Filed under: Free Music
Just a little EP we recorded of a few songs we find delightful to varying degrees.
- Chelsea Hotel #2 – Leonard Cohen- From New Skin for the Old Ceremony
- Don’t Let It Bring You Down – Neil Young- From After the Gold Rush
- I’m On Fire – Bruce Springsteen – From Born in the USA
- 32 Footsteps – They Might Be Giants – From They Might Be Giants
- Alpha In Tauris – the Mountain Goats – From Zopilote Machine
Filed under: Shows
Rarely seen in the wild. Even more rarely documented.
Yes we are quite proud of our little gimmick wherein the drummer stands while the guitarist sits, thank you very much. Also, if possible, might we request a rollicking hoot of gratitude for one Katherine Coplen for manning (or womanning if you prefer) the camera? Katherine, we thank you sincerely for all those times when you could have abandoned us at gas stations but didn’t: we’d be hard pressed to find someone more tolerant.
Filed under: Shows
Lord how it’s been quiet on this blog lately. Apologies from all of us to all of you for that. We’ve simply not had that much to say. However, even without things to say, we usually have a hard time keeping quiet for this long. Thank heavens we’ve got legitimate news today. Otherwise this post would probably be about Yann Tiersen (if if were possible to over express our adoration for that man, we most certainly would).
In point of fact, however, we’ve recently been asked to play a show at Rachel’s Cafe in Bloomington on October 23rd and we thought you might want to know. We are, of course, thrilled to be playing another show. We will be opening for Arms and Austin Hoke.
What’s more, for those of you who have been a bit unsettled lately by the fact that while we insist on referring to ourselves as a collective, our shows have been strictly solitary affairs, fret no more! The prodigal son, Michael Squeri, will be joining us on the drums for this performance. His glorious return is surely not to be missed.
Since we hate not delivering on the things we mention, even in passing, here is a Yann Tiersen song:
Filed under: Poetry
Good god son.
Looking straight at feet never got no one no where in this world
Son, can you imagine?
What it’s like to be passed over for shoe leather?
To have eyes, arms, legs, knees, all ignored?
Ignored for an inanimate object with a pleasant scent but nothing more
Salt water and leather.
Or son.
Can you begin to imagine what it’s like to melt?
What it’s like to fold in a too large chair
Staring straight ahead
At a screen
Flashing colors/lights
Sliding into and out of semblances and meanings
Hands searching and
not finding
And son, your knees jutting out like jetties among the foam
Crossing right over left over left over right
Cool air lifting up hairs like shocks, but god son.
You must look at them.
And son could you ever imagine?
How deep a chair can feel
When you know the folding’s real
And the water isn’t still for any lack of menace
Oh god!
How the screams will peal.
But son, I hope you’ve guessed that from under the refracting and refracted water
That cuts the light up so beautifully
From under that water you’ll never see bottom
And son, my love, this is vital
What they say about screams in space is true.
I know you’re a child, kid, but think, really think on this one,
How’s it got to taste?
Fed nothing
But expecting much
Can you conceive of the empty imperial dry rot
Upon which, believe this if anything, the sun never sets
And child, it tastes like carrion.
When the chair starts its own folding in.
Holy Lord in Heaven, my beloved son, when the sea foam green monoliths roll in with the moon.
They butt against the wood legs of the jetty
The feet, and knees too,
Those that are foundationed in the sand and bound up with the shoe leather
That you,
My ingrate son,
Cannot seem to ignore.
Filed under: Uncategorized
Thanks to Andrew Crowley at WIUX for all the kind words and the fourth Doctor comparison.
Filed under: Uncategorized
Check it out, even the IDS took note of this killer show we are playing with Elephant Micah and Pillars & Tongues. They called us “Elegant Bachelor” but that don’t matter one bit.
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The day at least one person in the world has been waiting for has finally arrived- Nothing Left to Certainty (the split EP we made with Eric Radoux) is finally available for public consumption. The price of entry is a measly five dollars.
As a refresher the track listing is as follows:
1. Down the Door – Eric Radoux
2. Number One Cause – The Elegant Bachelors
3. Placebo – Eric Radoux
4. Glass Houses – The Elegant Bachelors
5. Take My Hand – Eric Radoux
6. Sharks – The Elegant Bachelors
7. Shooter – Eric Radoux
8. Light, As Viewed Through a Sieve – The Elegant Bachelors
What’s more, we’re running a special deal where if you buy the album through our website, as an extra token of thanks, we’ll include a CDR of two never before heard by anyone Elegant Bachelors tunes. That certainly can’t be beaten, and trust us, we’ve tried.
