paintings by john currin

ANAVAN to play in Shreveport

Los Angeles band ANAVAN is touring with DAZZLER and they are playing in Shreveport on August 23 at Kilpatrick Auditorium. I haven't heard Dazzler but i loooove ANAVAN and hope I can afford the trip from New Orleans by then. Who in Shreveport wants to go to the show?



Anavan, photo by Miss Megan at SXSW 2009

you could win a rabbit

by jaimie heiges

AUTO FORM #2

PLZ PREP PROPR POST PRE OP PROP UP

dr. dog sign to new label

dr. dog signed to anti-
bumz. but good for them.
they is also dun gonna be comin to that howlin wolf 9-30.

why?

when i saw why? in baton rouge after alopecia came out, josiah (drummer) told me how they recorded another album while they recorded alopecia. that album, featuring a rapless-yoni, is, well, different. catch a taste. some of it is really great

jeaneric new hit

check out myspace.com/jeanerichits for new song.  PickleBitch.

atlas sound/panda bear . . . clipse/n.e.r.d/re-up

atlas sound featuring panda bear


clipse feat. pharrell
gon' get funky at da end!!

wounded.

"hurt me," she said. 

[ or so it seemed to me ] 


and i did not want to. 


but her green eyes were so piercing - 
bright, yet humbled -
and in search of true pain. 


and so it was, me without mercy, lacking regret.

in ways i had previously thought myself incapable,
i destroyed her.



i drifted on from her some time later.




she, once the hunted, now the predator. 

having seen the truth, 

never to gaze on her lover with such innocence as before.

AUTO FORM #1

ALSO NOT SO SONOROUS

Excercise Sonnet

A discipline on paper, true to meaning:
Now, let's cast off all the ugliness
that comes with trying, as opposed to letting
truth preside. The artist rides the crest
to shore, then swims his pilgrimage alone.
He lets the trying be where it belongs,
relaxes on arrival to the home
of every of his self-creating songs.
But not to cease his analyzing habits.
That would be a lie to great to miss!
But he will only let creation have its
privacy, contented lone to piss.
So now a line is drawn between the gods
and endless repetitions that they spawn.

shit-talkin

a short

this shit right here...

clipse - double down (feat. vybz cartel) (unreleased)

Life-Affirming...

new 'deason featurette

per my discussion with paul cloud and other darshicists, we're going to try a something.
it's in the same line with a lot of what we want this website to be in the first place.
it is an interactive, everybody's-in contribution to mix a bunch of small ideas and turn them into one solid work of art.
our first effort will be this week, where we will try to, word-by-word if we have to, create a short film based on anyone and everyone's input.
ideas will be accepted starting the second this is posted, and the idea center will be closed friday at midnight.
whoever is around will contribute to creating the visuals for the film, and if anyone is able to send me, via e-mail, their own visuals and or other multi-media, we will craft that into the work as well.
we are hoping the finished product to be an example of part of the mission statement where everyone is able to put their own ideas down and mad-lib our way into creating collages of experiment.
if this sounds a little vague, good. just start something. and finish what you start.

so, setting?? character names?? title?? dialogue?? GO!!

yim yames at preservation hall

yim yames recently had the honor of traveling to new orleans to record live with the legendary preservation hall jazz band in grand old school new orleans fashion. the recordings will be part of a benefit album to raise money for the hall (www.preservationhall.com) which hopefully will be released in the fall. stay tuned for more info.
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in other "yames" news, his tribute to george harrison album will be released august 4th. check out one of the better tracks from the six song covers album:

The Faint article is a Postandeason early edition exclusive

enjoy.

99% of "A Chat With Todd Fink of The Faint"

I first heard The Faint in 2001 when a friend of mine gave me "Danse Macabre." For months after that I couldn’t get it out of my head or CD player. The unbelievably catchy beats and vivid lyrics were just too good not to play all the time. Needing more, I went to work on finding out what their back catalogue had to offer me and found the lighter (and sometimes dancier) "Blank-Wave Arcade." In 2004, I had the pleasure of getting up early on a Tuesday morning to peel the plastic off of the new "Wet From Birth" album and proceeded to punish my speakers with it non-stop for the next month or two. The next four years were restless ones; I played their whole catalogue inside out and laid in wait. When word of a new album hit my ears in 2008, I felt an excitement and anticipation that few bands could ever invoke inside of me. "Fasciinatiion" was an enormous payoff and to add to that, I had the pleasure of doing a phone interview with lead singer Todd Fink.

PC: In preparation of your latest album you guys built a studio and formed your own label. What were some of the benefits of these two things?

