Recent interview subject Vincent Feldman supplied the following bit of information as an addendum to his interview:

"I forgot to mention that after Legitimate Reason broke up Grant Plunket and I played in a reggae/ska band called Just Us.  We made a studio demo which I have no record of.  We didn't play out much except at a few parties and most memorably a big punk rock block party in 1988 on Rodman Street around 12th street."

Upon completion of the interview, I was left with a follow-up question that I felt needed to be addressed for clarification. I wrote to Vincent:

You mentioned in the interview that your father applied for conscientious objector status during World World II. Considering Hitler and the Nazis were aggressively engaged in exterminating European Jewry and your father was himself a Jew, what was his reasoning for declaring himself a conscientious objector?

Here is Vincent's reply, which I post without comment:

"My father was a pacifist and politically very astute.  If WWII was about saving the Jews then that war was entirely lost, never even engaged really.  He was well aware of plenty antisemitism from within the US.  My father lived in Baltimore for a while in the 1960s and he recalled to me that the beaches in Maryland had signs posted barring Blacks, Jews and dogs.  The Jews who joined the US Army or worked in the Roosevelt Admin. were sourly disappointed in the war effort in regard to saving Jews."

Vincent adds this note, which is illustrated by the two pages of book scans he sent along to me and which I have posted here:

"The best example of my dad's political insights occurred within a day of JFK's ambush murder.  I am attaching two pages from Praise From a Future Generation by John Kelin.  He predicted Oswald would be shortly eliminated and a Jew would be used in the plot."

Please note: I (Joseph) present these materials as submitted to me by my interview subject. These are not my personal views.

Here is a message from one of my personal favorite interviews subjects, Thomas "Vosco" Adams of the band Ruin, about Darren Finizio. Thomas wrote this comment on one of my Facebook postings about the Darren interview and I think some of you will enjoy hearing this music:

Pete Sounds and I had the pleasure of being in one of Darren's identity bands, "The Open Minded Men" aka "OMM." He didn't mention the band in the interview though when he mentioned being Open Minded, I thought of us. This was about 10 years ago or more. That experience, seeing the brilliant Hoppy the Frog video, and catching the motivating Muscle Factory live, leads me to believe Darren was born to be a star. Pete has a couple of OMM mp3s available to download from his drugmusic archive mp3 page of his website: http://soundsoftomorrow.net/ and here the link to our theme song: http://drnoone.peregrinesalon.com/OMM.mp3

Yesterday my friend Sarah, the creator and maintainer this site, added sound uploading options to the blog area of the site so that I may post Darren Finizio's voicemail messages to me (see below post). This got me thinking about other uses for uploading sound to the blog. My plan as it stands is to sometimes use the blog as an ancillary interview site. That is, on occasional I'll present shorter interviews that may fall outside the focus of this project or follow-up interviews with folks who were previously interviewed here but with whom I may wish to speak about something we missed or things that have occured since the "interview proper." Having the option to present interviews outside the main thrust of the project and without a series of portraits (though they will likely be accompanied by some images, albeit less formal than in the interview section) should provide content for you and will allow me to explore some areas of interest that previously couldn't be brought to the fore in L!F!P!

Here are more of Karen Kirchhoff's shots of Darren Finizio from our shoot/interview last night.