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 aesthetic, and pretty much as soon as that long labored over project was released - ashby split for england for a year to study, thus ending our musical and to a general extent, our personal relationship. he's moving back to palau as i write this to assume the post as a supreme court justice.
since 03/27/03, i've been in countless bands, and i'm most certainly at the end of my time in birmingham. as soon as i finish up some design deadlines, i'm going to jump in more resolutely into my music / design archive site, which will basically be my epilogue for bham and all the music i've made here. its certainly better than phoenix or central florida, but its still really, really small.