TF: Well, I think it’s something that we’d wanted to do for a while. We had had serious thoughts about doing that for Wet From Birth. We didn’t have any concerns with the label, like Saddle Creek not being good enough, we were just already doing a lot of the stuff that a label does. We thought it’d be cool to have our own label since we do so much of our band stuff ourselves, anyways, and we always have. So it just made sense for us to take on the responsibility of a label; especially now that we have a manager to help us with it. As far as the studio, I dunno if we could’ve made an album without that. We tend to over-analyze a lot of stuff and having your own studio is a much better place to waste time than one where you’re paying by the hour.

PC: Where have been some of your favorite places to play in and outside of the US?

TF: I think we all like to play in Japan. That might be our favorite if I was gonna guess how we’d vote. Also, southern California, well California in general, has been consistently really good. I think pretty much all of the major cities are where the bigger shows happen. A lot of times, though, the small shows that seem like they’re gonna be terrible have been the best; I dunno if it’s because we play better to compensate for how we’re feeling about it or what.

PC: I’ve read that you do a lot of graphic art design and collages and things like that. How did you first get into that and what are some of your favorite album designs you’ve worked on?

TF: I kind of go in and out of making visual art, it just comes in phases. Over the last chunk of years the thing that’s motivated it has been needing new designs for Faint stuff like shirts, posters, album covers, singles and all that. There’s enough of that to where even if I’m making collages or something for no reason at home I can go back and pull those out to see if they’d make a good shirt design or stickers or something. I definitely don’t do all of it by myself, though; Dapose and Jacob do a lot of it too. Dapose has probably done the most of it in the last handful of years. We all work together on the major things like album covers and singles. Otherwise, we just kinda share ideas for shirts and that kind of stuff.

PC: Which album cover would you say you had your hand in the most?

TF: Album covers really are super collaborative. Maybe "Danse Macabre" or "Wet From Birth." A lot of times what will happen is I’ll have gathered a bunch of things that I think will be good to put together and Dapose will work with that. Or if I don’t put together anything that he likes he’ll take those elements and do it himself; I usually find that I like his stuff a lot. So, a lot of the elements on those two albums were mine, but we really do it as a group. Dapose will be running the computer while we’re all insulting how it looks until we all like it.

PC: Can you recall, as a child, the first song that overwhelmed you and gave you the chills?

TF: Probably “Revolution” by The Beatles. I really liked that one, I had a 45 of it when I was very young. I haven’t really even listened to it in years, but it just has that real fuzzy guitar and organ sound. That really struck me when I was young because it didn’t sound like the other stuff I had heard on the radio and there wasn’t, of course, internet or MTV in Omaha at that point.

PC: What are a few of the major differences between the original vision of the band and the current feel and sound of it now?

TF: I guess, to me, the band kind of figured out what it wanted to be in 1998 or 1999 when we were making "Blank-Wave Arcade." So, to me, that’s the original sound of The Faint even though we had albums and 7”s before that. So, from that point... how is it different? You know, it might sound like an insult to the band as it is now, but it’s a little less focused sounding now, in a way that it sounded a little more cohesive before, not because the songs were that similar to each other, but because we had fewer instruments to work with and devices to manipulate. I think with so many possibilities now it’s hard not to indulge. So, now it sounds a little like us just trying a whole bunch of different approaches to the same thing. I think the original sound of The Faint is kind of a minor key somewhat fast or at least upbeat kind of abstract shards of observations lyrically that’s built on music that was trying to escape from what “indie-rock” meant in 1998. I felt like we were escaping from it when we were making that record, but because people liked it I thought, “well I guess we didn’t really escape it, but at least we came up with something that we like.” And I say we didn’t escape it because all the people that liked it were the same people that liked what we were trying to escape from. Not that we were trying to get away from the fans, it’s just that we didn’t feel like we could contribute anything to that whole scene anymore. I guess we could, though, and we accidentally did.

PC: As far as the old stuff I agree with you about it sounding more sporadic. Where as with the new stuff, it’s completely clean sounding; you guys have some kind of a tick or bell or note inserted into every empty crevasse and that’s what really impressed me with the new album is how absolutely complete it is. I guess that really comes with what you were saying about having all these devices at your fingertips.

TF: Yeah I think we were trying to fit in a billion things. As fun as it is, I don’t know, it’s probably not a good idea to have so much stuff in it, but we found a way to fit it all in the mix.

PC: Listening to it, it sounds phenomenal, but mainly it sounds like a ton of hard work finding enough stuff to constantly maintain the songs like that.

