Events

A list of all events, publications, shows, and so on, in order, with the newest on top. I have a more-standard "artists website" [link] where I try to focus the reader's attention a little more and avoid listing the smaller stuff, the weird goofball shit, and the addendums, but I also feel like that stuff is important. So here we have the full timeline of events, including near-future events whenever possible.

If I forgot something or got a detail wrong please let me know! For some of these events the only info I have is the flyer, and flyers rarely list the year... I'm definitely wrong on the years for a few items here.

• 2024

  • 2024/12/15 - Wowwwww the Dirt Palace sale! [flyer]. I'm going to be tabling here againe this year, bringing my stuffed animals and maybe something else???? This is at the Dirt Palace Original Location, in Olneyville Square (at Providence RI), and it runs from 12 to 6pm. I recommend getting lunch beforehand at La Lupita, which is very close. That's what I'm going to do. Tacos, burritos, etc.. This sale is always a great time, it's a trip just to be in the building. This is a masked event so please wear one! I mean not like a spooky witch mask or a luchador mask, like an n95 or whatever.
  • 2024/12/08 - Going to be selling stuffed animals at the Riff Raff Bookstore and Bar Winter Market (Providence RI). This is from 1 to 6 and it's at 60 Valley St, tucked away in the courtyard. YES you can get coffee and spirits there. I'm trying to cut out coffee for anxiety reasons so I'll probably just have several beers. Just kidding, I'm probably just going to have one beer. I asked the promoters if I could sit next to Addie, I hope they work that out. I like to be next to someone nice who laughs a lot and loudly. In general, but at a show like this especially.
  • 2024/12/07 - I'm going to be selling some stuffed animals at the annual Ricky Rainbowbeard "Toys" show. This is at the Wilbury Theatre this year, which is inside the WaterFire Arts Center, 475 Valley Street Providence, RI. There's a show from 2 to 3 and the pop-up shop is from 3 to 5. The show is for kids, it's a kids show. more info here: [link]. As with the previous two years of this show, one of my clam guys is going to be there, plus Muffy and a bunch of other people.
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  • 2024/11/24 - Unbelievable but 100% real, I won TWO awards at the Worcester Mammoth Horticultural Bean Fair, an annual (?) bean supper to celebrate Jen Burt's revival of the Worcester Mammoth Horticultural Bean. [flyer]. A few years ago she read about this long forgotten bean in an old seed catalog, then she was able to track down a seed bank that still had some. They sent her 100 beans, which she planted and then grew. Then she grew out the beans that resulted from those first 100 plants, distributing some of them to other growers (including me). Then (and now we're caught up to this year) there were finally enough beans to cook. I gotta say it's a great project-- it's the Jurassic Park of the people! And on top of that, it's a great bean. Tastes great, very productive, easy to grow, handsome appearance, stores well. Cheers to the chefs at Wooden Bar, who rose to the challenge of coming up with recipes for a bean than no one has eaten in maybe 60 years. Full disclosure: my wins were for "Smallest Bean" and "Best Presentation", and Jen asked me if it was OK if I only got one ribbon and said no, I want both ribbons. Sorry but I'm kind of starved for accolades at the moment, I have to take what I can. And now "Award Winning" is going back on the promo material. :) Read more about Jen and the WMHB here: [link]
  • 2024/08/02 - applied for a grant even though I said I'd never do that again. I didn't get it and then the grant guy wrote to me asking for money! As a reward I wrote an extremely pithy response email and didn't send it.
  • 2024/07/20 - Tom and Natalie came out to visit and we did Clam Night, a yearly celebration of friendship in which me and Tom walk around getting the ingredients for pasta with clams, then we go back to my house and make pasta with clams, and eat it.
  • 2024/06/15 - I sold stuffed animals at the Anti-Robot Marketplace, at Farm Fresh on Sims Ave, Providence RI. I had a nice time even though my enemy puppet troupe was there, dressed as robots for Christ sake. They stuck their rubber tentacles in my face and I said "get the Hell out of here dude". I recognize the value of their role as a roving spectacle but they are NOT GOOD AT CAPERING! The event was cool though, and I was next to this cool elf lady whose kid was dressed like Indiana Jones. It wasn't cosplay though, the kid was just like, in adventure mode.
  • 2024/04/21 - I sold some stuffed animals at the Lost Bag News Release Party Art + Yard Sale, at Lost Bag Space in Providence. [flyer]. This was really nice! I dropped this graffiti on the bathroom, based on something in the bathroom at the pizza place in Little Rock where V Manuscript and Chip both used to work. V Man told me about this once, like 8 years ago. Still makes me laugh. [pic]
  • 2024/02/03 - WOW I got interviewed for a new magazine out of Providence called LOST BAG NEWS and I loved it. Much respect to the editors, POUTY and CRUSTY. You can read it online here: [link] or pick it up at Lost Bag or the Speed Shop or probably other locations around town.
  • 2024/02/02 - I curated the prizes in a gumball machine at Sadie's Bikes in Turner's Falls MA. There was an opening reception on the second and then my stuff's in there all year. I decided to put EYEBALLS in it. The reception was super super nice-- Nik made English muffin pizzas and many luminaries were there, including Jo Dery, Tumblecat, and Keith "Bridge Over Troubled" Waters. My favorite part of the night was meeting some cool people that were super into Mothers News in high school, and it seemed like they never considered that I was a person. Which is a great honor, to be confused for a vague shape.

• 2023

  • 2023/12/23 - I did an extreme last minute sales event at the Speed Shop in Providence, 8am to 2pm, behind the old Price Rite. It was a cool little scene with sellers including Jesse Kaminsky, Mikey Knives, Club Darnelle, and the one and only Pearl Pony, who was there with Papa Jaan and Mister Mittens.
  • 2023/12/17 - I sold stuffed animals at the Riff Raff holiday sales event, at Riff Raff Books, on Valley Street in Providence. I like this bookstore, and they have a coffee bar and a bar bar. I almost got an Irish coffee but then the bartender didn't know how to do it and I wasn't prepared to answer questions. I got a coffee and then later I got a beer. I had a really nice time!
  • 2023/12/10 - I sold stuff at the Dirt Palace Holiday faire, in Olneyville Square, Providence RI. This was from noon to 6pm. This was, as always, an extremely nice time, although Alison wasn't there dressed as Santa, she moved to New Mexico like 6 years ago. And Xander wasn't there so there was no one to offer me amaretto for my Maxwell House (I felt to scuzzy to ask). NONETHELESS! I had a very nice time. Saw a lot of friends, met some cool new people, and I didn't go crazy from hunger because I went to La Lupita and got a burrito before the event even started. My New Year's resolution for 2024: Don't Get Psycho Hungry.
  • 2023/12/09 - I sold stuff at the Ricky Rainbowbeard show at AS220. I had fun at this the previous year, I was sitting next to my clam guys. And guess who's was there this year? My motherfuckin clam guys. Actually only one of the Clam Guys was there, Joe. The other Guy, Tim Sound, was under the weather. Anyway I sat next them and ate raw clams and generic Oreos the whole day, magnifico.
  • 2023/07/19 - I was a guest on New Flanland, a radio show on WFMU hosted by the inimitable Flan. I love this show and I was delighted to be a guest! The show is archived here: [link] and I strongly recommend crawling the archives, each show is great.
  • 2023/06/04 - I flew to Minneapolis and met up with Tom Bubul, then we drove to Iowa City for Sadie and Ro's wedding. I had an extremely nice time! I feel like I haven't hung out that hard in years, which is too bad because I'm great at it. My only regret is not taking a bath at Sadie's house, but that's not like "a major regret". I mean the house is still there and I bet the bath is only getting nicer.
  • 2023/04/06 - I took a 2 week songwriting class with one of my favorite songwriters, Chris Weisman. It was over video chat and guess what it was great :)

