shawn avery

st. vincent, marry me the record features bottletree co-founder/booking agent and polyphonic spree drummer, brian teasley. the last minute of the track "your lips are red" is pure perfection, where she sings - " your skin so fair, its not fair ." pitchfork mentions : In the title track, Clark gets off the lasciviously blasphemous come-on "we'll do what Mary and Joseph did...without the kid." I've had the chance to see her twice. the first time was at SXSW07, and the second time a few months later here at bottletree. i got to see the full band (including keyboards, teasley on drums, horns, etc.) as well as her solo set. fantastic. it is brutally intelligent music. listen for yourself ...

its probably gonna get worse... or weird again before it gets better. but it is going to get better. other people are scarred too. i never considered they might feel that way. i've made my choice. life really is hard work. today is the first day of the rest of my life.

we were hoping for a hundred or so folks to show up for our cd release on saturday night. we ended up playing for about two hundred. over the past few weeks, we had implemented a fairly intensive local promotional effort to get people out to the relatively new venue speakeasy. as you can see in the photos, its a cozy place. high cealings, brick walls, secret rooms.. great staff... and for some reason... every time we play... lots and lots of people show up. big thanks to the other spots, alison hulsey, hannah slamen and scott gordon for helping me gather up the needed components for the "audio reactive programmed visualization" that was projected behind us all evening. also, big props to george, who owns the venue. fox news, who have always been very supportive of local music showed up and filmed a few tracks from our set. the two songs they filmed happen to be the only two from the ep that we played. everything else was pure groove improv as usual. liz wells and frank...

ok , so... picking up where i left off a few days ago... for some reason i feel the need to a fully document recent happenings. so first let me flesh out some things... after we went to see jello biafra at bottletree , alison , jessica hallman and i went to the most posh place we could think of to eat dinner. alison (a dietitian ) had her first red meat in 7 years. then she made at one point, a very dramatic exit to the restroom. her chair fell over and it looked like she was pissed off. she wasn't. i ran into jen west and generally enjoyed being at chez fon fon again. moving on... more stuff from the chattanooga / athen s tour jaunt: alison told me to mention the "massage session" between her and hannah that took place on friday in chattanooga after i did the podcast thing. i have no further comment. alison , hannah and myself drove down to the riverside area of chattanooga and has some excellent thai food that kept me going until late that night. here...