if you like the band, please check out my solo stuff here...
i've just released a new solo album "awake from the flash"
Criminal slang - a five point glossary with definitions from the Rogue's Lexicon by George Matsell, 1895:
AUTUM-DIVERS... were New York City pickpockets who worked in churches during the mid 19th century. "Five Points" is New York City's mythic slum.
Named for the points created by the intersection of Park, Worth, and Baxter streets, the neighborhood was known as a center of vice and debauchery throughout the nineteenth century. Outsiders found Five Points threatening and fodder for lurid prose. Describing a visit in 1842, Charles Dickens wrote: "This is the place: these narrow ways diverging to the right and left, and reeking every where with dirt and filth. Such lives as are led here, bear the same fruit here as elsewhere. The coarse and bloated faces at the doors have counterparts at home and all the wide world over. Debauchery has made the very houses prematurely old. See how the rotten beams are tumbling down, and how the patched and broken windows seem to scowl dimly, like eyes that have been hurt in drunken frays. Many of these pigs live here. Do they ever wonder why their masters walk upright in lieu of going on all-fours? and why they talk instead of grunting?"
-From the
five points site
Autumdivers circa 2004
this is a documentary we are providing music for ----
wake me up
Label/Management
Steve Beck
OnlineRock Records
2033 Ralston Ave. .50
Belmont, CA 94002
650.649.2304
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http://www.autumdivers.com
