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My wife and I lived in 8 apartments and two houses. I could write ten songs about every one. This really is a Choochtown story as the first 5 apartments were in Syracuse. I probably needed something to fill up the album and as always Upstate is easy fodder.

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My wife broke down the door of Apartment #4, that wasn't the address or the one we liked the best, it was the one that passed our broke ass test.

On the first floor of apartment #4 was Crackball Bob, who pretended he got robbed, when he smoked up all the stash and he didn't have the cash for the product he was fronted and in lieu of being hunted he paid a lowlife to gag his son and wife and then beat him 'til he needed stichin' on the linoleum in the kitchen, in Apartment #4.

3AM in advanced inebriation my wife was on a stress induced vacation. A friend was hanging out so loud we had to shout, the stereo was blarin', my friend and I were sharin', critiques and theories, observations and queries on Elvis's first major label release, Heartbreak Hotel and we thought at the least a risky move, but E would prove over and over like audio noir, downstairs Crackball Ball getting beatin' til he scarred.

Apartment #1 was a lot of fun, we were real young and we'd just begun. I got a place in my heart like a whore for Apartment #4.

We continued to get drunk my friend pulled out a chunk of black tar hash, we heard the final crash, downstairs was quiet through my window we spied it, the flashing lights dividing the night. Bob got his way in the papers the next day, his alibi, no more coke, Bob proved why he was broke. A bunch of my friends landed in jail, looking for Bob when they got out on bail.

Apartment # 10, I was bottoming then, I barely remember what cities its in, I got memories galore for Apartment #4.

And then a neighbor, obviously employed, knocked down my door, obviously annoyed, as I said from the start, my wife had busted the molding apart, in a fight we had had, she, I guess was burning mad. The door remained unhinged, Bob is still alive, we upgraded marginally to Apartment #5.

Apartment #14 all the things we'd seen. Sometimes the world could seem so mean. a little skanky not rotten to the core, in Apartment #4.

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from SONGS FOR PARENTS WHO ENJOY DRUGS, released October 7, 2013
Hamell: Guitar and Vocals
Ani: Synth Orchestra
Dedicated to Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

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HAMELL ON TRIAL Austin, Texas

Hamell on Trial is loud, fast music informed by politics, intelligence and a wicked sense of humor.
1995-Mercury Records-Big as Life, The Chord is Mightier Than the Sword.
1997- Choochtown
2003-Righteous Babe Records-Tough Love
2005, Songs For Parents Who Enjoy Drugs.
2007-“The Terrorism Of Everyday Life,” (Edinburgh Fringe Herald Award)
2012-New West Records -The Happiest Man Alive. ... more

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