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CATS IN THE BASEMENT BLOG

2011-07-03T10:29:00.000-07:00

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Thank you :D

Hangout Music Fest

2011-05-18T15:31:00.000-07:00

Playing xylophone at a festival with Rich Aucoin. Check out the lineup for Hangout Fest. Pretty stoked. Wizard.

Everything Rules

2011-04-09T09:16:00.000-07:00

TEXAS

2010-12-27T16:31:00.000-08:00

Going to SXSW for the first time!! Playing with Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!!!

Blurbs

2010-12-09T09:29:00.001-08:00

I have been writing some vittles for Creative Loafing Sarasota:

FRIDAY DEC 17

Pretty Ricky

Expect slick, focus-group approved R&B aimed somewhere between Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and 2 Live Crew this Friday at Sarasota's closest equivalent to the 1-800-Ask-Gary Amphitheater, MVP Arena Sports. Flashback to the musical landscape of 2005: a song titled “Grind With Me” rockets a major label release to platinum status; the world turns. Since then, Miami's Pretty Ricky may have split ways with Atlantic, but that hasn't disrupted the good times described in tracks like “Kick Them Heels Off” (“Shorty you can leave your dress on, I'ma pull your thong to the side”). One can't detect any intentional irony in the saccharine pop of “Cookie Cutter,” but it sounds close enough to Shock To The System's original track, “We Danced Last Night” to warrant an official call for a mashup, anyone? (MVP Arena Sports, Ellenton)

SKYLINE SUMMER

The history of popular music is littered with tortured souls and broken homes. Billie Holiday dropped out at 11 and was preggers by 13. Even Bieber came into the world by the care of an unwed teenage mother. But what about the planned suburban communities of the granite countertop variety? They need music too, and Skyline Summer's recordings are the perfect nasal acoustic pop for the austere morning commute to high school or just shopping. The songs themselves are well arranged, driven by Brandon Cullen's breathy phrasing, and the peripheral instrumentation creates a persuasive emotional charge. There is a definite vision present in the recordings, but what about the multiple clothing sponsorships? A crease appears on the forehead of Calvin Johnson. (The Blue Owl, Sarasota)

SATURDAY DEC 18

Dead Cat Lounge at Payne Skate Park Grand Opening

After a long standoff between the City of Sarasota and a civil faction effectively labeled “teenagers,” the municipal skatepark will turn over its daily operations to Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences teacher and SK8SKOOL founder, Coach Dan. Payne Park's Bastille Day kicks off with Tampa punks Dead Cat Lounge providing the speedy witticisms related to both riots and dystopia. There will be plenty of skart (skateboard related art) happening, a bowl contest, and proceeds will go towards extending park hours and eliminating user fees. Sentiments are reflected by one young gentleman in the Facebook event comments, “thats probly the 4th grand opening for that park lmfao.”

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SATURDAY DEC 11

2^nd Annual Spandex Party

It's not too late to find some good spandex by the time you read this, but let's just say the selection will be a little...tight. Leggings, leotards, full body suits, and anything else that leaves little to the imagination on a December night is welcome, and there's even a photo booth incriminating to all. Meteoreyes, Big Blu House, Cassolette and DJ Automaton go all C+C Music Factory for the best dressed night in town and the Official After Hour Party for the Atomic Holiday Bazaar. (Pastimes Pub, Sarasota)

Igor

The four piece play dreamy pop songs driven by atmospheric synth textures, supplementing their live sets with a visual show including at least one totally rad sound reactive light cube. Beginning as an acoustic trio around New York City in 2009, Igor moved to Florida to work on their new sound and set design, but pledge to eventually take it back north unless we're all going to come out to the Cock & Bull gig. (Cock & Bull Pub, Sarasota)

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THURSDAY DEC 2

Tim Salem

A man with a great voice, penchant for catchy tunes, and acoustic guitar style that can be confidently described as funky might have a hard time distinguishing himself against the typical (if not diminishing) parrothead landscape of the suncoast, but this Indiana transplant has ruffled old feathers with original sing-alongs better suited for rowdy campfires and passing bottles. Respectively, he's bringing the jams for a headlining gig at one of Gulf Gate's best beer bars turned live music venue. (Mr. Beery's, Sarasota)

