July 30, 2007

Deerhunting Season

Just when we thought it was safe to stop reading Bradford Cox's blog, he reminds us why it's quickly becoming one of the most engrossing stops on the Internet. First came the Poop Journal (maybe more "gross" than engrossing), then the Five Imaginary Boyfriends … and now you can add tales of muggings at gunpoint in ATL to the lurid list. Cox writes (via BV):

We got a friendly homecoming suprise last night in Atlanta when Lockett and I got robbed at gunpoint after our show at Lenny's last night. We literally had just walked off the stage and I was pretty wasted. Lockett was trying to take care of me and get me home. He grabbed my guitar and my stuff and we walked to his car which was parked about a block away from Lenny's because it was so crowded. I heard a commotion behind us but like I said I was pretty out of it. I just opened the door to the car and collapsed in the passenger seat. Then I heard all this yelling and I hear this loud metallic banging on the window and look up and there is a gun in my face and a guy yelling "get the fuck out the car man" I stumbled out and see the other guy has Lockett with his arms spread on the roof of his car and is patting him down.

Lockett was begging them to leave me alone. The guy put his gun up to my temple and said "give me EVERYTHING motherfucker I aint fucking with you" I just mumbled something and he put his hands in my pants and took everything I had. My cellphone, my wallet (empty except for credit / bank cards which kristin immidietly cancelled, and about 450 dollars in cash I had for my rent.) They also got all of Lockett's money. They even took my fucking Camel Ultralights and Orange Bic. All I can say is that I'm glad we are not dead. Or more specifically, I am REALLY glad they didn't hurt Lockett. He was just trying to help me get home and would not have even been there at that time otherwise.

That's a hard luck tale, but it also may be the most thorough thievery we've ever heard of (couldn't leave the Orange Bic alone, the fiends!). Anyway, thankfully Cox and Pundt are okay. In way less frightening news, Cox has posted new Atlas Sound MP3s -- the woozily gorgeous "White Tea" and oscillating fun house "Stoned"...

Atlas Sound - "White Tea" (MP3)
Atlas Sound - "Stoned" (MP3)

...along with all sorts of visual ephemera (photos, flyers…). Worth bookmarking the site -- it's like a Found magazine/"dear diary"/True Crime anthology, edited by Deerhunter.

[Pic of Deerhunter at some warehouse in Chicago 7/16/07]