also from IWAF, i did the layout, greg greg wrote it, i retyped it.

going through old files… here’s a scan from my old old zine “interview with a frankenstein”. click for large.

playing a show tomorrow (tuesday) in providence, at the stairwell gallery at i know not precisely when and with i know not exactly who. but i know this: theh bands are friends of natalja (of the good good) and one or more are jazz-cabaret-y and feature drums matched with singing. and there is me.

this weekend was the big anniversary party at collective a go go, 14 years old now. it was fun with dinner and dancing and lots of the character-rich faces of old friends. GT (of Phone Book fame) was in town and the next day i hitched my wagon to his train and we puttered around all day, walking to ML’s in the miserable sun, drinking fountain sodas, and telling fine stories. worcester’s most ballinest player 2007.

sometime between march and now the guestbook got minorly ankled without me noticing. anyway it’s back up for your undifferentiated comments and questions and none of your backtalk young lady. ok, backtalk.

the intern at the office where i now live (i know, right?) is just over from finland, but is actually from south dakota.

billy blue: what were you doing in finland?
jason (the intern): i have a finnish wife.
me: huh! i also have a finnish wife– everytime i get started, she’s already finnish.

points removed for not having said “husband”, as jumping the gun (as it were) is more commonly associated with the less-fair sex. so much so that in this form this joke actually doesn’t make sense. well, we do, doodley do, doodley do, doodley do, what we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must; muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust.

today’s post on the HBML blog has turned into a reader-submitted list of candy crust bands, i only point this out because it’s super funny and you RSSivoir dogs might not get the comments.

been eating a lot of purple and blue foods (got blueberries to eat with my asparagus, plus cabbage rice and ginger tofu as a standard lunch until i eat all the cabbage / the cabbage goes bad). i keep thinking of what CK1 said to her little sis, taking home ec at the time, who told her that rice left out more than 20 minutes enters “the danger zone”: “melissa, everything i eat is from the danger zone”. also while i’m quoting our lady of stackitude, homegirl called to wish happy solstice and we discussed being recent aunts/uncles: “when i’m holding this baby, it’s the only time my brain isn’t singing la bamba”. GOD BLESS

tonight’s show ruled hell hard. i didn’t play any exactly new ssongs but no one seemed to mind, annikki dawn was indeed “that lady with the tiny guitar who sings beautiful and… kind of medieval?”, diego perez was perfect and whimsical and approachable and glib, and geez, ID M THEFTABLE was awesome! sadly he had car trouble and broke down a few blocks from the house, but he decided to play “full acoustic” instead, and it blew everyone away. his act is “extended vocal technique”– lots of gargle, throat-clear, inward singing, stuff like that, organized in a freeform fashion and with playful changes in density, and also conducting the audience to “do as i do” when his hand raised. in my mind the audience participation “get everyone involved” angle is what pushed everything from being interesting to being important, a real group thought ur-vibe. i always get nervous booking a noise sshow, or a show with a noise act, but thus far (and remember that i know how to choose ‘em) it’s been gnagbusters all around, with folks i think won’t be into it getting waay into it. i feel like this was a big show for a lot of people. lovelife. out!

i just realized i never finished serializing this, so for you internet-only readers, here’s white vinegar #1. next issue “soon” (if).

so, i have the digicam with me all the time now and i’m snappin’ lots. i don’t want to get a flickr account because it costs money every year, and the money goes to snitches. i don’t want to post every picture here, because that would overwhelm everything else (right?), so i sstarted a low-key photo blog, which maybe i’ll try and integrate into a sidebar here or something. catch the rss if you feel. prettyalright.com. billy, picture from the barbeque are here. uh, sure seems like i’m trying to make everything about my hair right now…

• 1.25 cups flour
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• .5 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp oil
• 1.25 cups water

this is the recipe i always use, which i got from the new farm cookbook. this is really the best recipe. and this post is for me, at other places, looking for this recipe. one trick to fluffy pancakes is don’t overmix– leave some chunks. OK!

of the new secret way to have a post that doesn’t show up on the main index page (which as it turns out was pretty easy to do).

anyways, maybe this won’t show up in the feed? DUDE, THAT IS WHAT I AM TESTING RIGHT NOW.

update: ok, it’s in the RSS, and it doesn’t show up in calendar view or whatever, but at the same time there’s no way to view one individual post and hence no way to comment on it, so more trickiness is maybe necessary? it only shows up in category view.

update update: i fixed it because i’m a genius. now it is single-out-able and hence comment-on-able, it does show up in calendar view, but maybe that’s good.

i’m playing a show this thursday, the 26th, at distant castle.
also
DIEGO PEREZ
ID M THEFTABLE
ANIKKI DAWN

that’s right, it’s FOLK MUSTACHE v NOISE BEARD. swayers and players (featuring sayers and brayers).

let’s say 8:30 pm.

i’ll have some new songs, and a new collectible one sheet.

lion darwing by JJB Buckmaster

oh, diego is a fun guy from providence, and is the holy ghost to father deer tick and son chris paddock. annikki dawn is a whippoorwill in a peaceable kingdom. id m theftable is a mystery beast from deep maine, that sits at a table with devices and makes throat clearing noises in a noise mode. josh tumble cat ranks him high, and that goes a long way for me. this is going to be great!

• what demon possessed me while i behaved so well?

• the vital heat is not to be confounded
• rich as a savage
• DO NOT EXCHANGE YOUR WIGWAM

also, dmo points to this recent ripley’s. this is printed in newspapers, which luckily, children do not read.