The Chunklet Music Preservation Project

12/06/2025

Hey all. H2O here. So our first public show is happening tonight at the Garden Club in the West End. I printed these posters by myself earlier this week and all 31 of them will be on sale tonite to benefit the CMPP. Show starts at 8, but get there early for the non-Shazamable playlist of Georgia obscura.

11/26/2025

Tonight at midnight, The Chunklet Archives: Deep Cuts Silent Auction goes live. We will be adding more pieces in the next few days, but wow! what a start!

Take a look. Bid on some great pieces. Buy something now.

All proceeds benefit the Chunklet Music Preservation Project and the artists whose collections we represent.

(Link in comments.)

11/08/2025

Artists, artisans, business owners: do you have a piece, product, or service to donate to the Project for our upcoming fundraiser on December 6th? We'd love your extra painting, that beautiful beeswax candle you crafted, or a gift certificate for an experience with your business for our silent auction.

Donations to the Chunklet Music Preservation Project (a 501c3) may be tax-deductible.

Please reach out to Henry Owings or Stephanie Quinn Jackson with questions or to donate!

08/24/2025

The last couple of weeks has been extraordinarily busy and ridiculously productive for the Chunklet Music Preservation Project! Henry and I trekked to the Savannah area to visit with Eugene Lyons and to scan materials just after the most recent installment of the Samizdat reissue came out.

Our gracious Richmond Hill host and close friend, Kay, went with me to SCAD to view the Fiorucci book in person for one bit of research, while Henry spent the first of what would become a few days with Murray Silver. We have worked with Doc before, when his essay about, and ad from The Great Speckled Bird for, the Grateful Dead's first show in Atlanta made it into Plus 1: Atlanta. We are working with Doc now to preserve his materials and to bring them to light in new and exciting ways.

THEY ARE STUNNING.

That same trip, we spent two delightful days working on Jekyll Island with the administrator for the Estate of Gordon Stevenson. As many of you know, we first came to know Gordon (Ecstatic Stigmatic, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Junk) through our work with his brother Davey's band, Limbo District.

This started as 200+ letters from Gordon to his family detailing his time at Eckerd College, then his time in New York City detailing No Wave and the East Village in real time, his life with and then after the death of his wife Mirielle Cervenka, and then the illness that would become known as AIDS and take his life in August 1983.

In April of this year, on a research trip to NYC to view other materials, we were STUNNED to find out that Gordon's former business partner, Anthony, had kept the materials from his apartment after his death. Henry drove to NYC in May and brought home boxes of papers, photographs, tapes, film, and so much more. We are still in process of getting the final details of what was recovered, but I can tell you that the 11/16/1980 interview with Siouxsie Sioux after their show at the Palladium is exactly what you hope it is.

There is so much more that happens in the midst of all of this. And there is more work being done and to be done, on top of these major projects. It's not just the big stuff that matters.

We have been fortunate that expenses have been covered so far, but we are asking for your help. We do not take any fees or salary from the Project. Our time is strictly volunteer.

We really need a new laptop, a couple of external SSD drives, and archival storage containers and materials. (These are acid-free, reinforced, made for long-term preservation.) A donor just helped us get a new negative and slide scanner, which means significant savings of time and money on several projects. There are always ongoing costs--shipping, software subscriptions (discounted at non-profit rates), travel costs for day trips, etc. Having film and audio transferred and digitized is expensive.

The Chunklet Music Preservation Project is a 501c3 tax-exempt organization, and your donation may be tax-deductible. (Talk to your tax professional.) We also have some things for sale that directly benefit the Project.

Finally, if you're local and have some time to spend with Henry to type some things into an Excel spreadsheet, he could use some help cataloging some of these collections. You must be very comfortable with Excel, and you must be very comfortable with spending hours with Henry. (Hell, add it to your LinkedIn profile.)

We know things are crazy for everyone right now, and we appreciate all the love and support we constantly receive. This is all just a sampling of what we have going on right now; it really is a second and third job for each of us.

