For the Lack of Words

I've been traveling a bit and I made it to D.C. to see Michael Lease's outdoor art installation. I am a fan of his photos anyway, but I have to admit I wanted to go see it because it included a picture of me.

It was very good - at first it seemed like random photos thrown together, but after a few minutes I could see repeating themes and patterns.
However, it appears that somebody in D.C. considers me an enemy:


Here's what Michael's original photo of me looked like:

Unicorn Palace

People here name their houses when they put on shows. This weekend I played at the Unicorn Palace with Priscilla Lynn and Jump the Tracks. It was a backyard party with a bonfire. Everyone who went is now covered in chigger bites. If you don't know what chigger bites are, they are SHEER AGONY.

I Sold My Car For Pesos

This is such a long story, but I'll try to condense it. A mexican dude bought my old car on ebay. He was stuck in Franklin, Kentucky and wanted me to drive the car up to him. That seemed pretty shady but I wasn't sure because he paid half the amount to me through paypal immediately. My entire weekend consisted of him calling saying he'd be at my house in an hour then calling back three hours later telling me he was still stuck and asking if I could drive the car to him. Finally at 7am Sunday, he made it to my house but he was running out of dollars, so he paid me the remaining amount in pesos.

One Year Later

As of about right now I have lived in Nashville for one year. I thought I should commemorate it somehow. This is what my house (that I've since moved out of) looked like on the first day.

Waiting for the Train

I don't ever want to live too far from trains. If I did, how would I know which side of the tracks I was on?

Dirty

You know what are dirty? Steering wheels. All this dirt came off of mine and this was the third time I've cleaned it recently. It's just years and years of built up disgustingness. So you should clean your steering wheel.

Quit Invading My House

Hello ants, thank you for eating this dead fly. As a reward, I will now spray you all with Raid.

Sunrise

Made out of petits fours by my culinary roommate Kelli Shay.

Jared Micah and the Hats at my house this weekend

They are such a good band. When they hit that "tra la la la la tra la la la" part in that one song where the whole band is belting it out... it's just wonderful. I wish I could write songs that were as abstract and other-worldly as theirs.
And here is the recording of the song from the house show (most of it, anyway.. the recorder ran out of tape)

Seth Moore and Chris Freeman's Attempt to Sneak In to Bonnaroo

Apparently it is somewhat common for Middle Tennessee residents to sneak into Bonnaroo. Seth Moore had done it in previous years and asked me if I wanted to come along this year. I thought it would be a fun adventure, so I went along.

He said he knew a safe spot to leave the car that was pretty close to the camping area. Security, however, was tighter this year.


So we drove around looking for another place to sneak through the fence and found these kids from New Jersey hanging out in a pull-off by a cell-phone tower. They said they could lead us to a good spot.

However, they drove like crazy drunks and switched lanes faster than we could keep up, so we lost them in traffic. We decided to walk back to the cell phone tower to try to get through the fence there. We had to pass this campground, and as we did, we were stopped by a dude.


Then Seth had an idea about how to get around the campgroud and the dude.


Then we drove home.


We went to Murfreesboro and ended up playing music at Lin's house for like 3 hours. That smoothed over any unhappiness from the failed adventure. All is well now.

I Made Another Flyer

Not that I'm promoting smoking or objectifying women.. or... oh man, I'm a hypocrite.

The Internet Archive

In a time before everyone was a blogger, publishing on the internet was left to the few nerds who could type up html in Notepad. From 1998 onward, I was (still am) one of those nerds. Yesterday I was very excited to find that The Internet Archive contains all the old pages I used to make!!

Unfortunately they are a little splotchy: they don't have all the images and some of the links don't work, but I'm still glad this little piece of personal/local band history is still available:

Murfreesboro (the band)

The Rachel Nevadas (John Hilowitz and Lindsay Eyth also ran this site at various times)

Instant Haiku (Chia Chu and Matt Ladd also made some of these)

Chris Freeman.com

And for you Richmonders.. here is the best part! Free Punchline classifieds from 2001!!!! Scroll down for some not-so-secret messages to "Plaza TMBG Girl" - those were from me. Also the one naming all the World Cup employees.

Punchline Classifieds

(You have to click on "F*cking Nonsense")

Unfinished House

The house Seth played in wasn't quite done being built yet.

Seth Moore

Seth Moore playing at a house show this weekend. If you like my songs (and who doesn't!??!?!), you'll also like his songs.

My New House's Front Stoop

It's not really a porch, but it does have an awning. Come on over and hang out! That chair isn't too broken.

Muffins at My New House

Sometimes muffins just appear at my new house. I'm not going to argue if they want to be eaten.

My New House Has a Fireplace

With horseshoes and a tiny gun above it.

Lots of Boxes

Here's the reverse angle of yesterday's picture.

Moving In

I'm excited about my new house. There's a basement where I can play music, a washing machine and dryer, a hammock, a fireplace, house shows, lots of cooking, and rhyming roommates: Kelli Shay and TJ. Of course right now it's a mess and all of my stuff is buried in boxes.

Another flyer

I made this flyer, too. That makes two flyers with the word "tiger" on them and not one picture of a tiger - I'm so proud of myself!
Here are some other flyers I made in my past life.