Yet another blog

Louis here,

over the years I’ve had a lot of websites:

  • j-shirt.com (my record label experiment; various iterations)
  • thegraze.net (my solo music project; various iterations)
  • independentsday.com (a short-lived concert series — long gone)
  • wearedirigibles.com (an expired/failed idea/site to write about misc. projects)
  • ????.??? (a much-neglected site to write semi-anonymously about misc. projects and other things)
  • aninvitationtolove.com (my other band)
  • students.washington.edu/louieo (endless years ago)
  • any number of myspaces, tumblrs, bloggers, facebook, cllct, bandcamps… an endless array of digital repetition.

There are other sites as well coming up now that I’m renaming my music project, and aninvitationtolove.com needs effort and content, and on and on. Separately, I’ve been writing for ballofwax.org. That’s been nice.

But my point: it’s all over the place, scattered like my mind. The only solution was to create yet another website, and maybe eventually just roll some/most of the above into this and simplify things. Also, I bought my name in DNS. Also, ball of wax doesn’t publish everything I write, so I can put that unpublished stuff here. Because words are precious, and if they’re not on the internet they don’t exist. Publish or perish! I’m sure this is what that means.

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On Subway

Friends from out of town who visit me here in Seattle have commented that we have a lot of Subways (as in the sandwich place), and fewer of the other types of fast food outlets that you see elsewhere in the US. Here’s another one “coming soon” by the ferry terminal that I saw the other day:

Do we have a lot of subways? What an important question. Let’s do some unscientific science. Here’s a google map of the downtown/capitol hill/central dist./queen anne/rainier valley bits of town and an overlaid “businesses” search for “subway sandwiches:”

20 dots means there are 20 of them, right? I checked, they seem to all be subway franchises and not some other business named subway sandwiches. Here’s McDonalds:

quite a difference there. How about KFC..

Crap. What about local favorite Ivar’s?

Over the same map, burger king showed 1, local chain Dick’s had 2, and then I got bored of looking. Conclusion: there are a lot of subways.

Wow, what a dumb blog post.

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An Invitation to Love Monday, more radio adds

My rock band An Invitation to Love is playing on Monday the 29th at the Comet Tavern here in Seattle. You should go. After some thought we figured we should have a mailing list for that band so I can stop spamming the graze list.. you can sign up for that now at www.aninvitationtolove.com. That band also has a couple of new recordings to put up on that site, I’ll be doing that after I do some more mixing.

Other news: Give/Sell was added to a couple more Northwest radio stations, KZUU in Pullman WA and KGRG in Auburn WA. If you’re in those neighborhoods call them up and request something. They might just play it.

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Show tonight! plus news

Hi,

tonight I’ll be playing on Hollow Earth Radio on the Internet on the Leaky Pipes radio show, and then Friday the band is back together to play the album release for Give/Sell, at Cafe Venus/Mars Bar. I’ve explained that elsewhere, I think, but there it is again. Here’s an excellent poster from Jeffrey Henry:

2010/03/05 cafe venus

Hilariously, Open Choir Fire has a much better take on it. This is their email blast on the subject:

Hello again!
Say, if you’ve ever caught Open Choir Fire live, you know it may be all good times and jollies, being the irreverently careless side project (and hugely successful cash cow) that it is, but I bet you didn’t know that we also have a serious side as well.
Mississippi Painful started as an dadaist installation art project of Brian and Terry’s from back in our optimistic college days. Meant to shine a light what we believed to be an insurmountable socioeconomic chasm between the classes, the original installation consisted of two plastic champagne glasses filled with red and blue jello (dis)respectively, highlighting the oxygenated, de-oxygenated blood that runs through all our veins, regardless of class standing, atop a pile of mixed women’s lingerie. This came along with musical accompaniment (played live by Brian on his tenor sax, “Goldilocks”): A proverbial “broken record” of repeated overtones and deep harmonics, meant to symbolize humanity’s solipsistic inability to truly connect with [on any deep level], not only other forms of (un)natural life (nature, religion, etc.), but ultimately our own true inner selves.
Just kidding. As usual, it will just be us and our more talented friends getting dangerously drunk and playing country music. This time we have an album No Recession available for purchase. Also it is a CD Release party for the Graze’s new fucking album Give/Sell, which you need to have. And local heartthrob Seth Howard is playing as well, so there you have it. BTW, the Graze will be giving you a delicious taste tonite, playing live on Hollow Earth Radio, at about, oh let’s say 8PM.

Friday, March 5th
Mars Bar/Cafe Venus
& Nadamucho.com present…
The Graze
Mississippi Painful
Seth Howard
9p
$6
it’s a bar

Enjoy.

Quick reminder that tonight is the album release show.. Cafe Venus at 9pm sharp.

In other news, the Seattle Weekly had a great writeup for the album and the show.

Also, Give/Sell is going into rotation on KEXP 90.3 FM in Seattle, which is exciting.. I hear that place is good. Call them up and request something!

And finally, I believe KUPS 90.1 FM in Tacoma is spinning the album as well…

KUPS logo

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Radio show tonight and album release this weekend

Hi,

tonight I’ll be playing on Hollow Earth Radio on the Internet on the Leaky Pipes radio show, and then Friday the band is back together to play the album release for Give/Sell, at Cafe Venus/Mars Bar. I’ve explained that elsewhere, I think, but there it is again. Here’s an excellent poster from Jeffrey Henry:

2010/03/05 cafe venus

Hilariously, Open Choir Fire has a much better take on it. This is their email blast on the subject:

Hello again!
Say, if you’ve ever caught Open Choir Fire live, you know it may be all good times and jollies, being the irreverently careless side project (and hugely successful cash cow) that it is, but I bet you didn’t know that we also have a serious side as well.
Mississippi Painful started as an dadaist installation art project of Brian and Terry’s from back in our optimistic college days. Meant to shine a light what we believed to be an insurmountable socioeconomic chasm between the classes, the original installation consisted of two plastic champagne glasses filled with red and blue jello (dis)respectively, highlighting the oxygenated, de-oxygenated blood that runs through all our veins, regardless of class standing, atop a pile of mixed women’s lingerie. This came along with musical accompaniment (played live by Brian on his tenor sax, “Goldilocks”): A proverbial “broken record” of repeated overtones and deep harmonics, meant to symbolize humanity’s solipsistic inability to truly connect with [on any deep level], not only other forms of (un)natural life (nature, religion, etc.), but ultimately our own true inner selves.
Just kidding. As usual, it will just be us and our more talented friends getting dangerously drunk and playing country music. This time we have an album No Recession available for purchase. Also it is a CD Release party for the Graze’s new fucking album Give/Sell, which you need to have. And local heartthrob Seth Howard is playing as well, so there you have it. BTW, the Graze will be giving you a delicious taste tonite, playing live on Hollow Earth Radio, at about, oh let’s say 8PM.

Friday, March 5th
Mars Bar/Cafe Venus
& Nadamucho.com present…
The Graze
Mississippi Painful
Seth Howard
9p
$6
it’s a bar

Enjoy.
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