Awesome show! Zs, Skeletons, Zona Mexicana... and Elemeno

December has been sweet.
On the 4th we played with Zs, Skeletons and Zona Mexicana at Whitsons in the Stood. Very cool, here's a video by Cameron Wisch



I really love Skeletons. When will they be on Adult Swim?
Ghostly International

November

November = Honey, sound & dance improv



See?

That was with RJ Gordon & Katie Vitarella. I just learned how to use a light mixer. There is a video somewhere, but I can't find it. I wish here were pictures from the performance I did with Scott Davis (Images, Drooling Pipe), Annie Rigney and Lucy Wilson. We opened for a show with Pillars & Tongues (that only about 6 people attended, bummer). The restriction on the dancers was to always maintain a point of contact. It was slow and pleasant. I liked it a lot, especially because it occurred in a completely red room with red lighting. It reminded me of being in the womb.

Also, I recorded a few new songs - Honey and Chapter One. I've been on an animal collective kick (aka - processed vocals)
Listen to these!
November 09 demo

playing in New Paltz is fun

when there is free beer and the bar saves the things you leave behind. Also when Cameron does a video comp for it.

Blusher

A new tune I wrote today. I feel a little bad about it though. I missed seeing Sex God (Baron Shame) and No One and the Sombodies play at wespac. I drank beers with them instead and played my first ever game of guitarmageddon.

Until the evening ends
the fish said to the oyster in the bay
We'll dance and laugh and kiss
and both feel blessed that we are still alive
When the fishermen wake up
The skittish nature of our scaly friend
will make those hours crouch to minutes
and the waiting game begins
dare to leave the cave
stay by your bride
nets will descend to catch them both, but on their own
then bite the line

A menace maybe, more than likely
dreams are waking to walk about
put them back to bed and crawl ashore
Only a dream, only in dreams
Blushing, puffer fish.

Growing all the time
glowing like a star inside the brine
'I will swallow you'
The last thing she heard before she died

The cookpot bubbled over
the people couldn't watch
the fish had lept from ocean
to occupy their plates and thoughts
The oyster cooked to flame
and when they all were full
a phoenix rose, and took her flight with all his bones

Only a dream, only in dreams
Blushing, puffer fish.

Absolutely

A new song I wrote last night. I had to add the video effects because it sounded better with some reverb, but was really disconcerting to look at that way.

Outside the frame of sight, who can
See what's in the frame of mind, instinct
Here we are, aligned and close enough to bread and butter
The fat I've sucked has left me too slick for a lover
Hugged around my throat
A necklace made of fabric, beads and metal things
A token of my open heart, with all my blood and feelings
Pouring out, there will be rain
There will be drought

All my friends and enemies want to
Be rid of me, don't you
think that we should spend some time before we spend some time together
get to know each other better
I know I do, maybe I'm a fool
Depreciating every second leaves me neck deep
in a pool of insulation
all my flaws are bricks in walls
The doorway keystones are the baddest of them all

Back to where I have been, changed since
We were last in bed it seems living
Paved the way for calmer days, or maybe just less tension to break

I will take you in
To paint my favorite parts
When you're not in season anymore

Ostrich Feathers

I really like this video/song.



Guess what's on my mind
Ostrich feathers just like most of the time
excluding when I'm hopeful-
Read the news
Is it there to keep my feet firm to the sand
Or only so that I have somewhere soft to hide my head
It's hard to tell
I keep thinking for myself

Foxes in the yard
Like fire in the chicken coop, that's what they are
We could try to shoot them with our guns,
but that would take away from the spirit of the hunt

Lovers in a bed
Soaked in sweat and tears-
They've only just met
It seemed a scene at first until it clicked
now it seems they're siamese
Attached at the lips


Also, I'm really psyched for new Wilco and new Isis albums. I've been trying to get my hands on a leak, but I should just break down and order them. Oh to be not broke again, that would be great.

Woah! it's a new year

OK so lot's of updates. First off, I recorded an album with Dan Stringer. Andrew James Brown played bass and Sam Weissman played drums.
It's cool because we recorded to 24 track tape (which is oldschool)
For free (which is not)

There are lots of videos of elemeno up on youtube, live with Andrew and Sam. Ryan Mallen plays on a few songs too
Here is my youtube channel

This is my favorite song from that night.

In other news, Elemeno is going through some big changes. I have doubled the size of the band. I'll wait to give you all of their names and jobs until we have a)practiced together and b) have some sort of video or recording for you.
Be ready though, Elemeno just got like 10,0000,000,00000x3 better. Songs about ostrich feathers, foreign girls and my cat are on the horizon.

Also! I just got Anathallo's new album "Canopy Glow"
It is beautiful. Buy it from the band.