so watch for the cars babe, cause they can fuck you up watch for the cars babe, cause they can fuck you up

i forget sometimes i am supposed to write things in here.
days of production then days of promotion i suppose.
i remembered when i was folding my heavy socks
what it feels like
and then i wanted to spend all day in a sleeping bag
one of the hooded ones
in some grass by the ocean
or maybe somewhere in canada

soft-pedal

I will be reading some poems from my new book soft-pedal tuesday. there are some other people reading too.. not sure who exactly. 8pm @ the half. i may read some other stuff too depending on how much time i get. hope to see you there.



it should be available for sale sometime... maybe... when i stop slacking and get it listed somewhere.

Best recordings of VT 2008 and Indiepages review.

Hey everyone... hope you had good holidays...

indiepages reviewed No Order here.

Thanks Indie Pages!

Also 7d listed No Order as one of the top 10 Vermont Recordings of 2008. See it here. There are some other great VT bands on there... like Crinkles, In Memory of Pluto, Lendway and Forrest Mulerath... Check them out!

Thanks 7d!

we can go where we want to a place where they will never find and we can act like we come from out of this world leave the real one far behind

a bunch of stuff to write about but i dont feel like putting together a real post. been busy. holidays and all.

spending time listening to closing credits of movies
the dark, 8th notes
hot rods and hiding
snow snow snow rain and cold
not dancing
in conference rooms
converted to reception
space
lots of space

FLESH FEAST - THE HUMAN BRAIN

Socrates Adams- Florou sent me a copy of his book, Flesh Feast The Human Brain. Its a pretty awesome short little book about messed up brains and an old man who will eat you and take over your life. The ripped edges are sweet and make it feel special but the content makes you feel a little dirty for holding it... in a good way.

the ending is great.

nice job.

thank you.

my headphones they saved my life your tape it lulled me to sleep nothing will be the same i'm fast asleep

kimi records is giving away some music from iceland... you should go to their site and download it so icelandic people can sing at you through your headphones.

im not sure exactly whats going on with it cause the description is written in icelandic but. you know. its music. you dont need to read it. you need to listen to it. here is a track listing:

* BENNI HEMM HEMM - Beethoven í Kaupmannahöfn
* PIKKNIKK - Nóttin tekur við
* HJALTALÍN - Mamma kveikir kertaljós
* MARK NOSEBY - Þrír og hálfur
* SIN FANG BOUS - Catch the Light
* FM BELFAST - Made a promise
* LÉTT Á BÁRUNNI - Þegar jólin koma
* MÚGSEFJUN - Dag eftir dag
* RETRO STEFSON - Life
* SKAKKAMANAGE - Now or never
* AGENT FRESCO - Above These City Lights
* SUDDEN WEATHER CHANGE - Prey Mode
* MORÐINGJARNIR - Ég er kominn heim
* REYKJAVÍK! - Repticon
* BORKO - Continental Love
* KLIVE - Tidy Granny
* HELLVAR - Nowhere
* RÚNK - Bréfberinn

Stand out tracks:
BORKO - Continental Love
HJALTALÍN - Mamma kveikir kertaljós
RETRO STEFSON - Life
SIN FANG BOUS - Catch the Light


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slipping silver under tongues
it helps us stay clean and pure.
it reminds us of cold and steely skies,
cold ocean water and winds floating
mist up our sleeves.

splitting time in foreign cities
at shows
outside during the shitty first band
kicking piles of dirty snow
with the smokers
the street gets dark fast in either direction
both ways uphill
windows keeping the crying baby screams
inside.

bedrooms
monitors burning eyes and radiating heat
of emails traveling
secret messages
and captured sounds
understood melodies
'things to say'
'best to type'
'send and forget'

shaking and blurring hands moving fast
blurring and burning
brrrrr
clinch release clinch release clinch release

everyones a hero
if you are alive

you are organic
eating carrots with dirt still on them

energy
circus

girlfriends are for singing shitty back ups on the stupid songs you wrote in high school.

the key to every good recording is an appropriate sounding snare.

if i could be a cowboy i would never come home.

better watch out.

nite soldier.

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...

indie pop heaven posted some stuff about colin clary and the magogs her life of crime here.

it looks like there may be a real audio download of the record there. which is fine. we put a lot of work into that record a few years back and i'm glad people still like it.

no one in iceland has looked at my blog yet. i think im going to make it a goal to have someone in iceland look at my blog before christmas. i dont know why, or how to make it happen. if you know someone there... send them an email asking them to go to this page. it will be awesome for me.

treble fury
silenced missions
false faces
whispers
white white whispers
cold winds
grass houses
frozen fogged breath of visitors
bringing gifts
warm drinks
neighborhood pride


... desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

scarves v. scarfs

lets all take a nite to sleep.
call yr self up yr favorite snuggle hooker
make an appointment
and call it quits early.

nite soldier.

