Saw a giant grafitti mural for Peet Lum. It's visible from Market and Church where Peet often sat and sold art (stand on SE corner and face W). It made me smile and think to myself "Fuck Yeah!" If you live in SF go see it.
I am one of the gals from Localpatron, a local art shop that was open for six months this year over on Valencia Street. Peet had his paintings in our shop, and I saw him a few times a week. He was a sweetheart, and I wish his life hadn't been so tough on him. He'd always come by and say hello or hang out, show me what random stuff he had found out on the street, and paint when we weren't busy.
It was great getting to know him. He always brought me candy and made me laugh. I'll really miss seeing him around.
I'd like to say that even though I haven't seen much of Pete lately, it's a damn shame that he felt so bad about his life when there were so many people around him that loved him and respected him.
I know (better than anyone else) that sometimes the darkness can seem so intense that you forget about all the other things that keep you going....I just had a really bad patch recently, and if it wasn't for my friends I don't know where I'd be right now...there were times that I thought I was just being a burden on everybody, but somehow they lifted me up and helped me to find something inside myself to keep me here, where they needed me.
I'd like to send my condolences to Ellie and her mom (her name escapes me)...I met Pete when I worked with Eliie a few years ago, and I always thought that he was a good guy....he was a talented artist and musician, and all of us at DRB that knew him are shocked and saddened by this.
Also, I'd like to send my love and support to Jason Storm and Amy, and let them know that even though I don't come to SF much anymore, that doesn't mean that I don't think about them, and miss them...RIP Pete Lum
This Peet Lum shit is a bummer. He was a neat kid.
i'm really sorry to all of you who have to find out this way, but i've contacted all the close friends i could find and word is getting around so...
my best friend peeter lum, goonie, former human bean and street artist extroirdanaire, passed away on friday. this is really fucking hard for me and i really appreciate everyone's love and support. i want everyone to know that he didn't OD, like the rumors that are going around, but he died of complications of endocarditious (i think that's spelled wrong), which is basicly an infection in your blood. this spread to his lungs and he couldn't breathe. he went into the hospital on thursday and on friday his heart stopped. the priest who was with him said he went peacefully in his sleep. i'm taking comfort in the fact that peet hated life and always wanted to die so he finally got his wish. a strange comfort, but i think he's happier now.
services will be this thursday at 5 pm at everwood mortuary on 10th ave. at geary. please contact me if you need more info.
also sometime this weekend, depending what his sister ellie wants to do, we will have a GOONIES memorial for him in the storm drain below ocean beach, where we used to hang out when we were kids.
charity donations in peet's honor can be made to San Francisco Needle Exchange PO box 170427 san francisco ca 94117
again, thank you all, this is a horrible time and me and all of peet's family and friends need all the support we can get
Rest in peace peet lum, we will all miss your smile and art.
"be your own space ship, rescue yourself..."-p.l.
-ro
my brother peet died on friday. he always was a ghost.
Is Aesop that was in Hickey the same dude as the rapper Aesop Rock?
Is the Aesop that was in Hickey the same dude as Aesop Rock the rapper?
I was shocked to hear that Scottzy had been paralysed. I saw him in Brooklyn in 2003. I remember having nowhere to go and staying at the Hickey Hotel for some months in 1998. Very Kind, indeed. I still listen to that S/T Hickey LP and laugh, in fact I played it on the radio. WEVL Memphis.
Any news of Rizzler? Rock Jack sure is a talented little fellow.
The Fuckboyz discography will be out in about two months. Keep bitching, it helps alot.
I think Jeanette said it best. All this squabelling about a repress makes me want to cry but mostly want to laugh. So many good friends and like minded people are arguing... about something so fucking stupid.
I heard Matty once say "Chicks like to be called Bitches" to some tough neck dude. I looked at him funny and he turned to me and in a low voice said, "Just think about him getting slapped"
The first in the series of diabolical Hickey Reissues is out. The S/T record is back in print on CD. LP to follow. It's headed to a limited number of distro at the moment but will be widely available in a few months. But if you can't find it in stores feel free to mail order direct at www.1234gorecords.com
I've got two boat payments, some diamond studded fronts on layaway, a porshe in the shop and a nasty blow habit so let's get that money rolling in. Holy shit pete all your worst fears have been realized. A coked up honkey has his dirty mits all over your precious hickey records! har har etc etc.
Thanks Toddles for getting the guestbook upgraded. Thanks to everyone else for offering to help out and thanks to everyone for putting up with it for so long. Hopefully this will help keep it gone for longer.
I've finally been able to update the guestbook to (hopefully) eliminate the spam. If anyone sees any problems, please let me know.
xoxo,
toddles
Pete's just on a war-path against everyone, geez! I'm the one selling those CDs, and I bought them (as well as the rest of that Probe stuff I listed) from Aaron Probe himself. The reason I keep tossing them on eBay is because I have A LOT, and it's a much easier market than my sad crate of records I bring to shows.
I don't see the Omaha thing, but maybe I missed something. Not to mention, it seems kind of ridiculous to bootleg a CD that is being re-issued...
Regardless, A+ on this website and a high-five to Steve/1234go! for his work on the re-issues.
Um, what's with all the fucking Ukranian fucktards posting urls for xanax, hilary duff, airline tickets and the what not? Tacky and fucking absurd, and certainly not in the spirit of the cult (except xanax). Can someone please delete and ban these vampires from posting here? "Hey cool site about your dead friend, wanna buy some pills?" Fuck. BTW, Pete, I'm sorry you feel so strongly against the reissues, but your argument holds no weight at all. and I have seen the hickey lp fetch up to $100 bucks on ebay and it pissed me off seeing how when we on tour we probably got like $3 in foodstamps for it. I made it abundantly clear on this here guestbook that if anyone wanted to bootleg our stuff that it was fine to do so as long as they took the time to send me a copy. If someone else beat you to it you can't really be too pissed. Like I said it's for kids who missed out the first time. Seeking out rare records can be a thrill but sometimes you just want to hear the songs without waiting for some aging dickhole to grow out of his punk phase and sell the original vinyl for unreasonable prices. I thought people with beards were s'posed to be easy going...
I stumbled over the matty memorial zine at craigs house when I visited him this past fall. It was so weird couse even tho I didn't know matty it kind of stuck with me how people around him just seemed to care for that guy so much. Craig told me some good stories about past days and made sure I had some hickey MP3:s with me when I went home and I listend to those songs over and over again as I crossed the atlantic ocean back to my home. I sadly lost my mp3:s when I got home and when looking for them again I stumbled on this webside. Once again I get overwhelmed by how warm and loving the memory om matty is handled. In respect of Mattys memory and all of you who loved him, the life of matty lives on and grow.
Yo,
I check this site out every so often. I have downloaded some awesome fucking tunes, read some interesting stories (obituaries and the zine). Whoever is keeping up with this site, you are fucking ace!
Though, I have to say the 50 Million songs are undownloadable. I would love to hear those songs, as 50 Million stuff is hard to find.
Hickey Is Back and They Got Beards! That flyer's been in my bathroom forever -- I can still conjure the pure euphoria I felt when they played El Farolito against their will and that floor was pounding underneath everyone's feet in perfect time to the song ... Hickey was back and playing and all was right with the world. The first time I heard El Farolito after Matty died I burst into uncontrollable sobs but by the end of the song I was laughing, too, because it's hard to simultaneously cry and think about burritoes without feeling a little ridiculous.