More reasons to LOVE Veneto

My friends here in Veneto are a part of a creative collective called Madcap Collective. They all do really cool stuff and the sense of community that they create is truly wonderful. Last Sunday they celebrated their 6th(?) birthday by throwing a party in Mestre at Villa Francin, the place I played the previous Sunday with Federico (who is part of the collective and is also the man behind Father Murphy, which is touring the US in June.) Chris, Nolan and I loaded up and rode out for the joyous occassion.



This is Gabrielle. He is a part of the collective and makes videos and does really cool video projects. He had a couple pieces, one that had me singing "Love Me Tender" to a statue and Federico as a young Hitler and another public video project. The public project was really great. He put a bunch of objects in a box and left them out in a place with some rules. Essentially, to be a part of the project, you had to a make a video using all the objects in the box and shoot it at the space where the box was. Some really really great videos came of this. I wish I had a way to show them to you, but alas I do not, so you are going to have to trust me. He is hoping to continue this project in places around the world. New York, Hamburg, Berlin- I'm lookng at you...



Blake/e/e/e playing. I think I may tour with them in October for a while. Real cool.






After the party was over, some pizzas were had. Ahh pizza...

On Saturday of this week, Paola brought me to a really killer spot. It took us about an hour or so to get there from Castelfranco, but it was totally worth it. What you are looking at below is the Veneto region from on top of a big hill/mountain. It was really magical.



The reason we came here was to see this (below).





Apparently, this guy lives/lived somewhere near this place. Rubbio possibly? Anyway, he did all this in like 1990. Shit is totally cool. We spent a couple hours just hanging around in it. Te top thing is called Cava Colorata, the one with the metal stuff, I have no idea. Both equally amazing.



Ciao Ya'll!

Its Been a While Since I Seen You Smile

Dearest Friends,
I am sorry that I have not been updating this blog for a while. Sometimes, it slips my mind or I run into internet problems, or things just don't work out... Here is what I have been up to for the last month. I hope to be more regular, but maybe I won't. Who knows?




So, I was in Texas for a while. I got a chance to hang around at my Dad's ranch some and fish and stuff with him and my brother Jim.



Then back in Houston, I hung with Kyle at Big Star Bar while he DJed out of the back of his truck. Pretty fucking cool if you ask me.
After Texas I went back to New York and we had a party at the Firehouse.



This is Eli from Columbia. She had a poem written on her arms.






BuddyHollyCost played his unique brand of noise rawk on the roof.




The next day, the Psychic Ills were playing at Mercury with Spectrum.
After New York, I flew to Munich and took a train down to Vicenza, Italy to stay at Chris and Toni's place for a while. Erin from Hamburg flew in and we went to Treviso to play with Federico from Father Murphy in Mestre as Terrible Father.




On Friday and Saturday there was a noise (and I mean hardcore noise) festival in Fontanelle that Fede took us to out in an old Italian villa surrounded by grape vines. It was totally surreal.



Paolo after the Terrible Father show in Mestre at Villa Francin.



Federico back at his place in Treviso. I think he was pontificating on the importance of sobriety...
On Monday we came back here to Vicenza and went for a walk. The image below is of a statue on a church at the top of the hill. If you look at the statue, you can see that he has his skin slung over his shoulder like a cape or something. Fucking weird!




Vicenza from that hill (above) and the Church (below.)




I really like this little skull and crossbones thing they have near the train tracks.

Erin and I went over to Venice on Wednesday and Thursday. Below are a bunch of pics from there.




Look how angry this seagull looks. It was hilarious watching him run the pigeons off from the food.



These are all disposable razors. Looks like someone has been throwing them there for years. Weirdo.






This is from the Rialto at night. Breathtaking...

Neverstop video

Random NY

Some of the things I found interesting in NY these last couple days.



We DJed Friday at BSide. It was a blast as always.








Excepter at Bell House last night. If that place had a better sound system...

Little news item

Remember this?



Entonces we are going to be working together again in Hamburg for a festival called Dockville that is an art/music/community building festival. We are working on the Luttville thing and might play at the festival as well. I'll fill you in with info and pictures as we make them.

Here are more images from the Advances in Archaeology installation on our new facebook page.

Assumptions

Here are some pics of Bolivia. This is Andrea, Cristina, and Kathia.



This is the Terrible Eagle Bolivian Experience Featuring Charango (minus Allejo.) Julio, B, Me, Sebastian.



Sebastian and Ivo.



In the Performance at Diakonia, the students made these cubes and hung them from the ceiling. We projected through them and they looked amazing. See the video I posted the other day to get the effect.



This is the group we worked with down in Santa Cruz.




When I got back to NY, I went for a long walk and then played dominoes on the roof with Christy, Robert and Justin.