TF: That’s an interesting take on it; I hadn’t really thought of it like that before. Although, when we played it for a friend right when we were finished I kind of wondered if that was his impression. He said he liked it a lot, but was gonna need to listen to it a lot more to understand all the things that were happening in it. I hadn’t really thought about it being complicated before or detailed.

PC: “Detailed” is absolutely the right word. I was completely blown away by that the first time I heard it; even now I still take away something new from it every time I listen to it.

TF: Well cool, thanks.

PC: Last but not least, what’s next for The Faint and how long are you guys gonna make me wait for a new EP or album?

TF: Haha, well I dunno. If history is anything to go by I don’t think it’s coming very soon. You never know, though, we’ve got a studio and we’ll probably put something together. I think after making this record and touring extensively on it, right now it’s just kinda time for a break. So, we’ll see how long the break lasts.

*The Faint is:
*Todd Fink - singer/keyboards
*Jacob Thiele - keyboards, backup vocals
*Dapose - guitars
*Joel Petersen - bass
*Clark Baechle - drums, percussion

A Chat With John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees

It's been close to two years now since I first heard Thee Oh Sees (then The Ohsees), and I can honestly say that I'm still just as intrigued. It's no small feat when a band can make you clinch your teeth and truly want to blowout all your speakers, then turn around and completely overtake you with the softest melodies and most beautiful reverb you've ever heard. Their newest album "The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In" is definitely one of those teeth-clinchers. Thank God they've got such an extensive catalog, because nothing will satisfy you after listening to Thee Oh Sees except for more of the same.

PC: What about the original OCS project did you like enough to have kept it up now for more than 6 albums and a handful of EPs?

JD: Once Patrick Mullins left, shortly after the recording of "Sucks Blood," I lost interest in doing solely mellow stuff. Although enjoyable at that time, it was time to move along. I still write the occasional mellow number.

PC: How long have you been playing music and what inspired you to pick it up in the first place?

JD: I've been playing drums for maybe 15-17 years and guitar for like 14 years. AC/DC is always my answer to that question because I was obsessed as a young teen.

PC: Can you recall, as a child, the first song that gave you the chills it was so good?

JD: Maybe "Misty Mountain Hop?" My folks liked the stoner stuff quite a bit, so I guess that would explain a lot.

PC: The album artwork for Thee Oh Sees really compliments the eeriness and distortion of the music itself. Who makes the majority of the art that goes in and onto the albums?

JD: Usually it has been me, but "The Master's Bedroom..." and the upcoming "Help" are both dominated by the art of William Kiehn.

PC: Do you feel that the addition of a full band over the years has helped to fully carry out your original vision or turned it into a completely different animal?


JD: Different animal..me-ow.

PC: You must be thrilled to have a voice like Brigid Dawson's backing yours. How did she come to be in the band?

JD: I do love her. We met through online dating.

PC: Are there any new artists or bands that you've come across lately that have really floored you?

JD: The Fresh & Onlys, Ty Segall, and Chris Woodhouses' super secret no one's heard em home recordings..

PC: Which of the two would you say gives you more satisfaction as a musician: piecing together a new Oh Sees soundscape in the studio or unveiling one for the first time on a live audience?

JD: Both are so different, but if I had to choose I would say live ...that is a great feeling when you pull it off.

PC: Are there any live acts touring right now that you've been itching to play with?

JD: Not off the top of my head, money would be nice though...so maybe Radiohead will hear my call...scratch that, they are terrible.

PC: Finally, what can listeners expect next LP/EP-wise and how do you see the band's sound changing in the next couple of years?

JD: A full length on In The Red called "Help"...maybe a single or compilation track here or there...I think it sounds better than the last one, but I get sick of my shit by the time it is released so hard to say...it's a burner though, I think.

"Help" is out now on CD, MP3, and pink vinyl.

dead cereal featuring Songbird - Parts video

Directed: Jana Mahoney
Casting: Pan Frederick
Costumes/Production: JJ Marshall

something's on my mind

OHEY

Remember when you got felt up on the neutral ground by glitter guy?

emerald sparkles everywhere...

you lost your lighter, got 5 others, took a nap in the car

woke up next to the old wine

need more courage

chug chug, hurry up, itsa party!

smells weird in here....

out on the porch, upside down aquariums, precarious benches

mardi gras and christmas hangin around everywhere

did you see? did you hear? omg you won't believe

blacked out again

nic-o-tine- pois-on-ing-

Holes in the base board

BabyFlash

Weavers drivin dream boats

trickle in the man

nail on top of it

bite it by the stand

Flyin flag high

sword and all

hats off to ya

you stand we fall

Miss Megan Photography

Here's one from a spontaneous photo shoot with a friend in my dingy living room. This was the first shoot I've done in a while with a model. I took a long deserved break after tour but I'm happy to be getting in the swing of it again.



