Who's this guy?

A Discordian rap star who balances the world on his hatred of the mundane. He's also a songwriter/rapper/producer/performer/poet type of person who does things, and hopes that you like them or that you dislike them in such a way that it will bring you pleasure.

 

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The tea/China ratio and Sully's Cafe podcast 

SO I HAVE A PILE OF FUCKS IN MY BASEMENT.

Why? Because I don’t give them.

And I certainly don’t give them to China in exchange for tea. Translation? I don’t gives no fucks about the price of no tea. Straight up.

Now that we’ve got that settled, I was at The Spot in Providence for the weekly Sully’s Cafe podcast this weekend.

Podcast! —-> http://sullyscafe.com/?p=3125#more-3125

I’m whoring myself out (HINT HINT!) to anyone brave enough to interview my rambling and/or aggressively bizarre ass. In this interview I cover a lot of material, from “Pay What You Can” style shows, to life as an indie artist, the “nerdcore” genre, working with many talented musicians for the TickleBomb Orchestra album. I also pull the veil away from the long-time e-love affair I’ve had with kHill from theThoughtCriminals. All in the name of being mad promosexual in the support ofWhatevermore: Live from the Raven album that is currently in presales and will drop on October 25th (DON’T FORGET THE CD RELEASE HALLOWEEN SHOW I’M DOING AT 97D WEBSTER ST IN WORCESTER :-D)

Saturday night I got together with Jon Gryckiewicz in Lowell for some hijinks, including listening to the most recent iteration of the TickleBomb Orchestra debut we’ve been working on. We’ve decided to change the name, and we’ve decided on a relative time frame for releasing it. It’ll be early next year, and I’ll start talking about that as the time comes. THERE IS AN UNRELEASED TBO SONG IN THIS PODCAST. I’m not making it the main focus, though, just to see who’s paying attention. ;)

There’s some funny quotables in the podcast too, especially if you know me and my long history playing music and meeting like-minded people.

“You don’t really sell any albums until you sleep on their couch.”


“Half of the performance notion is a fuckin’ sham. Like I’m gonna get up on stage probably 10 nights in a row and on the 9th night I’m gonna perform a song like it has that urgency that it had [the first time]. I’m gonna try and pretend that I’m making this up for the first time every time I perform…that’s essentially what you’re doing. Everybody knows it’s a fucking con. That’s not what’s happening. You’re not making it up right now but you’re going to try and like scream this out like it has the urgency that this is…RIGHT NOW…I just had NO CHOICE but to say this, it’s not like I’m getting paid a $25 guarantee and selling no merch to do it.” [on improvisation and mistakes in live albums]

“And he was probably all F’d in the B on H…” [on Nick Cave’s bass player]

“I’m a post-post office rapper” [on my legacy]


November is gonna be like woah 

I’m going to make an effort to start exorcising my demons sharing my thoughts here on my blog a bit more. It had always been intended for that, but like so many avenues as my thoughts became darker I’ve leaned towards promoting the music more than expressing myself. I understand if you don’t give a flying fuck about this, and I don’t blame you. Artists in general (and I do NOT exclude myself) are typically pretty self-absorbed.

Since my mom died, nothing has seemed real. Each success is numbed by her absence and every trial doomed by it. My wanderlust is at an all time high, and I have no resources to go anywhere, be it the vacation time or the money. I may have to move home due to lack of funds and while I very much love the people who live at the house I own, there’s a lot of reasons why moving back there doesn’t seem right for me.

Somebody call a wahhmbulance right? Not so much. This is good because I’m realizing this, and I’m talking about it. That itself is an indication that I’m moving forward, and I’ve also booked an absurd amount of shows and started writing again. Also, I’ve finished the song that is a tribute to her on my new album, and that in and of itself puts me on a good footing for trying to figure out where to go. My mother knows that this is all I’ve ever done, and this is all I will ever be. I may as well embrace it for her, if not myself after all these years.

