This was a damn wild year, folks… Here is what I can remember, as related in my year end top ten list for Tobi Vail’s online mag, Jigsaw Underground. Check out everybody else’s lists, too. There’s some cool dialogue in there!
The latest record from NYC’s Japanther, Beets, Limes and Rice, is out now. The record includes two songs I wrote for the band: “Round Up The Usual Suspects” and the record’s first single, “Battle of The Hopeless Crushes”. The record features some nice cover art from our mutual pal, Monica Canilao…
This month, my old friends and collaborators from San Francisco, Sara Thustra and Kyle Ransom present Shit. Free Art N Good Times, a joint exhibition of their art at Cinders Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I am excited to have the opportunity starting June 23 to host a series of weekly events in the gallery during [...]
I will be doing a reading at the venerable Clocktower Gallery in Manhattan this April 26 (6-9PM) as part of a month-long residency by the band, Japanther. The band has curated a series of four events with music, story telling, film, and amazing free food provided by their pal, Jenn Su, from LA. Space is [...]
This week I escape NYC’s record snowfall for a welcome reprieve with three readings back home in Florida. Feb 16th @ University of Miami Library w/ Max Rameau 6:30PM Free (event to announce the library’s acquisition of my SCAM archive, more info here) Feb 18 Gainesville, FL @ Civic Media Center 7PM, 433 S.Main Street, [...]
After spending some months in negotiation last year, the Special Collections Department of the University of Miami Otto G. Richter Library has acquired an archive of my old papers, writings, and artwork mostly representing the years 1990-1997 in which I lived and wrote in Miami. The library now owns and will make available to the [...]
What’s December without a trip home to Miami, the Magic City? I’m wrapping up my year of reading from SCAM #7 and the SCAM anthology about Miami with a reading in Miami at Sweat Records. Maybe Dave Daniels will wander drunkenly down the block from Churchill’s and try to kick me out of the bar [...]
I am excited to get an opportunity to once more play drums with brothers Wade and Shell Driver this Friday at a rare NYC appearance by San Francisco punk and criminal legends, 50 Million. I can still remember the last time I was in the band during the long summer of 1999… the epic 5-hour [...]
Yeah, that about sums it up… I am feeling pretty damn excited to get asked to play with one of my all-time favorite rocker duos, the legendary and inspiring Fred and Toody of PIERCED ARROWS. Ivy, Greg Harvester, and I (3/4 of Black Rainbow) will be opening for Pierced Arrows on October 23rd in a [...]
Onion Flavored Rings are going back out on the road to the Pacific NW with our friends, JACOB THE TERRIBLE (Worcester, MA). Come check us out at the following dates: WED OCT 13 OAKLAND, CA 1935 Linden 7:00 PM w/ ALIBASTAIR CHOAD, KREAMY LECTRIC SANTA FRI OCT 15 PORTLAND, OR at Fukkett’s (5518 N. Mississippi) [...]