ROOMS s/t cd release show!!!

this has already proven to be a great show. how do i know? because im on the damn cd!

100th post... this shit is getting old

so i downloaded the brushes app for my ipod. its pretty amazing.



i like that i can make lines like bic pens.
gotta try to get the drips down, though.

ongoing projects

as my energies have recently been steered towards the musical end of my spectrum, i can write about some pretty awesome things coming up in the near future.

first, my long time crew Thin Fevers is getting hair cuts and doing tons of ab crunches to get ready for a photo shoot at the end of the month. none of the band knows where the hell this shoot will take place or what kind of release forms will needed to be signed, but hey, we're pretty, so it'll make us feel good.

Fevers will also be playing a pretty damn sexy summer show with soon to be friends the the Jai-Alai Savant & the Che Arthur Three at the Vollrath (or more lovingly referred to as the "Voltron" by the coolest of kids) on June 27th.

here, look at this....















The other band im in, ROOMS is preparing for some cool shows coming up, the most important being our full length recording's release show on August 7th at the Historic Melody Inn. word on the street is that this cd is going to blow up pretty huge, so get one at this show since we probably wont want to do a reissue. some of the songs are a little older and we have close to an entire follow up already written, so get on that shit, NOW.

I havent had much time to take proper pics of the solo show from April, but i have to share the bad news that Alchemy, the gallery that so graciously hosted the show, is now dead. the owners still live on, but the space is otherwise not going to be used for its intended purpose. as they never had a proper web site, neither do i, but that will change pretty quickly. get your bookmarks ready, k?

ok off to practice.

the show is over

thanks to all that were able to make it out to Alchemy to view my first solo exhibition. I wish i could have done some subsequent receptions but time didnt allow for it. a majority of the works are still for sale at soon to be reduced prices so keep you bookmarks open for a better site to view my ongoing developments.

the new site, in my head, will have both the images i make and the sounds that not only influence them but are created concurrently with the work. i was in a bit of a pinch to get this first show together but in the future would like not a "mulit-media", bonk you over the head vibe but one that alludes to some of the deeper meanings of the works through sound and light. some of you already get what im saying, some of you just need a bit more of a push in the right direction. dont worry, its nothing too heavy, ok?

thanks to rob and nikki for sharing their amazing space, all of the amazingly talented stylists that had to look at my shit every time they went to work, thanks to wfyi for the support (development ftw), thanks to all of the women that inspired some of those images, thanks to larry for firing me so i could get some time by myself, and thanks to my wife andrea. without her support and patience while i was getting this show together i wouldnt have finished any of the work she said was either over worked or almost there.

keep an eye out as i try (as half-assedly as i can) to get more work produced and more work out there to see in person.

regards,

ben

your MUST HAVE summer accessory

now is it me, or does the third verse sound like it was phoned in by the singer of the now defunct Chicago band US Maple?

call my bro. he can help

but his umbrella is his. git yr own.

Georges Braque's dead soul is going a little nuts right now

theoretical crystal growth on a constant substrate