Lovely Book Club

Lovely Book Club We publish books, zines, music, apparel, and art.

The Lovely Book Club (fka dimsummer) is a collective of artists currently living in Portland, Oregon trying to make cool things and have fun.

We are excited to give you the first volume of our new online art zine, Lovely Times. Our first volume features painting...
06/09/2021
LOVELY

We are excited to give you the first volume of our new online art zine, Lovely Times. Our first volume features paintings, drawings, illustrations and text by Rob Gray. Visit www.lovelybook.club to give it a peep ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ†“๐Ÿ’ซ๐Ÿ†’๐ŸŒ€

the NINETEENTH jam on our BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB daily(ish) singles playlist is an instrumental experiment called Play The P...
04/14/2020
Play The Piano As The Cat Attacks Your Hands

the NINETEENTH jam on our BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB daily(ish) singles playlist is an instrumental experiment called Play The Piano As The Cat Attacks Your Hands by Uncool the musical. Faiy self explanatory... Shoutouts to Owl the cat for his important contribution

From time to time, Owl the cat hops up on the piano and attacks my hands as I'm doodling around on the piano.

Howdy friends. Hope you're doin well ๐Ÿ˜˜ New collab jam up on the BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB today. Enjoy All Day by Uncool the mu...
04/13/2020
All Day ft. Johnny

Howdy friends. Hope you're doin well ๐Ÿ˜˜ New collab jam up on the BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB today. Enjoy All Day by Uncool the musical featuring Full Life artist Johnny on vocals

Al day all day alllll daaaayyyyyy Johnny on vocals :)

Today's BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB single is an instrumental experiment on piano and rattle titled Bumbling Thump by Uncool the ...
04/08/2020
Bumbling Thump

Today's BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB single is an instrumental experiment on piano and rattle titled Bumbling Thump by Uncool the musical

Instrumental experiment with piano and rattle

Swan Down - this lil acoustic singsong is today's addition to the BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB playlist
04/06/2020
Swan Down

Swan Down - this lil acoustic singsong is today's addition to the BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB playlist

At Any Moment In A Stair Well Swan Down

Hey! I read a think piece that said it's Friday today. Happy Friday! Enjoy this BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB single: It Always Mea...
04/03/2020
It Always Means You Won't Ft Meli

Hey! I read a think piece that said it's Friday today. Happy Friday! Enjoy this BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB single: It Always Means You Won't by Uncool the musical feat. Meli on vocals -- a fuzzy psychedelic experimental jam, pairs well with fuzzy Friday brain waves ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ“ฃ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’–

fuzzy psychedelic experimental collaboration with Meli on vocals and Uncool on music (synth, drum machine and guitar)

The 13th addition to the BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB daily singles playlist is LOWEST 2.0 - a minimalist rap version of yesterday...
04/02/2020
BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB

The 13th addition to the BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB daily singles playlist is LOWEST 2.0 - a minimalist rap version of yesterday's grungy drone jam. Hope you're all stayin home, safe, and healthy

Lovely Book Club and uncool the musical proudly present BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB! We will be releasing a new recording everyday from now until the apocalypse. Homemade songs, poems, beats, collaborations, n

Today on BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB it's a two for one special - two songs in one recording - both songs started out in the rap/...
04/01/2020
Lowest / Whatever We Drink

Today on BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB it's a two for one special - two songs in one recording - both songs started out in the rap/r'n'b genre, but here we find them with grungy drone vibes. Enjoy Lowest / Whatever We Drink by Uncool the musical

Lowest Of Lowest Of Low / Whatever We Drink These Days

Yowzaaaa it's day 10 of BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB and we are adding a lil folky tune to the mix called Like This. Happy Sunday,...
03/30/2020
Like This

Yowzaaaa it's day 10 of BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB and we are adding a lil folky tune to the mix called Like This. Happy Sunday, friends

Perhaps as close as I get to country music?

Hello! Today's addition to the BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB playlist is an instrumental experiment on piano and looping pedal titl...
03/28/2020
Play The Piano Until The Chocolate In Your Mouth Has Melted

Hello! Today's addition to the BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB playlist is an instrumental experiment on piano and looping pedal titled Play The Piano Until The Chocolate In Your Mouth Has Melted ๐ŸŽน๐Ÿซ

An experimental piano recording.

