NONALIGNMENT PACT

In the future
I shall render upon you a triALLogy of music merrymint und arbeit der Kamera featuring synthetic bells, the splits, a Christian Chinese church, two Santa Clauses in an act of fellatio, and including my own rendition of Ding Dong Merrily on High.

I never thought I’d be a cool enough blogger to trump the blogosphere with a you-heard-it-first-here post, but it’s here and it’s now.
Here’s the first track released by Bumble Fly — a new band out of Austin, Tx.
zoey-POKEMON
Yes, you heard right, a band fronted by a first-grader. So bring on your Jackson Five, Von Trapp [...]

After a relatively dead month, I’m getting a when-it-rains-it-pours effect on my work load. January was miserable actually for other reasons mostly. Doesn’t help that January falls in a Chicago winter either. At least it did this year. I’m also having it reinforced (and I already knew it to be true): there is no going [...]

A few weeks back on a Friday night, I was up at the space hammering through an editing session with my mate; cutting, coloring, scrunching things. Hours can fly by this way. And so can a bottle of Evan Williams and a twelve pack of Guinness.
We got there around 7:30 PM and the last time [...]

When
the Sony Walkman came out I was in junior high at St. Anne’s Catholic School in Houston. The student body at St. Anne’s was a mix, mostly middle class and some poor kids who I guess got some financial aid. There was also a considerable contingency of wealthy River Oaks kids. I went to school [...]

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Best Beatles cover ever, perhaps the only competition came decades later when Boris with Merzbow put out the Walrus/Groon EP.
Pay no attention to the second song. It’s not a cover. It’s not a good song. And it’s revealing of how impossible it would have been to date a Beatle. First of all you got Paul [...]

I’ve known Chris King pretty much as long as I’ve been a performing musician; but in the years since moving to Chicago, I’ve actually grown closer to him mostly due to his friendship with my brother.
For years now I’ve loved coming back to Houston to sit in my brother’s backyard, passing a bottle of Teachers [...]

Currently watching: nothing mostly.

Currently reading:
New world orders.

The Place: Port Isabel, Texas behind the shrimp boats in a little Catholic church; a Venus-esque sea shell crowning the alter and a sunrise sea mural beyond.
The Life: A mother of ten, grandmother of 16, great grandmother of 17 who shouldered the balance, as does her town, of two cultures. A maker of tamales yet [...]