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I feel like my weeks begin with Saturday, since that’s the day of our Phoenix residency, and first of the Saturday, Monday, Tuesday rotation of shows. Well, and now we have a Friday morning residency on KWSS 106.7 FM.

We played a packed Rogue Bar last Saturday, thanks in large part to our friends Gospel Claws, What Laura Says, and Black Carl. I nearly toppled over while playing the second song — which usually doesn’t bode well for the rest of the set — but I managed to get myself together enough for the rest of the night. My favorite song to play right now is “I Got You (At the End of the Century)” by Wilco. We never ever learn cover songs, but we wanted to add a bunch to our repertoire for emergencies, and this was the one I picked. It’s such a simple song, and I feel like Jeff Tweedy’s written 20 just as good and similar to it, but it’s also one of those songs I wish I could write. Not the song exactly as it is, but something that has its general feel and power. That’s got to be a common feeling; liking the songs you write, but really wishing you had written the songs of others.

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This entry was written by andrew, posted on January 15, 2011 at 2:29 pm.

Residency 1

LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO

I was reading an article about Stanley Kubrick last night. A British documentarian struck up a friendship with Kubrick’s chief assistant after the director’s death, and was given access to his huge estate. There, he found one room filled with nothing but books about Napoleon — research for Kubrick’s proposed film on the leader. Volumes of ghost stories lined shelves for The Shining research. Portable sheds littered the grounds, all filled up with boxes of information.

Kubrick designed the boxes themselves. One series of them held fan letters alphabetized by city — 25 orange folders filled with letters in each box or something like that. He had marked each letter P, N and C for Positive, Negative and Crazy. Another held correspondance between Kubrick and the Nabokovs from when he was filming Lolita.

I wish I had at least a little part of this obsessive attention to cataloging. I wish I had an organized collection of song ideas, demos, pages with lyric ideas. Instead, most of them are lost or spread across five different computers. It’s not much of a loss for most of them — they weren’t very good — but I think there’s a pleasure in organizing and cataloging for its own sake. But maybe that’s how hoarders start out.

Anyway, this is all to say that while I have good intentions about updating this place more regularly with some photos and longer bits of writing in an attempt to catalog and organize the experiences of a very little band, which admittedly no one has even been clamoring for, any of this writing, that is — I’ll probably fail.

But let’s stay positive! Here are some photos from my iPhone run through the standard, vaguely-retro filters everyone uses after the break.

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This entry was written by andrew, posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:56 pm.