This stone sign is hand carved. Seems like everyone who’s ever stayed here, made something. We’re planning to leave them some erotic origami. It’s just really hard to make the tits round.
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Penny and Gee in the swimming pool they bought with all the Crass money.
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There’s wood sculptures all over the place (Crass vocalist) Steve Ignorant made. I’ll do a post on those later.
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They’re in the process of remastering all the old Crass albums and rereleasing them. More on that later too.
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The view from Penny’s desk where cheery numbers like this were written.
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Beautiful bookshelf with lots of JG Ballard and DH Lawrence and art books.
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Emily and my favorite new game is buying really shitty books and sneaking them into people’s bookshelves. We put a gay porn book in my parent’s bookshelf and it wasn’t there when we came back the next time. They claim to have no knowledge of it. I wonder what will be the fate of this Jordan tome.
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Penny ripped this enormous mushroom off a tree (weird, I’m writing in an English accent now) and when I asked him what it was he said, “The chicken of the woods.”
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In fact, it was way better than chicken. It tasted like getting laid in high school and lasted way longer.
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Penny knows a lot about mushrooms.
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This was my favorite book as a kid. Now he’s a hot water bottle cozy.
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Gee’s silkies. Foxes are so deadly here you have to even have wire under the chicken coop so they can’t burrow underneath. I suggested we all go on a fox hunt. Didn’t go down well.
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Found this strange shed off by the garden. A guy named Freddie had been in it all day. He wrote, “A: The problem is the solution. B: Live in the solution.” Then, at the bottom it said, “Dalek at the bottom of steps” and “Dalek flying up steps.” It worries me that I totally get what he’s talking about. Dr. Who recently had Dalek’s able to fly up stairs which used to be their Achilles heel. Now they can get anyone. Now they live in the solution.
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Four years ago I proposed to my wife almost exactly where that guy’s shit would land.
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This pub is 400 years old. Canada finally nailed down their national anthem and flag about 35 years ago.
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A portrait Gee did of her (now deceased) mom. I tried to photograph this about 50 times and couldn’t capture the haunting vibes it gives off.
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A Gee painting in the film room. She doesn’t sell her art but Banksy sells her prints and they’re incredibly high quality. The new one is a nude pin up crossed with a gory looking biology shot that only shows the woman’s muscle tissue. Neither Gee nor Penny have stopped doing shit since the end of Crass. Penny has a new poetry album coming out that has a 15 minute diatribe about what a piece of shit Kerouac was.
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Gee has a film club that comes by every two weeks. They’re not bananas about heckling no matter how funny the quip is which I thought was a little unfair.
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That’s Vomit from Dirt on the left doing magic tricks for kids. Check out this super old picture of him (after the cartoons). His new band is called Earth Culture.
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Sitting in a living chair made by a guy who described the whiskey we were drinking as “Slippery as you like.” This may be my favorite quote of the trip. (He’s above next to Penny in the Papa Smurf hat.)
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Penny and Gee still have their childhood Teddies. My kids were scared shitless of them.
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A totem pole made of broken toys the kids bring in. We didn’t have any broken toys so I just ripped Dora’s head off and brought that.
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Bric-a-brac abounds at this place. You would not want to be a nook or a cranny at Dial House.
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Get it?
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The house is ensconced in a cow pasture. I was arguing with Penny one night and he said “I could talk about politics ’til the cows come home but” and a fucking cow mooed a few yards away. Priceless.
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Haven’t had meat in days. These fuckers are making me drool.
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If you need any garden work done at your place we’d be happy to help out. We’re called the Lawn Rangers.
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There’s no apple like an apple fresh off the tree.
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The bath is the only place to get hot water.
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did you catch aids?
08.24.09 at 12:16 pm
wow, awesome.. and you have a big dick
08.24.09 at 12:19 pm
neat!
08.24.09 at 12:24 pm
that’s awesome, i’m jealous.
08.24.09 at 1:04 pm
Biopic? Is there a DVD hidden in the book?
08.24.09 at 1:36 pm
My ladyboner just exploded.
08.24.09 at 1:51 pm
A few weeks ago I was camping in Vermont and my friend Tony returned from a stroll in the woods with a massive mushroom.
“Im gonna make some tea with this mushroom, it’ll make you feel real mellow.”