• 2022

  2022/12/18 - I tabled at the Dirt Palace in Providence for their holiday crafts fair, with some new stuffed animals. As it was the previous year, this was really really really nice. Again I had supermarket coffee with amaretto, might as well call that a xandericano (for DP co-mastermind and cheap coffee enthusiast Xander Marro).
  2022/12/03 - I have an art show up at Fuller Speed Shop in Providence, opening on 12/3 from 8am(!) to 2pm. I'm going to have stuffed animals for sale and some new big guys on display. Maybe the big guys are for sale, I don't know, does anyone want a big guy? The Speed Shop is a gallery space in Olneyville, it's in the same building as the old Mothers News atelier, behind where the Price Rite used to be. They're open Saturdays and Sundays until 2 and you can get really really really good espresso drinks there. If you want to go to this show just email me for directions.
  2022/10/06 - I installed my stuffed animals from Animal Year at Heavy Manners Library in Los Angeles. Heavy Manners is a great space and I had a super nice time in LA. The opening was a star-studded event, exactly as you'd picture it. I wrote about this project a little bit here: [link] and the page for the project is here: [link].
  2022/10 - a did a real press junket in advance of my show in LA! I did an interiew with the Boston Compass: [link], an interview with Happiness Pony: [pdf, 2.1mb], and I was even on the radio, on KBOO in Portland OR, you can listen here: [link]. I also had a nice chat with Laura N Paul which led to a little article but none of the art websites picked it up. Which is too bad but the facts remain that I had a really nice chat, and the article is very pleasant. [link]
  2022/07 - Darcie Dennigan asked me to make some props for her play, "Luscious Lawns", to be performed at the Providence FRINGE Fest. I said yes. She needed a boombox, a book, and a bottle of hairspray, all overly large, brightly colored, and cartoonish in aspect. It was no problem.
  2022/06/12 - Joe DeGeorge invited me to play along with him at a museum gig he did-- he was playing a veritable Mercury capsule of synthesizers in a casual 5 hour ambient set in the courtyard. I accompanied him for a small sliver of that, playing a "Little Boy Blue" [img], a small noise synth made by Jessica Rylan.
  2022/07 - Erica Dawn Lyle invited me to be a part of on art show in "Punk Alley" in New York City. The show is called "NOTAFLOF" and it's all flyers for events far in the future. I made a flyer for the Terribles 30 year anniversary show in 2027.
  2022/06 Olivia W-B asked me to make a flyer for FIND OUT #8, a show series they help run in Boston MA. It was fun to make a flyer, it's something I love to do but it's been a while! [img]
  2022/04 - I got my driver's license finally :)
  2022/01/27 - I was in a group art show called DEVOID OF that Mary Lindberg put together. It was at Fortnite, a bar in downtown Providence unaffiliated with the video game of the same name. This was the closest thing to "a show" that I went to in a long time and I had a great time, even though I got crushed in the outfit game. Everyone I talked to had like a diaphonous gown or leather pants or something, I felt like a scarecrow at the opera. I guess I pruned the wardrobe too hard in the previous months and now I only have everyday clothes. Gotta get something more outlandish and less comfortable for the next soirée. NB: I was a late addition to the show so I didn't make it on the flyer-- [flyer]

• 2021

  2021/12/19 - I tabled at a crafts fair at the Dirt Palace in Providence RI, I was nervous about doing an event but it was fine. It was really nice to see people again! I made a bunch of stuffed animals and sold them all!

• 2020

  2020/12/30 - Greg Harvester listed the castle (and Bach To The Future) in a nice list of "A Few Things That Were OK In 2020". Thanks Greg! [link]
  2020/12/25 - Tom Bubul listed the castle (and the idea "New Scotland Of The Mind") in a nice "Good Things Of 2020" list. Thanks Tom! [link]
  2020/11/14 - I played at the 8th annual Bach To The Future event, a 12 hour marathon performance of music by, and inspired by, JS Bach. This year because of the pandemic it wasn't physically located in space, it was broadcast over the radio and on the internet. I missed dozing off in the chapel but it was cool that people from all over the world could finally get a taste of what this wonderful event is all about. My section of the night was like 5 minutes around 3am, under the name "Sunshine Arch". :) It's possible that the audio of the entire event is still archived, in hourly chunks, here: [link]
  2020/06/26 - I got to guest star in a Funeral Cone video. It's not a music video, because it isn't their music, it's just a video, like when you get together with your friends and shoot a crazy video. CW: gore. [youtube]
  2020/03/20 - I put a hold on my residency program, CTRI Innovations, because of COVID-19.
  2020/03/07 - music show (Strawberry Band) with Electric Street Queens and Kremlin Bats, at the Lily Pad in Cambridge MA.
  2020/01/01 - I had a drawing published in Colin Hagendorf's free monthly newsletter "Life Harvester".
  2020/01/25 - I played a show with a new band ("Strawberry Band") at the News Cafe in Pawtucket RI. It was a benefit for Students for a Free Tibet. Funeral Cone, RONG, and Alpha Error also played. This was a really fun show! I wrote about it here: [link]
  2020/01/01 - Colin Hagendorf listed Mothers News as "Best Zine of the Decade" over at MAXIMUMROCKANDROLL, and wrote a very nice write-up. Link is here: [link], archived as a screenshot here: [link].

• 2019

  2019/11/25 - Back issues of Mothers News are available at Gary Panter's Hippybilly Headshop, an installation at Feeding Tube Records in Florence MA. :)
  2019/11/08 - I played a music set at the 7th Bach To The Future event in Providence RI, my 7th year of doing so. It's an all night marathon of performances by many different artists of music by and inspired by JS Bach. My set was at 6am, I played the synthesizer I've been building.
  2019/11/02 - I moderated a talk at Comic Arts Brooklyn, with Charles Burns and Gary Panter. It was really fun and I would say it went great. It went so good and basically effortless that I felt guilty, like I didn't do enough. But then I thought about how a lesser moderator would've interjected more, just to seem important. I didn't do that, which is how I expressed value in this instance.
  2019/10/20 - I played a music show at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket, playing a synthesizer I've been building. This was the second time I ever brought it out of the house! Nothing broke this time. I was playing in support of Dungeon Acid, MX Silkman, Lazy Magnet, and Statues of Eden.
  2019/10/04 - I did a short talk and a noise demonstration as part of Ricky Rainbowbeard's children's program, a live event as as220. The crowd was children ages 6-10 and their parents, and a few unchilded adults. I honestly think it went great and a few kids had that "holy shit" look that every performer seeks in an audience. Deep nods from the parents too. Slam dunk.
  2019/08/14 - I got a writing credit on a 7" record from the band Funeral Cone-- they did an adapted version of a song I wrote for them. My song was called "Cory Didn't Like It" but they changed the lyrics a little and called it "ABBA.C.A.B"
  2019/07/13 - I did the 100th installment of my artists residency program, CTRI Innovations. The artist in residence was Murphy Chang.
  2019/05/18 - I had a piece of writing in the book "Ruffles, Repair, and Ritual", published as part of an arts show with the same name, to commemorate the opening of the Wedding Cake House, a bed and breakfast in Providence run by the Dirt Palace arts collective. My piece is called "Roaming Around A Destroyed House".
  2019/05/15 - I designed some stickers for Analog Underground record store in Providence RI and they came out extremely cute.
  2019/04/19 - I did some freelance work for Hasbro, riffing out humorous responses to a card game they were working on. Really fun job! I get gigs like this sometimes- I help someone riff out a concept or come up with examples of a form. Once I even juiced a screenplay (still in developement). I don't feel like this is really the right space to list these sorts of gigs, but maybe the scope of this one is notable, being a huge company that I developed jokes for anonymously.
  2019/03/16 - played a show with Beverley Tender, Joe DeGeorge, and Domestique, as a fund-raiser for the TDOV festival. At Sutton St Gallery in Providence.
  2019/02/22 - I did a little bit of editorial work on Kevin Huizenga's incredible book "Glenn Ganges in: the River at Night" on Drawn & Quarterly. All I did was help him with the copy on the dust jacket- the bio and the book description. I like Kevin a lot and it was a joy and an honor to be able to help out! The book is extremely good.
  2019/01/30 - I gave a talk at the RISD Library about my zine "Rolling Egg", and about the general idea of Shit Zines, which is a style of zine that's quick, fast, loose, cheap, and diametrically opposed to Art Books. The Risd Library made a flyer for the event, which is here: [link]. I made my own flyer, which looks like this: [link]. Rolling Egg was sponsored by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, and they insisted that I do an artists talk after the project was over, I'm not sure why, other than that's the sort of thing grants committees like to see. They want you to like, TED talk about your experience with their money. They didn't even show up! Well I had a good time anyway, and there was a great crowd, a nice big table full of snacks... all in all a great event. I got stuck in the stairwell on the way in but I didn't let it rattle me. I mean it rattled me a little bit but I didn't stay rattled.
  2019/01/16 - "Animal Year" opened at Sutton St gallery in Providence RI. This is a show of all the stuffed animals from my 365 days of stuffed animals project, which happened in 2004-2005. The show closed on January 31st, and in between I hosted a few "coffee club" times at the gallery. I made a single-purpose website, here: [link].
  2019/01/15 - nice little interview on the Boston Hassle website in advance of my gallery show. [link]. archived via screengrab here: [link].

