An Emo Video Every Day This Week: Day 5
Artist: Joan of Arc
Song: “Post Coitus Rock”
What, I was going to end this little nostalgia trip without another Tim Kinsella video? Of course not. Immediately after falling in love with Cap’n Jazz in 1998, I began seeking out the members’ new projects. I went to Uncle Sam’s, one of the few indie record stores in South Florida at the time, and bought Joan of Arc’s How Memory Works. Joan of Arc had C’nJ singer Tim Kinsella (who apparently learned how to play guitar—barely—in his off time between bands) leading the way and his brother Mike (the cute Kinsella bro) on drums. How Memory Works had just come out, and it was the band’s second album. I rocked it so hard that first day that I immediately ordered JoA’s debut, A Portable Model Of, from Jade Tree later that night.
What didn’t I love about Joan of Arc? The sound was way more arty than the Promise Ring, therefore making me feel cool that I “got it.” The lyrics were oh so emo, right in my tortured-teenage-boy wheelhouse of the time. The band’s initials were my initials. It was a match made in heaven, and I pretty much dedicated my life to all things Kinsella, even driving up to see Joan of Arc play in Orlando and Gainesville. There’s a picture of Tim and I posing together floating around this apartment somewhere. I stuck around through five albums and a handful of more live shows, but then Joan of Arc got too weird, then too prolific, then too on-again off-again. Tim Kinsella’s music was always love-it-or-hate-it, and in the end we agreed to break up but remain friends. Unfortunately, there’s not much by way of live videos from the band’s Golden Era on YouTube, but it doesn’t get much more appropriate than the band playing the legendary Fireside Bowl in Chicago in 1997, pretty much ground zero for everything I loved from 1998-2000. And with that, I’m still waiting for my goddamn T-shirt.
An Emo Video Every Day This Week: Day 1 [ja.com]
An Emo Video Every Day This Week: Day 2 [ja.com]
An Emo Video Every Day This Week: Day 3 [ja.com]
An Emo Video Every Day This Week: Day 4 [ja.com]
