I 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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Following 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.

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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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This is mostly an entry because I realized that I started doing the thing I do where I don’t update this and I worry and think about it, and then three months pass without me documenting anything.

I’m not numbering this one because I feel like the cycle of my leaving camp -> going to VSC -> trying to work there -> getting home and being like “????” is over. Now I have a whole new set of things to be like “????” about (strange fires in Providence, moving to New York very soon, new total life stupidity/fugues that weren’t visible or predictable when this past numbered set began in September), so once things stabilize enough that I have an okay idea of where I’ll be from week to week, I’ll restart the numbered entry system on a schedule again.

The short “Lately” recap —>New York = I got to hang out with Emily, babysit Pearl, rode over the Williamsburg bridge for the first time, played dominoes and ate burritos and watched Ruthless People with Leah, dinner/bar with Katie and Alex, meteor shower thing with camp team, wrote a lot of emails.

In Boston = I went to the Stairwell team’s show at BU, talked to Ben, watched the new Bond, ate Redbone’s, sushi and Girardelli squares, almost played Earthopoly with Sus, drove home with Patrick super late.

Home so far = Haven’t been in the basement yet, but today nearly finished a long-outstanding painting, did the firstish round of mailouts re: darcone triangle to stores, slept a ton, played chess in real life once, played chess on the computer a lot of times.

Current plan = Back in New York by next weekend. This morning I am going to the craft store with my dad for a black friday sale. More substantial update or whatever soon.

Past life

I added the Black Dove paintings to the site. Otherwise this is a boring blog marking time entry if there ever was one. Here’s what’s up.

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Pre-summer boring-blog wrapup for my records and your feed reader. I couldn’t be busier. Here’s the what’s what rundown.

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Wow, it’s really been two months? Here’s Megalos Lesson, the video I was flipping out about last time, which I finished almost two months ago. I’ve been on band tour since. Significant/totally unreadable update coming soon. L.I.F.E. R.U.L.E.S.

Here’s a long song from the room where I keep my things, this for the week of Sunday the 24th of February of the year of our hoarse voices and saturated vision 2008.

At home with my dogs, February y.o.o.b.w.hz., 1808

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Marking time and growing my hair for Sunday the 17th of February of the year of our intuition and bewilderment 2008.

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Streaming fingers and rot for Sunday the 10th of February of the year of our diseased invincibility 2008.

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