• 2018

  2018/12/23 - I self-published the second issue of "Moticos", a zine of drawings made exclusively on a Nintendo DS. I can't remember when issue #1 came out, it was a while ago. You can read scans of this issue, and a little bit more about it, on this post: [Moticos]
  2018/12/13 - ARTnews did a nice little interview with me about my residency program, CTRI Innovations. You can read it here: [link]
  2018/12/01 - I tabled at a flea market that Cory and Dan put together at as220, there's no website to link to.
  2018/11/09 - I performed at and volunteered for the 6th annual Bach To The Future event, a 12 hour festival of music by and inspired by JS Bach. It ran from 7pm to 7am and I performed almost at the end, at 6:15am.
  2018/11/01 - I have a piece in a show at the Sutton St Gallery in Providence called "Geometry in Conversation". The show was organized by Ian Cozzens and is all quilt and fiber arts. I made a website for it here: http://www.rf5.org/misc/quiltshow/
  2018/10/31 - I guest starred in a painting by Tom Bubul, in a show of paintings that opened at the White Pages gallery in Minneapolis MN. The official page for the show is here: [link] and the more verbose version on Tom's own website is here: [link]. My painting is not, as one might think, the painting of Dracula, though my painting and the Dracula painting share a chandelier, which I appreciate. There's a screengrab of my painting here [link] in case Tom ever moves things around on his website and I don't notice.
  2018/10/30 - I made a font, MonsterMono.ttf, and a website http://www.rf5.org/misc/monsterfont/ to launch it. The font is based on the "Monster Alphabet" riff from Mothers News October 2012, and is less a set of letterforms than a sort of cipher, although the system is one-way, and destructive. You can type your name into a form on the website and it displays another more monstruous name.
  2018/10/06 - I was on the Boston Hassle Telethon with my friend Dan Wars, at 9am. There's no archive, which is probably for the best.
  2018/09/28 - Not sure if this counts but Mickey Zacchilli's book "Space Academy 123" came out on Koyama Press, collecting almost every installment of her celebrated webscomic. One time I was hanging out with Mickey at the coffee shop while she was drawing this and she went to the bathroom, and I wrote my name in the background of one of the pages. I was a little worried it would get erased in the book making process but God bless the entire chain of command, it's in there! I'm filing this under "Guest Appearance".
  2018/08/08 - I launched my video game "Faxanadu George Bataille", an injection of writing from George Bataille into the NES game Faxanadu. You can play it online or download it to play on an NES emulator via rf5.org/fgb, which also has slightly more information, and screenshots. This game was completely and totally done two years previous to this, but I waited around because an editor from Paris Review (who was a Mothers News reader and fan) wanted to put it on their website, with an accompanying article by my favorite writer from when I was in high school (and a $300 check for yours truly). What an incredible offer!!!! But then that got delayed several times over two years and eventually forgotten about, with no one returning my emails! It was a huge bummer in the end, but to be honest, thinking it was going to happen, when it seemed like a done deal, really gave me a boost when I needed it. It was nice to have this sort of external validation for a while, even though in the end it was 100% not externalized. And you know what? Shit happens. It seems like their office was in turmoil at the time, and I can sympathize with the undecision to not respond to me. Are you allowed to say "almost published by the Paris Review"? The answer of course is No. I leave this here to get it off my chest and also as a reminder that this almost style of shit happens a lot.
  2018/07/30 to 2018/08/05 - I made a daily zine for 4 consecutive days at and about the Providence Fringe Festival. It was called "Rolling Egg". There's a brief write-up on the Fringe Fest website here and you can read them online (as pdfs) at rf5.org/rollingegg. Each is an 8.5x11" sheet of paper, printed in black and white. It's very ok to print them out on your printer at home.
  2018/07/22 - hosted the 30th residency of my artist residency program CTRI Innovations, with writer Jim Frain. This project is still going. You can read about all past artist residents here.
  2018/04/15 - released a new book of poems, called HARPS IN PINE. Limited edition.
  2018/04/07 - tabled at the RISD Unbound art book fair (aka zine fest), and I honestly had a lot of fun.
  2018/04/04 - I started a residency program called CTRI Innovations. You can apply online to be an artist in residence!
  2018/03/30 - music show (as Gold Mantis) at the Dirt Palace in Providence RI, with Evil Sword and Black Wampum! Really fun show. Black Wampum is Joe and Paul from Harry and the Potters, but all their songs are about clams, so it's much easier for me to get into it. Great band!
  2018/03/21 - I have a little piece of writing in this month's issue of Happiness Pony, it's about wearing stickers on your face. You can read it online here
  2018/01/31 - I did a nice interview with Forge magazine, it's a little rambly but i had a nice time. read online here or if you have a hard time reading a pdf online (i do for some reason) i made a website of screengrabs of relevant areas of the pdf here.
  2018/01/12 - music show at Collective A Go Go with Yoni Gordon, the Michael Character, and Other Joliah. Part of Pizza Week. I had a good time but I messed up a lot but I always mess up a lot. I made an instagram-only flyer.

• 2017

  2017/11/17 - I performed in and designed the poster for the 5th (!!!!!) Bach To The Future event in Providence RI, a marathon performance of works by and inspired by JS Bach, which took place at Manning Chapel at Brown University, in 12 consecutive hours from 7pm to 7am. This was my fifth time performing in this event, and as is my custom, I went on in the wee hours of the night / very early morning.
  2017/10/18 - I did an interview for Funeral Cone, but I didn't ask the questions, I was the one to whom the questions were asked, and I pretended to be them. It didn't run in any magazine, this is either a web exclusive or a leak. Anyway there's some cool parts, and you can read it here: Interview as Funeral Cone.
  2017/09/20 - I started a new blog: "100% Publishing" to review printed objects and ramble a little bit.
  2017/07 - I had some writing in a zine about the Shangri-Las called "..And That's Called Bad". I wrote about the Shangri-Las. No idea how to get a copy of this. You can read what I wrote here.
  2017/04 - I did an interview with Brian Nicholson for ACRES magazine- we did this interview a long time ago, and I was under the impression that it wasn't going to come out, so I posted it here: link. But my information was off, or it was right but the situation changed. Anyway this was published in the spring 2017 issue, which you can order here: Acres.
  2017/03/26 - music show (as Gold Mantis) at Nobbig Court, with Virusse, Rob Noyes, and Eric Arn. I was embarrassed because everyone there was really good at tuning their guitars but I'm still really really bad at it! But Cory made a nice recording of the set on his phone, and it sounded pretty good (I thought). silk screened flyer by Aaron DeMuth.
  2017/02 - I MCed the record release party / 100th show for the band Funeral Cone, at the News Cafe in Pawtucket RI. It was fun! I just said the same intro for every band, no problemo.
  2017/02 - There's a weird picture of me on the cover of the new Funeral Cone record, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN. It's on 100% Breakfast Records, which is run by Doug from Fat Day!!!!!!

• 2016

  2016/12/31 - I wrote a year-end top ten list for the Boston Hassle because I love Dan Shea!!!! You can read it here, it's pretttttttty mellowwwwwww.
  2016/12/25 - I said grace at Christmas dinner but I just said the intro to "Let's Go Crazy" then "Amen".
  2016/12 - I made a guest appearance in the form of a Mothers News mug in the new Rav collection (#2) by Mickey Zacchilli, published by Youth In Decline press.
  2016/12 - Started writing a column for theoutline.com called "Lunar Observer". You can read them all here. New ones will be posted at this link as they roll out.
  2016/12 - tabled at the Dirt Palace Crafts Fair, I made some pins and some bootleg M.U.S.C.L.E. men
  2016/11 - Appeared once again at the Bach To The Future marathon in Providence RI, reading a selection of Bach-relevant passages from Ulysses and Finnegan's wake, at 5am. I think there's a recording? If I can find a recording and post it I'll update this item from id="event" to id="writing".
  2016/11 - Wrote an advice column with the wonderful Brontez Purnell, for Erick Lyle's excellent magazine SCAM! It's the 25th anniversary issue!
  2016/09 - Had a great time tabling at the Rhode Island Publishing Expo, or is it the RhodeIsland Independent Publishing Expo? Anyway I had a great time, it was at the library. I sat next to Mickey, which is my preferred spot.
  2016/09 - wrote up a good pragmatic riff on the subject of "leaving" for Xander Marro's DEMONS anthology, vol 2, "Leaving". more info / buy a copy at: http://dmnspress.com/leaving.html
  2016/08 - Damn I had a BLAST in Japan with Sakiko Mori and Scott "WORK/DEATH" Reber!!!! We were there to do an installation at the Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival in Omachi, Nagano prefecture. I gotta say we did a really great job! the plan was to make a book about the subject, which would ship with a CD. I'm still trying to figure out what to do about it tbh.
  2016/07/18 - Fundraising show for our Japan trip, with Funeral Cone, Bromp Treb + Offal, Igor Stravinsky (Mori + Reber duo), and Milkmaid II, at Aurora in Providence.
  2016/06 - Wrote up an intro to Arthur Katrina's collection of Rat Radio comics, which originally appeared in Mothers News. Arthur is THE BEST.
  2016/05 - Grace from MRR wrote up a nice blurb on Mothers News for the zine "Cool Marriage", which you can read here (link) or here (screencap).
  2016/01 - Incredible but true, I'm in Archie comics!!!! A dream come true!!!! see Veronica Fish's blog. Thank you Veronica!!!!
  2016/01 - Mothers News is included in a great art show at the MIAM in France, of artwork from or associated with Providence. The show was called "Providence - Fracas psychédélique en Nouvelle-Angleterre"! Here's a review (in French) - link

