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Reasons Why The Violent Femmes Are Not As Revered As The Pixies, And Some Reasons Why They Ought To Be; A Life Memoir

Part The First The Femmes were not a coastal band. I’ve always thought of the Violent Femmes as being a Midwestern band, and all of the evidence I’ve seen over the past twenty years suggests this is true. People out here on the West Coast like the Femmes, but they don’t have that obsessive love […]

Another Form Of Networked Backup

I’m currently downloading the first Violent Femmes record off Bittorrent. I’m downloading it (or at least, mentioning that I’m downloading it) because I’ve bought it at least once on cassette and twice on CD and it keeps disappearing. The same is true of The Cure’s Disintegration, which I’ve actually bought at least four times and […]

S+R out in the world!

My friend Kiva was at an art fair yesterday and “Scatterlings + Refugees” came on the sound system! Which one of y’all did this? You have my gratitude — hearing about this made my day!

Album Cover Comp 1

This is my first comp design for the album cover. I dig this, but I’m going to explore other ideas. (The text is more readable when it’s printed.)

New Track – "Terminal Island"

Here’s a new instrumental track for your background listening pleasure, “Terminal Island”. It’s kind of me trying to do Trentemoller/Burial sort of ambient stuff. The melody lines are algorithmically generated and then looped. It’s a nice little atmospheric piece, named after the island in Long Beach Harbor near where I used to live. I have […]

Yay!

I had been seriously sweating the vocal recording part of the album – I can’t afford a studio and my house is just not an optimal place to record. Luckily, Miss Melissa Marth of the Big Friendly Corporation has graciously agreed to let me use her new soundproofed studio / rehearsal space! So I’ll probably […]

The Album Title: Your Thoughts

Okay, so I’ve been going on the assumption that I was going to call the album Travelogues. But the more I think about it, that makes it sound like something of a concept album, which it’s not. It also sounds like some sort of world-music thing, which it kind of is, but not really at […]

Hard Decision

I’ve been really thinking a lot about the album and the direction I’m going with it. I love electronic music, but I’ve been deeply dissatisfied with the way the songs have been coming out. They’re just too cold and mechanistic, you know? So I’ve decided to re-record the album again. This time, though, it’s all […]

I'm An Autumn Leaf

I know I said I wasn’t going to post any of the songs ’til the album…but I wanted to drop a sample of “Scarecrow” on you, just so you can hear how cool the guitar work of Mr. Thom “President” Chrastka and Mr. Carlos “Funky Cold” Medina is. Thom’s on the echoing delayed rhythm track. […]

Travelogue Recording Notes, Number whatever it is now

I went down to Robert Allen Rehearsal Studios tonight to record with Carlos Medina of Vegas band Atomic Nutshell. I’m going to be collaborating with him on a track for their album. Carlos also laid down some really pretty ambient guitar for “Scarecrow”, which I’ve remixed a bit — new drums, a pretty Rhodes texture, […]