shawn avery

check out this killer vid from missing persons. this is 1983 . the casual listener was unaware that the singer was an intellectual playboy bunny, the drummer was/is considered one of the best and most technically proficient of his generation, and the guitarist got a gig with frank zappa in his teens. pop rock is sly like that . here's the video for words . i hate it when people disable embedding. welcome to the nascent ingredients of my pop sensibilities: we are dropping a track called "night" and replacing it with an early contender for the record, "goodbye." ashby calls it his funeral song. i know... we are so upbeat. i'm writing a treatise on the year 1982. more mention of missing persons later. i'm still working this out in my head. its kinda like therapy, but instead of focussing on childhood angst, i'm looking more at the quirky bands that shaped my 7 year old brain.

some peeps in phoenix are making a movie... and great photography, and my boy matt is throwing down some great artwork... all my luv goes out to him. a lot of my west coast (phoenix, LA) friends are going to coachella... i'm jelaous. but its all good... i went to the 1st and 2nd coachella in '99 and '01. its been exactly five years since i last shaved my head, so last week i went and did something stupid and shaved it again. yucky. i look like a rat. some people dig it, most probably not, but my hair grows fast so whatever... got a "web" friend that i was out of contact with for a while... and now we are chatting again. its good, cuz they are beautiful and so am i. kim captured my shaved head on film. hmmm... let's ramble... single lines : the senate is trying to dismantle FEMA the weather today in bham is incredible there's an art festival in linn park tomorrow caldwell park, across from my cribb, is in full effect spring is good kim is cute the record is...

i'm sending out my props... welcoming veda evelyn riggleman into the world. she was born on april 12th at 12:30pm at oakland mercy hospital in detroit, michigan. her parents are my dear friends kristen and casey riggleman, who i haven't seen in years. they also have a son, isaac. i'm gonna see them asap. also... it is becoming apparent that i have an important choice to make. and it is surreal.

well will you look at that. two postings in a week. i've decided that since i get half of my comments from emails from here and the other half from comments from myspace, i'm going to try to integrate the two. its great to be able to post blogs that have been subscribed to on myspace... but it sucks that there's no real / coherent format for blogs on myspace. i'll figure it out. if you haven't already noticed, the site has been halted for the 452nd time. i have ONE MORE EDIT to finish, which will be done by thursday night. I HOPE. as of this friday night, if the cosmos is on my side, we will have v 1.0 of our record on disc. what does this mean? it means a week or two of listening on every possible system and taking notes... at that point we will go back in the studio and make the needed tweeks in order to get it to sound good in the "real world." since we are leading up to the mastering process, i've been listening to alternate media lately. cassette,...

today kids... we are going to talk about side projects. #1. the spots. we have rehearsed/recorded three times. snippets of those three sessions will become our first little lofi indie record. #2. groupies in the outhouse. a supergroup sorta. we have yet to actually get together! but with a name like that... we can't lose. #3. my damned web site. i can't seem to make up my mind. shocker. tonight i'm gonna edit and hopefully by this time next week... i will have done all i'm going to do for this record. yippee.