Okay, so I totally should have posted about these things by now. Big whoop. So since a picture says 100 words, I’ll just post the music and let you decide for your cats.

November’s and December’s digital 7″ singles:

And also! I’m in a band with Mayhaw Hoons, Colin Anderson and Mickey Rivers called Spookies. We played our first show last weekend and it amazed. Here is our current three-song demo:

And my Top 5 Albums of 2011 list was published in the Portland Mercury! I do these lists for fun every year anyway so it’s rad to finally have it published in some substantial form.

More Spookies and more digital 7″s coming in 2012! It’s going to be a rad year, despite (or in spite of?) the Mayan calendar.

I just updated the reviews page with a couple of reviews for “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” one from the Portland Mercury and another from Rich at Eartaste. Consider this the overture for the shot heard ’round the world called Public Domain Rainbow, coming out in 2009.

I wrote back in August that I was going to spend all of my caloric intake on writing and recording ONE SONG. Well, I did just that (yet somehow a bunch of those calories still managed to find their way to my midriff). It’s called “Bad Vibrations” (haha!) and it will definitely end up on Public Domain Rainbow. It will blow y’all away. I am always hesitant to make such claims, but I really think it’s a good song. I have spent way more time on this song than pretty much any other song I’ve recorded, and I’ve made sure that every second of it is engaging and radical. It’s not 100% finished yet, but even in its 90% finished state, it pleases me, and I hope you too eventually. Again, I don’t want to set expectations too high, but I just want to say YES, it’s as good as I was hoping for. It should end up being a highlight on PDR.

Parfly,
Alex