Rock n Roll and all
A brief and sheepish update of "the music career":
I am having fun being a rock n roller. I am still with my band of scrappy stragglers known as the Harpoons. We have been doing great. When we went on tour across the Eastern half of the USA this summer, we ended up getting a record deal with Minty Fresh Records, a Chicago indie label who have put out groups such as The Cardigans and Veruca Salt and some others. I finally signed it recently. We are going to make at least one record, probably two, maybe more after this contract runs out.
By wonderful luck we will be recording with an awesome, semi-well-known producer name Brian Deck. He has done records with Iron & Wine, Josh Ritter and Modest Mouse, to name a few. He is really cool and honest. We'll record it in January, probably release it (internationally!) in March or so.
We've been playing shows, and they are great. We even are going to play at the big-deal music festival South by Southwest in March. March, what a month it will be. We are learning more and more songs, and arguing fiercely (in a very good and friendly way) over which ones will be on the record, and what the record will be like.
It is all very cool and it is especially important for me to remember what it is really about. It's not about me, but it is about other people who listen to music. Rock n roll can save your life and that is what this is all about. There is so much poetry in this world that goes criminally under-noticed. We've got to notice it and commune with the perceptive, the open-hearted, the secret poets hiding in the hinges of the world.
I am having fun being a rock n roller. I am still with my band of scrappy stragglers known as the Harpoons. We have been doing great. When we went on tour across the Eastern half of the USA this summer, we ended up getting a record deal with Minty Fresh Records, a Chicago indie label who have put out groups such as The Cardigans and Veruca Salt and some others. I finally signed it recently. We are going to make at least one record, probably two, maybe more after this contract runs out.
By wonderful luck we will be recording with an awesome, semi-well-known producer name Brian Deck. He has done records with Iron & Wine, Josh Ritter and Modest Mouse, to name a few. He is really cool and honest. We'll record it in January, probably release it (internationally!) in March or so.
We've been playing shows, and they are great. We even are going to play at the big-deal music festival South by Southwest in March. March, what a month it will be. We are learning more and more songs, and arguing fiercely (in a very good and friendly way) over which ones will be on the record, and what the record will be like.
It is all very cool and it is especially important for me to remember what it is really about. It's not about me, but it is about other people who listen to music. Rock n roll can save your life and that is what this is all about. There is so much poetry in this world that goes criminally under-noticed. We've got to notice it and commune with the perceptive, the open-hearted, the secret poets hiding in the hinges of the world.