Art Shanties 2010
Posted: February 1st, 2010 under Images, Minneapolis.
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Posted: February 1st, 2010 under Images, Minneapolis.
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Posted: June 21st, 2009 under General, Images.
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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 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 and the playfully proggy , 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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Over the past few months I’ve had the privilege of watching my friend work on a video installation that last month, and was honored when he asked me to compose music for it.

The resulting piece, , 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 , 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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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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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at the Triple Rock


Posted: April 14th, 2009 under Images, Minneapolis, Music.
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Right now I am suffused with equal parts disbelief, joy, and pride about the . It’s hard to believe that only fifteen years stand between the 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 , via Flickr
Posted: April 3rd, 2009 under General, Grinnell, Images, Music.
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