Filed under: Everything Else
No, we don’t know what that video is either.
New song. Available at the Bandcamp site.It’s called “Adam Smith Worship Song #1.” Hope you like it.
So our sister recently went to Spain and returned bearing gifts. For us it was a windfall, she found a Spanish edition of one of our favorite books, 2666, by Roberto Bolano. To follow the dictum of “pics or it never happened” check these babies out:
And for those of you who don’t believe it’s actually in Spanish: (no we are not the best at reading Spanish, but we are working on it, and we used to be quite good so we are confident it is a skill we will be able to regain within a reasonable length of time). 
So we’re just tickled all shades of pink about this addition to our library and are sincerely grateful to our sister. Also, if you are looking for a some pretty cool music we suggest you look no further than this newish band called The Wailing Wall. We are digging their album quite a lot of over here and we would imagine you might also:
A final note that we have intentionally buried in a post rife with media to distract. We are in fact working on a new full length album. Hopefully we will have it ready to go early next year. Thus far we’ve got about 5 and a half songs written. There will no doubt be a slew of intervening EPs and singles (as a matter of fact, you didn’t hear it from us, but checking back here periodically over the next couple of days might behoove you if you are interested in being the first among your friends to hear an almost never before heard tune) during this interval, but rest assured, we are also working diligently on a long player.
Ok. This is really the final note. The split with Eric is currently in the process of being pressed. We’ll have a release date tantalizingly soon. Look for a release show/party/meal of some sort on the horizon because Lord knows we love to celebrate things here in the Elegant Bachelors.
Filed under: Shows | Tags: american masters, edword in my pocket, joel rockey, merle haggard, Shows
Frankly, we’re shocked too.
It’s on August 20th with Joel Rockey (we really do like that guy) and Edword in My Pocket. More details on the show page.
We’re watching the Merle Haggard episode of American Masters right now, it’s pretty great:
Filed under: Shows
The show with Joel Rockey at The Coffee Shop was pretty generally a success. The best part came at the end of the evening when Joel said something along the line of “I drew this picture of you on this Magna Doodle while you were performing.” Thankfully my dear friend Nicholas was there and with camera so we were able to document the occasion:
And here, without fail, is the best video ever made for a song that we were completely obsessed with in the 7th grade. It holds up pretty well in our minds. It also definitely makes it clear why, when we bought our first Bad Religion album as freshmen, it was such a revelation.
How quiet it gets
Just after snow
When at 5am walking out the front door
Onto the lawn
Hearing muffled road noise
Slipping like sand through a sieve
And whispering peripherally
Until sputtering out in indivisible steps
Dimming and fading
Like a cigarette
In a glass of
Water
Flowing slower and slower
Like a river freezing
Locking and waxing
Until woven into outbound threads
And creaking as it settles
Grasping on to tree branches
Yellow glow
Silent 5am scene
With streetlight
How moonlight so easily mingles
It was so much like someone had tossed off a blanket,
the green & blue & inbetween wove all rumpled on the floor/scene here in Atlanta,
It was tossed off like he/she had grown too too cozy,
tossed off like the covered desired for some light-touching air’s fingers,
tossed off & on to the floor/ scene here in Atlanta
& as if we could see the Mercury god/king/planet posing on his golden throne
& when summoned he, Mercury god/king/planet, he will arise
& when his ladder,
& when his clear glass tube
& when his mother’s bony hip are all aligned,
he’ll reach for the middle sphere/ ceiling,
& but until called
& but until nearly smothered
he sits among the blue & green & red & white
woven in the raggedy edges of the inbetween,
& when, reflected, from above
he sees the echoes of ridges & the echoes of hills,
& the shadows of oceans & trees all eclipsed/protected/covered,
he sees the elements rattle in their cages
aiming to mimic his own muffled posture.
And of course, since we’ll take any excuse given us to post something we’ve found on Youtube:So, for once, The Elegant Bachelors have more than one show on the docket at a time. The one that will happen the soonest is with the positively inestimable Joel Rockey. It’ll go down at the Coffee Shop in Greenwood, IN, with the festivities getting started around 7pm.
We’re looking forward to it. You should too.
Re: this video. As we tell anyone who will listen anytime we play The Egmont Overture the little violin thing around 6:40 is supposed to be a guillotine coming down on the unfortunate neck of the Count of Egmont. We think things like that are pretty neat around here.