FRIDAY DEC 3

SNAPM/Burning Tree

“Hammers are for people who can't punch hard enough” said my friend, Hank. In the same brain space, Matt “Matteo Mayhem” Kelly's latest project might be music for people who aren't outraged enough. Melodrama aside, the DIY slam poet has has held the crown serving uncompromising conviction since the days of Porch Magazine, and now that he has a backing band, Matteo should soon be collecting his dues. St. Pete's Burning Tree spent their summer opening for N.E.R.D. on 7-Eleven's dime, playing reggae rock in the vein of Slightly Stoopid and Sublime. (The Blue Owl, Sarasota)

SATURDAY DEC 4

Zombies!Organize!!/Fancy Rat/John Lichtenstein/Easybreezy

Boca Raton's electronic pop trio Zombies!Organize!! play cute little synths and keyboards while singing even more adorable lines like “I am Robotacus/lick my robot clitoris,” because the undead want to dance their way to anarchy. For all the shows Tampa's Easybreezy are playing, we're filling them under 'slack rock' until the release of some official recordings, guys. CL's 2010 Best of the Suncoast standout Fancy Rat and experimental agitator John Lichtenstein supply the area's favorite local flavor: cream. (Cock & Bull Pub, Sarasota)

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FRIDAY NOV 26

Yung Yung Pallo/Dizzle/T-Wall/LilHotBoi

No guys, we don't care about Kanye's new video. Let's talk about Yung Yung Pallo's music video for “I Appreciate Ya.” Finally, a professional quality production, filmed throughout Dr. MLK Way! It's simply essential viewing for Sarasotans. So if a most humble Pallo bestows the smooth delivery, Maryland's crunk hero Dizzle is the hype man. Also, hip hop artists have the best myspace pages; in his own words, “Waz up World?..I know alot of ppl are like 'Who The ****'?..Lol..naw but Immmmmm 'Dizzle'...” (Lake Osprey Village Cabaret, Sarasota)

SATURDAY NOV 27

The Mike Kach Group

Keyboardist Mike Kach, of Dickey Betts & Great Southern fame, boasts a backing band composed of former members of Molly Hatchet, Gregg Allman Band, and Clarence Carter. Kach, appearing with Betts on the Allman Brothers 2004 DVD, Live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, administers the first, if not last, nail in the coffin to any shameful Rock Band addiction. (Ace's, Brandenton)

WEDNESDAY DEC 1

LUSH! W/ DJ Automaton

Halfway through the week, the young, sexy creative types step away from the needs of their dismal graphic design clients and partake in the American Bandstand at the apocalypse of civilization. Andrew Roberts, JenO, and Luca Rizzi bring back the sweaty, frantic dance nights in the tradition of Electroshock, Dirt, and Soap. (Pastimes Pub, Sarasota)

VINYL NIGHT w/ Physical Plant/Amazon Woman

Physical Plant, referring to perhaps an amalgamation of Physical Graffiti and Robert Plant, represent the New College student body with immaculate musicianship of the psychedelic folk rock variety. The band gained a following on and off campus the old fashioned way, supporting touring acts like Sleepy Sun and The Strangers Family Band. Readers may be surprised to know that the group Amazon Woman is entirely dude occupied. As per every Wednesday at Shamrock, Eric the Vinylist romances the turntable, with bar patrons encouraged to bring their favorite wax. (Shamrock Pub, Sarasota)

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THU NOV 18

DownieBlue Band

Established by Heather Downie and Robye Blue in 2009, the DownieBlue Band continues the lineage of local folk bands Campfire Prodigy, The Jones and Under8ed. Think bright strings adorning wooden boxes; all shapes, all sizes. (Mr. Beery's, Sarasota)

Aja Lorraine

“I am the greatest of all time,” proclaims the Ruff Ryders artist and Tampa resident who will make the trip south to persuade us that her soulful R&B is true to every word. (The Hall, Palmetto)

