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Father’s Day
Posted: June 21st, 2009 under General, Images.
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Run At The Dog East Coast Tour: What’s New in Baltimore
We’re in Washington DC, trying to plan the next 48 hours until our next show, in Philadelphia. Right now our tentative plan is to try and hit an open mic and blow the minds of these District of Columbians.
(Marshall got a haircut. He has two mohawks now.)
Last night we played the Sidebar Tavern in Baltimore and had a wonderful time. It was a small, divey basement bar, so it seemed crowded even if there were only maybe thirty people there. The other bands, the psychedelic seven-piece King Cloud and the playfully proggy Cat, were the perfect match. We’ve been blessed with some really nice bills that just kind of fall together, where the bands all complement each other really well.
Posted: May 21st, 2009 under General, Images, Music.
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Killing Rolando
Over the past few months I’ve had the privilege of watching my friend Nathan work on a video installation that opened in Buffalo NY last month, and was honored when he asked me to compose music for it.
The resulting piece, Killing Rolando, is an installation that incorporates elements of documentary footage, autobiography, archival materials, and landscape photography, though it’s immediately apparent that the finished whole amounts to far more than those constituent parts. I was pretty thrilled that I was able to contribute even a scintilla of my own fitful stabs at amateur composition.
The piece is best digested in a large three-dimensional space, so the elegant website Nathan designed for it doesn’t quite do justice. But it’s still pretty fucking cool. You can hear my music by viewing the video in the top right-hand corner of this page, but definitely watch all the videos and read all the text.
Posted: April 26th, 2009 under Film, Images, Minneapolis, Music, Video.
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Today You Move
Over the weekend Amanda and I flew to North Carolina to attend the marriage of my friend Wes to his fiancée, now wife, Theresa.
Even before the wedding, we knew it was going to be a pretty great weekend because our rental car was a silver Mustang, and upon arrival in Raleigh we went straight from the airport to Waffle House.
Posted: April 20th, 2009 under General, Grinnell, Images, Iowa City, Music.
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Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1997
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at the Triple Rock
Posted: April 14th, 2009 under Images, Minneapolis, Music.
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Prescription: Iowa
Right now I am suffused with equal parts disbelief, joy, and pride about the gay marriage decision in Iowa. It’s hard to believe that only fifteen years stand between the unvarnished, institutionalized homophobia that colored my teenage years, and this.
This should give the Iowa/Midwest/flyover-bashers pause, for at least a little while.
In honor of this momentous occasion, I am going to listen to Reverend Lovejoy’s 2001 smash hit single, “Prescription: Iowa.”
Image courtesy David Morris, via Flickr
Posted: April 3rd, 2009 under General, Grinnell, Images, Music.
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