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.

Cameron Wisch makes these.

http://theloveschack.blogspot.com/2009/09/space-ghost-cowboys-release-party.html

Sweet.

Pictures

I played solo at Lotus Live. It was fun. Matt Butler has a nice dog.

Photo - http://www.getdropbox.com/gallery/1643083/1/Lotus%20Live%20%2709?h=01def9">Matt Ballard

Recorded with Mike Amacio (The Shakes, Space Ghost Cowboys) in a house without walls.
Pella Gago - Locke EP
1. Waiting
2. Bird Calls
3. Summertime Blues



Elemeno @ w/Trails, Time Vampire. That place was sweet. I wonder if I'll ever get to hear the recordings though.

Weston & Gaffney in a serious tournament in New Britain CT @ Monster Lab. Fun recording studio kegger with Trails, Time Vampire and We Are Not Bears

We played the Space Ghost Cowboys album release from Shack Attack Records. Fucking great.

Photo - Jess Lehrman

Photo - Milo Rayo

Laziness

is catching.
Lots of updates.
Elemeno is awesome now. Many new songs, recording a full length in october with Mike Amacio.
Tour was fun, and shorter than expected. I am glad the venues cancelled on us, because we would have been too broke to get there anyway.
Sucks, but I have lots of cool pictures from that.

Recorded an EP with Mike this summer in Locke, NY.
Pella Gago is the project. We might be getting a chance to open for Dark Dark Dark at the end of the month.

Last night was the Space Ghost Cowboys album release. Epic show, everyone was great. Thanks to Frank Graniero (moving mountains), Zona Mexicana, Nick Corbo, The Shakes, Shack Attack records, Milo Rayo, Jess Lehrman and Maya, Jeremy Aquilino, and generally everyone that came out to make this a great night.
My next post will be all pictures from places.

Locke

Sweet.
This last week Mike Amacio (Donner Party Picnic, The Shakes, White Blues & The Highway Shoes, Koala) went upstate to record. In 4 days we managed 3 full songs and recorded one of my younger brother's songs. You can hear one of them, Bird Brains, on my myspace
http://www.myspace.com/elemenomusiccompany

Flying Rat Party

Here is a brand spanking new tune. I wanted to try something more in depth as far as demos go, and while trying to show that through video, I may have gone a bit over the top. Still, please listen to the song.








Keep on coming back
to sick new organs of this body
wasted on bad blood
and antibodies
eating everything

Someday I will grow my teeth
and suck this city dry

Escape through open wounds
spit on the scab
dissolve the walls
doors on every corner
it will cost you just to leave

You don't owe me anything

Burn down
every block
Between the sidewalk cracks
a healing colored green

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.