Lyrics for the instrumentals

Listening to the new Don cab and my shock at the lyric tracks and then add Corey archangel's glockenspiel addendum it made me think why can't we write lyrics for explosions or pelican or older don cab tracks and perform them karaoke style and record them.

Harvey 7"

I'm still working on our official music release in the 7" format, but I had an idea for the next one:

1 - We write 2 songs about writing 2 songs for a 7"

or

2 - Both sides are ideas for new work from this blog, most likely work that we hope to do. We sing/write about the ideas, concepts, and construction of the work, maybe abstract, but funnier if it's really direct I think.

Police sketch artist

We should both find a police sketch artist and have them do a portrait of the other person.
We would sit down with the sketch artist and describe each other to this person and show the drawings somewhere.
Or we can hire this guy to do age progressions of each other for a show. We might be able to get him to do sketches as well.
http://www.forartist.com/forensic/modification/prest/boyaging.htm

After Sherman's March

Director Ross McElwee


Some stills from Sherman's March: A Mediation to the Possibility of Romantic Love in the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation

Some new ideas

I realized that if the piece is about the option to start a war, the person who starts it should "fire the first shot". So what if we wired a switch into one of the plastic muskets, so that when you fire it the program is triggered?

Also, I have some great ideas for photos we should take on our road-trip. Hopefully we'll have an extra day to go to Antietam, because the best ones I have in mind need to be taken there.

Click the image below to see some new footage. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet...

cell phone drum kit

Do you think there would be a way to have the ringtones of a bunch of cheap phones be a part of a drum kit. One is the snare, one is the high hat etc, and get them to play out some kind of weird beat by calling them? Or they are all on the same #. You could walk into the space and call the number on the wall to interact with it and then the beat, or even score would be performed.
Somehow the music could be conceptualy linked to the idea of this interaction, or it would require other users to call the other numbers to complete the music. You could kind of DJ it.

Slowcore...

...in action.
Seriously, could the drummer do any less? (and yet, he still manages to rock somehow...!?!)