Get Down! Downtown w/ Ted Stevens Band

On the third Thursday of each month, downtown Bradenton shuts down traffic and fills Old Main St. with vendors, performers, and the requisite crowds. Ted Stevens is one of those legendary working musicians who play all the best American Rock and Roll guitar styles in genuine form. Surf-curious indie bands should refer to “Alison Eastwood” from his 2009 release, Exit Zero, available to stream online. (Old Main St., Bradenton)

FRI NOV 19

Big E & The Lazy Texans/Bryan Beardsley/Alan Dude

Expect a night of whiskey bourbon, flame-engulfed stand up bass, and rockabilly accordion from Ft. Meyers quartet Big E & The Lazy Texans. Sarasota native Bryan Beardsley provides support with his authentic storytelling and faithfully demonstrates traditional Americana. Alan Dude rounds out this bill of unprocessed foot stomping semi-acoustic roots music. (Pastimes Pub, Sarasota)

SAT NOV 20

A GENTLEMEN ARMY/THE KRANK DADDIES/LESSON LEARNED/BUMP & GRIND BURLESQUE

Honestly, the problem with most rockabilly bands is that they don't have nearly enough songs about hot rods. But Chicago's Krank Daddies repertoire (“Hot Rod Hemi Hearse”, “The Devil's Ride II”, etc.) delivers all the greasy innuendo concerning fast girls, death, and f***ing hot rods. Also, who do I thank for the emerging burlesque groups in town?

Diana Krall

The three time Grammy winning Canadian jazz singer-pianist performs breezy renditions of Bossa Nova standards. Listen carefully and you might hear her latest release, Quiet Nights, wafting atop some dimly lit condominium in five points, but its just as likely to be playing in the boutique shop below it. All I want to know is if the three time Grammy winning Canadian jazz singer-pianist will be traveling with her husband, Elvis Costello. (Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota)

Alexandre

As you sit here clutching the fossils of the publishing industry, some folks are teetering on the edge of a technological singularity where new things are happening at an exponential rate that leaves the rest of us slack-jawed luddites gawking like deer under the headlights of some benevolent UFO. The better electronic artists are connecting and sharing their tracks like we're in some kind of matrix, making for undeniably entertaining dance music littered with inside jokes. But the villagers and I think that's precisely the punchline behind Saturday's dubstep and visual projection show. Touche, Alexandre Lavigne. (The Blue Owl, Sarasota)

WED NOV 24

Izzy and the Kesstronics

The Brooklyn band continue their Florida invasion with resident weekly gigs throughout November at the Cock & Bull. Catch their animated psychobilly swing while you can; Europe is calling Izzy and the gang for the new year. (Cock & Bull, Sarasota)

Letters From Elvis

Pat Johnson leads what may be the loudest band in town through original numbers like “My Babies Got the Rabies” and “Psychic Vampires.” Think Nirvana's In Utero, fronted by the Bobby Fischer of cosmic feedback. (Shamrock Pub, Sarasota)

Smorgasbord

2010-10-01T13:56:00.000-07:00

Still have a few creative engagements lined up, so that's good news. It's hard to talk about things before they happen, but I will go ahead and announce the craziest: Japan tour 2011. Because....fuck it. Say I won't.

I made a song today

2010-09-16T18:28:00.001-07:00

<a href="http://catsinthebasement.bandcamp.com/track/spy-cat">Spy Cat by Cats In The Basement</a>

PTFO

2010-07-15T03:01:00.000-07:00

Today I quit my job and bought a bus ticket to meet up with Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt. I'll be playing guitar on a string of dates down the west coast, including two dates on New Belgium's Tour-de-Fat series. I arrive in Seattle July 31st, and come back home right before zipping off on the TPDR/Equines tour at the end of August.
<a href="http://theequines.bandcamp.com/track/unleash-the-ultimate-attack">Unleash The Ultimate Attack by The Equines</a>

Kill Paris Remix

2010-05-01T17:16:00.000-07:00

+ I've some work in the window of the Lori Frary gallery on 5th & Central.

bots

2010-04-13T17:17:00.000-07:00

Big week. I made some pieces for the Fringe Gallery in Main St Plaza. Then got to work on a collaboration for the End of the Dial Tone experimental show with Jen Nugent:

Willborg de Koondroid
(The automatic abstract expressionist)
By:
Rob Demperio &and
Greg Ferris

Then that weekend the 'quines played some shows for the Chili Cook-off at the fairgrounds, Rosemary Rising, and WMNF's Talking Animals Festival.