I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing love(s) that I can’t really FEEL. That sounds brutal, I know, but I don’t have anything else I can say about it that would be honest. But without these people who’ve reached out, listened to me, proactively tried to understand where I’m at…I don’t know where I’d be, or in what condition. I’m sure I haven’t loved the people who love me right back properly, but I’ve never done that. That love is shared for my quietest moments alone. I appreciate that they’ve done this for me, but I don’t want them to think they own my misery or that I own their pity. If I’ve pulled away at all, it’s because the place I’m at can’t be visited for too long or they lock the doors behind you and you’ve probably got other loved ones to see.

November will be hard. Very fucking hard. And I’m going to rap, sing and play my way through it. It’s all I’ve ever done.

Angie Dark Heart: Why Virtual Worlds are Important 

Angie Dark Heart: Why Virtual Worlds are Important:

I’ve recently met Angie through a website called “Cloud Girlfriend” which allows two people to make fake identities and chat with each other under those assumed identities. It’s pretty funny and fun, and Angie is as extroverted on the web as I am, which made us get along pretty quickly.

I’m forwarding this to ask you to think about what this could mean for people in nations where freedoms aren’t quite as protected…how important is it to have SOME avenue of anonymity available SOMEWHERE on the web? Typically, I’m largely a proponent as “IRL” and “Virtual” being one in the same with “virtual” simply being considered a separate venue for “real” communique…but this, to me, outlines the importance of having an alternative to that.

angiedarkheart:

Today I was chatting with a man from Iran - IRAN - in a virtual world! It was not the usual Angie talk, more serious and cerebral. At one point he asked why I never had been to Iran. I decided to answer him in all honesty, and I told him that as an American, I did not feel that it would be a good…

Tour is a lot of things.  It’s a lot of driving,... 



Tour is a lot of things. It’s a lot of driving, it’s a lot of not sleeping, and it’s a ton of pouring your heart out each night for people who may or may not actually give a shit.

Sometimes, we do this alone. It’s as heart-wrenching as it sounds…but sometimes, we’re lucky enough not to.

This was in March, and my mom (biologically my Grandmother) had died an hour after Thanksgiving ended a few months before this tour started. My voice is off because I didn’t hardly have anything in me and I was half-crying. I was going to back up Josh while he did a poem about losing his Grandmother on a webcast. This isn’t the song I planned on playing, this is the song that played me because it was the only one I could think of.

These are moments. We measure our life by them, then we forget them only to experience what they’ve left us with. Sometimes, they have a way of coming back to remind us they were there…and for that, and Josh, and Jesse and Chris and Ashley…I can only feel an immense sense of luck and appreciation that they would let me be there as we all did whatever the fuck it is that we do.

Cleveland does, indeed, rock.


rljd
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longlivehw:

This song means a whole lot to me, its for my grandma who passed awhile ago.

Josh performed this during a webcast we did instead of a Cleveland show this spring, touring down to SXSW. He ordinarily doesn’t do it live, and I can see why - it’s heartbreaking, and a lot of that can be lost in the ambience of a bar. It’s hard to lay yourself bare in front of people who may be only half-listening, or looking for a punchline in everything.

I’m glad he posted this recording, though.

The Holy Mountaint + me + New Wave Cafe = win 

I started the show playing a few songs on acoustic guitar, then got into the typical philosophical battle with Jesus and the Pope. No bigs. Woohoo. Big ups to Chris Rego (who’s a pretty dope beatmaker, too) who took these pictures at Jay from TA’s birthday bash this Saturday night. Holy Mountain projecting through me (take that as you will) kept things suitably weird. Thanks to everyone who came out, and to One Cent Peepshow who should be your new favourite band.

Whatevermore: Live from the Raven is available for preorder. :) 

Ya boy’s all grow’d up and doin’ preorders and selling real CD’s for real money again! haha

Official release date is Oct. 25th, 2011!

This is something I’m proud of. Not because it took hours of painstaking work and much grueling effort was expended towards making it dope…but because of the opposite - the ThoughtCriminals immediately felt like MY BAND and I think it could be said that they immediately felt like I was IN THEIRS. It was awesome to work with these guys, and we’re working on some special bonus content that will ONLY be available if you order early, before the release date. The artwork was done by the absurdly talented Matthew Warlick.

Tell a friend, and leading up to the release date I’m looking to be as promosexual as I can - so if you’ve got a friend with a blog, college radio show, community radio show, or who just talks a lot let ‘em know about it! :-D



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