reason/jah

Annie Palmer & Fred Thomas "I Found A Reason" (Velvet Underground Cover)

thanks to Ethan for sending along this image. it's from a zine I made in 1998. Time be flyin.

today me and Annie jammed on this song we're gonna sing at our friends' wedding soon. You guys know Cat Power didn't write this song, right???

the fall is my favorite time.

It Must Have Been A Happy Time

Patient To Patient playing last weekend in a plaza in Ann Arbor, outside, for free, illegal. Visuals by Sean and sonics by Ryan. The large-scale video really made all the difference. Life outside of computer screens can be really great sometimes.

Anything Was Possible

We finished our record last night. Would it be funny if we called it "White Castle"? Or more likely "Whyyte C∆$Tle"?

Cats In The Yard

These are the things I bought in New York on Swimsuit tour:

a new hat, my favorite Neu record and one Mountain Dew "white out". all of them with elements of vulgarity, but some soft beauty to them as well.

and why not, here's a new song made just today:

City Center "Cats In The Yard" (for juan)

lyrics:

give yourself a day to think it over

fall in love with the numbers

see the storm approach

let it go your way

fall in love with the thunder

see the cats in the yard

are they playing darts?

does the sky look so good you could stay?

did you used to live on the westside kid?

when did you move your apartment?

give yourself some space to fade into today

fall in love and be starving

does the food on your plate make you hungry?

do the clouds in the sky know your name?

see the cats in the yard

are they playing cards?

does the sky look so good you could stay?

Things We Did Back When

I kinda completely forgot we went on tour in the spring. I guess as soon as it was done, I got deep into the tape label, Ryan got a motorcycle and we went on to new mornings and evenings. But we did spend a month or so running around, and slowly the seeds we scattered around are blooming up and the polleny songs are blowing around. Up above is some video that I (clearly from my expressions and dullness) didn't even realize was being taken at our KDHX radio session in St. Louis and right here is a link to a pretty intense session for Chicago's Coach House sounds, including a song called "The End" that we only ever played around the start of that last tour.