Happy Friday to you and yours! Today we are adding Two Ones Makes Two to the BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB playlist! This jam is a ...
03/27/2020
Two Ones Makes Two

Happy Friday to you and yours! Today we are adding Two Ones Makes Two to the BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB playlist! This jam is a poem on an MPC beat--homemade bedroom music straight outta isolation in Portland, OR. "I a dumbfounded in love waiting for you to swim home with Mexican food." Enjoy and be safe ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿพ

"I am dumbfounded in love waiting for you to swim home with Mexican food."

Hello and happy Thursday to you! Happy to meet you here on day 7 of BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB. We have released a single each d...
03/26/2020
I Want That

Hello and happy Thursday to you! Happy to meet you here on day 7 of BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB. We have released a single each day for 7 days straight, bringing the playlist up to 8 songs, and we have no intention of stopping any time soon :) Today we give you a solo Uncool the musical poem-y rap jam called I Want That. Stay home, stay safe

MPC beat / poem rap jam

Happy Whateversday! We have a beautiful addition to BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB today. A collaborative love song featuring DJ DJ ...
03/25/2020
Love Song Ft. DJ DJ

Happy Whateversday! We have a beautiful addition to BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB today. A collaborative love song featuring DJ DJ of the Full Life All Stars on vocals and Uncool the musical on acoustic guitar

This is a love song. Vocals written and performed by Dave aka DJDJ of the Full Life All Stars.

It's Day 5 of BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB and we are happy to give you this chill lil Uncool the musical song titled Thru The Win...
03/24/2020
Thru The Window

It's Day 5 of BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB and we are happy to give you this chill lil Uncool the musical song titled Thru The Window, which suddenly seems very appropriate considering most of us are sitting at home staring through the window missing our friends and family. Keep up the good work, y'all! We love ya, we miss ya. Stay home, stay safe, get creative

Listen to Thru The Window by uncool, the musical on

Day Four of BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB: Smuggles' Giggles, an exerimental beat build around a sample of Julian Smuggles' laughte...
03/23/2020
Smuggles' Giggles

Day Four of BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB: Smuggles' Giggles, an exerimental beat build around a sample of Julian Smuggles' laughter

Beat built around a sample of the laughter of Julian Smuggles

Day Three of BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB is a poem called Olfactory Hallucinations disguised as a song called Livin' It Up
03/22/2020
Livin' It Up.WAV

Day Three of BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB is a poem called Olfactory Hallucinations disguised as a song called Livin' It Up

Lovely Book Club and uncool the musical proudly present BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB! We will be releasing a new recording everyday from now until the apocalypse. Homemade songs, poems, beats, collaborations, n

Day Two of BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB brings you the first collaboration jam of the project: Nice Work! by Uncool the musical fe...
03/21/2020
Nice Work! Ft Melody, K-Lo, Mike D, Mike S, DJ DJ, and Meli

Day Two of BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB brings you the first collaboration jam of the project: Nice Work! by Uncool the musical featuring vocals by Melody, K-Lo, Mike D, Mike S, DJ DJ and Meli, a collaborative recording made half at home and half at Full Life

Lovely Book Club and uncool the musical proudly present BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB! We will be releasing a new recording everyday from now until the apocalypse. Homemade songs, poems, beats, collaborations, n

Lovely Book Club and Uncool the musical proudly present BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB
03/20/2020
BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB

Lovely Book Club and Uncool the musical proudly present BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB

Lovely Book Club and uncool the musical proudly present BORINGDAYMUSICCLUB! We will be releasing a new recording everyday from now un...

Hello friends! We are thrilled and excited to re-release this beautiful and vital zine: NOPE: A Safe Space Zine is a Por...
11/22/2019
BOOKS

Hello friends! We are thrilled and excited to re-release this beautiful and vital zine: NOPE: A Safe Space Zine is a Portland Poetry Slam collaboration curated by Robyn Bateman

Nope: A Safe Space Zine A Portland Poetry Slam Collaboration Curated by Robyn Bateman The Pink Light by Ines Falco ...

