Adam Gnade

Huge thanks to anyone who’s been helping us save Pioneers Press in this stupid shitty time. Words of encouragement, orders, letters, reblogs, whatever, it all helps. We’re fighting pretty hard to make this work and it’s a goddamn struggle, but we couldn’t do it without you guys.

-Adam

gnade:

Dear friends,

If you’ve ever considered ordering from my friends and I’s publishing house/distro, Pioneers Press, now’s the time. We had a horrible April for book and zine sales and May is looking even worse. At this point we’re already unable to pay rent on the rescue animal sanctuary/farm this month and if sales keep on like this we’re going to have to shut the business down completely. Two more weeks like this and we’re done. Stuff is pretty dire.

So, if you want some great books, zines, records, patches, pins, shirts, stickers, posters, etc, here’s our website http://pioneerspress.com/ Anything helps. We’re fighting to make this happen and promising things keep coming up but these past two months have been astoundingly shitty for sales and without sales we can’t run Pioneers Press any longer. 

We’ve got huge plans in the works … we just need to get over this hump. Thanks for reading, pals.

-Adam Gnade

Dear friends,

If you’ve ever considered ordering from my friends and I’s publishing house/distro, Pioneers Press, now’s the time. We had a horrible April for book and zine sales and May is looking even worse. At this point we’re already unable to pay rent on the rescue animal sanctuary/farm this month and if sales keep on like this we’re going to have to shut the business down completely. Two more weeks like this and we’re done. Stuff is pretty dire.

So, if you want some great books, zines, records, patches, pins, shirts, stickers, posters, etc, here’s our website http://pioneerspress.com/ Anything helps. We’re fighting to make this happen and promising things keep coming up but these past two months have been astoundingly shitty for sales and without sales we can’t run Pioneers Press any longer. 

We’ve got huge plans in the works … we just need to get over this hump. Thanks for reading, pals.

-Adam Gnade

• The Heat and the Hot Earth novella

• Hymn California novel

• The Growling Mouth novella

• The DIY Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad zine (second edition)

• The Hard Fifty Farm (with Jessie Duke) zine

• Hey Hey Lonesome novella

• 1 Adam Gnade button

EXCERPT FROM THE DO IT YOURSELF GUIDE TO FIGHTING THE BIG MOTHERFUCKIN’ SAD BY ADAM GNADE

1) BENEVOLENCE Pledge to be benevolent, moral, and honest in the midst of online shit-talkers, surface thinkers, and secret capitalists. Be noble while the hate flows forth.

2) TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER You won’t find what you need on the internet.

3) SUICIDE IS NOT PAINLESS The feelings you have are the feelings we all have. Let’s fight together. Here: gnadegnadegnade@gmail.com Any time. I’m here.

4) YOU’RE AS STRONG AND AS READY AS YOU WANT For years I let people tell me I was useless, that I couldn’t make any decisions for myself and that I couldn’t fix or build or create anything substantial. Living out here on the farm I’ve been forced to push myself and I’ve learned I’m a lot more capable than I was lead to believe. Fuck the unbelievers in your life. You’re as strong and as ready you want.

5) YOUR LIFE, THE MOVIE This line always gets me: “If your life was a movie would you want to watch it?” I’d like to say yes but a lot of the time I can’t. And when I can’t I feel like a goddamn bomb about to explode. Can you say yes? Ask yourself that right now and if you don’t like the answer do something about it.

6) TAKING YOURSELF TOO SERIOUSLY FOR TOO LONG WILL HAVE THE OPPOSITE EFFECT ON EVERYONE ELSE I’m all for believing in what we do. I believe in work and self-seriousness and the quiet power of confidence and resolve. I believe in pushing for the thing you love until the fucking doors creak and break and smash inward with a great cloud of splinters and dust. But you need to know when to step back and have a laugh at your own expense and lose your driven fucking attitude for a while. A little pressure let off is a good thing. Taking yourself too seriously for too long will have the opposite effect on everyone else.

7) WHEN THE SAD STARTS TO HIT Open the door, leave the house, walk. It helps. Also, ask for help. It might be the bravest thing you’ll ever do. Sometimes we all need to reach for a light-switch in the dark.

