Links, Links, and Sausage links

So, it's been a while.

Apologies.

Since last post, I got a few interviews published with a couple of my favorite artists:

Take a gander —

Interview with Charlie Looker from Extra Life: CLICK HERE


Interview with Randy Chabot from Deastro: CLICK HERE


In other news, I watched a pretty good documentary on the life and art of Henry Darger (one of his paintings is pictured above) called In the Realms of the Unreal.

Watch it before youtube takes that shit down! clackity click

Also, I've been busy getting kicked out of my apartment, finding new housing and working on art, music and writing.

Same old same old — more or less.

Some of my new illustrations/weirdness may be found here: CLOCKITY CLICK CLACK



All right, enough links already!



Hope the warm weather finds you and finds you well.


Love,
Derek




p.s. The second picture (below the Darger) is when Jonathan and I played at Calvin's FFM at the DAAC. A perhapsy tour is coming up for late July/early August — stay tuned...

Full Album Stream

The kind gentleman from KC's the record machine are currently streaming the album in it's entirety, for a time.

It's to be officially released JUNE 16th.

There. Now you have a date.


Row, row, row your boats, children...

Link: Click this button right here... no, right here. that's it.


Or enter this punk: http://www.therecordmachine.net/front/





Bye,
Derek

New Demo (Just In Time for TTTAXES)

Things that make me happy right now:

1.) $5 copy of Art Spiegelman's MAUS

2.) Louis Wain (he's the dead guy that painted the lovely, psych-cats in front of you... I've never had the desire to get a tattoo until seeing some of his work — don't worry, I'm too much of a pussy for that )

3.) Easter card from my mom.

4.) Grouper

5.) New comics to share...

6.) "Remade Horizon"

7.) Getting to work on new music — see below.

Have fun — song's tentatively called "Lazarus." Don't ask why, please.

Download me: CLICK!


take pear and pizza out,
derek


p.s. don't forget to do those taxes, you crazy kitties, you.

Back in Ohio

So I just spent twelve hours riding a greyhound.

The first four hours were nightmarish — an overstuffed 3:45 AM bus from Nashville to Kentucky in which the toilet overflowed. I didn't have room to store my guitar, so I had to stay awake and move it whenever someone needed to pass through the aisle. Pretty wretched... but I quickly learned the importance of getting on board early.

The last few bus trips — Louisville to Cincinnati to Columbus to Mansfield were surprisingly pleasant! I talked to a very kind older lady who was familiar with Ann Arbor, Nashville and Grand Rapids. She was going to visit her son Jonathan in Ohio because he was very ill. She was a very sweet person and I gave her a CD because she said she wanted to listen to it. Some fascinating people at Greyhound stations... To say the very least.

Here I am now in good ol' Manfield, OH. Well, definitely old — good? It has it's moments.

For instance, the first thing I heard upon arrival at the greyhound station was "With Arms Wide Open" by, according to Mansfield radio station MIX 106, THE Creed.

It was a very Mansfield, OH moment.

Went to Athens Greek Restaurant and munched on some delicious falafel, fries and baklava — cheap and delicious.

My good friend Jon Thompson, who's responsible for recording, engineering and playing on the perhapsy album, picked me up and we're getting stuff together for a performance in Grand Rapids. It should be very exciting and fun to see some best friends there and share some food and music.

So, that's about it...

If you haven't heard of him, check out the artwork of Louis Wain — really incredible.





This post was boring. Sorry.



Best,
Derek

New

Inspiration is a tricky thing.

Had a bit of it today. The result? Another garageband demo.


Mucho improvisio on this one.


Enjoy: click right here



love,
derek



p.s. extra credit if you guess the sample... ;(

ffm updated -- i's patting meself on ze back.

Hey guys,

Me again.

Some more good news to share: I ended up placing in the top 5 of Calvin College's FFM Bandspotting. Which, apparently, means two perhapsy songs will be featured on a whole bunch of CD's distributed to attendees of the festival.

I've always been a fan of the festival (I even wrote about my experiences for the Michigan Daily back when I was in school at UM: here )

I'm told Asthmatic Kitty boss-guy Michael Kaufmann and Andy Whitman of Paste magazine were the two gents put in charge of judging the entries. They had these kind words to say:


"From an instrumental standpoint, this is the most impressive music I heard in the whole batch of songs in the final list. There’s some seriously great guitar work here. Both “Bow Song” and “The Elephant Vanishes” feature an intriguing mix of electronica collage and sweet fingerpicking. It reminds me of some of the early Windham Hill music, back when “New Age” was not a derogatory musical category, and the music actually had some substance. Wonderful, lovely, and engaging
music."

Awfully kind.

Here's a link:
click

Anyhow, haven't decided if I have the funds to attend or not, but if you end up going to the festival, I hope it's as good as the last few years.


best,
derek



p.s. i'm currently in san francisco visiting my mom and was treated to some banging steamed artichokes... don't get much better than steamed artichokes.

Comix, etc.

So, it's been a while.

Apologies to anyone who cares.

For the obvious reasons, I've been pretty busy with work, music, writing and whatnot. Since my last post, I had some stuff published on Dusted and Stereo Subversion — because I do that sort of thing.

In other minor accomplishments, at the persistent encouragement of a friend, I recently submitted some music to Calvin College's FFM deally. Apparently, I've made it into the top ten peeps along with some old friends (Deastro and Aaron Roche). Hot potatoes... If you want, check out the submissions here (some really good ones including my great friend Charlene Kaye and breathe owl breathe — my favorite band from Michigan).

After some delay, the art for the perhapsy album is coming along well. Things should be ready for early May... I think itunes should have that stuff, but yeah... No more procrastination is the goal...

But enough about that shizzz, on to a subject everyone loves: homemade comics.

Well, maybe not everyone. Either way, I've been drawing a whole lot lately and am happy to share some of the randomness and resulting crazies. A good deal is meant to be humorous, but some of it's personal stuff, so, apologies if I offend.


Take a gander: here





best regards,
derek



p.s. happy march.