Last night, Alyssa’s Dad (Pumaman, genius creator of the Pumaboard pedalboard) gave me an unclaimed Pumaboard he had around. It’s slightly bigger than the one I’ve been using, and now I can incorporate a flanger pedal that I will probably never use (but doesn’t it look cool on there??) as well as many other future pedals. And everything is much roomier and cleaner in general. It looks lovely doesn’t it? Thanks Pumaman! </guitargeek>

Also, in Tiger House news, KINK will be playing our single “Air Traffic” tomorrow night at 9:15 pm on their Local Music Spotlight. Listen to it then if you’re one of the 2 people in the world who hasn’t heard it yet! We’re also playing at Plan B on Valentine’s Day. 21+ and stuff.

Jaggedly,
Alex

KINK informed me that they will play one of the songs from my Aug 7 live in-studio session on September 2 and “The Zaps” (album version) on September 3. That’s during the Local Music Spotlight at 9:15 PM both days. Just so y’all know. This is all to promote their Plug In Portland CD sampler, which I’m on, and have mentioned in like every website update for the past three months. It’s free. You can get it places.

I’m also playing bass in Tiger House now. Carl from Mondo Hollywood is in the band, too. Our first show with me is on September 4 at the Tonic Lounge (21+). COME. It will kick BUTT.

Bassly,
Alex

New Project: THE SONG. Time to get out the sand box, because I’m going to spend the next while working on only one song. But it’s going to be the best song of…well, 2008 hopefully, but I’ll accept 2002 or even 1997. I’m thinking “Good Vibrations” meets “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” for dinner where “Jesus Of Suburbia” is the sommelier and “Sowing the Seeds of Love” is the overly-jolly restaurant owner. If you can make any sense out of that, you’re probably thinking, “Oh it’s going to be one of THOSE songs.” But no, it’s not going to be “epic,” prog or pretentious at all. It probably won’t even be any longer than 5 minutes tops. The project is more of a method thing than anything, but it should have a cut-up kind of sound like the aforementioned “Good Vibrations” and “Happiness Is A Warm Gun.” I kind of already did that with “McCain Campaign,” but this time it’ll be more developed, as well as being an ACTUAL SONG. I just thought it would be interesting to see what happens when I make one song in the amount of time I’d normally spend writing and recording an album. The end result will be on Public Domain Rainbow, which is otherwise finished now. I started writing THE SONG on August 8 and I’ve come up with a handful of killer melodies so far, so get ready and fearful for THE SONG.

Last Thursday Mayhaw Hoons and I went to the KINK studio and recorded two songs for broadcast at a later date (Sept. 2 and 3 I believe). It’s to promote their new Plug In Portland sampler that I’m on. We recorded “Coldplay Got Eaten By Piranhas” and “Not Salman Rushdie.” Mayhaw’s bassing was exquisite. We were in and out of there so fast that it makes My Aim Is True look like Chinese Democracy. It was a total musical invasion of South Ossetia.

Prolongedly,
Alex

The KINK 102 local music sampler is now OUT! It’s called Plug In Portland and my song “The Zaps” is on it, along with other Portland-scented songs. I’ll also be recording a couple songs in KINK’s Live Performance Lounge in a few weeks, so watch out for that as well (you’ll know more once that happens).

Also, don’t forget about my show at Mt. Tabor Legacy this Sunday, the 20th. $5, 9 pm, 21+. I’ll be wearing scrubs. Come.

Prehumously,
Alex

Well, I may have lost out on the PDX Pop Now compilation, but I was informed today that “The Zaps” will be included on KINK’s forthcoming local music sampler. So, if I put you in a cage with a cougar and made you vote for me a couple months back, then you can rest easy knowing it worked!! So that’s a big FANKS to all who did vote for me. Y’all rule.

I’m not sure about how to get it once it’s out, but I’m sure I’ll have the details when they come.

Hourly,
Alex