New York Eye & Ear Control

 I'm in NYC for a bit, feeling the winter and working on new sounds. The new issue of Artforum has a big piece on cassette culture and it's present relevance to the art world, etc. I did an extensive interview for the article, but in the end, my quotes got edited out completely. Oh well! Life Like gets a nod as one of the tape labels currently doing their thing, as does 905 Tapes, Tapeworm and others. It's a pretty good article, worth checking out.

 While it's nice to be out in the world, and remember the different dimensions of the big city, I'm missing being in Ypsilanti right now.

1.What is your favorite fruit juice?
2.Do the seasons bother or effect you?
3.Is it better to have a lot of ideas or a lot of results?
4.Do you think there is retribution? As in; do horrible people who do horrible things or just generally shitty people, are they already damned by the shittiness of their own lives or do they get away with everything shitty that they do because the world is ok with horrible things?

Orange Skies

 There was a snowstorm last night, but not quite the overwhelming world-ender some were expecting. Around 7 in the morning, my nephew Connor was born, and it's amazing to think that someday he'll get to hear the fabled "You were born in the great blizzard of 2011!" kinda stuff that kids sometimes get to hear. It'd be cool if he turned out to be some kinda young, stoic bad-ass and had a calm reply like "Shoulda done it in November instead." or something of the like.

"Florida Snow" is a new tape of City Center jams that have come up this winter. Two songs you may have checked out on this blog, as well as a reworking of the older song "Stones", as well as some icy drones, weirdly indie-rockish moments and other odd, cold sounds. There's 50 copies made, available at the same time as new tapes by Settle (a collab between me and Rob Theakston from Lexington KY) and the debut tape from Damned Dogs (glittery noise from Amber & me, not much like Swimsuit at all.) More information is available here.