The “Clean & Stupid” E.P. is my long-lost 5 song demo which caught the attention of The Dandy Warhols in 2007 and led to a record deal with Caroline/EMI a few months later. Four of the tracks were remade for my 2009 major label release “From Pillar To Post”, but the title cut “Clean & Stupid” landed on the cutting room floor when that record was put out. We only made 50 CD copies of this demo and have, for years, thought it would never be found again. A couple weeks back I found this one copy on Ebay, bought it, and now it can be yours!
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1. Bleed Him Out (Demo)
2. Clean & Stupid (Demo)
3. You Win The War (Demo)
4. Alone Together (Demo)
5. Feed Me To The Wolves (Demo)
Logan Lynn: “Clean & Stupid”
Lyrics and Vocals: Logan Lynn
Programming: Carlos Cortes
Produced by Carlos Cortes
2007 Logan Lynn Music
www.LoganLynnMusic.com
(Originally Published in Just Out Magazine, August 2012 Issue)
My beloved Pomeranian companion of the past ten years died suddenly a little over two months ago and I have yet to make heads or tails of the whole thing. Truthfully, I’ve been carrying his cremated body around in a tiny tin box ever since, sleeping with him next to me at night, and am so far having a really hard time letting him go.
During the first few weeks after his death I was in a state of sheer panic around his absence. For over a decade, silence in the house meant little dude was up to some sort of mischief or that he was in trouble, so to be suddenly surrounded by this new, impenetrable quiet has been unsettling. I found myself calling for him in the night, looking for him all over the house in the morning, and waiting to hear the pitter-patter of his paws on the hardwood floor as I opened the front door or walked to the kitchen, but he is gone.
As it turns out, I had a great deal of purpose wrapped up in taking care of this tiny creature, and I’m finding that in many ways I was dependent on the love I received from him in return. He was the only consistent thing in my life for the past decade, and without him around everything just feels harder. I have yet to make it through a full day without some sort of tearful breakdown and was unable to control said emotional outbursts at all until very recently. It sounds crazy that an animal could make me lose my mind like this, but he was so much more than a dog to me. For many years he was my child, my family, the only reason I got out of bed in the morning, and the only reason I came home at night…so to call him my “pet” minimizes the depth of our relationship.
A few weeks back while I was talking to a close friend about my inability to let Dutch go, he challenged me that maybe it was feeling too hard to do because I wasn’t actually supposed to be doing it. He suggested that, instead of working so hard to let him go, I should learn to hold onto Dutch in new ways. His body is gone, that much is certain. All that’s left is this box of ashes…which isn’t all that comforting when I stop and think about it.
So, I took his advice. I began to look for Dutch again, minus the feeling of panic those initial searches held after he passed. I started to focus on all the ways he is still here with me instead of mourning all the ways he is not, and suddenly he was Read the rest of this entry »