I had a few more ideas for the next release, but I'm not allowed to talk about those yet. Also, we're moving soon.

Hotshots

2010-03-31T09:00:00.001-07:00

Jaime Vega took some photos of The Equines.

ALWAYS KEEPS ME A PISTOL

2010-02-21T12:50:00.000-08:00

I had a great weekend:

I made a couple prints for the Joint show, Crowning Achievement. I have some left over; they're 36" x 45" $10.

Then we had a birthday party for Aimee w/ Shock to the System, Saturday was the Noise Ordinance CD release. So I made some more Equines EPs w/ snazzy new packaging.

Right on.

BLK & WHT & RED ALL OVER

2010-01-29T12:08:00.000-08:00

This is the ad running in Creative Loafing. Now I just have to finish the web ads, shirts, 2000 double disc packages. I've been a graphic design guy for a bit, that's interesting. A lot of people are helping with this project. :]

More so, I've been a musical guy. Lots of new sounds for The Equines. But there are some exciting things I've got my art fingers in as well. April.

noise ordinance.

2010-01-01T11:02:00.000-08:00

Noise Ordinance Cd

"a grassroots group project designed to put together and cross-promote a compilation CD featuring the diverse and original bands and artists in the Sarasota music scene."

word up geert

2009-11-25T17:13:00.000-08:00

GizMag invited me to fill in the blanks as part of their lucky issue seven. There is some really awesome work in this one- all the way from Belgium! Check out GizMag #7!!

taung twister

2009-11-15T14:00:00.000-08:00

Odds

2009-10-23T09:42:00.001-07:00

A couple of random things today. Over the past six months, I have collaborated with Noah Lamport on a few electronic experiments, and usually I use one or the other pieces at shows. The first picture is a type of theremin that is played through contact points. On this one, "Foundation," the user places their palm on the copper skyline and manipulates the pitch by playing the triangles with their finger tips. It is built into a cigar box and has no exposed wires or controls on the top surface. All circuits copyright Noah Lamport.

Farmers' Market is just another moleskine page.

Ways of Seeing, Perceptual Habits in Viewing Art. ON SITE N1 "ON SITE ON SITE ON SITE" 1972

Best of the Suncoast 2009

2009-10-22T04:34:00.000-07:00

I was named the Best Visual Artist in the Creative Loafing Best of the Suncoast Issue. Rad!

2009-10-13T10:55:00.000-07:00

Kind words over at Jazjaz.net :D

drinking out of cups

2009-10-06T19:00:00.000-07:00

No Naked Singularities

2009-09-23T14:12:00.000-07:00

Artery Magazine

2009-09-13T08:54:00.000-07:00

I'm really excited about this one! The Artery Magazine is an online publication coming out of Buffalo, New York. After some phone calls, I recently answered some questions for the site's editor, Laura Duquette. You can read my interview here.

FINCH HOUSE . COM

2009-09-11T14:22:00.000-07:00

Say Hello to Finchhouse.com!

And Maid Mosephine's now blogging at Creative Loafing!

Juxtapoz

2009-09-08T13:27:00.001-07:00

http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/meet-greg-ferris

GTFO!

Upper Playground repost?!?

Special Delivery:

Invention

2009-08-26T07:00:00.000-07:00

Babby Studios

2009-08-25T12:42:00.000-07:00

I had to keep myself busy at work to distract from the steady workload & strict deadlines I've neglected...

I came home to a beautiful space made possible by Babby!

Time to work.

Check out my piece in Seattle based Redefine Mag! :D

Creative Loafing: Young fellow pleads.

2009-08-21T10:22:00.000-07:00

Suddenly astute, Creative Loafing immediately broke wind of Erin's Campaign to elect me "Best Visual Artist" in their Best of the Suncoast edition. Close enough!

