Here are some pictures of what I’ve been up to and some excerpts from recent emails describing those things.

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Ugh, 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!

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Okay 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.

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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”

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More on this as it develops.

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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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.

To be sure, there is not and cannot be a single fast wonder in the year of our wonder and sorrow 2008. I took most of last week off from the Internet and spent it in Boston. I’ve been working on my video “Strobe” and spending time in my office at 5th and Girard. Look for my longer update soon.

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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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