• 2015

  2015/11 - Guest appearance in Brian Chippendale's new book "Puke Force", as "Stranger's Nose". Out now on Drawn & Quarterly
  2015/11/07-08 I had a really nice time at Comic Arts Brooklyn, signing for a brief spell on Saturday at Mickey Zacchilli's table, and then moderating a talk on Sunday between Mickey, Brian Chippendale, and Sammy Harkham. Saturday was at Mt. Carmel Gymnasium, and Sunday's event was at The Wythe Hotel. The talk went pretty good as I recall. Someone shot a video but I don't think it's online yet, and I have no idea if it ever will be (and I'm not concerned). more info here: link.
  2015/11/06-07 I performed in the third Bach To The Future event- a marathon celebration of the music of JS Bach, which went from 7pm Friday to 7am Saturday, at Manning Chapel, Brown University, Providence RI. This event was free, with free coffee. It was an extremely good event!!!!! I went on at 4am! here's a writeup of the 1st Bach To The Future event: link.
  2015/10/04 - Had a great time at the Northampton Print & Book Fair, jamming with the beautiful people out there in a relaxed setting.
  2015/09/09 "Olneyville Graffiti Report" from Mothers News 39 reprinted in an anthology made by the Frequency writing/teaching group. More info here.
  2015/08/13 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Distant Castle in Worcester MA, with Steve Funyon and I forget who else. Fun show, and I got a chromebook with a broken screen out of the free box! Distant Castle is a cool house and their free box is truly chaotic- sometimes it's just a pile of rags, sometimes it's Steely Dan DVDs, sometimes it's working computers that you use for many years after. One time I got a set of throwing knives out of there. Throwing knives!
  2015/05/16 - Reading at a music show with Fountainsun (Dan Higgs + Fumie Ishii), Russian Tsarlag, and PVBLIC BATHS (Katrina from Groke / Rat Radio / Rot Fanzine). Flyer here. alternate flyer by me . .
  2015/04/23 - music gig (as Plasma TV) at Carpenter St. in Providence RI, with Micah Blue Smalldone (ex-Pinkerton Thugs!) and Chenda Cope. flyer.
  2015/03/29 - Official judge at the Providence Eggstravaganza 2015, a hard boiled egg eating contest dreamed up by Alex Tominsky (of Spiritual Recess). The winner was RRLEW, who ate 25 eggs! That's a "half Luke"!!! 0_o
  2015/03/28-29 Had a great time at the RIPE expo in Providence RI. :)
  2015/03/09 - Guest spot on Remote Outposts, writing about Tracey Trance.
  2015/03/05 "On Knives", contribution to Noö Weekly, curated by Madeline ffitch
  2015/03/03 - Jacob Khepler reading at Ada Books in Providence RI, with Madeline ffitch and Beth Nixon. 7pm. Bring money. Flyer by me .
  2015/03 - Mothers News #41

• 2014

  2014/12/08 - Mutual interview with Mike Taylor at this Periscope event in Brooklyn, which is a district within New York City, in New York state. NB: Periscope is an ipad magazine, so I don't know what it looks like at all and its impossible for me to read the contents. I hate the idea! It's like a pdf that you have to buy a $500 device just to open, hosted exclusively on a platform that could deny your ability to publish at any moment for any reason or no reason, and could theoretically destroy all existing copies of your publication (even the ones that were already sold!) on a whim. Seems like an extremely stupid idea! This was hosted at a hotel in Williamsburg and in order to pay for the room they interviewed the disgusting vampire that owns the place. Someone asked him about gentrification and the guy was like "if this area becomes a place I don't want to live in, I'll just move". Anyway I did a talk with Mike T, who I love. We both had that feeling of "why are we here".
  2014/11/01 - Nice weird interview with Mothers News in the December issue of Maximumrockandroll magazine. Read it online here. Read this interview translated into Japanese here: part 1, part 2, part 3. Translation by mothersnewsjapan.tumblr.com, our Japanese fanslation squad! thanks!!!!
  2014/09/24 - Lecture and reception at the Baltimore School for the Arts, presented by the Contemporary (museum) and Open Space (gallery). Free. http://www.contemporary.org/2014-09-24-jacobkhepler.html Baltimore MD. Video of this event is here.
  2014/9/5 - Nice interview posted on Sick Papes
  2014/08/02-03 Rhode Island [Independent] Publishing Expo (RIPE) special guest! http://ripexpo.tumblr.com/ Providence RI
  2014/06/07 - Mothers News makes a guest appearance as a character in V Manuscript's "ARGOT OF INSCRIPTION - The Madness of the Canary II. Second House", the second of five self-published books that together will comprise a full novel. Cool format!!! Astute readers may recognize "Mother", a blathering NPC with interns trailing and note-taking, ensconsed in the publication of an insane newspaper. LOVE IT!! :)
  2014/06 - Mothers News #40
  2014/05/28 - music show at Distant Castle in Worcester MA, with Onion Flavored Rings, Gnards, and Kiss Concert. Flyer by Mike Leslie .
  2014/05 - Wrote the intro for Mickey Zacchilli's "RAV; 1st collection" on Youth In Decline press. With additional material by Mothers News art director Jackie H Curtiss.
  2014/04/17 - lecture / tour at RISD museum for RISD Design The Night Providence RI (facebook link). screencap of the description of the event from the facebook page, photo of the sign at the museum (via).
  2014/04/16 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Zuzu in Boston, with Teacher Mother Secret Lover. Not, as I thought at the time, the band Secret Lover plus a band called Teacher Mother. Teacher Mother Secret Lover was a thrash band where all the songs were about the Simpsons. Or maybe they weren't a thrash band, that's just how i'm remembering it because that's a thrash thing to do. flyer by Cory Bell
  2014/04/04-05 Performing at Bach To The Future 2, a 12 hour Bach marathon (at 3:35am) curated by Sakiko Mori. (facebook link) pictures from this event here. Flyer by Scott Reber . I read a fugue based on a piece of a poem by Rumi, which you can read here
  2014/03/04 - judge at Providence Community Library's "Dear Diorama" Diorama competition, Rochambeau Library, Providence RI
  2014/02/02 - 14/04/06 I was invited to be part of "Living as Form: the Nomadic Version", at the Carpenter Center for the Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge. picture of the gallery spiel, picture of the flowers they gave me at the afterparty, picture of a fan holding the newspaper in a gallery setting. During the opening someone came in and dropped a stack of flyers on top of my display, which I threw directly into the trash.
  2014/02 - the Jacob The Terrible 7" finally came out on Corleone records! Mike Taylor did the cover art. Here's a pic: pic
  2014/01/10 - 14/02/28 - IN PRINT: Art Zines + Small Press at Work: Detroit.
  2014/01/04 - Mothers News gets a nice write-up on the Paris Review website
  2014/03 - Mothers News #39
  2014/02 - Mothers News #38
  2014/01 - Mothers News #37