Check out kind words at Gasbit in Philadelphia, and Jackie Godsey's Art Ed Blog, and sweet stuff at Bicycle, Bicycle Designs.

A week into the Meteoreyes tour, I miss Andrew Sink.

MY ESCAPE INTO LIFE AKA "A MILLI"

2009-08-18T14:16:00.000-07:00

"Greg Ferris' art is a culmination of playing with art school materials and rejecting art school rules. He re-appropriates textbooks and architectural elements in creating otherworldly scenes that reverse their original connotation.

In a small town full of landscape paintings and glass sculptures, he has ignited a grassroots effort to engage those around him in creating a community with which we all identify. His most recent work, Paraprofessional Magazine, is a vessel allowing young artists to discuss identity in an unedited, unglazed fashion and distribute it to the people searching for just that."

-Erin Murphy

Featured artist at EscapeIntoLife.com

Also Design Is Kinky in Sydney, Australia!
AND Fabrik Project!
Ikebukuro in Japan.
+ Illustrate My Day blog. ftw.

Bites

2009-08-16T10:57:00.000-07:00

A new project is in the works! :D

In the tween time, I have a Japanese fan!

+ PARAPROFESSIONAL Mag reaches China.

PARAPROFESSIONAL MAGAZINE

2009-08-13T15:43:00.000-07:00

Check out PARAPROFESSIONAL 0001 PDF

P.S. Continuing shameless self promotion: Blogging in the Netherlands!

B/D!

2009-08-11T08:48:00.000-07:00

happy birthday to me, my website was featured on Beautiful/Decay.

**Edit** Re-posted on Existing Visual!!

Interview at Americansafari.org

photos from Intellectual Freedom Festival

More shows:

8/22- Maid Mosephine plays the Emerald Bar in St. Pete w/ Sons of Hippies
8/28- Ringling School Art & Design (Maid Mosephine + Tiny Ensemble)
8/29- Maid Mosephine at the Box Social w/ XOXO

shameless shameless

new site

2009-08-05T13:29:00.000-07:00

gregferris.info

sextant

2009-07-16T19:48:00.000-07:00

Big shout to Rob at Lumpytunes on WSLR!!! Alt. Tuesdays 11-1 on 96.5 FM.
Lumpytunes plays the best music I've ever heard on a radio program. Listen online at WSLR and check his myspace.

Tiny Ensemble
7/24 @ ~~Clothesline~~ The Box Social w/ Villanova Junction
8/7 @ The Box Social w/ Harper Sublette and Sons of Hippies
8/21 @ Cock n Bull Pub w/ Airoes, Paragraph, Superband...

Maid Mosephine & the Equines
7/28 @ Pastimes Pub
8/8 @ Intellectual Freedom Festival at Selby Library
8/18 @ SOAP at Pastimes Pub
8/29 ???

Cats in the Basement
whenever

Holy Ghost Agency
every Cabana Inn open mic

yip yip?? nope.

2009-07-01T17:01:00.000-07:00

Live track

2009-06-28T14:04:00.000-07:00

Tiny Ensemble - Gentle Bearded Man (Live @ Clothesline!)

Tiny Ensemble on Myspace.

FLQNR

2009-06-28T09:26:00.000-07:00

Skiffle and I played at the Florida Quarterly Noise Report at Will's Pub in Orlando yesterday. Awesome.

Skiffle

Cats in the Basement

photos coming soon!

2009-06-26T13:17:00.000-07:00

circle

stone

folk science this saturday!

2009-06-18T13:16:00.000-07:00

Cats and Horses Store

2009-06-07T19:38:00.000-07:00

We're working on an online store, and now you ca get some records at http://catsandhorses.bigcartel.com

Folk Science: The Musical!

2009-06-03T20:02:00.000-07:00

Also available: T-shirts, cds, posters, stickers (pictured below)

Epic Future Tour leftovers!

parts 2 & 3

2009-04-11T16:53:00.000-07:00

le petit ensemb

2009-04-09T17:29:00.000-07:00

New Cats!

