I live under a bridge like, the troll I am.

YAPPY HEW NEAR

Apathy, banality, boredom..... television.

What a town!

When I was 13 I spent a lot of time by myself mostly shredding trails on my bike in the woods. I grew up in a suburban NJ town and had already understood that it was not the place for me. By then, I had already commited Walk Among Us, The first Ramones record, and about 85% of Iron Maiden and Metallicas catalog to memory. Nirvana had just released In Utero and they were my favorite new band. I heard on the radio that they were playing at Roseland Ballroom in the neighborhood of New York City's notorious Times Square. So, I rode my bike to this video store that sold tickets and bought one single ticket for myself. Grossly underestimating my immegrant parents, I left the ticket in plain view to be confiscated by my mother who refused to let me follow through with this plan. Thankfully, I had an older brother who's friends were also going and it all eventually panned out. The walk from Port authority to Roseland in 1993 was not what it is today. That night I saw many things I had only heard of. Trans-sexual prostitutes, prostitutes in general, porn theaters, guys whose faces had been contorted by who knows what, and maybe some other things I was too young to understand. As fucked as street life can be it was great that there was a place it could all go down. If you wanted to participate then there was a wealth of resources at your disposal. And I think it's even more great that people went there each year to celebrate the coming of a new year.

Former Ghosts Podcast

Freddy Ruppert is among the greatest people alive. He used to do this band called This Song Is A Mess But So Am I which was among the most inspirational things ever. His new band, Former Ghosts is completely beautiful, nightmarishly dark and I hope we get to make a split single with him someday. He recently made a podcast that is the best! It features songs by friends like Cold Cave and The Dead Science, heroes like OMD and Arthur Russell, things I hadn't heard before but am now obsessed with (Felt Drawings!!) and, I am honored to say, a Silk Flowers song. You can download it HERE

Silk Flowers - Cannibals and Headhunters video

bleed & decorate

We wrote a new song this past weekend and the lyrics are inspired by this movie:




also this time of year always reminds me of my friend John who used to work at a big independent music distributor who told me that CRASS sells best around the holidays, what does that even mean? Sometimes I think it means that people are inspired and angry by the stores and the commercials and so they have to listen to "Big Man! Big M! A! N!" but most of the time it makes me think