Wesley Eisold's Blog

Hello. On my way to Eindhoven after a cancelled flight and I’ll be away for 2 days to play an American Nightmare set. Then back to LA for 2 days. Then to Berlin for two Cold Cave shows.

Not sure how much more flying I want to do. It brings too much emptiness in my stomach. Maybe it’s the cocktail of missing what I love vs bureaucracy and physics and nature and body and soul. Maybe I’ll do what I’ve committed to for the next short while and then tend to the garden and write poems for the next yea...

(Me in 2003 with a normal face wound after an American Nightmare show)

Hello All,

First, happy October and thank God summer is over. A lot has been going on, and I’ve started a few posts here but haven’t finished them or managed to get the point across the way I want. So for now, I’m sharing this exchange I had this morning with a hardcore fest promoter …

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Here is what’s on in headphones. Plus it helps your soul.

Nikki Sudden - No Good In Heaven

Second Layer - Fixation

The Wild Flowers - Melt Like Ice

Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria

Severed Heads - We Have Come To Bless the House (Marcel Dettmann edit)

Rain Dogs - High Speed

CC Dust - New Ways

Clock DVA - Sensorium

Cardinal & Nun - Dancing In The Evil

Preoccupations - Ill at Ease

Nagamatzu - Deliberation

The Passions - I’m In Love With A German Film Star

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Horseback

Van Dyke Parks - Fart...

It’s a tough job avoiding delusion in this town but someone’s gotta do it. Why not us? Truth is I’ve mostly kept to myself because it’s been more fulfilling to comb the sand of this destination island rather than try to navigate the murky waves of other’s ever turning red tides. Each inevitable storm corroding the spirit ‘til true colors shown. Often sickly grey and scaly greens. I want you to stick to your guns too. I want you to hold strong to your constitution. I want you to know that when th...

True love trickling in from the summer trenches where time abandons all logic… all driving erratic and aimless… all hit and run, against all nature… take a walk in it, if you can drag yourself from the sheets, tied together, spilling through the window, passing spider webs, dried ivy, night animal pathways... sometimes you write to just to see if you even can. I guess because what use to arrive via unavoidable downpour dried a bit since I moved to the desert.

I love talking to you here but then ...

This entry is a tribute to Brian Wilson and Douglas McCarthy who both passed on June 11th, 2025. I was fortunate to have spent time with both.

Back in LA trying to wrap my head around everything or everywhere, anything, any time. Anyway… you know I don’t mean for this place to be an altar of mourn porn, it’s just that I’m so struck by the finite finality of it all… because we’ve become so immune to death via voyeurism that people’s passings now look so inconsequential from my glowing heart… I ju...

Somewhere between the toss and turn I remembered you, and so I jumped out of bed, put my floor-length robe on… draping down from the shoulders in soft, clean, solemn lines, flowing all the way down to brush the ground with quiet authority—but also like a mop that won’t step off my back. The temp is off. Made a coffee. The temp is on. Nothing is even wrong, but lately I’ve felt like a ghost haunting my own life… drifting from room to room, checking clocks that never seem to move. Morning mourning...

If you really must know, here is Hello and all that below…

The Some Girls 7” The DNA Will Have Its Say is available again after decade(s?).

Over the last year or so there’s been a renewed interest in the band and people have been asking more and more if the band ever will play again. I have no idea. I haven’t really thought about it. When I think of Some Girls, aside from the purity of making the demo on an off day in San Diego in the earliest of aughts, I think of the last five minutes of this sh...

Here is what’s on around the home.

Rosa Anschütz - Rigid

Buzz Kull - Fascination

Absolute Body Control, Rue Oberkampf - Le train

Blank Dogs - Yellow Mice Sleep

Thurston Moore - Leave Me Alone

Kontravoid - Cost of Life

Covenant - Tension

Romy - No Audience

Front 242 - Controversy Between

OMD - Georgia

Andy Bell - It Gets Easier

Them Are Us Too - Marilyn

Malaria! - Lay Lady Lay

Skinny Puppy - Grave Wisdom

Patriarchy - Hurt Me

Xmal Deutschland, No More - Die Wolken - No More Remix

Robert Görl - Ich denk an dich

Tris...

Tour was beautiful. Thank you for joining us. That was a different energy. Watching inhibition-witch water-evaporate toward the south, the way mice traps anchor the corner of so many backstage rooms. The way you censor me but celebrate truth. The way we touch hands and shake on the absurdity of this all. The way we all need to get away for a bit. It meant a lot to see you again. I meant it when I said that I hope next time is sooner than later.

So Hey - Heartworm Press has traditionally mostly on...