2009-04-04T11:45:00.000-07:00

Cats in the Basement - Indigent King

Trappe

2009-04-01T21:21:00.000-07:00

Q: Where can I see Tiny Ensemble play??

A:
4/3 - Townie Showcase!
4/4 - Pastimes Pub
4/10 - Epic Future Tour House Show!
4/21 - SOAP!

Also, I will have some art dangling for Kanpi's 2nd anniversary/ 4-20 bash!

+Thanks Sons of Hippies for the shout out in Creative Loafing.

The Indigent

2009-03-30T20:07:00.000-07:00

"You had supreme advantages, you made a brave start, you established a splendid beginning, and then you sat back and bragged about your ancestors and your resources- and your prospects- and let the vermin crawl all over you."
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Post-Folk Science Trapezoid!

2009-03-23T15:09:00.000-07:00

Listen to the new jam featuring our latest member, Mosephine!

Tiny Ensemble - Deposit Box

My other band, Letters From Elvis, just finished mixing our demo- you can listen to it on the space.

Letters From Elvis - No Home

of the machine

2009-03-16T15:22:00.000-07:00

"Should I say now that I like Metropolis because something I have seen in my imagination comes true, when I detested it after it was finished?"

-Fritz Lang

Tiny Ensemble aka 'Micropenis'

2009-03-16T11:59:00.000-07:00

Listen to our live recording from last night at Pastimes Pub at Myspace.com/tinyensemble.

Shawn McBee has the entire debut on youtube!

happy pi day!

2009-03-14T09:40:00.000-07:00

i like turtles

2009-03-09T19:56:00.000-07:00

gentle bearded man

2009-02-28T09:45:00.000-08:00

Letters From Elvis tonight at Sarasota Olive Oil Co.
Happy birthday Sutton Stringfellow!

8

2009-02-24T08:23:00.001-08:00

home brew compensation

2009-02-16T18:58:00.000-08:00

parametricism in folk science

2009-02-11T17:27:00.000-08:00

i'll explain this later. busy busy busy.

thank you for your picture jessica beck :]

banner

2009-02-08T17:42:00.000-08:00

rainbow toe-socks & sandals

2009-02-05T11:17:00.001-08:00

Today is moving day; break-time remix pictured.

pet cloud

2009-02-03T11:50:00.000-08:00

"i love wizards" -mamabear

super x-13

2009-02-01T11:54:00.000-08:00

Must see Mind Field. Must skate. I work the skate park sundays.

Pics from the show at Cats & Horses Club!

coop presents

2009-01-31T08:26:00.000-08:00

word.

Leg: a solid foundation for greg

2009-01-24T09:55:00.000-08:00

I want to tell you guys a little bit about what all this stuff is about.

A while back I made 'Worm-hole.' It was a 10 x 10" steel cube with a hole sucking in through one side and out the other. Then I painted the whole thing black and added white grid lines- warping with the stresses of stretching spacetime. This was my strange little model of the universe, but what else? WTF?
Early on, my instructor for the sculpture class told me I wouldn't be able to do it that way I had proposed, but I went ahead anyway. It was a terrible mess of work hours; I cut the entire thing in two, and heated the remaining solid sides with an acetylene torch and pounded the contours of a quantum dimension before reuniting the pieces. It took forever to achieve such..let's say, organic...results. Yet precisely that, I realized, was the point. To demonstrate some complex theoretical idea through such a primal process of hammering and hammering away, suddenly seemed like such a beautiful metaphor for the human spirit. Our will to manipulate destiny among the absurd paradox of our condition! I had finally identified what it was that I had been doing with my odd works: Folk Science!

New Site!

2009-01-24T09:36:00.000-08:00

Mosephine and I have just launched our new site at CatsAndHorsesClub.blogspot.com that will feature upcoming events & provisions. :D

Affiche!

2009-01-22T14:39:00.000-08:00

see me.

Cinema Sounds

2009-01-19T14:57:00.001-08:00

This weekend Maid Mosephine and I will be helping Harper score Akira Kurosawa's Dreams!

science & contemporary life vs. natural world and the past

2009-01-19T11:38:00.000-08:00

BROTHERS FROM DIFFERENT
MOTHERS AND FATHERS
ALSO SOME OF THEM
ARE GIRLS AND
THE PARENTS ARE GAY

Erin at the Fruitville Library reading garden in the morning.