You can see more at http://www.flickr.com/photos/missmeganphotography

morlique/foisto/casbeca

this week's yocab words are:

MORLIQUE

FOISTO

CASBECA

define mit comment.

Dead Cereal featuring Songbird

Here's what happened...Jaimie had a pretty guitar and played it. I recorded it, messed with it, threw some beats on that hoe. Brittney came over one night and sang over it, then deleted what she sang. I, being savvier than she, undid her deletion, and messed with the sound. What you have is a new Dead Cereal song. What you will have in the next week, is a music video, directed by Jana Mahoney and myself. For now, enjoy the mp3!

for J martin

Crestiary plenoold pum

an dantis sankha deent

re blanka fornit tolna solm

hel darnk fonata teant

Wa salgen fornitu di vas

redonia saltruy gaeglen

des craalm enati seeben cho

quol donti rar vitaeglen

oir qwamma reli troobi ta

vetreeni calm eh denken

jorama dam et ticee pir

wo jomo tir ab renken.

For K. Blagainvier

Forthwith these dangle doubts
may wrinkle towers float.
hurther hence thigh twitch
mut seldom screens and foftem papers' niche

clutch the lids if seething was a sooth
poor yayers march in cockled eye salutes!

expect content

justin lamar here. just in time for the playoffs. expect content. snub pollard, y'all.

HALL O YOCAB

1901

one of my favorite songs of the year, and this drummer go hard, yall

this movie is broken

broken social scene is making a movie.

for real

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oh and remember when you were all, "that chick from the kills oughta, i duno, make an album with jack white," well they did. Have yourself a listening party here

listen to the entire new dodo's album!

timetodie.net

things to do when feeling manic

1. today i felt manic, so i rode my new bike up and down carrollton for an hour.

2. _____________________

Songbird - Little by Little:

See Songbird at the All-Ways Lounge this Thursday with Generationals and Giant Cloud.

We will post videos from the show this Friday, as well as an interview with our very own Songbird.

Gon' off da skittle

A small introduction ... Postandeason is a collaborative effort from the Darsh Nation and beyond. It is a forum for ideas and creativity, and whatever. Contributing to the first official postandeason blurb: a brand spankin' new song from Songbird (of the Peekers), games with Justin Lamar Nix, videos from Jana Mahoney, and slam poetry by Ryan Seacrest. Songbird's song to sing in the post above, sorry for the inconvenience.

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A fun new game from some friends, here's an introduction...

yocab: [YO-cab] 1) n. a game created by Justin Lamar Nix and John Martin in which one player invents three fictive words, then passes them on to the other, who defines them. The defining player then invents three new words for his/her partner, thus starting the cycle again.  2) n. Norse god of nonsense and raspberries.  3) int. a moderately effective method for procuring a taxi.

I have always been something of a nonsense writer, filling notebooks with puns, palindromes, purposeful mispeelings, and thirty-six syllable margin-eating monsterwords. One night, my friend John got ahold of one of my notebooks and came across a few of these behemoths. He attempted to pronounce one, and we both broke into spontaneous gigglefits. Once the uncontrollable laughter subsided, John began to construct his own monsterword, one that matched mine, rhyming syllable for syllable. We switched papers and tried to recite them in tandem. More gigglefitz. 

Eventually, when we saw each other, one of us would say, "Hey John. I heard this word the other day, and I really like it. I just don't know what it means."  

"Is that so?"  John would say. "I bet I know what it means. What's the word?" "Paratwung!"

"Oh, paratwung! Of course!  Paratwungs are the parts of braces that the rubber bands are attached to. Though often overlooked, they are essential for proper orthodontic  growth. But it's funny you asked, because I heard a word the other day that I quite liked the sound of, but sadly do not know its definition."

"Oh yes?"

"Oh yes. Bimblombe."

This went on for some time, until I moved to Brooklyn and left my good friend John back in Louisiana.  We carry on our tradition over the internet now (by threes), and other friends have since been bitten by the yocab bug. You too can get bit.

I love yocab because it encourages both etymological research and inspired lunacy. Look up Latin roots, or turn your word into a fart joke; it doesn't matter. The game encourages all of us to feed our creative impulse by acting upon the feelings we get from letters and sounds all smooshed together. Pleilandi bamabaha, y'all!

