experimental pop group AU.
Wyland started AU in 2005 while completing a degree at the Massachusetts College of Art
. He later moved cross-country to Portland, Oregon
and established a base in its music community. Now a working live band, AU features an ever-changing roster of players, recently including Jonathan Sielaff (Parenthetical Girls, Nick Jaina) on guitar, clarinets and saw; and Dana Valatka (Jackie-O_Motherfucker, Mustaphamond) on drums. Contributors to AU's recordings included Mark Kaylor (Hamor of Hathor, CexFucx), Becky Dawson (Saw Whet, Ah Holly Fam’ly), and Sarah Winchester (A Weather).
Its debut album was praised by such media centers as Pitchfork and Stereogum, and was named #2 Portland Album of 2007 by the Portland Mercury, which said AU “manages to erase the high art/low art boundary between American contemporary classical music and American pop music, blending them into a simple, compelling, verse-chorus celebration...
I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.
A long illness seems to be placed between life and death, in order to make death a comfort both to those who die and to those who remain.
死神の附いた耳へは、意見も道理も入るまいとは思へど、さりとは愚痴の至り
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank – but that's not the same thing.
Death is my final civil liberty, and I do not choose to surrender it to the state, a church or a physician.
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
The Wood of Suicides has changed since my last visit to Hell. I remember it as a tiny grove. Now it resembles a forest.