Easy Way Out is finished.
Whisper He-man’s first album.
30 minutes and 21 seconds of listening to my wonderful relationship with Chris Weisman.
Go to your local record shop and request they get it before 2012. It will help.
File under: avant-garde melancholy social commentary comedy pop song channeling duo
I played a show at Brandeis last night and it was muy fun. I felt a bit like Rodney Dangerfield though. 35-20=15
I had to go outside while the other bands were playing to give my ears a rest; I’m starting to get tinnitus. I watched and listened through a perspiration frosted window. It was extremely cold outside (14 degrees) and I could feel my hips tightening up. One of Adam’s friends shared some Brian Austin and we had a little ceremony to stay warm. Everybody was so, so nice. I wish I could have chatted more. Cuties. Very positive experience. I was invited back to A’s to party down, but I passed. I didn’t really want to get my clothes smokey…..and I only had to drive an hour to get to my mother’s house. Rock on!
Description of other bands:
guitarists+delay pedals+loud parts+quiet parts+50 minute set= Caspian
real riffs+grace slick+grunge+slender drummer+rickenbacker w/ longest sweater in North America+ atonal solo’s (yes!)= Screaming Females
Thanks again Adam and Justice!
Do yourself a favor this holiday season and listen to Prefab Sprout’s first album Swoon.
Never did make it out West… Ah Well….next decade. A lot gigs fell through and the job I was going to do seemed a bit dangerous, so I stayed in my safe bubble of Vermont. Work within your limitations, right? I’m working on some new songs and feeding the wood stove. It becomes night at 5PM. I think it’s midnight at 6PM. A Japanese Label wants to replicate my last album for the Japanese and Taiwanese markets. Jonathan Ryan Storm is making the art for the release! A little girl with face paint on her cheeks just walked by me in the library and smiled….now I’m happy. I think I want to have children. Yesterday I kept seeing fathers walking their sons around and I felt the biological tug. Maybe not as strong as a childless 39 year old women, but pretty strong… I’m almost 35 and somewhat feminine. I think I need to get a part time job. This music production thing is hard to pull off. Damn laziness, damn credit cards!
Chris said I should add a post to my site because it was starting to look dead. I can always turn to him for advice. He’s even right sometimes, half the time maybe… everything seems to be about half right these days. Well… I’ve been doing a lot of mixing/recording for local Burlington, VT bands and it’s been very fulfilling. Slowly working on some down tempo psychological synthesizer ballads about human interaction. Trying to avoid drama in general, so my adrenals don’t fall permanently asleep. Makes it more difficult to find something to write about though, so I bought some paint pens and I’ve been tracing and coloring pieces of plywood to make them look uglier while listening to Art Garfunkel’s album “Watermark”. Jimmy Webb wrote the songs and they are gorgeous. I’ve decided to forgoe pining and whining about labels and start my own. Thanks to everybody who has purchased music from the site! It will all go towards releasing my music on vinyl. I’m going to tour the Northwest in mid November, so check back for the dates soon. Good night.
Let’s face them. Everyone has Seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Hurray!
Joey made me a video:
I’ve never been pooped on by a bird until this tour. I was pooped on twice. Once in Boston on the way to the T: white skinny poop on black polyester pants. Once it dried my friend Cortney rubbed it away. It had become dusty poop particles.
Poop number two was in Austin en route to retrieve Mercedes. It, or they, landed on back of collar. It kind of hurt. Three burgundy balls mixed with bile or some shit. Looked like blood. Rob flung it off. Someone told me it matched my shirt.
Thank you.
Back home. Now what? Find a place to live maybe? Buy some rice cakes and Teddie peanut butter? Yes.
The tour went well. A lot of waiting, driving (on veggie oil!!), more waiting and some playing mixed in there. Well worth it!
Thank you Rob for letting us use your vehicle and musical gear. Thank you for diving into the u-haul veggie sludge storage zone without a second thought. Thank you for being a wonderful musician too! Thank you Julia for being the best midi keyboardist/tina interpreter/accountant (not much to account for) in North America! Thank you Andy (Boris) for being up for an adventure on such short notice and banging the meeatle drums in all the right places! Can’t forget the fabulous Bobby Missile–thanks for setting up a great tour! Until next time…..
We’re heading to Austin on Thursday to play two shows at SXSW. One is a party put on by our talented booking agent, Bobby Missile. It’s gonna be rad! We’re on at 2:30!
We woke up happily this morning in beautiful Hot Springs, Arkansas — there are trees blooming down here and it’s green all around. We’ve made it all the way so far on veggie oil thanks to Allie in Asheville who hooked us up with the cleanest, clearest veggie oil from Rosetta’s Kitchen, where we also ate a delicious dinner.
We said goodbye to Grandchildren after two shows together in Atlanta, one at a recording studio, and one at a community arts center and venue, and slept really comfortably and really late two nights in a row thanks to the Suits family! Thank you so much!!!
If you head over to www.myspace.com/ryandjjdpower there are songs from the new album up, as well as an excellent remix of In Need of a Little Love by Zack Martin (of Carrigan). Enjoy!