Thank you all for your time and every good wish and hug and place to crash and margarita and everything else you've shared with us on this journey. We are looking forward to more of it with each of you.

Stephanie Quinn Jackson
Executive Director, Chunklet Music Preservation Project

07/27/2025

A couple of weeks ago, Henry and I had the great pleasure of doing a lightning presentation for the Society of Georgia Archivists on the work we do. When they put out a call for 5-10 minute presentations for the 2025 Virtual Summer Symposium, they asked for presentations on the topic of finding joy in archiving and preservation work.

"Ain't We Lucky We Got 'Em: Good Times in Preservation" is all about how Henry and I came to do what we do, why we do it, and how doing it together is what makes it all worthwhile.

If you have 10 minutes, give it a watch.

The Southeastern Archives Association and the Society of Georgia Archivists held a virtual summer symposium on July 10-11, 2025. The theme was "Note to Self ...

07/03/2025

https://ebay.us/m/21JWEZ

Pete Buck comics by Jack Logan, reissued by the Chunklet Music Preservation Project. Machine numbered, limited edition of 250. Signed by Jack Logan.

On the other hand, you’ve got Jack Logan. Jack was far too laconic to hustle to illustrate flyers, but his work is most closely tied to Vic Chesnutt’s early band the LaDiDas. Amid the smart-assery of Athens, Jack wrote and illustrated a comic book teeming to the brim with in-jokes about the then...

06/20/2025

We are putting the call out for information for two people, related to the early Athens scene.

First, we are still actively trying to locate Dominique Amet's son. We have very few details, but we have done as exhaustive a search of French public records as we can with what we have. We do have her full name and dates and places of birth and death. We also have that information for her father.

If you were in touch with Dominique at all in the last decade of her life, or if you have specific details of her son's name, when he was born, where he was born, or his father's name, please message us if you're willing to share that information.

Secondly, we are seeking information on Sandra Kirk. She is mentioned in an early writing about Athens, and we would like to verify a detail in the writing. Someone who was close with her in 1980-1981 may also be able to confirm or deny this detail.

Check this article and photo of Dominique's father. In the comments, there's a link to an article and short video of Dominique's parents with the Queen Mother in 1985.

Préfet/8 août

05/23/2025

Still with the cleaning out of Chunklet HQ, and we found even more duplicates of flyers. We have a few more pieces to list, but some righteous nugs went up this morning, from Athens and Atlanta.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/chunkletproject

05/20/2025

We are cleaning out Chunklet HQ. If you've been following us on Instagram, we've sent three loads of collections for both Chunklet and the Project to UGA Special Collections in the last couple of weeks. We're looking at you next, Emory and Atlanta History Center.

But we also have some duplicates (and quintuplicates) of some pieces that we are listing on eBay. We listed 15 packs of flyers from Athens in the fall of 1988. Each pack of 25-35 flyers is different, though each is guaranteed to have Pylon at Legion Field, P**n Orchard, a 40 Watt calendar, and at least one piece from Rockfish Palace. These were all from Ort. Bar-B-Q Killers, Mercyland, Vic Chestnutt, and more all make an appearance in someone's set. As of this posting, 10 sets remain.

You can also see some other stuff we have available right now, but there's some great stuff coming in the next few days.

All proceeds go directly to benefit the Project. Remember that we work on a completely volunteer basis, but we do need to cover expenses. One major project right now is covered, thanks to the generosity of a donor for that project. We have a couple of other things in the works. We need a new laptop soon, and we need to travel back to Florida, to North Carolina, and to Virginia for scanning and more. We don't travel exorbitantly, but travel does have a cost.

We know times are toughening for everyone, and we really do appreciate everyone who is able to toss $5 our way when they can. It really is the enthusiastic well wishes that mean the most to us.

Thanks for cheering us on.

These were the duplicates and triplicates (and quintuplicates and more) of flyers Ort collected from kiosks and everywhere else. Flyers are as-is, in the exact condition they were in when Ort collected them in the fall of 1988.