December 2009
10 posts
2 Styles, 1 Camera
I shot this video from a flipcam from our van while driving through a mountain on I-70 in Pennsylvania on the way back to NYC from Pittsburgh, our last stop on tour during December ‘09. First time I looked at it I was thinking electronic, but while I was trying to sleep last night I thought a second version would be cool where I just do guitar. The electronic perspective came out fast and...
Writer's Block
Damn this box. I can’t seem to squeeze the songs out of it like I want to. I want dark like Grinderman, electro heavy like Anthony Rother and deep like Samuel Barber. What I’m hoping is that by documenting this I’ll find the end. So far I’ve written a good amount of music for this new EP but it just doesn’t seem RIGHT. I want Hendrix meets Boys Noize. Page meets...
The Outlaw Jimmy Rose
This was originally published on antimusic.com but in case you missed it (and were the least bit curious), here is the story behind the song The Outlaw Jimmy Rose:
“The Outlaw Jimmy Rose” is about a guy I met while locked up in Huntington County Jail in Indiana. Before I broke out of Indiana in search of fame and fortune, I worked at a factory called Hartson Kennedy in Marion Indiana...
A New Way
For some reason all the social networking sites seem very dry to me. I’m just not interested in posting personal stuff in them because it seems superfluous and uninteresting given the context. But it’s also the kind of information that I like to read regarding artists that I’m interested in. I’ve avoided it for a long time because I don’t want to admit that this is...