Farewell. Best wishes. Until we meet again.
collaboration with HMH & Noel Buddy
Drawing 4 Brogan
July 29th, 2010splash!
July 22nd, 2010scream icelandic softly into my mind’s eye
July 22nd, 2010I had my iPod stolen last year, and although I had much of the music on hard copy or backed up, there were a few crucial albums that fell into the void. One of them was a personal compilation of my favorite Bjork b-sides and remixes –
Verandi (an Icelandic word that loosely translates to ‘state of being’). Yesterday, while procrastinating working on my portfolio website, I decided to rebuild that album…longer, better, safely backed-up, and now ripe for the sharing.
Runtime: 61 minutes
Tracklisting:
1. Amphibian
2. Domestika
3. Sod Off
4. Generous Palmstroke
5. Verandi
6. So Broken
7. Foot Soldier
8. Mother Heroic
9. Joga (Instrumental)
10. Hyperballad (Blue Mountain Remix)
11. Immature (MJU:O Remix)
12. Batabid
13. All Is Full of Love (Dark Impostors Remix)
14. Hidden Place (Hearts n’ Bones Remix)
15. Army of Me (Guerilla Reprise)
16. It’s In Our Hands
neither hither nor thither
June 30th, 2010Version 2.0 of the L. Fulk tattoo:

…and, lost then found documentation of an old sculpture that came up in conversation last night. Antibodies, made circa Winter of 2007 in the musty quarters of the Tyler St. Studios (may the memories rest in peace).




sonorous treasures
June 30th, 2010I’ve been scouting for albums the past few days, and thought that I would share some of the gems I’ve uncovered:
Goldfrapp released a double live disc back in 2004/2005 recorded during their tour in support of Black Cherry. In my opinion, the first disc is the better performance, recorded at Somerset House in London. You can find a link to it below.
The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Intro
2. Deep Honey
3. Human
4. Lovely Head
5. Crystalline Green
6. Train
7. Utopia
8. Tiptoe
9. Deer Stop
10. Twist
11. Strict Machine
12. Pilots
13. Slippage
14. Yes Sir
15. Black Cherry
Next, an extremely rare recording of PJ Harvey performing in support of her Is This Desire? LP at the Cabaret Sauvage in Paris, France.
This, once again, in my opinion, is a great recording, because it is an interesting chronicle of her work at that time; the set list reaching just far enough back to the the raw energy of Rid of Me, while incorporating some of her collaborations from Dance Hall at Louse Point, her first recording effort with John Parish. It amounts to a broad and rich survey of her pure electric guitar work to her experimental electronica phase with an ample amount of feedback in the background.
Tracks are:
1. Is This Desire?
2. Joy
3. Joe
4. Civil War Correspondent
5. Taut
6. Electric Light
7. A Perfect Day Elise
8. The Wind
9. Hook
10. Meet Ze Monsta
11. The Sky Lit Up
12. My Beautiful Leah
13. 50 ft. Queenie
14. Heela
15. Down By The Water
Last, but not least: The ever-elusive 2007 LP Bodies Need Rest by alt. rock players, Pleasure Forever.
Sounding more agile and mature than ever, but hauntingly heavy in a condensed 31 minute running time. This album, perhaps, makes up for the more theatrical approach of their beginning days, i.e cut the crap and let’s get down to business.
behold, ye old chimera
June 28th, 2010Tattoo design for the most amazing fashion designer I know, miss Laura Fulk.
a triumph is right
June 20th, 2010Ok ok. So Frog Eyes is getting a little older, a little mellow-er, but they still can write compelling music with interesting song structures. Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph may not satisfy diehard fans of early Frog Eyes, a la The Bloody Hand, but it does demonstrate the band’s ability to translate their experimentalism and musical idiosyncracies into a more traditional and (heaven forbid) mature sound.
beanies enhance everything
June 14th, 2010Sorry! I was trunk.
June 14th, 2010In an effort to condense a melange of my magazine cut-outs, stickers and other Mpls-era ephemera I decided to collage them onto the face of my trunk. A trunk of no particular beauty or quality in craftsmanship. But, it is one of the only pieces of furniture(?)/functional objects that has been with me since I graduated high school. Ironically, as I was matte medium-ing hair models and subway tickets I had never felt so 17 again.