Here are a few examples of the fun we're having:

heffleckle: a fast growing wildflower, indigenous to everywhere. known for its sweet extractable nectar, which is said to be the inspiration for orange sherbet.

poxpazzle: an unsuccessful candied remedy for smallpox. taken off the market when everybody suddenly got poilo. whoops!

rimpsteam: v. to defeat one's opponent by a wide margin. "we totally rimpsteamed them!" n. a urethral colonic.

words by John Martin. definitions by Justin Lamar Nix.

CRENDIO (kren'-dee-oh): n. the part in a pop song where everything kind of builds right before the breakdown into the takin' it down real slow.

LABAMESSRY (leh-bom'es-ree): state of being. 1. when one feels so low, they drink themselves into oblivion to the point where they shit. 2. and they subsequently realize it while being cleaned up by a good friend. 3. usually accompanied by crying.

YONGRE (yahngr-ay): slang. "Do you want something to eat?"

words by Justin Lamar Nix. definitions by Anya Clingman.

Plelelefous: n. duck-billed elephant.

Mandwarb: v. to hold hands in a tangled fashion with multiple Persians; n. tangled hand-holding, with Persians.

Fitzitu: n. a form of exercise involving tantrum-throwing.

words by Justin Lamar Nix. definitions by Sara White and Kasey Mire.

How to play: Define the following three words::

MORLIQUE

FOISTO

CASBECA


If you have any of your own makeupped words, feel free to leave them here as well. Until next week, pleilandi bamaha!

-jLn.

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The deaf girl from Dewey St.  Here's your co-captain Tiffany, asking that oh-so-quotable phrase...

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Ranchoscopes with Ranch Frederick, for birthdays falling in between Ranch 5th and Ranchuary 12th:

Whether you are ranch or not, the time has come to ranch, as much as you can. There is no such thing as ranching too many people. Perhaps not ranching others more ranchly might be the only criticism.  Ranch builds for those in partnerships. Tonight: Try an exotic ranch.

postandeason is a word i made up when i was 4. i had a lisp, a huge cowlick, and i ate dirt. but my imagination was my best friend. i would make up characters of football and basketball players and pretemberlike in my backyard every waking moment, imagining myself to be something bigger than i was. i wore huge jerseys and created "plans" to run, as if I was the player, the coach, the broadcaster, and the fan.

i played music. only, it didn't sound good, the instruments were terribly off, but the attitude, stage presence, and flare for the dramatic was alive in such hard rock chants as "sanctuary" from the alterboy hymn book i heard normally call for.

postandeason means whatever you want it to mean. that was my answer whne people would ask me what the hell i was saying. whatever you want it to mean. my sister told some friends of mine in college about my made up world and word, which obviously turned something minor into the name of our pretemberlike magazine that we would never create. 

but now we graduated, and the only thing left to do is postandeason. all i really do is lurk around the internet looking for new music, trailers for films i want to psychoanalyze into minor similarities with my own life, and watch crappy youtube videos of bands who i wish would come to new orleans.

so here we are. the shreveport-bossier-cruston-drama-at-516-soundstage-connection has scattered a bit, and we, in keeping with the narcissism that we all employ already, have decided that the only way to keep us all in touch is to have one medium through which everyone can contribute a piece of themselves to whenever they want. the narcissistic side comes, obviously, as we will be doing it to show everyone in the world how fucking cool we are. videos, art, music, literature...videos of britt and baby or john writing a song, paul's t-shirt designs and/or links to his interviews with artists, jaimie projects, pansnaps, jess columns, bethany songs, chayce, seri fana band videos, justin's yocab series...and so on

if anyone has a nice melody, or a cool beat, feel free to upload it to the page, and let someone else help out. once you have laid your addition down, add the layered piece to the page for others to hear/add to.

for instance: michael comes up with a melody, posts the skeleton of it, and jaimie thinks of a good hook, adds onto it, and posts her take on it...and so on

the same goes for a story, a picture, a video, a flyer...

john's bartering idea will be covered in the first week

mandy and i have an idea for a feature called "stapions"

a schedule of sorts will be posted sunday, and things should be ready for full launch on monday!

until then...

Missy Elliot

Soon, Postandeason will become a reality. It is exactly what it says: whatever you want it to be. 

We are working and gimping as hard as humanly possible to make this a functional source for sharing music, art, video, feelings, and hopefully laughs.

All current members of the Darsh Nation are poised to contribute regularly, though all readers are encouraged to give whatcha got. 

Nobody is quite sure what to make of it, because it is nothing. And everything. It is postandeason, and it's coming. Just give it a minute.