• 2013

  2013/11/29 - Mothers News live silkscreening at Analog Underground, Providence RI.
  2013/10/28 - got a nice write up on Brian Nicholson's mostly-comics review blog Longbox Coffin
  2013/08/31 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Future Fest in Brattleboro VT. With Guerilla Toss and I don't know how many other bands
  2013/08/23 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Building 16 in Providence, with Funeral Cone, Gnards, and 100s & 1000s.
  2013/08/17 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Distant Castle in Worcester MA, with The New Flesh, and Curb Alert.
  2013/08/06-11 - Mothers News curates a week of activities at the RISD Museum, as part of the "Locally Made" exhibit. Included performances by Joseph Buzzell, Carlos Gonzalez, Jacob Khepler, Mickey Zacchilli, Arthur Katrina, and Scott Reber (work/death). link to RISD Museum
  2013/08/08 - lecture at the RISD Museum- Jacob Khepler, Mothers News- "Stochastic Processes in Contemporary Publishing and the Other Kind".
  2013/05/12 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at AS220 in Providence, with Japanther, Dungeon Broads, and Power Masters.
  2013/07 - Mothers News #36
  2013/06/08 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Ralph's in Worcester MA, with Yoni Gordon, Merganser, Jake Simmons and the Little Ghosts, and Electrolux Combo.
  2013/06/02 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket RI, with The Body, WORK/DEATH, and Dungeon Broads.
  2013/05/9-10 - special guest at the Baltimore Print and Multiples Fair. lecture "Mothers News: A Brief History Of America's Greatest Newspaper". more
  2013/06 - Mothers News #35
  2013/05 - Mothers News #34
  2013/03/14 - music show (as Grail Research Diary) at Building 16 in Providence RI. opening for the play "The 7-Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act" that Donna Oblongata and Patrick Costello did.
  2013/03/02 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at the Firehouse in Worcester, with Fat Worm Of Error, Funeral Cone, and Over, with a special introduction and flute performance from Lama Sonam. Benefit for Students For A Free Tibet. sick show!
  2013/03 - Mothers News #33
  2013/03/14 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Distant Castle in Worcester MA. who else played this?
  2013/02/21 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Distant Castle in Worcester, with Black Wampum, and Hermit Thrushes.
  2013/02/20 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Building 16 in Providence, with Suicide Magnets, Black Wampum, and Hermit Thrushes.
  2013/02 - Mothers News #32
  2013/01 - Mothers News #31

• 2012

  2012/12/08 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Ralph's in Worcester MA, with the Yoni Gordon Orchestra, BLoody Swimsuit, 926 Main St Apt 2, and Pillow Man.
  2012/12 - Mothers News #30
  2012/10/20 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at AS220 in Providence, with King Tuff and 2 other bands but I forget who.
  2012/10 - Mothers News #29
  2012/09/13 - Mothers News benefit show at AS220 with Keith Fullerton Whitman, Noise Nomads, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Russian Tsarlag, and DJ Work/Death.
  2012/09/07 - Mothers News art show at Space 1026 in Philadelphia PA.
  2012/09 - Mothers News #28
  2012/08 - Mothers News #27
  2012/07 - Mothers News #26
  2012/06/14 - nice lil writeup on Mothers News at Printeresting. link
  2012/06/09 - nice interview with MN in the Providence Phoenix link
  2012/05/25 - my notes just say "I'm playing a show tonite with 0% audience". no other info.
  2012/05/12 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Distant Castle, with Yoni Gordon, and Bloody Swimsuit.
  2012/05/04 - Mothers News release party at AS220, with WRECK ROOM, MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED, and STYK. more
  2012/05 - Mothers News #25
  2012/04/25 - I did the cover for the Squabblehut 7" on Corleone records. It looked like this but it was printed in dark blue on dusty rose, and the bottom (upside down) part folded under, and then that's the back. pic.
  2012/04/03 - Mothers News reading at AS220 with Sam MacPheeters, V Manuscript, and Katrina Clark. extremely good flyer by Tom Bubul.
  2012/04 - Mothers News #24
  2012/03/19 - Mothers News spotted on Tavi Gevinson's shelf in this video (thank you to Olivia for spotting this!!!!!!). screenshot, video.
  2012/03/02 - Mothers News wins a New England Art Award for "best book 2011". link
  2012/03 - Mothers News #23
  2012/02/01 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at AS220. my notes are spotty, it just says "playing at as220 tonight with the guy from Ghost Mice, the Lady from One Reason, the guy from Harry and the Potters...". What was this show?
  2012/02 - Mothers News #22
  2012/01/18 - wrote up a Best of 2011 for the Boston Hassle link
  2012/01 - wrote up an essay on the character "Monkey", for the newspaper Happiness Pony out of Worcester MA, as part of a 4-part series they did that also included Hermes, Barnum, and Legba. read online here.
  2012/01 - Mothers News #21

• 2011

  2011/12/03 - Mothers News and friends tabling at Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. more
  2011/12 - Mothers News #20
  2011/11/26 - wrote up a Providence Scene Report for the Comics Journal website. link
  2011/11/11 - Mothers News makes a guest appearance (on the desk) in "Ebert Presents: At The Movies". screenshot, video.
  2011/11 - Mothers News #19
  2011/10/16 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Distant Castle in Worcester MA, with Grass Widow, Fang Noir, and Secret Lover.
  2011/10 - Mothers News #18
  2011/09/15 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Distant Castle, with Dirty Marquee and Fang Noir.
  2011/09/04 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at City Effect (aka Soft Approach), with Japanther, Cat Vet, and the Polyps.
  2011/09 - Mothers News #17
  2011/08 - Mothers News #16
  2011/07/08 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at the Hotel Vernon's legendary Ship Room, with Godard, and Feedbackula.
  2011/07 - Mothers News #15
  2011/06 - Mothers News #14
  2011/06/7,8,9,10,11,12 - I appeared in, and some would say starred in, and to some degree wrote part of, a radical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Antony & Cleopatra". This was organized by the Missoula Oblongata, who selected 5 groups to each interpret an act of the play, and a narrator / guide to string them all together. I was the narrator / guide, acting the part of Thoth.
  2011/05 - Mothers News #13
  2011/04/28 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Building 16 in Providence RI, with Grass Widow, Songs for Moms, Broken Water, and Static Era (aka Natalja Kent's New America).
  2011/04 - Mothers News #12
  2011/04/11 - washed dishes at Tom Bubul's underground restaurant "The Restaurant", fulfilling a life-long dream of going to a great restaurant and washing dishes for a few hours in exchange for a truly wonderful meal, arriving with real hunger, totally no money, and complete faith, and working steadily but with no anxiety while the cooks and waitstaff jostle and laugh with me. I did this numerous times in the life of this beloved project.
  2011/03 - Mothers News #11
  2011/02 - Mothers News #10
  2011/01 - Mothers News #9

• 2010

  2010/12/10 - music show at Collective A Go-Go in Worcester MA, with Yoni Gordon & the Goods. Digital flyer by me.
  2010/12 - Mothers News #9
  2010/11/30 - music show (as Hi Hat) at Building 16 in Providence RI, opening for the Missoula Oblongata's play "Clamlump". Flyer by me.
  2010/11 - Mothers News #7
  2010/10/17 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at the Red House in Olympia WA, with Onion Flavored Rings, Human Skab, and Deadhead
  2010/10/16 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at the Morgue in Seattle WA, with Onion Flavored Rings, Reckless, and The Mark Sparkles
  2010/10/15 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Fukett's in Portland OR, with Onion Flavored Rings, Defect Defect, and Social Graces.
  2010/10/13 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Linden House in Oakland CA, with Onion Flavored Rings, Kreamy Lectric Santa, and Alabaster Choad.
  2010/10 - Mothers News #6
  2010/09/23 - reading with Erick Lyle at the Lucy Parsons Center in Boston MA
  2010/09/10 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Distanct Castle in Worcester, with Daily Life, Cave Girls, and Whore Paint. flyer by me
  2010/09 - Mothers News #5
  2010/08/13 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket RI, with Idiot Vehicle, Mike T, and TIM KERR from the Big Boys!!!
  2010/08 - Mothers News #4
  2010/07/24 - reading with Erick Lyle, Jeff Miller, and Walker Mettling, at Sine Cera Gallery in Providence. digital-only flyer by me .
  2010/07/18 - notes indicate that I played a show at 11am. no other info available at the moment. Does anyone remember this one? I don't.
  2010/07/xx - I took the picture on the cover of the Daily Life record "Necessary and Pathetic", though to be fair the art direction was 100% CF. Great record, strong recommendation.
  2010/07 - Mothers News #3
  2010/06/17 - music show (Jacob The Terrible) with Clear Leader (Tom Bubul, Mickey Zacchilli, Mikey Stoltz), Make A New Memory (Sakiko Mori and Geoff Mullen), Nero's Day At Disneyland, Scream Mask, Mincemeat Or Tenspeed (aka World War, aka Davey Harms). At Building 16 in Providence RI. Flyer by Tom Bubul.
  2010/06/12 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Hillstock, a music fest in Brooklyn New York.
  2010/06 - Mothers News #2
  2010/05/21 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at AS220 in Providence, with Arcing and the What Cheer Marching Band.
  2010/05 - Mothers News #1
  2010/04/10 - I had some large drawings in the group show "Wide Open Broken" at White Vinyl Space in Miami FL. With Carlos Gonzalez, CF, Beatriz Monteavaro, Jonathan Thomas, Mickey Zacchilli, Mike Taylor, James Jonson, Natalja Kent, and Mike Stoltz. curated by Mike Taylor. flyer by Mike Taylor.
  2010/03/11,12,13,14,15 - I appeared in, and some would say starred in, and to some degree wrote part of, a radical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". This was organized by the Missoula Oblongata, who selected 5 groups to each interpret an act of the play, and a narrator / guide to string them all together. the groups were The Semi-Upright Puppet Company (NYC), Green Chair Dance Theater (Philadelphia), Puppetyranny! (Philadelphia), Nommo Theatre (Baltimore), and Fence Kitchen (PA), and the guide was me. Audience members are asked to meet at the Vine Street stop on the Broad Street Subway, wearing red carnations. From there I led them to the play, which was held at a secret location. I also had to guide them from act to act, both physically and emotionally. I'm going to be completely honest- I did a really good job with this.

