shawn avery

its already mid july . incredible. what have i been up to? um... jody and cassidy's wedding shower / backyard party at greg and hannah slamen's house. through the sparks at the nick. a lot of people came out for that one. i drove a drunk guy home in his car. i also did a projection for the show. alison and i drove some meth-head girl to the waffle house. the twilight screening back yard party at greg and hannah's house a week later: greg and hannah put up a big cotton background that i had bought for the TTS show. they screened / played an ac/dc concert , the 5 min comedy scramble "randy whetstone" we worked on last fall, monty python and the holy grail , a big chunk of blondie on new year's eve '79, the concert for bangladesh , and as we were leaving, they were playing the concert for george . we want to make this a regular thing. lots of fun. lots of empty tall boys. and the best part... one of their friend fried a turkey. don't...

by terry hickman As luck would have it, my first exposure to Nine Inch Nails was the MTV video of "Closer." Because I heard and saw them together from the very beginning, the song and the video have always been inseparable in my memory and thinking. That first viewing made my hair stand on end. It was also my first exposure to anything resembling "Industrial" music, and I felt I'd finally Come Home. I had no idea anybody was making music using machines, industrial noises, traffic sounds, all of that. I'd always thought I was a little weird for hearing music in trains' wheels clacking, in printing presses rotating, in chains rattling and wind humming through power lines. Here there was a whole musical field created around those things I'd secretly responded to all my life! But more than that, "Closer" was the first video I'd seen that looked as if its makers (director Mark Romanek and Trent Reznor) really had a sense of what a music vide...

my friend rebecca held a "metal" themed party at bottletree a week or so back... check out this photo. brilliant. also... praise be to allah... no doubt is making another record . i'm aware that they are a mega huge band and that its not cool too like them anymore, unless you are a fashion-victim 18 year old girl... although you HAD to like them in the fall of '94, or risk being beheaded by the state sanctioned music style nazis. i like them .

on 07.07.07 i'll be playing two shows in one night... at the 40 watt in athens, georgia... i'll be playing with through the sparks and john strohm. label mates 13ghosts will be there as well. birmingham takes over athens .

i didn't go to city stages this year. i had a show to play with john strohm in atlanta . a huge portion of my friends all went to bonnaroo in tenn . and they got to see the police and wilco , etc. bastards. i could have gotten artist passes to city stages, but i was too lazy to ask. the spots were basically invited to play city stages... we passed. i haven't played the festival since 2003, and i haven't been excited about the line-up since 2005. last year i had a friend in town from LA, and plenty of artist passes., and we had a great time . an artist pass makes the festival more fun, and more tolerable... you can walk around back stage, get to the good beer, stand in the shade, etc. but this year, i had no desire to go. here's the line-up . pathetic. wade of the wade on birmingham blog posted a fantastic, well organized treatise on the death, or impending death of this misguided festival. i've worked with people affiliated with city stages over the past...

mutherfucker. wow. june 29th.

i'm playing the 40 watt twice in one night. this is very cool. 06.16.07 - w/ john p. strohm @ star bar (atlanta) 06.21.07 - w/ the spots @ innovation depot 06.23.07 - w/ through the sparks @ the nick 07.06.07 - w/ through the sparks @ jj's bohemia (chattanooga) 07.07.07 - w/ john p. strohm @ 40 watt (athens) 07.07.07 - w/ through the sparks @ 40 watt (athens)