new camper van cd cover / 6 word memoir

kathleen tagged me so here’s me playing along with a 6 word memoir of my own:

“used pencil and paper to think”.

i’m tagging luc, rama, bethel, ninah, and andy.

the new cd for camper van beethoven is due out later this year. it’s coming out on cooking vinyl, and it’s gonna be a goody. i did the package design and it was a lot of fun. it was based on the poster i did for them for the shows at the end of last year. a sneak preview:

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easter in dolores park / 2nd blog birthday

hey! it’s the second birthday of this here blog. it’s been a fun coupla years, and my favorite waste of time.

andy and i took a break from our recent lynda barry writing the unthinkable workshop on easter to sit with our sisters in the park. here’s a photo. janet fine, my favorite photographer, took the snaps. more here.

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miss olive wishes you a happy spring

and now, a haiku:

olive loving grass
note the giant pink tongue thing
pant pant pant pant pant

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funplex

from the notoriously snobby pitchfork site:

“There will always be those boring purists who think that punk bands should forever play punk or die, or that people over 50 shouldn’t have sex or, you know, fun, two silly myths more than debunked here (as well as with Bob Mould’s latest reincarnation). Funplex is a place, but it’s also a condition. No matter what the B-52’s do, they can’t help referencing what they’re doing and how great of a time they’re having while doing it, and wonder, Why aren’t you doing it too? It’s fitting that, along with R.E.M.’s Accelerate, both canonized groups to crawl from Athens at the dawn of the 80s have reappeared nearly 30 years after forming to release pretty damn good pop-rock records. Records that thankfully emphasize a way to age gracefully that takes the sonic shape of stuff traditionally associated with those much younger. The B-52’s may have no desire to rehash the past, sure, but they know how to adapt.”

Did I ever tell you about the time I danced on stage with the b-52’s?

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