Posts Tagged ‘Chad Clark’
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-My fathers advice to me before I head out to Cali in the morn = “talk alot” Thanks dad, where would I be without you. LOL
-Got alot done so far & now I’m about to take a nap and dream about my pop life in 2010.
-DMV popping so hard these next two weeks, hu homecoming, Monday night football, bp3 tour and Halloween get sleep now
-Chris samuels set to retire due to his recent neck injury? Damn
-at inner year last night til 1am knocking out flute overdubs and my mouth feels just fine! we begin MIXING THIS WEEK…it’s about damn time
Beauty Pill (Chad Clark)
-Doctor says BP can tour next Spring if I keep with the same regimen. Death 0, Chad 1. Hoping to defer the rematch.
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Sampling the thought-streams of DC musicians past and present.
-Sitting at a cafe, eating a sandwich & overhearing a very awkward first date at the table to my left. Guy working too hard, girl turned off.
-Mary Timony gives guitar lessons. That seems like something I invented in my head, but it’s true. Is there also a Vespa made of 2Amys pizza?
-File under: cool stuff that escaped my notice. Madlib’s apparently on some kind of Sun Ra trip. http://bit.ly/aMrSF & http://bit.ly/Oui50
-Things U.S. Royalty never do: USR never only uses the mens restroom.
-Things U.S. Royalty never does: USR never checks out of their hotel room on time.
-Just got some delicious white vinyl for the Casper Bangs 7″. It’s gorgeous. http://yfrog.com/0wgo8gj
-Loading gear out at 5 am is true rock stardom.
-If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn’t much to you in the first place.
-I forgot to mention that last quote was from Proverbs. I didn’t come up with it. Just sharing with you guys
-is honored to have the chance to collab with the laughing man and see the blk jks! see us all on the 29th
Chad Clark on Story/Stereo @ The Writers Center
Combining literary pretensions with rock music can be tricky. Sometimes you get Leonard Cohen and everybody’s happy—or at least content in their woe-tinged introspection. Other times, you get the Lizard King. But Chad Clark, leader of local rock band Beauty Pill and former proprietor of Silver Sonya recording studios, seems to know what he’s doing. At least, he’s aware of the aesthetic dangers at hand.
Tonight Clark—alongside musician Matt Byars and the staff of The Writer’s Center—will kick off Story/Stereo, a concert and reading series that pairs local rock bands with local writers and poets and, ultimately, forces the two to combine their efforts. “Hopefully not in a goofy way,” says Clark. “We’re aware of the perils.”
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Sampling the thought-streams of DC musicians past and present.
–oh, dear, I almost forgot how mind-ticklingly-Good this song was/is — http://is.gd/OoDu — read the lyrics, please, for the love of Dada?!?
–totally identify w/ How Frank Sinatra Feels on this one – http://is.gd/Po0l – Shervin will NOT stop bothering us to play “The Business” LOL!
–love to hear friends’ voices on the speakers in all kindsa strange public places. thanks, Maria, for serenading me outside the UPS store!
–when life gives you lemons, go swimming: http://yfrog.com/724mjj
–There’s a line from 30Rock that cracks me up whenever I think of it. “Never follow a hippie to a second location.”
–Oliver Messiaen was also an ornithologist. Transcribed birdsong into compositions. Glad I’m not the only one.
–Favorite Indian restaurant between gym and home. The world has a cruel shape sometimes. I try not to think about it as I drive by.
Wale:
–buisness can wait today is family day gonna see mommy too (african people say mommy till there60 ha) no dates no lunches nothin but fam 2day
