. Al at the Birmy. Clayton and Will at the Royal Derby for all the free beers. Gertrudes Brown Couch. Matt and Meg and all at 3CR. Brendan Hitchens for all the mixtapes. Wil Wagner for the old times. Hicks in the City. Hobart Krew. Nadia Mizner. Ben Mote for the records he doesn’t know we stole. Darren Levin for all the free tickets/door spots. All the nice guys at Midian (I owe you loads of money). Anna Arvan and all the lovely people of Bellingham, WA. Susie and Cam and I Heart Hiroshima. All of Brisbane.
  
  Thanks Shulman family: Ruth, Minky, Uncle Ben and papa-Shuls for being lame and coming to all the shows. Jessi and Ant, Rosie, Alister, Lorilee and Charlotte, Noni and Brig, Christian, Shifty, Romy, Madeleine, Alex, Teo, Sammy D, Wolfman Josh and Sarah, Lawdog, Jadan, Evan, Mac and Charles, Lee, and Meesey for keeping me alive.
  
  And bless the following bands and the righteous dudes in them: Major Major (RIP), Shifty and Tom, Twin Vickers (RIP), Tragic/Athletic, Agnes Kain, Popolice, The Stabs, This War, Chris Burrows, Phat Meegz, Rope Burning (RIP), Novi Split, Madonna, Wolfman Jack (RIP), Big Smoke, Clavians, The No Real Need, The Rational Academy, Iron On.
  
  Lastly, thanks Dampy – for giving me so much to write about. ... more

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