{"id":136772418,"date":"2023-09-06T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=136772418"},"modified":"2023-09-06T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:30:16","slug":"presenting-lazy-entitled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=136772418","title":{"rendered":"Presenting: LAZY &amp; ENTITLED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;We really love each other. We are the best of friends.&#8221; &#8211; Tom DeLonge, banter between songs, &#8216;The Mark Tom and Travis Show&#8217;<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Programming note: the shipwrecked sailor blog is now a part of Lazy &amp; Entitled Productions, which is a #grindsetmindset way of saying \u201chere\u2019s a post about this thing Brendan and I have been working on and are now announcing to the world.\u201d Nothing about this blog is changing, except more links spamming my own projects.<\/em><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>One more note for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-line-break\/id1524056726\">The Line Break<\/a> <em>fans: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y4i45kNO-cE\">ball don\u2019t lie, as a better poet once said<\/a>. <\/em>The Line Break<em> is going nowhere. Bob and I will be in your ear talking anaphora and the fundamentals of boxing out once a month, don\u2019t worry<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So yeah, Brendan and I started a thing. And we\u2019ve got a serialized novel-in-stories releasing this Friday, on a website that I can\u2019t link here yet because it is still being excavated from a cave in the mountains of Tennessee. <strong>UPDATE 9\/8\/2023: GO TO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.storiesfromvine.com\/\">STORIESFROMVINE.COM<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What Is Lazy &amp; Entitled? <\/strong><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/dc7dc98b-dc20-4c67-bb97-542bb94dc7e4_1170x874.jpeg\" alt=\"a black Fender Jazzmaster and blue Squier Telecaster rest against a 12&quot; Fender combo amp. Next to the guitars is a pedalboard, but it's someone else's pedalboard, and I don't know what kind of pedals they are. The carpet is surprisingly clean for a practice space.\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A pair of writers and musicians. Call us a \u201cproduction company\u201d or \u201cmedia company\u201d or whatever, but we think of ourselves as a band. One that writes stories, too. We\u2019ve been writing together for over 20 years. We\u2019ve called ourselves other names on websites like Myspace and PureVolume, we\u2019ve done projects separately, now we\u2019re weathered old sailors telling stories whilst press-ganged in USian capitalism. More importantly, we\u2019re here. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/12790463-2e76-418d-9bbd-bc689fea476e_1920x1080.png\" alt=\"a composite picture of a four-piece band, all white teenagers. One guitarist, wearing a red button down and green bandana, is about three feet in the air. That's Brendan. The other guitarist is wearing a black My Chemical Romance t-shirt and a Jolly Roger eyepatch while shredding. That's Chris, and he actually can't see out of that eye. \"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our first project, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bandtheshipwreckedsailor.bandcamp.com\/album\/weight-of-an-anchor\">weight of an anchor<\/a><\/em>, was released in 2020. We lived in separate states when we started writing, met in the frigid slush of February 2020 to record drums and rhythm guitars, resolved to live in the same city again, and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slcdunk.com\/the-downbeat-latest-jazz-news\/2021\/3\/11\/22325323\/utah-jazz-rudy-gobert-covid-19-nba-shutdown-one-year\">Rudy Gobert touched some microphones<\/a>. The rest was recorded painstakingly (and painfully) separate from one another, but the end result was the kind of peaceful clarity that comes from creating art with your best friend. We\u2019re going to make more records in future. They\u2019ll sound similar and different to <em>weight of an anchor<\/em>. Please enjoy <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bandtheshipwreckedsailor.bandcamp.com\/album\/weight-of-an-anchor\">weight of an anchor<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"curious\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MlgYOQ53uGg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our second project, <em>Vine<\/em>, is releasing on Friday. We originally had this idea back in like 2015. We wrote a couple stories, thought it was a cool idea. Then a billion life things happened. We started writing it seriously in 2022, and now it\u2019s here. Well, there will be links to where it is in this week\u2019s Friday Links, anyway. Want a cover reveal?  <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/75b86e58-4c3e-4321-9afb-edcb2c0906e4_947x1280.jpeg\" alt=\"a grainy, black-and-tan background, sort of designed to look like a Bible, that reads &quot;Lazy &amp; Entitled Presents...a new sacred text...from the mysterious mountains of Tennessee...stories from...VINE...a novel-in-stories by Brendan Johnson and Chris Corlew\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.storiesfromvine.com\/\">Vine<\/a><\/em> is a serialized horror novel-in-stories centered around a small town in the mountains of Tennessee that may or may not have been consecrated by God. Some of the stories are short, some are long. We will be releasing one per day (sometimes more) Monday-Friday from now until late November. On Fridays, we\u2019ll release <em>The Vine Radio Hour<\/em>, the \u201caudiobook\u201d version that is us reading every story released that week. We\u2019re doing this serialized independent release because we think it\u2019s a fun idea. If serializing your novels is good enough for Charles Dickens or Haruki Murakami, it\u2019s good enough for us. Please enjoy <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.storiesfromvine.com\/\">Vine<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/478baa8b-3686-46c6-802b-99ea238e5991_1376x320.png\" alt=\"text from Word doc: &quot;collapsed. The man and woman finished their whiskey and wind crashed the bottle to the floor. In the silence that followed a nest of garter snakes hatched below the front porch before bursting into a tight roll of flames and being subsumed into the soil.