I'm coming up only to hold you under I'm coming up only to show you wrong

its sometime about now
the doe faced pasty whites
and steely blues
i dont know what this all means
but the memories kill
and absences are distressed

i noticed lack of culture produces people who 'like to have fun'

jewels / rough francis before the white wind show



vacant lots playing

i have lots of other pictures but they are all dark with lights all over. they look cool but wont do you much good...

enjoy the snow.

good winter.

the tick tick white wind show last nite was great. tons of fun and lots of people. thanks for coming everyone! I have some pictures to post. im sure i will get around to it soon.

i feel like today has gone on for days.

sticking q-tips in my eyes has almost become enjoyable at this point.

i am glad for the snow... was hoping for the ice... but snow works for now.

bon iver is on letterman. for some reason i refuse to pronounce it the french way, if he can have an intentional mis-spelling i can have an intentional mis pronunciation. right?

nite soldier.

more rough francis / death music

video from the monkey rough francis show...

Whereever I go, your shadow follows me I don’t want to see you leave. Are you here with me?

got some good work done today. i tried to stop at one point but ate dinner and started again. pretty happy with the way things worked out.

angioplasty media and burlington music journal had some nice things to say about the rough francis show last nite. which is cool cause i respect their musical opinions.

we have one last show at metronome on wed 12/10. it should be a psychedelic experience as i understand it. the show is called White Wind: a spectacle of sight and sound. bands will be set up all over the club. it will be a constant nite of music. from what i understand the place will be completely psychedeliced out. we will be set up on the floor. please come say hi. it will be a fun time. we might have a secret surprise that's not vegan chicken and hot sauce.

i should be asleep but that doesnt seem to be an option. it takes very little for me to lose my responsible sleeping schedule. my body says the nite time is good for me. im going to listen to album leaf and try to shut off.

nite soldier.

shhhhhh.

i feel good about tonites rough francis show. if you have any pics please send them to me. i didnt take any cause i must have been busy watching music and being surrounded by awesome people. thanks for coming. i'm really glad you all got to hear these great songs.

i cant sleep but need to. my ears are ringing. shhhhh.

frozen clothes and a towel coated in ice and held down by rocks at the lake the other day

rough francis played tonite at 242. it was sold out. thanks to everyone who came. there was a small circle pit and some dude got headbutted in the face. at the end there was gratuitous man love and hugging. super fun. i didnt take any pictures except this one:


music lesson and 'a leprechaun told me to burn things'

the show got brents seal of approval.

please come to the show tomorrow at monkey. it should be a bunch of fun.

i drank a bunch of coffee and cant sleep now. im in trouble.

rock it.

more music stuffs...

7d did an interview with bobby sr about death here.

its pretty awesome... cant wait to play the show tomorrow and saturday. make sure you come ok?

also the freep weekend section had some pics of rough francis... and an mfdoj review. i cant post a link because its paper. but maybe i will re-type it for the mfdoj blog. think that will happen? i dont know? maybe you should check.

AND a track I recorded / mixed for One Happy Island is #4 track of the year at indie mp3.com. Nice job One Happy Island!

i feel like i should write more poetry related stuff but i've been too busy with musics... maybe soon. blah blah blah...

death oh baby you know that dying is fine but maybe I wouldn't like death if death were good

i got 2 tickets from nick at angioplasty media + HG to go to the ra ra riot show tonite. thanks nick!

ra ra riot was kind of samey sounding for a while but they played the songs i liked. so many dynamos kind of sounded like the faint if they were more of a rock band and were still writing good songs. princeton was just awesome in like 30 ways.

death got some press from the freep here and 7d's here. you should read the story then come to the shows. it will be awesome for you and me.

rock it soldier.

Bear Ridge Project.

this guy is pretty much my hero.

shhhhhh.

pseudo mention non reviews of free things you can have too.

Concord Free Press was giving away copies of give+take by stona fitch a little while ago. I got one of those copies and had a chance to read it over Thanksgiving.

From their website:

Our first book—Give and Take by novelist Stona Fitch—is circulating through the world. We distributed 1,500 copies free via online requests and our network of independent bookstores. In return, readers are making voluntary donations to a charity or someone in need. And we ask them to pass the book on, so that every time the book changes hands, it generates more contributions.

The book is pretty ok. It's well written and is a fast read. It's a robin hood style story with a traveling jazz musician. There are multiple mentions of Vermont and the fact that there is no good mexican here. That's the truest thing I have ever read in a fiction novel. It was a bit predictable and not nearly as amazing as the blurbs made it out to be but it was still fun to read and is well worth the price of a small donation to a charity.

If you would like the copy I have please send me an email with your address and I will forward it on to you per instructions that come with the book. 440a440@gmail.com

(Note to the editor. There should be an end quote on the line "So why did you do it?" on pg 142. Don't worry. I drew it in on my copy so the next person who gets it wont even notice... actually they might notice a little. I only had a sharpie on hand when I noticed and it was a fine point so its not the most discreet.)

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matt pond PA is giving away a free holiday ep here. The songs are not holiday themed which is a great thing. They are very simple but with good melodies. There are a few instrumentals which are refreshing. It sounds really nice. Its not slicked up and over polished like his official releases. More warm and organic sounding. You should download it and like it at least a little. It will never offend you when the songs come up in shuffle. I can guarantee that.