ten years ago today, ashby and i released our girls+cars ep. this was for our band the ashes, which consumed all of our spare time from the spring of 2002 through sometime in 2006 or 2007 or 2008. it morphed into wiseblood, which also released an ep in july in 2008, although the recordings were pretty much finished in 2006. girls+cars was the first result of my delayed adulthood / 2nd adolescence, which was brought on by the massive black void that happened after my move from phoenix to birmingham. essentially an 11 year relationship imploded, i was abandoned in the desert, and moved i with all of my shit to the deep south the week after 9/11. i pretty much emotionally checked out for a few years. by some estimates, i was neurologically altered. i decided to waste those few years playing in an indie band with no future. ashby did too, until he started law school in 2004. while he was in law school, we developed a more mature project based around the wiseblood aest...