1 post tagged “calvin”

Since the move to Bellingham most of the activities that took place with TKF have subsided and blossomed into a little something I like to call "nothing." Since I moved us to a different location and pretty much resetting to staff to me the support and nuisance directed to me for pushing out material has mostly dissipated. I haven't felt too comfortable recording shows here since back home it wasn't too difficult to do it since I knew Tim Leingang and would just fly the bird to those bastards at Ray's Golden Lion. Now I do neither of that. During school my spare time has been oriented to more modes of social activities and studying.

Now it's going to move to "Fuck-off everyone" mode. This mode mainly consists of being reclusive and working on projects in a fairly cold room in my new house close to campus. This summer has enlightened and embittered me with the knowledge that I may have people that I consider friends, but that is quite contradictory. I set out as a goal for this summer to meet people-in general-and I expected the caveat of no one being here. However, the intensity of that coupled with the fact that anyone I do know up here doesn't contact me anyway has led me close to the conclusion that Bellingham and my residency here do not match.

I am estimating a very cold 2008-2009 to which I will, once again, continue my streak of loneliness and lack of belonging. This isn't a degradation of the progress that I have made this year but it is a feeling of enlightenment knowing that I can be discarded and/or forgotten and I only exist when I am present among others. It is indeed a pessimistic and somewhat pitiful perspective that I am presently endorsing but I believe it's a necessity for me to kick myself back into gear and resume projects that I have long put off. Maybe 'things' will turn out better eventually but my doubts essentially are leading me to bitterly say:

Everyone can go to hell.

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I'm going to most likely be recording shows again. Unfortunately it will not be for The Kenneth Foundation since it is being molded into a different entity. I believe that the work I was doing for it was partly so I have a copy of what I listened to live and partly for others to enjoy but it wasn't getting the attention I wanted it to receive. Not attention in the sense that I want to get scene cred. for recording audio; attention in the sense that I wanted people to know that they should listen to this stuff. It was intended for people to listen to when they missed a show or re-listen to it after the fact. At some point I was being asked if I brought my laptop to a show, which was nice and appreciated, but that doesn't happen anymore.

I'll instead be recording shows for Hollow Earth Radio. In this case it will actually be listened to and I've already done some work for them. This last weekend I went down to Seattle and kind of accidently fell into helping with some gigs for the 2008 Carousel Festival. I interviewed Calvin Johnson and Angelo Spencer (from what I remember and heard, it went quite well) and I helped out with breaking down and setting up sound equipment. It was tons of fun and I enjoyed every bit of it other than when I became stoically tired. It was fun.

As far as the webcomic goes, I'll just be most likely uploading something. I don't know what it will be or even if consistency will arise from it but know that I will be uploading... Something.

Cheers.