The Willamette Week’s website featured myself today for their “Cut Of The Day”! Not only did Mr. Casey Jarman review “Nuke Song” from my forthcoming album, but he also made mention of my latest YouTube sensation “Bomb Iran.” Awwwwwesome! Much thanks to Casey and the Willy Week for the kind words, prepositions, adjectives, sentences and paragraphs! Click here to read.

In Missing Briefcase news, I now have nine songs done. I wrote a couple more in the last week (“Still Pushin’” and “Secret Catastrophe”) that I may end up recording. I plan on using my magical musical funnel to tame and temper them onto a hard disk recording machine soon. I may wear elf ears while doing so.

Ghostly,
Alex

Hey sirs and girls, the PDX Pop Now fest is taking requests for people to play this summer. You should request myself as well as any other favorites (The Shaky Hands, Mondo Hollywood maybe?). Click here to make it happen. I will promise insane tambourine action. Pleeze and thanks you!

In other news, I’m still slowly recording the next record. I have almost 7 songs done. No hurries man, let’s just go catch a gnarly curl instead. Oh, and don’t forget that I’m playing at the Lewis & Clark College Co-op next Thursday, the 12th. I hope to have Mayhaw Hoons covering the kunga factor again. Last week’s show at the Holocene was tons of fun with my backing band, The Rocky Balboa Constrictor (Mayhaw & Osha).

Girly,
Alex

Okay, first things first: I’m excited because my jury duty for tomorrow has been canceled. I know, can you believe it? They DARE summon the great Alex Arrowsmith to sit in a room all day and do crosswords (oh and maybe serve on a jury for a DUI case or something). Believe me, I tried to explain this to them, but apparently being a magical genius isn’t good enough. In any case, it was canceled for a lesser reason.

Secondly, I’m (mostly) done recording six songs for Missing Briefcase: “Nuke Song,” “The Zaps,” “Just Like That,” “The Last Generation,” “Eternal Return,” and “Choke.” They’re all really solid tunes. Admittedly, I don’t actually HAVE a full album’s worth of songs yet (good ones anyway), but I only need two or three more and I can totally swing that in the indeterminable amount of time between now and when the album comes out. Next on my list are “Going Insane For The McCain Campaign,” “Booby Trap,” and mayyyybe “I Am Whelmed.” Trust me, wizards and warlocks.

Conversely,
Alex

I’m basically done with three songs for the next album now: “Nuke Song,” “The Zaps” and “Just Like That.” That album is going to be a musical Subway party platter.

Don’t forget, I’m playing at Music Millennium on Sat. March 3!! Come and watch me deliver a 15-piece order of musical chicken.

And if you haven’t gotten your filthy hands on a copy of Applewine yet, YOU MUST.

Alex

Pucknation.com asked me to contribute a list for their The List feature, which can be read here: Top Five Songs Most Often Confused For Love Songs Ever! They’re doing a Valentine’s Day theme with the lists now, and I’m always game for some rock and roll list-making, so it was pretty much meant to be. Which reminds me…I should probably update my top five albums list one of these days, as I haven’t done that for a while. BUT IT’S A SECRET LIST, I’LL NEVER TELL. Unless you give me your after dinner mints.

I don’t remember if I mentioned this yet, but I’ve started recording my next album already. Its tentative title is Missing Briefcase, although that could totally change by the time it comes out (probably sometime in 2008). I have mostly finished “Nuke Song” and am currently working on “The Zaps.” I decided to do the album one song at a time this time instead of the assembly line method of the past, since I’m in no hurry to finish it.

If you want to preview “Nuke Song,” you can watch a very lo-fi video I made for it on YouTube here. It is a poorly made video, make no mistake about it. But the song is good!

Oozing,
Alex

Ya’ll! I just created a new section featuring reviews of my music! Go and read what they’re saying about me in the history books. I won’t be a comma.

I started recording the next album today. I figure I might as well start now, but I’m not in any kind of hurry. But of course, by the time it actually comes out, I’m going to be even more sick of the songs than I would if I recorded it really quickly. Oh well. I mean sick of it in a weird proud perfectionist sort of way. If that makes any sense (it doesn’t). The song I started is “Nuke Song,” which I guarantee will be a bona fide HIT for 2008. And if the recent news about North Korea performing another nuclear bomb test soon turns out to be right, there could be “Another Nuke Song.” You know you’re on thin ice when your muses are CNN and Dr. Phil.

Time to dust the Oscars on my mantle.

Mustily,
Alex