March 28, 2006
New Theme
Last night, Harrison told me that he has a new theme for a series of drawings. He said that as soon as he is finished with his current theme of "weird creatures", he will be unveilling new work that will take the "weird creatures" theme to the "next level" (artist's quotes). As with most evolving artistic endeavors, it is difficult for him to describe exactly what the work on this next level will look like. From what I gleaned from our conversation, I think we can expect this new series to involve drawings of weird creatures coupled with drawing of weird creatures rendered in dormant, ball-like shapes. Sort of a chicken and egg type concept. These drawing will be diptych-ish, so you'll see the egg or dormant, spherical creature on one side of the page and then the chicken or unballed, weird creature on the other side. Got it? Good. Get ready. I should be posting samples soon.
March 20, 2006
God Bless You New Ring Tone
Recently we unplugged our phone. Then, after the phone sat powerless and unplugged for a certain amount of time, we plugged it back in. That's all we did. And somehow, between unplugging it and plugging it back in, the phone reset its ring tone. Now instead of going BloooBloooBlooo, the phone goes BringleBringleBringle. And when the phone goes BringleBringleBringle, one of us will find the phone and answer it. And of course, this is not interesting at all, except that now the dog doesn't bark anymore when the phone rings.
I said, now the dog doesn't bark anymore when the phone rings.
IT'S A MIRACLE!
You have no idea what it's like to live with a dog that barks maniacally everytime the phone rings unless you live with a dog that barks maniacally everytime the phone rings.
Imagine, if you will:
ring BARKBARKBARKBARK! rinBARKBARKBARK! riBARKBARKBARKBARK!
It's like getting two noises for the price of one.
And if things are really going bad and our nerves are really frayed (probably because of the dog barking) we can squeeze three noises out of each phone ring, like this:
ringBARKSTOPITLUCKY! ringBARKSTOPITBARKGODDAMNITLUCKY ringBARKSTOPPPBARKKKINGG Hello?
But now, all is quiet on our telecommunications front. The phone rings. The phone rings some more. One of us calmly walks to the phone while it rings again. "Hello," one of us calmly says.
These are halycon days.
March 18, 2006
A Weird Creature Story by Harrison
rollover
Once there was a weird creature fly. He thought a piece of bubbblegum was a new planet. He went on the planet. He said, "There is no intelligent life here. I'm leaving now." But when he started to leave he got stuck. He tried and tried as hard as he could but he couldn't get out. And then a robot spider came along and he also got stuck. He pinched the bubblegum and accidently set the weird creature fly free. Then the spider was stuck there by himself but then he pinched his self out of the bubblegum and he was making a new plan to capture another fly weird creature. The end.
March 16, 2006
Davezilla Over Arkansas
Thanks Scott. I'm fiddin' to laughcry.
March 14, 2006
Beware the Ides of March
Boondogs at the Afterthought.
Wednesday Mar 15th. 8:30pm
March 10, 2006
Hudson Bell
Another weekend, another Jim Mize show - this time in Dogtown at the newly renovated Cornerstone Deli & Pub
Myspace links:
*Flyer courtesy Hudson Bell promotion dept.
The Competitve Spirit
Katherine was walking Harrison home from school this week when one of Harrison's school buddies caught up with them. This buddy is about a foot taller than Harrison. His name is Erwin.
"Hey Harrison, you wanna race to the end of the street?" said Erwin.
Harrison thought for a second.
"How about we see who can race the slowest?" said Harrison.
"OK," said Erwin and the two started walking in slow motion. After about one minute of this slow-off Erwin said, "Harrison, I can't go that slow. You win!" and off he ran.
I tell this to demonstrate that Harrison doesn't like to lose. He's not lazy. Harrison loves to race his sister. The two are constantly sprinting through the house to be first to the car. These races are always initiated by Harrison and they invariably end with him joyfully shouting "I win!" while Helen, the good sport, joyfully shouts "I lose!" So why not race Erwin? Because he didn't know if he could beat Erwin. He knows he can beat Helen. She's smaller and younger - an easy opponent. Erwin? Different story. So, how about a slow race, Erwin?
Harrison's a tricky little fellow. Gotta always remember that.
Gotta work on the sportsmanship with him, as well.
March 07, 2006
March 03, 2006
Omnichord
Omnichords are cool. I want one. They're like autoharps but better. Autoharps have little strings and tuning pegs. Omnichords have chord generators powered by AY-5-1317A Semi-Conductors (basically P-Channel MOS ICs which accept 12 basic frequencies and output notes to form major, minor, and 7th chords). Omnichords also have a feature called the touch plate. You run your finger along the touch plate and the omnichord goes twinkle (blerrk skeetle doop OO kees dah) dee. It's like filtering an Autoharp through an Atari. Neat. I want one.
Googling "Omnichord" turns up this page.
Cool. They've updated the omnichord to the QChord. Interesting. I wonder what the QChord sounds like?
Uh-oh.
My favorite QChord artists:
(They must have forgotten to include that famous QChord bluesman, Old Blind Boy QChord Wheezenthal, on their artist page. Darn. He's awesome.)
And no talk of the Omnichord can go without mentioning The Omnichord Album by The High Fidelity (thank you for your dedication to the instrument and your awesome album art).
Fat Possum T-Shirt
"Does your t-shirt say Fag Possum Records?"
No. But that's a funny, Miss Dyslexia.
Speaking of Fat Possum Records, the Fence Jumpers (SpinSouth, Dave, and I) will be backing up Jim Mize this weekend at Proud Larry's. We're opening for T-Model Ford.
If that new camera comes today I'll try to document our experiences in Oxford Town.