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Last Updated: 12/2/2009

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Status: Single
City: DURHAM/CHATHAM COUNTY/GREENSBORO
State: North Carolina
Country: US
Signup Date: 3/21/2005

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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 
TONIGHT (tuesday)
@reservoir (where GO! used to be, in chapel hill)
9pm, donations
-cassette
-des ark (solo)
-health

TOMORROW (wednesday)
@ Bull City Records (new record store in DURHAM!  gasp!  next door to cosmic cantina off of 9th st)
9pm, $3-4, BYOB
-cassette
-des ark (with work clothes!!)
-work clothes

my dear lady sam jones is on tour from gainesville with her band CASSETTE, & her songs stick to my skin like north carolina summers.  they suffocate me as a sleeping bag would if you were to purchase the one for arctic adventures but then only use it in north carolina.  & all i'm trying to say here is that sometimes it's frustrating, buying the wrong kind of sleeping bag, but you still need it.  i mean you may curse the thing up & down for making you all sweaty & claustrophobic, but yr certainly not about to go sleep naked in a north carolina february.  eventually you submit to the fucking sleeping bag & never speak of it again.  like a best friend who pisses you off, but only because you know she's right.  i apologize if this makes no sense at all, but it's a high compliment nonetheless.

HEALTH is jonathan's (tiger bear wolf) quiet project & they're beautiful.  simply put, there's no way that the best guitar player in greensboro can go wrong.

WORK CLOTHES keep getting better & better, which is fucked up, considering they were already my favorite band the first time i saw them play...three years ago?  

jenny & lee & jill from work clothes will be joining me for half of the DES ARK set, which will include electric guitars (yeah yeah, we can all breathe a sigh of relief now), drums, accordion,  piano & bass.

also i predict that BULL CITY RECORDS will greatly improve yr quality of life, if your life involves liking music & living near durham.  chaz just moved to town & opened this place up, he is sweet almost to a fault & stoked on throwing shows.  for those of you who haven't yet figured it out, this is someone we ought to force our love upon.  

desark UPDATE:
it's a dang mess right now, a lame dog, but one who will walk again!  tim moved away in september & i got bummed, decided to quit playing music & scribbled down a list of all the ways i might more efficiently waste my fucking life.  some examples of what made cut were: going to college, joining the circus, building a yurt & getting lost in some woods somewhere...although in general i wasn't being very picky, so pretty much any & all things that might place me as far away from music as possible made it on that list.  

but then one morning i woke up & in a furious twitch i booked about 16 solo shows, thereby trashing all my plans of becoming a stock market analyst.  i don't remember doing this, i just remember waking up the next morning & thinking to myself "oh fuck. i've really fucked up now."  then i went back to bed for a while.

but so that's that.  i've been plowing through these months & fyi if you find yrself wondering why i'm playing a ridiculous number of shows in the triangle, just know yr in good company.  i can guarantee that i think it is more ridiculous than you do & that i'm even more sick of myself than you'll ever be.  it's almost over.

i'll be heading down to athens for a weekend to demo some of these songs, to pull some rockers together with friends i trust & some quiet ones together with some still undetermined strangers, all in preparation for a couple of 7"s & a split release with my favorite former bandmate in the whole wide world, ben davis.  been practicing with work clothes, who've taken these songs & made them real.  touring in feb/march & june & weekends in between.  eating a lot of my roommates ice cream & tortillas along the way, doing a gross amt of myspace'ing on duke university's dollar & being generally freaked out & sleep deprived per usual.  

i don't suppose any of you have made it to the end of this, but i just wanted to add that even though i lost my mind & got married last week, everything's gonna work out just fine.
6:51 PM
 
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street carp

 
keep on keepin on i say.

congratualations on your insane matrimony.

 
Posted by street carp on Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 6:08 AM
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The Comedy Of Error

 
Well if you really wanted you could move to florida and join the comedy of error, we need another guitarist..youd be perfect.
 
Posted by The Comedy Of Error on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 4:38 AM
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p-bone

 
I remember you talking about that dog on the live set you did on WXDU.
best of luck in the future.
-pbone

 
Posted by p-bone on Sunday, March 05, 2006 - 6:00 AM
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Vincent

 
I can't post a comment on your comment page, but I simply want to shed my respectful acknowledgement of your vocal, chords and songs. I think it's awesome what you're making and I have bet already with karma that you'll make it big enough to shake it down in BC, Canada.
 
Posted by Vincent on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 1:40 PM
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333

 
Come play in columbus OH!  I bet Jacob of the Evil Queens has told you this lots.  For real, there will be at least 2 people at that show!  That is totally worth the drive.
 
Posted by 333 on Thursday, October 12, 2006 - 10:51 PM
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