Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #21: An Interview with Jad Fair.
You can read the interview at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #21: An Interview with Jad Fair.
Category: Inspiration
Lost in Arkham: The Creeping Flesh (1973)
I recently interviewed Jad Fair and knowing so many of his songs talk about monsters and that he grew up in Michigan, I had to ask him about Channel 50. Sure enough, he watched a lot of early monster movies there and was lucky enough to grow up with various movie hosts, including Sgt. Sacto. … Continue reading Lost in Arkham: The Creeping Flesh (1973)
New Review: Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #20
At The Drunken Odyssey, I review Gwenifer Raymond’s Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain. Continue reading New Review: Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #20
From the Archives: The Terror Test: Test Prep #17
A Portrait of the Artist as a Glum ManOriginally written for Episode 62 on Eraserhead (1977) and Freaks (1932). Interviewer: What was Wild at Heart about David? “Well, it’s about one hour and forty-five minutes. ~An interview with Toby Keeler, recounting a conversation with Lynch “Believe it or not, Eraserhead is my most spiritual film.” … Continue reading From the Archives: The Terror Test: Test Prep #17
The Essential If
Here’s a video version of a poem originally published in the Slash Pine Press 2014 Festival Anthology. You can read it and a few other poems inspired by our old mutt Lucy here. Continue reading The Essential If
New Music: We Danced and It Had Eyes Flat Like Gold Coins
Part of a continuing collaboration with improviser/guitarist Scott Bazar. I designed the track around the improvised pieces he sent me. He used guitar, an electric Christmas tree star topper, touch and sound reactive LED puppets, GE LED light stock, an LED Halloween skull, Ebow with a metal plate, a portable Christmas projector with signal, feedback, … Continue reading New Music: We Danced and It Had Eyes Flat Like Gold Coins
From the Archives: The Terror Test: Test Prep #12
Slicing Up 8 ½ Eyeballs Originally written for The Terror Test: Episode 44. Contains A Cat in the Brain (1990) and 8 ½ (1963) spoilers. “You can’t make love stories.” ~ 8 ½ “If I made Romantic movies nobody would go see them.” ~ A Cat in the Brain Around age twelve, I started … Continue reading From the Archives: The Terror Test: Test Prep #12
Sailor Lugosi’s Dead
A video I edited with some recent music I did for John King of The Drunken Odyssey. Below is a companion piece using the same melody from “Jolly Sailor Bold.” It’s ambient, if that includes soundscapes of a ghost ship floating over R’lyeh and awakening the Great Old One. Continue reading Sailor Lugosi’s Dead
An Interview with Poet Tina Mozelle Braziel
We talk about her book, Known by Salt, over at The Drunken Odyssey. (Photo courtesy of Bang Images.) Continue reading An Interview with Poet Tina Mozelle Braziel