A concept page for '30 Songs' flyer.

"Prior to humanity’s awareness to it, the universe was a coherent, self-regulating entity awaiting discovery. Humankind’s additions to and modifications of that preexisting order often damaged it, so that the architect’s charge is a kind of restoration effort requiring him to incorporate his understanding of the eternal in every design, as did the Pantheon’s makers, hence its everlasting appeal. “What the space wants to be” is itself- that is, it wants to assume its rightful place in and be a proper manifestation of the eternal order of things."

Wizard demonstrating laser eyes on crystal mountain.

make up some feelings & tell him he has them.

2009-01-15T18:23:00.000-08:00

I made this today while babby was at school- its worth the listen! :D

Cats in the Basement - Astonished Man

Also, happy birthday Shawn...and new Skiffle chiptunes are awesome. Great job Matt Murphy!

30 Songs for McBee

2009-01-14T13:05:00.000-08:00

Darwin approves.

Super Creamy Overdrive 1-10-09

2009-01-11T11:00:00.000-08:00

Thank you everyone who came out early to catch our set, and Shawn McBee for taking rad pictures!!

glitter glue tube continued

2009-01-08T19:28:00.000-08:00

#2 Erin Murphy

portraits of everyone i know in sarasota

2009-01-07T12:18:00.000-08:00

#1 Brian Yoder

The Return of Super Creamy Overdrive

2009-01-05T18:06:00.000-08:00

Super Creamy Overdrive - Can I Have A Spirit? (Live)

Come see new songs @ Sarasota Olive Oil Company this Saturday, January 10!
Also playing:
Rational Anthem
Manhattan RAAAWWWHHRRRR
The Once and Future Kings

A Night at Sarasota Olive Oil Company

2009-01-04T21:19:00.000-08:00

The Von Braun VIII
by Andrew Sink

Rules

2009-01-02T13:32:00.000-08:00

I was playing some neat graphing paper algorithm games today, calculating the rectangle universe. I'm reviewing the notion of nature as a computer; Euclid made a whole mess out of his logic, why not us too? Academia is a landslide. History, a rapid. Philosophy- a revolving door. While we're here absorbing mud & pulling skies into our chests, I'm in no rush to explain love too soon.

Cats in the Basement - Cellular Automata

hypocrite hypocrite in a dish.

1/365

2009-01-01T15:44:00.000-08:00

& the best leap second ever.

realism in 2008

2008-12-31T10:54:00.000-08:00

just materials & a persistent will.

Free Wo-fi !!

2008-12-29T12:47:00.000-08:00

1. Gravity=Time, Light=Gravity, Time=Light
2. Soft Chocolate Twin
3. Opposite Parents
4. Automatic Handwriting
5. May 2006
6. Octophant Should Not Be
7. A Practical Problem of Considerable Complications
8. Cats
9. Loose Ends Approaching the Singularity

Free Download:
Cats in the Basement - Folk Science (2008).zip 20 MB

fourth way

2008-12-26T15:14:00.000-08:00

Coasters - set of four ($16)

(or some 54m ish wheels)

opposite parents

2008-12-25T08:07:00.000-08:00

I made my sister some gifts for Christmas.

Cats in the Basement - Folk Science (2008)

Available 12-27! Come out to the show this Saturday! :D

protein folding

2008-12-20T09:04:00.000-08:00

"Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch."

"What if not everyone wants to go along with this?"

-Ray Kurzweil

pretty lady sounds

2008-12-18T22:46:00.000-08:00

language games

2008-12-17T09:30:00.000-08:00

The Blak & Wite release show at Pastimes was awesome. I was going for space sound on the kitteh keys, in my HEALTH shirt thanks to Javier.

This is the evil twin to my other landscape. Click!

Baby Jackson

catfish

2008-12-14T20:06:00.000-08:00

(cats & horses = cats in the basement + maid mosephine & the equines = super creamy overdrive)

I wanted to explode when I saw our friend Jen Nugent used our song in her video project. :]

studio vomit.

