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

Technically this has been true since 2005, but you can now do it in considerably less steps. There’s now a paypal store on this website right here.

On top of the normal leftovers from old times, I’m going to have the long-awaited second edition of my fake newspaper There is No Such Thing as News, screenprinted Darcone Triangle books (care of the truly excellent Mark Price), and ten copies of the all-pages-unique art book project I’ve been working on for the last two weeks. Each one of those is a folder that contains five paintings on vellum and an accompanying text. I’ll post pics of all three next Tuesday.

If you’re interested in getting any of these, Darcone Triangle is $5, the art books are $50, and the newspaper, normally $1, is free with either. Just send me an email – tom//dogchirp.com. Thanks!

And now on to the normal crawl, L.I.F.E. on a pixel, life on a bristle, life on a sheet: things I did, thought and ate, January 6th, year of our wonder and sorrow 2008.

While I made coffee or possibly lunch (Sunday meal plan = dinner: pasta with trader joe sausage sauce, lovely cheese, fresh onion/peppers/mushrooms; breakfast = granola + yogurt; lunch = ??; also had two glasses of tang, a sip of a root beer float, three beers), Bonsky said, “Tom, you thought it would take you twenty minutes because you have no sense of time.” We were talking about how I went to Kinko’s to make that zine up above thinking it would only take me twenty minutes to go in, print and get out, when it took upwards of two hours.

After reflecting on it (during Alphaville and Training Day mostly, both of which are terrible movies), I got to thinking that maybe the issue isn’t so much one of time lapse, but more generally of primarily storing experiences in impressionistic ways rather than in emotional or empirical ones. This seams to speak more fully to the ways I think about reading, listening to music, cooking, traveling, and so on. Not that I don’t perceive time in these things, but I do find that time (and emotional response, and empirical fact) often distorts around the more prominent forms of memory, i.e., light, color, temperature. We can talk about it maybe.

Asked for examples of my not being able to perceive time, Bonsky went on to point out that I often used to say I would be over “in a little while” and then not show up for three or more hours. I think this is more just my being socially untimely and cluttered than my not being able to understand time, but I’m including this point of his so you might form your own opinion.

At night I went to see the mighty Blues Control and everything shuddered back into place. I always know when I like bands and when I don’t, but sometimes I forget when I straight up love bands. Total jammers. Check these dudes outtttt!

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Ten years ago I was a creator on the Discworld MUD. I had just “met” Larissa Sky, while Jeremiah and I had already worked together on at least one major project. Good heavens.

Next in life = planning a tour to New Orleans and back.