Living and Dying 2010
March 8th, 2010Here are some pictures of what I’ve been up to and some excerpts from recent emails describing those things.
Teen Baskets US Tour January 2010
December 28th, 2009Post for maintaining dates/info on Teen Baskets 2010 us tour.
Muffy Brandt (Dreamhouse, Ergot Rot, Jazz Hand Job, Attitude Problem, R. Tsarcasm, Daily Life): Drum, tapes, microphone.
Tom Bubul (Ospreys, Distortion Phaser Diary, Hallucinating Fruit Jar Drinkers): Guitar, electronics, microphone.
Enacting the live transformation of our bodies and spirits.
“Conjure something else.”
On tour January 2010 across the USA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84RWoupBLoU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUjhQLB0hXY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB7skYEv_EM
Sun 3rd = Philadelphia at Int’l Waters w/ Nervous Sex, Drums Like Machine Guns, Awesome Omen
Mon 4th = Baltimore at Zodiac w/ Twig Harper, Lexie Mountain, DJ Dog Dick
Tues 5th = Asheville house show w/ tba
Wed 6th = Nashville at Betty’s Bar w/ Lazy Magnet, Diary of Lisa Frank, My Left Uterus
Thr 7th = tba (Memphis, Little Rock, St Louis)
Fri 8th = tba (Little Rock, St Louis, OK City)
Sat 9th = tba (OK City or Santa Fe)
Sun 10th = Taos at kate’s wolf sanctuary
Mon 11th = Santa Fe at annabeth’s house
Tue 12th = Camping in Flagstaff
Wed 13th = tba (LA)
Thr 14th = tba (LA)
Fri 15th = San Francisco on the bus
Sat 16th = Oakland at revolution cafe w/ Moment Trigger
Sun 17th = tba (SLC)
Mon 18th = tba (Denver)
Tues 19th = tba (Kansas City)
Wed 20th = Iowa City
Thrs 21st = tba (Chicago)
Fri 22nd = tba (Chicago)
Sat 23rd = Columbus at Skylab w/ R. Tsarlag, PAK, Mark Lord
Sun 24th = tba (Pittsburgh)
Tues 26th = New York at Kathryn’s house
Wed 26th = Providence
The Gazillion Stories of Il Magnifico Story Tour
September 29th, 2009Ugh, sike, this isn’t happening! Usual reasons are to blame. We’re presenting the project on November 6th in Providence and then may try to do a less ambitious Grand AM tour shortly thereafter. Thanks to all far friends who wrote to me about this or helped out in any way, I hope I get to see you all soon!
In the year 2009 I have been listening to these records
June 4th, 2009Okay so I thought it would be good to do a rap session on the persistent new jams of 2009 thus far. Here they are in no real order. None of these uploads are mine; none of the videos linked necessarily correlate to the records. Support bands and labels who do good work, blah blah.
Gary Numan “Radio One Sessions”
Somehow nobody told me to check out Gary Numan until Adam played this in the car while he and I and Elaine were on the way to the last day of HBML and to see Ariel Pink in Boston. We listened to this almost every day at work in April.
List of things that happened around the time I attained a state of total invincibility
May 28th, 2009
Earlier this week me and the crew were just about asleep on the roof across the way from Matthewson when I sort of sat up and started vibing a little and had to come back home “to do work”; not sure what exactly I had in mind, but when I got to the house and my teeth were brushed and I was watching the sunrise from my own personal zone, I it meant that I started writing this update for my internet blog.
“Blogs: Neither an Email nor a Zine”
“Uh huh.” “Can a gansett.” “Sure, $2.50.”
March 16th, 2009I feel like I blogged in this once to say that I don’t update it so much when I’m doing a good job of working on other things; that’s true 50% of the time and this is one of those times.
The short story is that I now live in Providence. The long story is written on all kinds of walls and surfaces between here and Philadelphia and as far up as Johnson VT; you can ask me about it if you run into me.
Readout of the basics follows.
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I am moving to Providence, RI
February 13th, 2009More on this as it develops.
Twenty seven Internet dreams
January 30th, 2009
I listened to these records in the year 2008
January 8th, 2009Following Nate Davis’s example from last year, here’s my year ending list of favorite records. These aren’t all necessarily fresh releases, just records I heard for the first time this year and then jammed a ton. Links for these downloads are all from Google; missing ones I just didn’t bother looking for.
#1: It was the Year of The Skaters
The Skaters - Dark Rye Bread
The Skaters - Physicalities of the Sensibilities of Ingrediential Stairways
Pacific Rat Temple Band - Tan Kim (Boa Paradise)
90210 - s/t
James Ferraro - Marble Surf
Vodka Soap - Un Chand Pyramidelier
Nirvana - Body of Consciousness/Uguiya to Jeep by Iguana Greenwave
Teotihuacan - Live Smokeshows from Inside the Ciguri Cave Hazed Diamonds with Windswept Hair
After three or four years of ambivalence toward the Skaters family, something severe ticked over in my mind sometime in February and I fell for them bigtime. The eight releases listed above constituted a basement work/neighborhood walk/long drive/crushing dawn routine that I probably ran almost a hundred times last year. The Pacific Rat Temple Band (vivid slow-marching torchlit underground worship sessions) and the 90210 (E.L.P. hanging out and playing toy instruments over an episode of Night Rider on the other side of the wall and KILLING IT) discs both easily saw three times more play than anything else during this horrendous year, a year in my many basements that very definitively belonged to James Ferraro.
New movie starring Tom Cruise as the Iraqi journalist who leads a failed plot to throw two shoes at the departing president of the United States
December 15th, 2008
Bonjour from inside of the holiday echo chamber, from which I wanted to post a short notice with December updates. If you live in Northeastern Pennsylvania and want to hang out, get at me, I usually get extremely bored around 10pm. If you don’t live here but might want to email with me for a day or two, my email address is still tom//at//dogchirp//com.
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