A Resurrection
Digging this out of the closet.
June 5, 2024
Not that I was ever a prolific blogger, but I'm having some serious writer's block on the music front and figured dedicating some time elsewhere might clear out some cobwebs. So here's an update.
It occurred to me recently that I never posted about my most recent release on here. My EP dropped in December on my buddy Conor's newish tape label Negative Wingspan (check out the full catalog, all excellent stuff so far).
Since then, I've been kicking around some ideas for a new music project involving some buddies. It'll be the first time playing regularly in a full band since the beginning of the pandemic. Hopefully will have more to say about in due time.
I also played my first live show ever as droning muffler in the bcc basement for the Doubting Thomas Cruise Control reunion, celebrating the 10 year anniversary of their Appleton ON EP, on which you can hear guitar contributions from very hungover 23 year-old dm. I'm very grateful to have been able to try out a live set for some of my oldest friends in such a comfortable environment, and I believe it went well enough to book more shows. Keep an eye out for those.
Final update: I recently finished Roberto Bolaño's 2666. It is high on the list of the best books I've ever read. I also finished J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island (pretty good!) and have started Moby-Dick. By simply carrying around a copy of Moby-Dick, I have discovered one friend is also currently reading it, while two other friends have just finished it, which begs the question of whether Moby-Dick is somehow back in style (is it truly the summer of the ) or if enough people are constantly reading Moby-Dick that at any time, one can display a copy and be greeted with a camaraderie, a fellowship of shared labor similarly found within its pages. A couple stray thoughts that have accompanied these first eight or so chapters:
- Subtext must have still been in its infancy in Melville's time.
- It would be really funny if the sailor priest only gave sermons about Jonah and the whale.
That's all for now.