enough blabbin. look at this.

these pieces are steeped in nationalism, masculinity, phallic symboligy, and sadness. right now, for reasons i dont want to get into i will just talk a bit about the image itself and the songs that go along with it.


coxcomb)red

songs:ohia has been popping up via the shuffle tendencies of Karamozov, my ipod. i dated a red head for a while. she used to sing the star spangled banner at random.




like)a)man

as much as i would love to spend my hard earned dough on imported beers i am relegated to buying domestic most of the time. i know most imports have been skunked by the time they reach our shores, but the tastes remind me of when i was dating my now wife. the twist is in the fact that a German company now owns the USs' largest domestic brew operation. regardless, american beer makes me feel like rock and roll, but not like the spinning drunk goodness of euro-based beers do. american beer doesnt make me feel like a man.
fugazi once asked that question, of what it is to be a man.... but then ian had to go goofy on a slant six record and make me feel weird about his iconography in the post punkdom that is my enjoyment of music.




first)place

i really love it when a beer has a blurb on its can or bottle label that references some prize they won when my grandfathers (ded) were sneaking beers in between sessions of learning at the hands of Nuns. pabst has no qualms just putting a damn ribbon on the front of everything. go on girl, do it! but still to this day, even with pabst having weathered the storm a few years back .... even with major underwriting on NPR, even with the rise or both ironic hipsters drinking it and actual cool people doing the same... pabst still has that damn logo. its american as all get out.


i have started one more eagle based something or other. the shape is the same.... i should tell you now its just the Anheuser Busch eagle only retared through my hands ability to create shapes that look like the things they are referencing. the latest one is the shape and i have taken an extra step in the workability of the image. first off, in on Rives BFK. i love to beat the hell out of this stuff. so its going to be sanded and rolled and probably yelled at. 90% of what i do is on some 100# offset printing paper, so using a piece of Rives means i am investing at least $3 in the project.
second, the shapes of feathers and leg skin have been meticulously etched on the paper by yours truly. it took almost two hours for the simple shapes to fill the spaces. i could have taken longer, but this layer of work will become a discoverable gem to those that get up close and look at methods of production. i hope it turns out looking the way i want. its the only sheet of paper i am currently working horizontally, so thats one more thing to grip ahold of and shake violently until it shuts up.
theres an abuse joke in there somewhere, but i will leave it alone. its only art.....

....which brings me to warn you. some scribbled prose may make its way to your eyes via me very soon. so look out, ok?

more werkin'....

forcing myself to grab a few beers, my smokes, the ipod of my choice and some headphones never seemed to be a challenge until i tried to convince myself to do just that last week. well, ive dont just that for two nights in a row. the result? a small series about nationalism, masculinity, and being sad.

dont worry, its not as bad as it sounds, yet.

pics to follow in the next few days. i have to finish this stuff, alright?!

werkin....

no time in the studio... but some time on other things i hope pan out... and by pan i mean 49er PAN OF GOLD!!!

im looking into grants for myself to develop more clearly and quickly as an Artist. there are some in indy and there are politics involved, but aside from that i need help writing grant proposals. ive got some friends willing to help me out so in the next week or two i hope to get my shit together enough to get some real work done on the back end.

mix this with the strange desire to do a radio show for wfyi's hd station. yea... im thick enough to be spread around like that. theres a joke in there somewhere, but im not going to laugh at it. tentatively called testing the waters, its my chance to play some music i think is cool with all of the ridicule of not being open to new ideas. well, im sure someones going to have a thing or two to say about a thing or two, but trust me, itll be cool. a half hour show on HD, prolly a podcast, maybe once a month, maybe more. its getting my ears working again.

then theres the damage i do to my ears: Rooms has all of one show booked for the next weekend but with a practice from last weekend to stand on. thatll be fine. then on the 18th thin fevers has a toys for tots show at the mel (same as the rooms show) and we are old and rusty. new songs make us stronger though. they make me want to record more, but we are still sitting on a bunch of awesome box sets you neeeeeeeed to buy.

and how do i find time to kiss my wife? you know theres always time for that!


keep in touch, k?