It looks like I’m going to be DJ’ing at The Elbow Room in Ypsilanti for Direct Hits, their Mod & Soul night, on Tuesday May 13th. For a Tuesday, it still attracts a pretty sizeable crowd, so that’ll be awesome. I’ll also be bringing my board of pin-back buttons with me (at least I will unless I’m told at the last minute not to), so bring a little extra cash to spend on my top-quality crap, as well.

And speaking of buttons….

…I’m also going to the Chicago Mod 7th Annual Our Way of Thinking Weekender, and staying with a girl I met on CouchSurfing.com, because it seems that until he can moved into an apartment with guest room capacity, Shaunbeard the Terrible’s Bed & Breakfast For Wayward Ex-Goths is on hiatus — but hey, he has a girlfriend who he’s really into, so I’m happy for him. I’ll also make sure to tell all you happy people to check out his metal band WOLFROSE when I have more info on them. But I digress…

So, yes, Chicago… buttons….

I’ll be at the weekender this year and, on Saturday in the early afternoon, I will be at Delilah’s selling my buttons at the Chicago Mod Swap Meet — so if you want some wicked-groovy buttons, but can’t make it to Ypsilanti on the 13th of May, but CAN make it to Lincoln St. in Chicago on June 7th between noon and 5pm-ish, you’ll have yet another opportunity to buy my top-quality crap. I may also bring some of my music with me, too, though probably only to Chicago, and that would be dependent on whether or not I have the time and motivation to get those together as well as the buttons.

LASTLY, for those of you checking this out who don’t read my LiveGerbil, I currently have two of my paintings available as art prints at my lulu.com store. I’m planning to re-scan the others in a reasonably timely fashion to make those available, as well. I know, I know, it has nothing to do with This Is Where the Fish Lives or my noisier music in general, but I’m working on the cover art for Ersatz Music For Ersatz People and music for Un Chien Andalou, and at least the first will be a watercolour and collage, I’m thinking Un Chien will be acrylics on black velvet, so I’m urging you to check out my arts, which you can see more of on my deviantART site, to get an idea for my styles and get excited about these paintings, and maybe even buy something for a poor (in both senses) musician.

That’s it for now. I’m going to go grab lunch and then try to re-send the master track for Un Chien to Edé from speciesDROID for a remix.

• A new soundtrack for Un Chein Andalou — so far, I’m hoping for it to be a synth and viola piece that will be on the album and *maybe* I’ll do it as a single, too. Since the film itself is Public Domain (yay!), eventually I’m going to find a way to release the film with the new soundtrack, but since I’m not talking to anybody at any little art-house film distros, it’s probably going to be either on DVD-R or via Lulu.com.
• I’m also working on a piece based on reading of an excerpt from Poppy Z Brite’s Exquisite Corpse. I have an e-mail from the author granting permission, and I feel like an ass-hole that I’m just now getting around to doing it, but sometimes you just have to find the right people to execute an idea (and it’s about as hard as you think it is to find somebody who can say “sugar candy ass-hole” with a straight face). Since the book was published by a division of Simon & Schuster, I’ve been examining “fair use” clauses and what-not and because it’s such a small excerpt (barely a paragraph), it can be easily argued as parody without debate. Either way, it’ll be available on-line, at the very least.

I’m probably going to get a few other ideas before I can feel safe in saying that the album is complete, so as it stands, I’m probably not even going to look at being done with this until maybe December of 2007. Maybe.

I’m still hoping for maybe an improv performance in the very near future, but it seems like it won’t be in April.

This Is Where the Fish Lives may be playing a one-off performance in Ann Arbor, MI at a “private party” (which is probably going to be at my place) in mid-to-late April. News to follow and be posted here.

Any performance that may happen is subject to audio and video recording. You HAVE been warned.