as a note of public record, i’m moving into a new place this coming week. so if im slower than usual with emails, please excuse me. its going to be a long week!
at some point when i get settled, i have a fair amount of posters to put up in the store. im sort of backlogged on gigposters i havent had time to release yet. mogwai, andrew bird, flight of the conchords, the decemberists, grails, the remaining intaglios, etc etc. soon soon, just gotta find the time and the help.
xoxo

here are two posters i was commissioned to do for both the decemberists and for flight of the conchords recent tours.

the decemberists is 14×24″ and is a 4 color screenprint, my take on ‘hazards of love 4 (the drowned)’, specifically “Margaret arrayed the rocks around the hull before it was sinking, A million stones, a million bones, a million holes within the chinking.”

the FOTC is 12×24″ and also a 4 color screenprint. its based on ice cream.

both will/were available through the bands and will be available through me as soon as i clear up some schedule for more mailorder madness. hope you enjoy em!

the band golden city, who are ex christie front drive and antartica, released their album recently on magic bullet records and the album cover features one of my paintings. a few of you might be familiar with it. theres a cd and a 10″ vinyl version. so take a listen… and if you dig the band, you can pick up a copy at magic bullet.

a city safe from sea and IDNOCLIP rehearsal this weekend. my ears are shot. have i mentioned how much i love my 1960s ampeg b15n? because i do. alot. citysafe finished tracking demos of two new songs, to appear in some format on something after the full length comes out. were planning some short tours in late may throughout the summer, so if you want us in your town or local club or whatever, let us know. there are mp3s from the album posted maybe a page or so back, check em out and let me know what you think.

speaking of IDNOCLIP, if you enjoy crazy noisey guitar rock in short 2 minute segments that dont feature vocals made by 3 dudes who dont take themselves very seriously, you can download our first record here in its entirety for free, and the printable cover here. this is a every-now-and-then side project that features myself, stephen swift, and christoper kelley, and way back when we wrote a bunch of songs for fun in 15 minutes and recorded them in a big giant empty industrial building. our target demographic is ‘people who love loud fun’.

the first of three new prints ive been working on this past week. this is the tour print for andrew birds European tour; and he just plain loved it so theyre ordering a ton to sell at the shows. if you havent heard him, check him out. i discovered him a few years back while i was on tour playing guitar with the band pyramids. the pressing plant was supposed to drop ship our LPs to us while on the road, and when we opened the boxes there was on box of our album and every other box was andrew birds ‘mysterious production of eggs’. given it had jay ryan artwork on the cover, i gave him a call and told him if andrew was looking for his records, we had em. anyways, i stole one and it became one of my favorite albums that year. when i met andrew a few years later, i attempted to retell this story and frankly just came across as a bumbling weirdo who may or may not have stolen a few boxes of his record.

up next is mogwai, after that flight of the conchords, after that a long nap.

mailorder is coming along swimmingly, my crew is wailing away on it. just taking some time.

hey folks,
thanks to everyone who picked up a print or two yesterday. a bulk of the new prints are now sold out (specifically “i dont like to be seen…”, “you push and pull…”, “i didnt hear…”, and “id sink to…”), but theres still a few others kicking around in there. were printing out packing labels and arranging orders so the moment UPS arrives with the tubes well start shipping these out. i got a quality team of people helping so hopefully well blow right through all these orders. any questions, feel free to email me.

thanks again!
-d