recording/winter

i've been getting a lot of requests for more shows. well, shows have been on hold as we have been trying to record and write (and figure out how to play) new material. however, recording has been on hold as well. we do plan on getting back to the "studio" this winter and hopefully have some sort of product by spring. recording metropolis has been a slow process, but we're also looking at recording some of the non-score tunes so that our dated half-lights record has a more mature counterpart.
And yes, everyone, fins, as we know it's a fav, is at the top priority for recording.

recording score for metrop

we are currently spending a day a week (about) recording the score we have written for metropolis. many folks who came out to see us perform to metropolis at the south side film festival (2009) have asked us about such recordings and we hope to have them completed for the spring. that's all we can say right now. we'll keep you updated.

for the 28th of august

i can see packer chapel from my window. i can.

and yet more. i'm sorry.

quick sports logo. maybe?
we're kinsmen.

also:

crepu made an album last summer called telescope, with dan on noises, and crepu on vocals and guitar, under the moniker the birch run russell. it's available for free at cornslaw.net.
i think the urls got switched up somewhere, so if you want it, just click here. cool? cool.

collection of digital flyers.

We're playing at the Hard Bean on 3rd Street in Bethlehem, PA this Friday, the 24th with Micah Blue Smaldone and Jagjaguwar artist, The Lord Dog Bird. Doors at 7:30, it's all ages, and Jagjaguwar is a really great label; I mean, Robert Creeley has a record with them - seriously. I believe we have heaven is also playing which is also quite nice.

This performance will be the usual Sports. We have been - if you haven't heard - working on our score to METROPOLIS which will be performed June 16 to open the SouthSide Film Festival. More details to follow. But come out and see us this Friday to (maybe) hear your favorite Sports tunes and check out some touring indie acts (about which we are also greatly excited about).

Last Night's Performance (March 28, 2009)

Bart and I performed last night at Wired in Bethlehem. Our friends, Drei and Ritter, also played. It's nice to play these smaller, quieter shows, where there is a different dialogue with the audience. More than listening to the songs, perhaps, the audience listened most attentively to my chatter in between songs. I welcome this. I recall speaking about Woody Allen's SEPTEMBER, Lyndon Larouche's Youth Movement - both of which are premises for songs - and somehow I got to talking about Kurzweil, although I didn't play any songs last night about him or his theories. In fact, I forget how the subject of Kurzweil made it into the performance. But what I really like is that the audience added comments and questions and there were actual quips and brief discussions. It was really nice. After the show, some of these discussions continued, which was equally nice. And thanks to my friend, Nate, for pointing some of the above out after the show.

Further, there were children in the audience. You get the sense that it doesn't matter what you're playing when there are children present - just that you're playing. There's this sense of innocent dialogue. Some of the children were dancing or about the place just being kids with the adults in the room. And they paid attention at times to the music. That attention or the dancing says that what the performers are doing is pretty neat. And sometimes it's refreshing to self-analyze your work in that way. If ever I get lost in what I'm doing, it's always pleasant to know that whatever it is I am coming up with, that it's just pretty neat. And sometimes, that's simply what we're doing and, yet, it's so very important and significant.

For all those who came out last night, thanks.

TRANSCENDENT MAN

The movie TRANSCENDENT MAN, a documentary about Ray Kurzweil, is set to premier April 24th. I have been reading up on Kurzweil on occasion for about five or so years now and am greatly excited for this film. I am both fearful of the Singularity and am excited to be living while it is nigh. But I get this great feeling of pressure right now, that everything on which I have been working relentlessly - music, novels, writing in general, studying, all sorts of relationships, etc. - has a deadline. It's almost as if once the Singularity occurs, we will be living in an afterlife of sorts, where I fear all we have created in our age will become obsolete and irrelevant. I am pressured by the idea that I have to become so radically novel to the point of impossiblity for what I do to matter in the very near future. Sure, it might matter in the present. But that's the point. The Singularity is so close to happening that the present time-space shrinks more and more and at a quicker rate up until the point of Singularity where maybe all of this we are doing will simply no longer be of relevance. It's like, I imagine, I have some fatal disease and I must hurry to complete my life work. Perhaps this is my misconception. It probably is. But what happens to Whitehead's creative advance if we get to a point where our novelty and nuance becomes irrelevant? What will concrescence mean? All things, after all, organic or not, fuel concrescence. But as Pynchon tells us, "Paranoids are paranoid not because they are paranoid but because they deliberately...put themselves into paranoid situations." Check it out: www.TRANSCENDENTMAN.COM.