Lance Hahn R.I.P.

My fiances family just had a major loss, so we are headed up to North Carolina in the morning. But getting home from from work I see that the punk rock world just had a major loss as well. Lance Hahn known for many things... but I think of him most fondly as the nice anarchist guy, whom I read in MRR, and listened to in a band called J Church died on Sunday. I remember seeing J Church 7inches when I was 14. I think I finally got around to buying J Church around 20 or so. I saw them live when they open for Propagandhi in Los Angeles. Its strange to feel something for a man I never knew in real life. Only in my mind, where his words and his music gave me some hope that somewhere "out there" outside my little head someone else gave a damn about things and wanted things to work out for the best. Where everyone was cool and we all lived in a perfect little commune. Everyone had the latest 7inches, and ended their days watching movies and thinking about the meaning of life. Then we'd all sit by fires drinking and singing songs of remembrance for those who came before and the ideals of peace and freedom we hoped our children will keep alive. Lance, what you were is now gone... but what you are will always be alive inside me. And that makes me smile....

Imaginary Friends
Available on One Mississippi LP/CD

She can talk in codes I only partly understand,
She learned them trying to communicate with imaginary friends,
She used to call them angels but now they're not anything,
Now she feels alone and wishes that they were here again

She writes a letter and one week later she puts it in the mail,
She says that California Dreaming is a cautionary tale,
She says I shouldn't treat it like an empty pop song,
She says interpretations make the premises all wrong,

She has two older sisters who send care packages in the mail,
She collects all of their letters in a yellow plastic pail,
She can make it to the store as it's part of her routine,
She watches videos until they mix in with her dreams,
Until they mix in with her dreams,
Until they mix in with her dreams,
Until they mix in with her dreams