• 2009

  2009/11/09 - music show (Jacob the Terrible) at Machines with Magnets, with Dan Deacon, White Mice, and Brrrmuda. Flyer by unknown .
  2009/10/22 - music show at Collective A Go-Go in Worcester, with Yoni Gordon, Styk, and Opposites Day.
  2009/07/19 - Part of "Drawn" Art show at the Stairwell Gallery, Alongside Erika Somogyi, James Quigley, Lauren Pakradooni, Li Jun Lai, Sam Lopes, Jeff Hartford, Carlos Gonzalez, Mike Leslie, Jean-Philippe Harvey, Sophia Dixon, Maguerite Keyes, Stephen Brownell, Slise Randles, Jo Dery, Eamon Brown, Jim Drain, Matt Lock, Mark Mccoy, Ruth Garbus, Brooke Budner, Lauren Beck, Jonathan Mosca, Alley Dennig, Greg Ricci, Lauren Fisher, Jp Roy, Ola Vailjeva, Sumi Ink Club, Anrew Labanaris, Sarah Clover, Megha Gupta, Briana Horrigan, Tom Bubul, Rose Mcburney, Peter Fuller, Amy Moon, Glenn Abanilla, Ian Cozzens, Walker Mettling, Matt Tracy, Cybele Collins, and Jen Corace. Flyer by unknown . other side .
  2009/07/09 - music show at Collective A Go Go in Worcester MA, with Madeline, the Ginger Envelope, Joel Thibodeau, and Joanne Hart
  2009/06/25 - included in "Threaded" a group show curated by Angela Zammerelli and Ven Voisey, at Gallery 51, North Adams, MA. work included was one the giant squids i made for my installation in the Dirt Palace window
  2009/06/17 - music show at the Firehouse in Worcester, with Ghost Mice, Heathers, and Matt Fox digital flyer by me .
  2009/05/09 - Reading Event- 100 Ten Second Stories, Curated By Walker Mettling, at Building 16 in Providence. with Sophie Tintori, Elaine Wang, Chip King, Tom Bubul, Joanna Ruocco, David Colannino, Eli Manuscript, Art Middleton, and Jonathan Mosca. Flyer by Walker Mettling.
  2009/05/09 - music show at AS220 in Providence, with the Dead Are Those Who Have Died, Ptarmigan, Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul, and Ten Thousand Things (Scott Reber & Geoff Mullen). Flyer by Scott Reber .
  2009/04/17 - music show at the Green Rooster in Worcester MA, A Benefit For the Raven Freedom School, with Sons of Hiram, Scott Riciutti, Opposites Day, and Jacob the Terrible. Flyer by Mike Leslie .
  2009/04/08 - write up on HBML in Worcester Magazine
  2009/03/02 - music show at the Pigeon Chest vintage store on Broadway in Providence RI, with the Needy Visions and Anikki Dawn and "two boring guys" (according to my notes). I remember having a great time at this show but also getting there super early and just hanging out doing stretches on the rug for a lonnnnng time.
  2009/02 - won a 2008 Boston Art Award for Best Installation, for HBML.
  2009/01/30 - music show (as Flash Flood) at Distant Castle. With Uke of Spaces Corners County, WORK/DEATH, and Geoff Mullen/CF/JP (trio).

• 2008

  2008/12/13 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Distant Castle, with Bone Zone, Garbage Strike, and Bloody Swimsuit. We had to pause our set halfway through because someone was getting engaged! Garbage Strike's first show, I think.
  2008/11/07 - music show at the Collective A Go Go with the Points North and the Sandcastles. Flyer by unknown .
  2008/10/01 - music show (as Jacob The Terrible) at Building 16. First Jacob The Terrible show! with Hail Seizures, Collective of Dirt, and Chin Up Merriwether. First time singing these songs with a full band and everyone went nuts, singing along as loud as possible. Really great!
  2008/09/26 - Gallery show "new Obstructions" at the Mercantile Building in Providence. Group show with Jeremy Radke, Jon Laustsen, Nicole Reinert & Natalja Kent, Richard Goulis, Jim Frain, Kristina Brown, Neal Walsh & Scott Lapham, Eamon Brown, and Mike Taylor. Was this 2009 or 2008??? Flyer by Mike Taylor .
  2008/09/21 - I tabled at and played music at the StART On The Street fest in Worcester MA.
  2008/09/06 - find me in the crowd in this excellent episode of the Snow Ghost Community Show, featuring BONE ZONE! filmed on location on Castle St in Worcester MA. link
  2008/07/28 - music show (as Incisor) at Distant Castle, with Tinsel Teeth, and Nadir. the email said: "INCISOR: ululating world-haters vomit live scorpion eggs // TINSEL TEETH: strutting glass-breakers flaunt bodily transgressions // NADIR: quiet guys that are 100% twitch muscle unpent their aggressions with technical finesse" which is quite on-the-money!
  2008/06/06 - music show at Collective A Go-Go, with Yoni Gordon
  2008/06/31 - music show at Stairwell Gallery in Providence with Eli Keszler, Other People Do The Killing, and Puttin' On The Ritz.
  2008/06/26 - music show at Distant Castle with Diego Perez, Annikki Dawn, and ID M Theftable. Theftable's car broke down a few blocks from the house and he walked over and played a truly incredible acapella set.
  2008/05/13 - Xander Marro Art show at HBML
  2008/04/23 - music show at the Brickhouse, Turners Falls MA, with the Vaudevillains and A Screening of "who Is Bozo Texino" By Bill Daniel. Flyer by Neil Young Cloaca.
  2008/04/xx - I starred in the play "Go To The Chateau", written by Madeline ffitch. Well, I was one of the stars anyway. The play was performed (I think) 16 times, each time for an audience of only 2 people. The play took place at various locations in and around Northhampton MA, and the audience was driven from scene to scene, although the play never stopped, and many of the scenes were in the car en route from place to place. Me and Mike Leslie played First and Second Picnicker. Also featuring Ben Hersey, Heather Christie, Mercury Meulman, and Jonno. A really great crew, and me and Mike did a really good job. We didn't get paid but we ate really good, because I convinced Madeline that it would be good for the play if the picnickers furiously ate a lot of good food the entire time.
  2008/03/14 - music show at Distant Castle, with Ghost Mice, Matt Fox, the Foundation, and Spring Break North Korea
  2008/03/16 - me and JJB Buckmaster tabled at the Boston Comic Convention, and it was pretty fun! I had some drawings out and a new book called I MIGHT BE A BIG BABY, and I did a sketch in some guy's sketchbook. The theme of the sketchbook was "saxophone" so i drew the Man-Thing playing saxophone, and it said "whatever knows jazz yearns at the riff of the MAN-THING" or something. i don't think anyone bought any of my sketches at all but here are the ones i know no one bought, because i still have them: link.
  2008/03/16 - zine release "I Might Be A Big Baby". pics (tho hard to read) here.
  2008/02/12 - music show (as Plasma TVs) at the Firehouse in Worcester, with Geoff Mullen and Eli Keszler, Plus Dim Sum! Flyer by me .
  2008/01/26 - music show at the Firehouse in Worcester MA, with the Billy Blue Blues Band and Terribles. Flyer by Mike Leslie .
  2008/01/19 - music show at Mystery Train Records in Amherst MA, with Ben Hersey, the Terribles, Bromp Treb, and Stonewall Jackson. Flyer by George W Myers .

