ROMP and ROAM

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February 28, 2014

February 28, 2014

Came back to the studio to find this on my desk.  At first I had no idea why Hannah had left it there or what its importance is / was.  I was actually quite nasty about it saying “its just some old catalog, why did you get this for me?”  I flipped through the pages and took in all the amazingly, detailed illustrations of the wears sold within.  I also noticed how much other information was packed into this thick catalog.  The next day my friends, the BODY, released a picture of their new album which is a direct take from this very cover. 

February 26 - March 6, 2014

Picture of my ever growing hair, sunscreened face, and Orchard garb during the pruning season at Green Mountain Orchards.

February 26, 2014

This is Sunburned Hand of the man setting up before their show at Turn It Up records in Brattleboro Vt.  The story about me and this band is as fallows.  When I was maybe 13 or 14 years old I got a copy of the “drug” issue of Vice magazine.  In it was a review of someone who was in the band Sunburned Hand of Man.  The headline read “Totally Fucking Freak Out.”  The article was an interview about this guy and his experimentation with drugs over the years.  I don’t use drugs, other then alcohol and at the time had very limited experiences with drugs or people who used them.  In other words drugs didn’t really appeal to me or make me curious at all.  However, drug culture, art, and other people’s experiences do and have intrigued me over the years which is why I had a copy of this magazine in the first p;ace.  Basically,  I had it for the pictures and the picture above this article was a man, in a suit,  punching the air through bits of pumpkin flying across the frame while everyone else in this scene scrambled for protection.  I thought to myself “That’s what a party must be like!!!!!”  And I have been in a constant search for this “party” since then.  The closest I have come was playing catch with a watermelon that ended with me punching through it.   It wasn’t  a party though, it was breakfast and everyone was a little bummed.  I prefer at my ideal party that people get a little bummed but may also create their own chaos or destruction in response.

February 25, 2014

For those of you who don’t know me you should know that I am in a constant pursuit of “the fix.”  I don‘t mean drugs either, I mean I am trying to fix everything all the time.  I am always looking for the best ways to use space, the best way to store and display object, and how to make things work to their optimal potential,

February 20, 2014

Curb Alert plays at Saturn’s house. 

February 20, 2014

Düglas Für Live from Saturn’s house in Pittsburgh

February 20, 2014

before I get too ahead of myself I want to post this picture of Saturn and I ripping a five dollar bill in half.  This was the money we made from playing a show at his house.   I have one half that he signed and he has the other half that I signed.

The show By the way was awesome.  The bill included us, Curb Alert, and Düglas Für and Princess Sea Turtle. 

Princess Sea Turtle played first, which was a super cute delight.  Teresa, who is the princess, plays amazingly cute ukelele music around and interspersed between ragtag puppetry and slides of summer vacations with her family.  Her costume is outrageous and funny and so was her set.  I highly suggest watching this music/performance act if you ever get a chance to. 

Düglas Für is a one man, banjo machine.  It seems to me like the goal of his banjo aesthetic is to play as blistering fast as possible.  This aesthetic happens to be one of my favorites.  Saturn said he self described himself as banjo black metal, which if you don’t know black metal is extremely fast.  He also sings and screams out vocals, un-miced, over his fast paced banjoing.

February 22, 2014