2008-12-14T14:20:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we had an art party at Erin's before the show at the Cock n Bull.

I added an original Toby to my collection!

Harper schiele.

Erin says its a work in progess; I say its already (mt.) awesome.

Shirts & shirts from the factory. Buy buy buy.

Do.

Friendly Face Dreams

2008-12-12T22:08:00.000-08:00

Erin made some shirts from my design! Get them at shows or request something special $10.

Flushing Remonstrance Show

2008-12-11T16:25:00.000-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Remonstrance

Orange Press CD #1!

2008-12-11T09:06:00.000-08:00

(poster art by Jen Nugent!)

1.Bryan Beardsley - My Lady Shouts
2.Completely From Mountains - All These Things I Need to Know
3.Forgetful Elephant - Same Sad Face
4.Harper Sublette - Orlik
5.I Die, You Die - Lost
6.JesusChryslerSupercar - Inanimate
7.Roth Music - I See You
8.Cats in the Basement - Soft Chocolate Twin
9.Maid Mosephine and the Equines - Lists
10.MeteorEYES - Across the Pond
11.Letters From Elvis - My Baby's Got the Rabies
12.Villanova Junction - Pirate Grace O'Malley
13.Rational Anthem - Of Kids Left in Cars With Windows Up
14.The Turncoat - Lataika (Rubbing Alcohol)
15.Saint Sweetheart - Never Knew
16.Manhattan Roar - Cure for Cancer
17.Electric Speedbump! - Eating Spiders
18.Skiffle - Intro #1
19.HoverKraft- FenRaBoGuro

Everything sold out at the release! More coming soon?

fields not space

2008-12-07T15:26:00.000-08:00

mmate

2008-12-02T22:10:00.000-08:00

animal band REMIX

2008-11-30T21:16:00.000-08:00

(thanks erin!)

As seen on Orange Press Compilation disc 1

Cats in the Basement- Soft Chocolate Twin

Fall print concepts

2008-11-20T16:03:00.000-08:00

Pharaobot!

"Here I am, cleaning shit off of practically everything."
(From a letter to Kurt Vonnegut by his brother, explaining his new parental duties.)

Summer sketch pages

2008-11-19T15:18:00.000-08:00

clicky.

unpopular philosophies

2008-11-19T07:56:00.000-08:00

It happened during sculpture critique of my wormhole cube; playing with the notion of using the most primal sort of process, heating and hammering steel, to express theoretical ideas. Until that moment I had not fully realized the absurd paradox which stood before me in this, and much of my work. Then it just slipped out...

FOLK SCIENCE

& I am a folk scientist.

among circumstance both specific and incidental

2008-11-16T10:08:00.000-08:00

Grandeur reduced becomes absurdity.

visible spectrum of industree

2008-11-10T08:12:00.000-08:00

I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.

A/S/L?

2008-11-05T17:05:00.000-08:00

extravagonzaroo

2008-11-02T12:27:00.000-08:00

Some can reconstruct the laws of the universe
from just knowing a blade of grass.
Others have to learn many, many things
before they can sense what is necessary
to discover that order which is the universe.

-Louis I Kahn

time warp 2007

2008-10-30T10:31:00.000-07:00

i need to film tricks before i forget them

wall stuff

skating

time warp 2002

2008-10-27T21:04:00.000-07:00

hahahaha little nerd

figure

2008-10-27T14:12:00.000-07:00

new jams soon as im not busy having fun

13

2008-10-15T16:41:00.000-07:00

13- gravity=time, light=gravity, light=time.

Twelevee

2008-10-13T10:56:00.000-07:00

#12- A practical problem of considerable complications.

too much junk. too many needs. need to acquire. junk junk junk.
space for filling
transports
resources
more more more.
can't take it with you
not all the time.
division
decisions
terms.
probability, consumption, data
palatable, pragmatic
adequate.
adequate adequate adequate
insufficient
impetuous, reckless,
occasionally unsavory
brilliance
too much junk. too many needs. need to acquire. junk junk junk.