• 2007

  2007/12/09 - I won a CP/DP award for Raddest Dude In Worcester 2007! CP and DP are Chris Paddock and Diego Perez. The awards ceremony was held at AS220 in Providence, and the category everyone was talking about, Best Beard, was won by Mike Taylor.
  2007/12/08 - music show with the Terribles, Stonewall Jackson, and PSA.
  2007/11/21 - music show (Incisor) at the Firehouse in Worcester, with Friday Knight, Red Thread, and Terribles. Flyer by Mike Leslie .
  2007/11/06 - music show at Collective A Go Go, with Yoni Gordon, Good Looks, and Terribles. Flyer by Mike Leslie.
  2007/10/20 - music show- Corleone Records 10 Year Party at As220 in Providence, with Mahi Mahi, Lorna Doom, Tiny Hawks, Bone Dust, Night Wounds, Work/death, Lazy Magnet, Vulture, Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores, Fred Thomas, Barnacled, the Doby, Uke of Spaces Corners County, Pines of Rome, Fang Island, Snake Apt, and Dr Fuck Yeah. Also the release of the DVD "Everything I Own Is Broken Or Bent". This is a DVD of music videos that Corleone records put out. It includes a video I made for my song "Twin Elephants", plus an audio commentary track on all the videos by me, Mike Leslie, and Mike Taylor. Flyer by Mike Taylor .
  2007/10 - I don't have a precise date on this but around this time I contributed a few Digital Pogs to surely the world's most prestigious collection of Digital Pogs, that of the artist Mike Bell-Smith. You can check it out here: [mikesdigitalpogpage.com]. I know that digital pogs became a million (billion?) dollar industry 15 years later, but I don't think anyone out there reading this can seriously argue with me about what's both cooler and more prestigious, mikesdigitalpogpage.com or Crypto Apes.
  2007/10 - my bedroom in Worcester is featured in the book "Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy" by Abby Banks. You can probably get this on interlibrary loan.
  2007/09/21 - I MCed a fashion show at the Firehouse in Worcester. it was extremely fun and all the fashions were very way-out!!!!
  2007/08/10 - Quilt show with Jacob and Anna Louise Berendes at HBML. Flyer by me .
  2007/08/04 - music show at Distant Castle, with Matty Popchart and Best Friends Forever. Flyer by me, xerox with crayon.
  2007/07/07 - Danzig Day at HBML. Flyer by me, xerox with hand color .
  2007/06/09 - Jeff Hartford Art show at HBML
  2007/05/30 - music show at Summer Camp in Providence (Steeple St, above that restaurant). This was the last show here, and the cops came, but since I was playing acoustic I played after the cops came, at like 2am. The Body also played, not sure who else but I think there were really a lot of bands.
  2007/05/18 - Grand Opening of the Sun Ra Solar Myth Planetarium at HBML. Flyer by me . reverse side .
  2007/04/18 - Mike T Art show "inner Blight" at HBML
  200/04/17 - music show at Julian's Restaurant in Providence RI, with Adam Gnade.
  2007/03/23 - music show (Phone Book), at Stone Soup in Worcester MA, with Mc Kc, Popocapetl, and the Dungeoneers (first Show). Flyer by me .
  2007/03 - cassette release - Phone Book "Unlock The Inner Flute". cover / insert by me
  2007/03/18 - Part of "Creatures" Art show at the Stairwell Gallery in Providence, with Tomo, Abi Phelps, Raphael Lyon, Sarah Danforth, Annie Masaoka, Mike Stoltz, Zane Kozak, Lisa Van Wambeck, Jill Colinan, Kate Fronner, Lidsey Wallace, Erin Rosenthal, Smiley Jones, Cf, Cody Thompson, Xander Marro, Jung Il Hong, Joan Wyand, and Pile Alcaline. Flyer by unknown . other side.
  2007/03/07 - music show at Distant Castle with Mt Gigantic and When Walls Were Built. Flyer by unknown, maybe Cindy?.
  2007/03/01 - music show at Clifton Terrace in Worcester MA, with Frenching Action and JJB Buckmaster
  2007/02/03 - music show at Melissa and Ryan's house off Highland St., with JJB Buckmaster and Mikey from All Those Opposed. Acoustic show for spikey punks, this show was a mess but totally fun. Tons of people singing along. No flyer because their landlord hung out on the street where the flyers go!
  2007/02/03 - released the tape "Crypt of Everything", first set of new songs in a long time.
  2007/01/23 - music show at the Firehouse in Worcester MA, opening for a play by the Missoula Oblongata. I love them!!!!!
  2007/01/05 - music show at the Q in Worcester, with the Foundation and I Hate Them. This was easily the worst coffee place I have ever been to! They didn't know what Earl Grey was, and they made the coffee in a French press but like, didn't push the thing down, so it's all coffee grounds floating in it. Still, this show was fun, and someone made fan art of me while I was playing, which I'll try and find later. I look really dreamy in the fan art. Flyer by unknown .

• 2006

  2006/??/?? - I appear as an easter egg in the book "Ruby Cookbook" by Lucas Carlson and Leonard Richardson, published by O'Reilly press. Thank you to Leonardr for including me in this!
  2006/12/10 - music show at Robin and Nadav's house on Amory St in Boston MA, with Uke of Spaces Corners County, Dan Shea, and Morgan from Bread & Roses' other band the Stay At Home Ramblers. According to my notes this show was really fun and everyone was cool and nice!
  2006/12/09 - music show at Feed Your Head Books in Salem, MA. According to my notes this show sucked! The guy that set it up was cool but it was not a show just "an event"- very divided crowd. The store was whatever, and full of "lefty bummers in funky hats". Yikes!
  2006/11/30 - International Hat Day at HBML Flyer by me .
  2006/11/07 - music show (Phone Book), with Ospreys, Geoff Mullen, and Nicole 2Heart (NB: GM and N2H didn't play due to a miscommunication) Flyer by Tom Bubul.
  2006/10/30 - Dracula Triple Feature with Lecture "Dracula: Paths To Beauty", at my house on Clifton Terrace in Worcester. Flyer by me .
  2006/10/18 - music show at PA's Lounge in Boston MA, with Tiny Hawks, The Body, Lazy Magnet, Lorna Doom, Mahi Mahi, and Colin Langenus.
  2006/10/17 - Corleone Showcase at Pine Needle Nest in Providence Ri, with Jpb, Work/death, the Body, Lorna Doom, Uke of Phillips, Tiny Hawks, Lazy Magnet, and Teenage Blue Waistband (Teenage Waistband plus Blue Shift). Flyer by Jo Dery, sorry for the bad pic of it.
  2006/09/21 - music show at Distant Castle, with the Messy Constellations, JJB Buckmaster, and Paul Baribeau. Flyer by unknown, name spelled wrong :( .
  2006/06/15 - music show (Early Internet - a band with me and Leonard Richardson) at Distant Castle in Worcester, with Deer Tick and Canine Sugar. Flyer by me .
  2006/06 included in the art show "Forever Home" at HaNNA Tokyo, Tokyo Japan, curated by Hanna Fushihara. A benefit for the ARK animal shelter. Artists were asked to submit limited edition works on T-shirts. I also contributed sculptures of parakeets, which sat on the clotheslines that the shirts hung from. cute!
  2006/05/13 - music show (as Jacob From Transylvania) music show at Okie Street in Providence, with Rise Set Twilight, Soft Newsflash, Joe Grimm & Lauren Carter, and Monastery. Flyer by Scott Reber .
  2006/05/02 - music show (Solo Noise Performance) at Collective A Go Go, with Amanda. Flyer by Abel Russ.
  2006/02/06 - music show at Ducks in A Stack, in Bloomington Indiana, with the Terribles, the Door Keys, and Disaster. Flyer by Greg Harvester. I did a short tour with the Terribles, but I don't have any flyers from the shows except this one. I remember we played at Sluggo's in Pensacola, and spent a miserable night in Richmond VA, and that we played at this really nice guy's house just outside DC and he was obsessed with Klaus Nomi.

