May 2008 Archives
May 27, 2008 How We're Greeting the Summer
The biggest point against me as a wanna-be goth has always been that I completely hate winter. What's worse, I only like spring when it's warm. My whole deal has always been summer. So when June comes around, hell yes: I'm going to California. Just for one show and a reading - I have kind of a lot of work in front of me right now, most of which is totally secret. Still! C'mon out, why don't you. I have given two readings so far and enjoyed them so much that I hardly know what to do with myself.
eventually I hope to actually keep these dates straight in my head:
March lol oops June
76 - Los Angeles, CA, Natural History Museum (duo show, John & Peter rocking it mid-school style)
87 - Los Angeles, CA, Skylights Bookstore (reading from Master of Reality and signing books, kissing babies, etc)
See you all there! ...oh: almost forgot. Or, to be precise, did forget, but then remembered. During Noisepop I recorded four songs in San Francisco for Daytrotter, since Daytrotter is awesome. Those songs have now been uploaded to the Daytrotter site. Is it driving you nuts yet that I keep typing out Daytrotter's name without linking to the songs? I bet it is driving Daytrotter nuts. All I have to do is bust out some a-href action and boom, linkarama. Yet here I am, wasting your time. And mine. But let's be honest with each other. Do you have anything better to do at the moment than read this worthless paragraph, or I anything better to do than write it? Oh, wait, yes, actually, I do. There is a delicious sour cherry syrup simmering on the stove. Here, take this Daytrotter session, we'll talk later.
May 7, 2008 Violators Get Their Tarots Pulled
You may have heard tell about how a couple months back I gave Aesop Rock all the constituent parts of the song "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" and told him "go nuts, why don't you?" It is with great pleasure that I present to you Aesop's completely great from-the-ground-up remix and an accompanying video from the truly awesome Sketch Theatre.
What can a guy say when he gets to work with such rad people? I live a charmed life and I am grateful for it. Enjoy!
May 5, 2008 New York Next Weekend
So, this next weekend are two New York appearances: the AIDS Walk benefit in Fort Greene, and a reading at Housing Works. I hope to see a lot of you there.
The AIDS walk benefit will be a solo show, my first in NY in a while. I have all week to practice, so I thought I might invite people to stop by the forums and make some suggestions as to what I might play. Obviously I'll be playing plenty of the songs I often play, too, but with a solo show, there's all kinds of room for other stuff. Please do note that I'm saying "suggestions," not "requests" - I'm not promising to get to any of them, but I would be interested in hearing what people would like to hear played solo and intimate-style. I thought I'd make a space for people who plan to be at the show to tell me as much. See you there!