Happy and excited to put this music video out into the world! Enjoy 'Whatever We Drink' by Uncool (aka Rob Gray), direct...
09/10/2019
Uncool - Whatever We Drink

Happy and excited to put this music video out into the world! Enjoy 'Whatever We Drink' by Uncool (aka Rob Gray), directed by Julian Smuggles, starring the W**d Island Yacht Club

Uncool "Whatever We Drink" from Men Don't Understand Vioence Director: julian smuggles Lovely Book Club โ™ก

The Dimsummer Yacht Club Book Club is chuffed to announce the release of A Sickness by Rob Gray and silly rob childish, ...
02/14/2019

The Dimsummer Yacht Club Book Club is chuffed to announce the release of A Sickness by Rob Gray and silly rob childish, out now on limited edition cassette tape and available to stream/download via all major music service thingys. Each cassette has its own unique cover art handmade by Robyn Bateman and Rob Gray using the choicest gems from Robโ€™s vast found photo collection. Please feel free to browse the collages on our website (www.dimsummerbookclub.com) and listen to the jams on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Spotify etc or via our BandCamp page: https://dimsummerbookclub.bandcamp.com/album/a-sickness! Pease click things, share things and so on and so forth, order the cassette from the bandcamp page if you are so inclined, feel free to send Rob an e-mail at [email protected], and have a wonderful day ๐Ÿ’–

The yacht club's very own Robyn Bateman is back on Nailed Magazine with her beautiful autobiographical comic series Fail...
10/10/2018
Failing Haus | Nailed Magazine

The yacht club's very own Robyn Bateman is back on Nailed Magazine with her beautiful autobiographical comic series Failing Haus! CLICK IT

ย  Well hello, you. Failing Haus is an autobiographical series that originally ran here on NAILED from October 2013 to October 2015. If youโ€™re new to the series, donโ€™t hesitate to browse backwards and catch yourself up on all the self-indulgent heartache and woes Iโ€™ve spent countless hours of ...

thee yacht club kept it p chill at the Portland Zine Symposium this weekend / we sweat zines
07/31/2018
BOOK CLUB PDX ZINE SYMPOSIUM INVASION 2018

thee yacht club kept it p chill at the Portland Zine Symposium this weekend / we sweat zines

the dimsummer yacht club got sweaty at the Portland Zine Symposium this weekend! shout outs to Robyn and CC for holdin' it down at the t...

Did you know you can find the .pdf version of Robyn Bateman's extremely beautiful and limited edition book, Oh, on our b...
05/08/2018
Books

Did you know you can find the .pdf version of Robyn Bateman's extremely beautiful and limited edition book, Oh, on our book page and read it for free? We put it there because we love you

The Pink Light by Ines Falco 2018 chap book subscription by Julian Smuggles Oh by Robyn Bateman FREE.PDF ...

Check out our new Ceramics gallery featuring beautiful work by Lindsay Ruoff
05/03/2018
Ceramics

Check out our new Ceramics gallery featuring beautiful work by Lindsay Ruoff

Ceramics by Lindsay Ruoff. Mixed stoneware clays and glaze. Portland, OR, 2018. Contact: [email protected] Earrings...

The Pink Light by Ines Falcรถ is available now! Order Ines' beautiful debut chapbook with a cover illustration by Patrick...
04/30/2018
dimsummer

The Pink Light by Ines Falcรถ is available now! Order Ines' beautiful debut chapbook with a cover illustration by Patrick Keck from our website today

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Hello! My name is Helen - I work for Converge 45, Portland's annual fine arts festival, and I'm reaching out to local book clubs for help with an upcoming Ann Hamilton art installation. We are bringing the community together in compiling excerpts of text relating to the themes of the Hamilton installation and we would love your help! Please see below for details and feel free to reach out to me for more information!

Thank you!
Helen
[email protected]

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Be a part of Converge 45's Ann Hamilton's habitus project in Portland! The artist seeks public submissions of existing texts "about the sense of belonging, of dwelling and of home". Selected passages and texts will be included in the exhibition which runs runs August 9 - September 16, 2018 at Centennial Mills (NW Naito Parkway & NW 9th Ave ). Deadline for submissions: July 22nd.
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