• 2005

  2005/11/14 - music show at Okie St in Providence RI, with Russian Tsarlag (listed as "Russian Tsarcasm", which was the style at the time), the Fastners, and Impossible Shapes.
  2005/10 - "365 Days of Stuffed Animals" in Paris Match magazine! pic
  2005/10 - opened up my junk store "HBML"
  2005.09.23 - music show with Tiny Hawks, Mahi Mahi, Made in Mexico, Throne of Blood, Lazy Magnet, and Get Killed, at Mass Art. part of NEST fest (New England Sticks Together)
  2005/09 - my "365 Days Of Stuffed Animals" project was featured in Reader's Digest magazine!
  2005/06/09 - music show with Cool Breeze, the Terribles, French in Action, and the Coughs (added to the bill after the flyer was made) at Okie St in Providence RI. On this tour we also played somewhere in New York City, the Roboto Project in Cleveland, Asheville NC, Dan Shea's house in Boston, and a few other places. the main thing I remember from this tour is that we picked up Matty from Chokehold at his shack in North Carolina, and drove him back to Worcester with us, and made him listen to the Astrud Gilberto version of "So Nice" 100 million times. Flyer by Mike Taylor . This was right when my CD came out, and Mike T also made this great release poster for it. He had a regular gig making posters for all the new Corleone releases. Flyer by Mike Taylor .
  2005/06/07 - music show with Cool Breeze and Yoni Gordon, at Collective a Go Go in Worcester MA. Tour kickoff.
  2005/03/25 - music show (as Jacob Bird Hospital) at the WAG (Worcester Artist's Group), with Fat Worm of Error and Fantasy's Core. Steve Dracula and Mildew cancelled, the rumor at the time was that they got too high the night before and were hiding in a hotel room????? this is extremely spurious but that was the rumor. Uncle Grandpa filled in. Flyer by me.
  2005/03 - art installation - "Cephalopod Dominance" in the window of the Dirt Palace, Providence RI. I sewed 3 life size giant squids. Pics here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dirtpalace/tags/jacob/
  2005.02.xx music show (Jacob Bird Hospital) as part of the Secret Hippies Tour with Lucky Dragons, Heart 2 Heart, Canton Mystery Band, Dennis Tyfus, Polina Malikin, and Lazy Magnet. Playing As Jacob Bird Hospital. with Shows at the Zeitgeist Gallery in Boston, Collective A Go Go in Worcester, the Flywheel in Easthampton, and I forget where else. maybe just 3 shows? Flyer for the Flywheel show by George W Myers.
  2005/01/15 - music show at Collective A Go Go in Worcester, with Jason Anderson and Nat Baldwin. extremely shitty flyer by me. "Drawn in a dark car".

• 2004

  2004/12/27 - music show at Collective A Go Go, with Samia, Yoni Gordon, and Bread & Roses. Flyer by Mike Leslie .
  2004/10/25 - music show at Collective A Go Go, with Rabbits, Tigersaw, and Thanksgiving. Flyer by me .
  2004/10/07 - music show at Little Pancakes in Providence Ri, with Zea and Lazr Magic Mini Rave (aka Lazy Magnet). Flyer by Mike Taylor .
  2004/09/23 - this was the first day of my project "365 Days of Stuffed Animals", in which I made a unique stuffed animal every day for a year. Pictures of most of them are up at http://www.rf5.org/stuffed/.
  2004/09/17 Movies With Live Soundtracks at the Coolidge Corner theatre in Brookline MA.
  2004/09/18 Movies With Live Soundtracks at the RISD Museum parking lot (or maybe at the Tap Room?) Providence RI
  2004/08/20 - Movies With Live Soundtracks at the WAG. My movie was called "Dracula at Borgo Pass". Movies with Live Soundtracks was a touring exhibition of movies featuring live soundtracks performed by the filmmakers. It was organized by Xander Marro and included movies (and live soundtracks) from Xander Marro, Mat Brinkman, Ben Coonley, Jo Dery, Peter Glantz, Laura Rodriguez, Carrie Collier, Ben Jones, George Myers, Dan Cashman, and the Terribles
  2004.08.xx Future Friends fest - music show with Lightning Bolt, Terribles, USAISAMONSTER, Goat Of Arms, Barnacled, Mahi Mahi, Kites, Trutheater Theatre, and more. Cool two day sleepover fest somewhere in Connecticut. There wasn't a flyer for this (right?) but here's an incredible pic of me singing my song about synchronized swimming while Kpars, Jenine, Mel, and Kara do a syncronized swimming routine! pic by Ports Bishop. There was also a book made of photos from this event, which has a different picture from my set, but it's not as dynamic.
  2004/07/21 - music show (Puzzled Panther), at AS220 in Providence. Benefit for Books Through Bars, with Tiny Hawks, Urdog, and Hue & Cry (Fat Day was listed but didn't play, but this show was still extremely sick). Flyer by Cybele Collins.
  2004/07/21 - CD release - Puzzled Panther "Bugs On Bugs". Cover art by Mike Leslie: cover, back cover.
  2004/06/30 - music show (Puzzled Panther), at Whrb Harvard Radio in Boston MA, with Bread & Roses, the Body, and Sirens. I think this show might've been broadcast over WHRB. Flyer by unknown .
  2004/06/29 - music show (Puzzled Panther), at the Flywheel in Easthampton, with Massacre of the Dead, Will Soderberg, and Univark. Flyer by George W Myers .
  2004/06/27 - music show (Puzzled Panther), at Holmes' House, with Bread & Roses, and 9 Billion Names of God. Flyer by me . Because the show was at my friend's house while his parents were away, I used a cipher on the flyer for the address! His parents figured out that he had a party though, because all the pictures in the house were hanging slightly off-level. Incredible.
  2004/05/04 - goofing off on the radio (BSR 88.1 in Providence) with Mike T. Flyer by Mike Taylor .
  2004/03/15 - music show at the Harvard Advocate Offices, in Boston MA, with Liza Kate, Bread & Roses, and A Billion Names of God. Flyer by unknown.
  2004/01/31 - music show at Brown University in Providence, with Microcube of Destruction (aka James Amoeba), Jack Turnbull, Heart 2 Heart, and Crystal Shapeshifter. Flyer by Jack Turnbull.

• 2003

  2003/12/10 - playing live music On the Radio (BSR 88.1 in Providence). This was a super fun time! Shauna and Scott had a show on BSR called "Live Block" where bands would come in and play on the air. Shauna approached me at the show at the Sickle and asked me to play and I said Hell Yeah. I played a bunch of songs and also spun some records and took some phone calls. This was archived online at the BSR website but now it's down. Flyer by me, with a drawing by Lee Buford. detail.
  2003/11/23 - music show at the Sickle, with The Body, Get Killed, It's A Fucking Trap, and Letters. Flyer by Lee Buford.
  2003/11/06 - music show at Collective A Go-Go, with Tigersaw, Brendon Massei, and Spencer Kingman. Flyer says "CD release" but i believe that to be false. Flyer by me .
  2003/06/20 - music show at the Garment Shoppe in Boston, with True North and Halo Perfecto. I went on a small tour with this crew, down to Florida and back, but I forget what the other shows were, and I didn't play all the shows. If memory serves we played a show that was a high school graduation party. I made 2 quick + shitty flyers for the Boston show, I must've been in a real rush. Check out how I only had 2 keys- mailbox and bike lock! That's because I lived in a barn. Flyer by me . Flyer by me .
  2003/07/?? - truly incredible music show at the WAG- "Fujichia Follies", singing, dancing, hyjinx. a performance set on Little Rascals archetypes, in which loveable scamps put on a show. I played myself in the Alfalfa role, Mike Leslie played by devilish little brother trying to mess up the show, Emily Bloodmilk played the Darla role. Songs included "Give Me A Kiss To Build A Dream On", "Glow Worm" and other tin pan alley hits. Truly nuts. We only did one show! The show had so many people in it that i was worried there'd be no one in the audience, so i rehearsed with everyone seperately- everyone knew only their part! opening for Xander Marro and Becky Stark's "Birdsongs of the Bauhauroque".
  2003/06/19 - music show at the Sickle, with True North and Halo Perfecto. Flyer by Mike Taylor .
  2003/04/27 - music show at Collective a Go Go, with Tigersaw, Wolf Colonel, and King Tuff. Flyer by me .
  2003/04/15 - Gallery Opening- "Fort Worcester", at the Schlitzkamp Gallery at Clark University in Worcester Ma. Flyer by me .
  2003/02/27 - music show at Collective A Go Go in Providence, with Brendon Massei, Adams' Opinion, Tigersaw, and Cool Breeze. Flyer by me.

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