It’s impossible for me to evaluate music like this, as I rarely hear anything like it. Parts of it remind me of old Subotnik. …. I have not seen the movie since I was in high school, about 1968. I’m sure this music would be entirely different while watching the movie.
— JK, Chicago

This is probably one of the best compliments I’ve received over this. The full album version is almost complete, and I’m working on syncing up the music with the film for DVD or at leat a CD-ROM film. On the album version, expect two remixes (one by Edé Arwine of {species}DROID™, one by John Stone of Mortal Pain), an album mix by co-composer Jason Crowe (16min 48sec), and the demo mix (15min 46sec).

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.

heya rj–

i got the cd today. kewl!

i really dig yer renditions of “lycanthrothene” and “what the cat brought in”. even more psychotic than the originals. i was reaching for the kitchen cutlery by the end of the last track.

very worthy covers, with a unique twist.

D’aw! Kinda makes me feel special.

And speaking of listeners, keep in mind that This Is Where the Fish Lives has made all three tracks from The Lemon Kittens EP available for free download on last.FM.

…and, in case you were looking for “serious business music” (well, serious enough that I released it under both my own name and that of my collaborator, rather than as This Is Where the Fish Lives), I’ve recently released “Music for Un Chien Andalou” via my lulu.com account. “…Un Chien Andalou” is an over sixteen minutes long piece of improvisational music recorded using electric viola (bowed and pizzicato), voice, mic’d throat, carefully directed feedback, synthesizer, snare, and bone flute for the Dalí and Buñuel collaborative film opus, Un Chien Andalou (France, silent, 1929). This differs from the original soundtrack (Wagner excerpts selected by Luis Buñuel to be played at screenings of the film), in that it is of a similar school of industrial/noise as Throbbing Gristle and Premature Ejaculation and idea-based avantgarde punk music as Lemon Kittens as Virgin Prunes.

This mix is very rough and this release is of the single unedited track. In Spring of 2008, we’re hoping to have a remastered “clean” version of the track that is better timed with the film, as well as at least one “remix”, all for a second release, and by Summer of 2008, hopefully a DVD or CD-ROM release of the film with the new music (as the film has lapsed into the public domain [cabbage-patches]).