“School”
I think that misbehavior is very strongly correlated with and responsible for creative thought.
Steve Wozniak
YACHT is going on tour in the American South!
MAY
05-24 San Diego, CA — The Loft @ UCSD
05-25 Tucson, AZ — Plush
05-26 El Paso, TX — Neon Desert Music Festival
05-28 New Orleans, LA — One Eyed Jacks
05-30 Gainesville, FL — Double Down Live
05-31 Orlando, FL — The Plaza Live
JUNE
06-01 Tampa, FL — Crowbar
06-02 Miami, FL — Bardot
06-03 Jacksonville, FL — Underbelly
06-04 Atlanta, GA — The Earl
06-05 Nashville, TN — 12th & Porter
06-06 Memphis, TN — Hi-Tone Cafe
06-07 Dallas, TX — Club Dada
06-08 Austin, TX — The Mohawk
06-09 Houston, TX — Fitzgerald’s
06-11 Norman, OK — Opolis
06-13 Santa Fe, NM — Sol
06-14 Phoenix, AZ — The Crescent Ballroom
06-15 Pomona, CA — The Glass House
More info and ticket links on the YACHT website. See you there, fellow members of the Trust!
We feel extremely lucky to be able to pursue YACHT, and it’s important for us to say that although we do it ourselves, we don’t do it alone.
Wow the band YACHT is very unholy, thinking that they can create their own religion and philosophy. Trying to stray people away from their true religions. No, I cannot be my own God, for I already have a God!!
Like and reblog if you are against YACHT!!
This can either be the beginning of a conversation or the end of one. Let’s choose the former. YACHT has repeatedly stated over the last several years that they are not a cult, and that their philosophical viewpoints in no way exclude any spiritual sentiment. This should be self-evident, of course, but the alarming thing is in confusing philosophy with religion. Because someone has a philosophical viewpoint, they are unholy? Free thought is the greatest gift that God/The Universe/evolution has bestowed upon us—what a waste to lock it away in a prison of dogma.
On their website, YACHT write:
YACHT is not a religion. YACHT aims to provide an alternative to religion, by creating a community which provides long-lasting meaning and value without dogma or submission. We share many things with spiritual groups: we respect ritual, ceremony, and magic. We desire to turn disassociated people into a group capable of summoning upon itself high, transcendent power. However, we believe that traditional religious dogma can, if we are not intellectually engaged with it, hold us in a kind of prison of the mind. We aim to break free, break molds, and impress upon our members the importance of self-empowerment.
unitedtumblchristians‘ quick closed-mindedness is embodied by its flaccid and self-serving call to action: “like and reblog if you are against YACHT!” It is apparent this person has not read, thought, or researched much on the subject of either spirituality or YACHT’s ideas; instead, they choose to quantify ignorance with clicks.
YACHT collaborated with Portland-based Into the Woods to film a live performance of their song “Beam Me Up” in a suburban laser tag arena. It looks amazing, and premiered today on NPR.
Maybe YACHT wouldn’t be that sad if the complete and total annihilation of the human race happened tomorrow. The video for their song “Beam Me Up,” off their recent album Shangri-La, finds the band playing around with the upsides of doomsday in a laser tag arena. Think of a future where cyber-soldiers fight each other in the smouldering metallic ruins of society, except with children shooting fake lasers.
“Beam Me Up” begins like the opening to an “invaders from outer space” sci-fi and ends with a yelp of exasperation. Singer Claire Evans, sounding like a new-wave Siouxsie Sioux, sings, “High above the clouds somewhere / The cold of space spreads thin / We endeavor to look out / They are looking in.” The sentiment in the chorus — that one day the narrator will watch her planet burn — sounds unfortunate. By the last stanza, however, it’s obvious that the first impression is faulty. This narrator can’t wait for the whole crummy Earth to blow up: “There are nights that I burn out / I drink deep from my cup / I look all around me / and think, ‘Oh god, beam me up!’”
Claire L. Evans & Jona Bechtolt at La Botanique, in Brussels.