GET THE DO IT YOURSELF GUIDE TO FIGHTING THE BIG MOTHERFUCKIN’ SAD RIGHT HERE FOR $5.50 FROM PIONEERS PRESS

This made our week. Little nod of love for our publishing house, Pioneers Press, from the LiberationOrStarvation tumblr. It’s not easy making ends meet when you make a living off art so anytime we get kind words like this it feels like things are going to be okay.

liberationorstarvation:

PIONEERS PRESS APPRECIATION POST

Yo, I just wanted to make a post saying thanks to Pioneers Press for providing such great literature in so many forms with so many radical ideas and stories.  The above picture is just some of the free stuff that has been sent with orders I have purchased from them, not to mention handwritten thank you notes and other little gems.  I always feel like my money is going to a good place when I make an order or purchase a book.  I really dig their mentality and take on life, and the world is a better place because of them.  The fact that they put so much care and give so much extra into their orders needs to be noted and praised, nobody does that these days.  If you’re looking for books, zines, patches, and other goods on radical/political/lifestyle topics or issues, or looking for good, inspiring, life-changing fiction/non-fiction stories, give their website a browse and it’ll be hard to leave without finding something that calls your name. 

Thanks again.

pioneerspress.com

Adam Gnade & The Hot Earth All-Stars, AMERICANS (Blessing Force) deluxe cassette/download box-set

Listen/order here.

1. Hello America
2. The Whole Lonesome Thing
3. The Ballad of Tom Bluefeather
4. You Got Mean
5. Supper’s Waiting On The Table
6. This Is The End OF Something (But Its Not The End Of You)

Credits: Damon Moon, Sydney Eloise, Adam Laidlaw, Jacob Smith, Chris Cooke, Adam Gnade

You can get copies right here at Blessing Force and check out a little review and a video for the first single right here at the 405 website.

1) You can pre-order it and hear a song right here.

2) The cassette box (w/ download) is a limited edition so I imagine it’ll sell out very fast.

3) Blessing Force (aka the best record label anywhere) is straight outta Oxford, UK. It’s run by Andrew Mears, Al English, and Dominic Hand. Al and Andrew are ex-Youthmovies guys. (Andrew was in Foals too). Al ran Try Harder Records and now works for Mute. Andrew and Dom play in Pet Moon. Dom’s also in Jonquil.

4) The record is called AMERICANS and the band is Adam Gnade & The Hot Earth All-Stars. Players: Damon Moon, Jacob Smith, Sydney Eloise, Chris Cooke, and Adam Laidlaw. They play in Damon Moon and the Whispering Drifters, Brunch, and Under White Pines.

5) While I was writing the lyrics I called this record Country Grammar as a placeholder.

6) I’m off to catch a plane and make this record’s SEQUEL. See you all on the flipside. (Whatever that means.)

7) Always end on seven.

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We’re in Lawrence today dropping off books at Wonder Fair and we stopped by the Merc and bought a copy of the May/June issue of the Utne Reader. Nice story about Pioneers Press and a few of our zines in there. We’re pretty damn excited. First the RocketGrant now this. Feeling pretty amazing about Kansas right now. Onward!

I don’t read/write/like poetry (in general) but this little book is an exception. DEATH IN A RIFLE GARDEN. Just got a box of these muhfuckers in the mail yesterday. I literally thumb through this every couple days. Get in on it.

Dear friends,

Okay, here goes: Our little publishing house/distro Pioneers Press has been awarded a ROCKETGRANT! The grant is to fund “the Hard Fifty Farm Zine Mobile,” a touring/traveling zine gallery and shop. Big thanks to the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Charlotte Street Foundation, and the KU Spencer Museum of Art for putting the grant together, not to mention Jessie Duke for dreaming the whole proposal up and Thad Christian and John Duquette for helping her along the way. HELL YEAH! This year has been hard and mean but good things are starting to happen. Friends: wherever you are tonight, celebrate for us.

Love,

Adam Gnade

1) Bitter.

2) Someone who complains about other people’s things.

3) Jealous.

4) Angry and taking it out on the wrong people.

5) Counterproductive.

6) Trash-talker.

7) Someone who makes judgements without knowing the story/facts/anything.

Don’t be like that. Worry about your own problems and help the people around you. Criticism is only productive when it comes from a place of trust. We can be better than this.