I apologize for the lack of updates lately. Sometimes typing on the internet has to take a backseat to for-real life. A brief update:

• Tre Orsi played our first-ever out-of-state shows, a 5-day mini-tour with our friends Minus Story. (The Coke Dares played the first three shows with us and destroyed everything they came into contact with.) We’re taking a break to work on new songs before playing out and starting work on an LP. Also have some touring planned for the Fall, but details will have to wait.
• Finally finished The New Year’s new LP. Take it with a grain of salt, but I think this is the Kadane brother’s best work to date. John Golden has mastered it, I’m just waiting to hear the reference copy. It comes out in September on Touch and Go, with ACTUAL U.S. and European tours to follow. The last New Year tour longer than 4 days was the summer of 2004. 2004!
• Still have a bunch of half-finished projects waiting for studio time: American Werewolf Academy, The Great Tyrant, and a great new Shiny Around The Edges LP. I’m starting a new record for Austin band, The Distant Seconds in May, too.
• Relating to a lack of studio time, we’re planning on building a B room at The Echo Lab. No ETA yet. Will be a much smaller place, suitable for overdubs, mixing, and smaller sessions, but with the same attention to slapdick quality as the big room.
• My brother and I are heading off to London, Amsterdam, The Hague, and Paris this Thursday. It’s his first time ever outside the U.S, and really my first time in Europe solely as a tourist. Looking forward to sight-seeing with Jason Molina in London, Dirt Music w/ Chris Brokaw in the Hague, and meat comas in Paris.
• Been on an amazingly huge Trumans Water kick lately. Anyone have a good quality vinyl copy of Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox and Ass they want to sell for cheap?

This month has flown by. Quick run-down of what happened:

• Turned 31 on Feb 5
• Tre Orsi played two shows with Nina Nastasia, which were really really great experiences
• Worked with The Great Tyrant, American Werewolf Academy, Drink To Victory, Notes from Underground, and Douche
• Started ramping up for the next Works Progress release

Tre Orsi is playing at Rubber Gloves this Saturday with Joe Lally and Edie Sedgewick. March is mostly devoted to finish The New Year’s new LP. April is a quick Tre Orsi tour, then recording.

Ok!

A few things:

• Happy birthday Bean!
• Tre Orsi is playing Austin @ Club Deville next Thurs, 25 Oct.
• Our 26 Oct show @ SHQ is obviously canceled. Tentatively moving to 27 Oct @ Rubber Gloves
• Starting work on the New Year record again today!
• Shearwater record starts in a week and a half. 3 non-stop weeks of Talk Talk-level indulgence. Thanks, Matador!
• Tons of Rock Lottery videos now up at Wolf-Stone’s YouTube page. Relive the good times and total embarassment.
• Record-buying has been a little slow due to self-imposed financial restraints, but I just got copies of The Dead C’s Trapdoor Fucking Exit and Harvey Milk’s Courtesy And Goodwill Toward Men from Aquarius today. Very exciting.
• Crown GLM-200’s arrived yesterday as well. I’m hoping these will make quick work of recording the grand piano & drums in the same room.

but then some fuckwits decided to trash a great local venue, which has forced it to shut down.

Well, ok. Here’s a video of me dancing like a jackass:

GTD + Anarchy — so btfl.

Time Management For Anarchists

So last night, a man riding a bike died from head injuries after being struck by an Arlington cop.

The article doesn’t say whether or not he had a helmet on, but if he “was not wearing reflective gear, and his bike lacked a reflector or light visible from the rear” as the police report said, my guess would be no.

If you’re going to ride at night, buy a set of lights for your bike. Reflectors don’t work, but even the cheapest lights will make you a little more noticeable. And, of course, wear a damned helmet.

Any local bike shop will have something like these from Planet Bike and Cateye.

3:10 AM. I can’t sleep, even though I’ve put in over 60 hours at work this week, on top of school, band practice, and the usual day-to-day. I’ve barely looked at my email for the past week, which is sort of a relief.

Running sound for Jandek in about 10 hours. Yes, I’m nervous. Very exciting, too. Will Johnson and Ryan Williams are playing with him, so it should be a hoot.

Tre Orsi 1/2″ tapes are on their way to Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. The lacquers should be at United on July 24th. Hopefully we’ll have 7″s by the end of August.