\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our goal is one project a year, whether a new record or serialized novel. We\u2019ll have other stuff, too\u2014singles, more music videos, there\u2019s talk of a podcast, there\u2019s talk of a litmag\/collaborative writing thing, there\u2019s talk of live readings\/shows down the line. We\u2019d like to open this space for collaboration with other artists, as we figure out what that looks like. In the meantime, please enjoy <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bandtheshipwreckedsailor.bandcamp.com\/album\/weight-of-an-anchor\">weight of an anchor<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.storiesfromvine.com\/\">Vine<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chris<\/strong><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/516d83d8-e1ec-497c-9293-2456c3be06a5_3024x4032.jpeg\" alt=\"a white man with shoulder-length brown hair and a blue shirt holds a plate of tacos, grinning ear-to-ear and giving thumbs up\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I think of the most creatively fulfilling times in my life, I think of a scene. In high school, we had a suburban, <em>Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 1+2<\/em>-inspired punk scene: shows in church basements or in someone\u2019s garage after a day at the skate park. In college, I co-ran a monthly poetry reading series that produced some of Rogers Park\u2019s most literate drinking binges. It\u2019s harder to be part of a scene as an adult, especially as a parent. I can read or listen to whatever I want, almost whenever I want, but I miss the assorted detritus of a scene: limited-release EPs, covertly passed around chapbooks, that time we added a horn section and played a one-night-only ska set.\u00a0Nothing survives from that set, so don\u2019t ask, but don\u2019t think I\u2019m ashamed. I wrote the hell out of those horn parts, just like I wrote the hell out of this bass line: <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"eroding coasts\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pfva69dpzWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m well aware that there\u2019s already a vibrant literary and music scene in Chicago. Other places in the world, too. To me, Lazy &amp; Entitled is our little outpost in the scene. It\u2019s a place for Brendan and I to write the stories we think would be cool to read and make the music we think would be cool to listen to, but also a place to celebrate other artists we like. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/adimagazine.com\/articles\/mariame-kaba-everything-worthwhile-is-done-with-other-people\/\">Everything worthwhile is done with other people<\/a>,\u201d Mariame Kaba says, and the mission of Lazy &amp; Entitled is collaborative art.\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Brendan<\/strong><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/2914f22e-cfee-4aa6-b370-0fb716861fe9_2448x3264.jpeg\" alt=\"a white man with shoulder-length black hair and mustache is backlit by the fading sun\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been a performer most of my life. I have an incredibly useless B.S. in Speech &amp; Theater, a lengthy rock band resume, and a childhood of community theater and school band, which has given me tons of collaborative experiences. Through all these experiences, I very much believe that there is a form of magic that can exist in the collaborative space. That\u2019s what I think Lazy &amp; Entitled is for me. A space for us to cast spells and create stories.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Devil&#039;s Bastard&quot; B &amp; the Nothingness\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q-cf2FDQqPU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am lucky enough to share a friendship with Chris, but we also have a long history of making shit together, whether completed or \u201ccompleted in our brains,\u201d and now it is official: we are still making shit together.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why \u2018Lazy &amp; Entitled?\u2019<\/strong><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/dbc87503-3e76-4e15-8f5a-3267e1582f3d_800x450.jpeg\" alt=\"File:RWP-Lazy Wave River.jpg\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Probably since the dawn of human consciousness, older generations have called younger generations variations on these adjectives. It is especially grating, though, in an era where anything that doesn\u2019t have strong shareholder value is seen as frivolous. Remember when <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/crypto-nerd-sam-bankman-fried-who-just-lost-16-billion-would-never-read-a-book\/\">that crypto scammer dork said \u201cif you wrote a book, you fucked up, you should\u2019ve written a six paragraph blog post?\u201d<\/a> The market economy of the United States rewards guys like him far more than the people who find time to create art in between working two jobs that barely cover rent. LAZY &amp; ENTITLED is two big double birds to that. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/fe14cd57-8dd1-41c0-ab34-650f609b9934_455x341.gif\" alt=\"Stone Cold Fingers Blurred? - WWE'13 - CAWs.ws\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Lazy &amp; Entitled\u2019 is us saying \u201cfuck it, we ball\u201d to an economic system that doesn\u2019t appreciate artists anyway. It\u2019s a celebration of creativity, art, and inclusivity. It\u2019s a place for weirdos and goofballs and outsiders. It\u2019s a place for art outside of capitalism, and as such, is explicitly anti-capitalist and anti- capitalism\u2019s enablers, like racism, homophobia, transphobia, and an IPO. So if you\u2019re a bigot or an MBA, you might not have a great time here. But if you\u2019ve ever written a novel and not shown it to anyone, or if one of your favorite bands is a local band that only you remember and has had all evidence of their existence washed away, you\u2019re our people.\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LINKS!<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bandtheshipwreckedsailor.bandcamp.com\/album\/weight-of-an-anchor\">weight of anchor<\/a><\/em><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@lazyandentitledproductions7337\/featured\">Lazy &amp; Entitled on YouTube<\/a><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bandthenothingness.bandcamp.com\/\">b and the nothingness on Bandcamp<\/a><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shipwreckedsailor.bandcamp.com\/\">shipwrecked sailor on Bandcamp<\/a><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.storiesfromvine.com\/\">Vine<\/a><br\/><br\/><\/em>Thank you for reading, and I sincerely hope you enjoy all this. Let\u2019s have some fun. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sorry you got an email, <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris (and Brendan)<\/p><div class=\"subscription-widget-wrap-editor\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/shipwreckedsailor.substack.com\/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}\" data-component-name=\"SubscribeWidgetToDOM\"><div class=\"subscription-widget show-subscribe\"><div class=\"preamble\"><p class=\"cta-caption\">Thanks for reading shipwrecked sailor! 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