“Aww cool! Is it psychedelic?”
“No, but it will make us live for ever”
Im not sure if i’m immortal now, but i do know it was a goddamn miracle that nobody died that weekend. wild mushies are where its at.
08.24.09 at 1:51 pm
Sheeeet … rockin’ the crocs and shrivelled wully look.
08.24.09 at 2:09 pm
The thing people always forget about being a hippy is that when you do it right it is a shit load of fun.
08.24.09 at 2:10 pm
so charming what great memories for your kids.
kerouac is my grandfather’s first cousin i said that a million times before on the internet.
08.24.09 at 2:24 pm
yuppie scum
08.24.09 at 2:52 pm
you have great legs.
08.24.09 at 2:59 pm
Fuck yeah. The phrase “keepin it real” is abused about as much as the term “genius.” This is one of the few times when both really do apply. These pictures put me in a good mood. Thank you.
08.24.09 at 3:18 pm
Gee’s delivery on Asylum is magnificent.
I, as Jucifer himself do approve.
PS. That looks fun…. lucky fuck Gavin
08.24.09 at 3:30 pm
that book prank is hilarious
08.24.09 at 3:36 pm
Great post… even with dicks.
08.24.09 at 3:40 pm
Raymi, stop mentioning the Kerouac tidbit. It’s not interesting.
08.24.09 at 4:34 pm
Yeah toots, and my uncle was room-mates with William Carlos Williams.
08.24.09 at 5:20 pm
what does penny’s crasshole taste like?
08.24.09 at 5:41 pm
Only hippies would still rip on Kerouac, the same way we will forever rip on Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace for not really “getting it” … even though they do.
08.24.09 at 5:42 pm
i only mention it like once a YEE-YUR
08.24.09 at 5:54 pm
No kidding, who’s your Mom? maybe I’ll remember her.
08.24.09 at 6:12 pm
Kerouac is overrated.
08.24.09 at 6:43 pm
ew, what’s with Dude’s leather belly?
08.24.09 at 6:53 pm
Do Penny and Gee spend a lot of time grooming insects out of their hair?
08.24.09 at 7:39 pm
Holy shit man! I’ve been trying to remember the name of Fungus the Bogeyman for like five years!!!! I saw that photo and recognized him and was ohhhhhhhhhh shit! BEST BOOK EVER
08.24.09 at 8:51 pm
Penny is wearing Crocs….Is that a Don’t?
08.25.09 at 2:58 am
i like those paintings.
08.25.09 at 4:43 am
dude you have socks on.
08.25.09 at 7:07 am
BANKSY leads me here. The Shangri-la would be a Metamorphose for KIDS.
08.25.09 at 7:11 am
this sucks.
08.25.09 at 11:09 am
I don’t care if he was in crass or not, CROCS ARE NOT PUNK
08.25.09 at 4:24 pm
I realise this probably doesnt need saying at all – but i thought this article was interesting and funny and good, without the pretense to ‘real journalism’ or one-up-man-ship or ‘breaking new ground’ or some juvenile obsession with obscurity that so many alternative / young people orientated publications / websites seem to be unable to escape from no matter how old they get or how much they ‘give a shit’.
also props / shouts goin out to the ‘having your heart in the right place’ aspect.
looks like a helluva life you’ve got there.
08.25.09 at 8:28 pm
@ Stupid Shoe Ranger:
He’s operating a lawn mower- crocs are the least shoe one can wear and still have closed off toes and be executing proper safety tactics.
08.26.09 at 1:30 pm
[...] did the first interview with the Wall Street Journal EVER conducted from Dial House. I gave the guy a million great angles but the end result – no offense guy – reads like something [...]
08.26.09 at 7:17 pm
[...] McInnes posted a cool photo essay on his blog today. It’s a bunch of photos of him getting naked and nostalgic with Penny Rimbaud at the [...]
08.28.09 at 12:54 am
Wow wow wow. This is kinda how I imagine Heaven, even with Crass occasionally lecturing me. Did they ever pay off the debt for this place?
08.29.09 at 11:50 am
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11.19.09 at 5:03 pm
proper tea is theft…this is not
01.03.11 at 11:31 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_2_meh-DLo
01.03.11 at 11:32 am