schlugliminal

the burden of transparency

It started in 2022. After the forced closures of public spaces during the pandemic had been lifted, when it still felt a little naughty to return to them, but the social void had made so many of us hungry for the presence of others that the risks were worth weighing. I had started conceptualizing an essay in response to conversations I was having with people at bars during this time. Something felt different.

I held people while they cried, people scared they may be schizophr...

An update for march

March has been wicked splendid. She usually is, but this year I feel as though I’ve made it to the other side of a gauntlet of grief with some wisdom and clarity. I rang in 33 on 3/3, and that feels significant, somehow. The next weekend, I got a phonecall from my friend Adam as I was drifting off to dreamspace and found out that his band was going to be in town to play a couple of shows on the University dollar. I crashed their luncheon and learned that they were chosen by a focus group of...

balance & sacred spaces // 02-05-2025

Well, January was absolutely wild. From starting out the New Year with two mass death events in the US, to LA-on-fire & snowstorms in the southeast, to the inauguration and the confirmation hearings, where masks are continuing to fly right off, to the sweeping presidential pardons and executive actions, to Indonesia joining the BRICS, to the bird flu outbreak, to a brokered ceasefire agreement in Gaza (which is dicey, and much too little too late, but hostage deals and a reprieve from the...

Winter screen-printing // cro-chet-e // board gamin' // sunsets & grief

Hey y'all, it's been a minute since I've stepped into this space. I've been plugging along on projects, just been a bit quiet. I've been processing through a lot of grief this winter and most of my writing has been a bit scattered and personal. For outies, not for innies, so-to-say.

I want to share a few things I've been working on since November now that I have a little more space to review. My friend Remy came by the art studio a while back and helped me print about 40 of these patche...

Lilac. Massive rewrites. Long restin'. Yeah that's fine.

Hey y'all. The storm came. My power was out for 52 hours. Since then, the tire fell off of the rim of my Subaru, somebody smashed in the window of my Jeep while I was at a theater fundraiser masquerade (which I got comp'd in to, and left with 4 lbs of beeeeef, thank you FST), and I've made 2 hats and about 70% of a sweater.

I'm generally just really grateful that I have tools, and options, and community. It's been a typical winter. Shit tends to hit the fan in a rolling fashion f...

An artful day before the storm

The art studio is finally back in force. Psychic Spychick had our first band practice of the season this week, deep digging for good tones and rewriting structures and solos and doing good creative play toward making some songs we feel good about recording in a few months. I was describing hammer-ons and pull-offs, and getting the timing just so on slides, and Sara said "it's like your fingers are the hammers inside of the piano," and that is just, kind of a neat and apt way of describing the...

yikes // another semi-regular offgassing of wtf-are-we-doing // 10-19-2024

Zionism is white supremacy. Israel is a white supremacist military state. It is a colonial project dropped onto a piece of land that nobody asked anybody else’s permission to use or collaborate on. They just showed up and said this is ours now, law says we can have it, get out or submit—with broad support from the war-planners of the 1930s and 40s, who also did that, and wrote the aforementioned law about it. It has existed in apartheid for its entire history. Just like so many nations we...

New board, who dis?

I was gifted a new, much larger, pedal board this summer, and I finally had a little time to re-velcro all of my pedals and get them all lined out and wired up. I've only played with it for about 15 minutes since I got it all set up, but I got some good tone from a super shifter/shimmer delay/sonar reverb/silver dragon distortion combo that I am very excited to use when Psychic Spychick starts practicing again.

Just reveling in this little phalanx of robots. Big music to come. A ...

MEGAzine cover mockup

This here is a draft of just the cover of the megazine. Everything is mutable. Very likely to change as the rest of the pages come together. The image is a picture I took of a santa novelty candle melting in front of an inspirational magnet~

Art: A Manifesto

I wrote this manifesto for a poli-sci class in college. It is one of the pieces going into the upcoming MEGAZINE.

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Art alters you.

While the artifacts are impermanent, there is an emotional force in art that lingers. A force that contains an experience that transcends rationality. A force that moves through, with, and against you in waves. When it resonates, the force seeks to replicate itself. It becomes contagious. These “contagious” experie...

slow lore music room progress // almost halfway blankee

As part of the art studio renovations this year, I've decided to upholster the "sound-reinforcement-system." It looks a lot better than just..nailing trash to the wall and putting a curtain in front of it, which was the previous move. This stuff was packaging for a big grow-light upgrade at the weed farm a couple of years ago. I grabbed a stack of it and it has been very handy for rooms-with-drums ever since.

So over this weekend, I finished putting up the sound reinforcement...

artsCOOL2024 ++ big ol' harvest moon

Hey all-

Here’s a little video of the art show we did at the end of artscool this summer. Getting back into the swing of things here as winter slowly rolls in. I’m at the art studio almost every day for at least an hour setting up shelves and cleaning and organizing and getting everything ready for making. I am currently upholstering some scrap sheets of packaging foam to use as sound reinforcement in the band room. Maybe I’ll give y’all a video tour once it’s all s...

smol update from the coast 07.20.2024

I've been in Ketchikan for almost a month now. Next week is the last week of ArtsCool, a 4 week summer arts camp I've been teaching "art" class at. The camp has been largely centered around the production of a musical for many years now, with any visual art time being focused around creating the set or costumes or props for the show. This year it's a little different. A little more like it was when I was a kid, with classes not all necessarily building toward the same goal. There are classes ...

lake pigments

I've had some, eh, camera issues lately. My life is a little too disorganized to have my DSLR and SD card reader handy at the moment, and my cell phone camera lens is busted up. But, I am still able to use the camera on the screen side of my phone. Some gymnastics involved, but it gets the job done.

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was going to make pigment out of dandelions. I did it, and it worked really well. I used a process of botanical pigment extraction called "laking." The fi...

fugue, exhaustion, and creativity 06.14.2024

I've been in a sort of prolongued fugue state for a lot of this year. Between the long hours at work, the labor of seeking solutions to seeing the art studio through the next year on our way to creating a vibrant collaborative art space (big news in August if all goes well), the letting go of believing that the people closest to me are brave and willing to struggle for what they know is right after seeing over and over how even the most tender hearts will numb themselves and fall in line, the...

last psychic spychick set for a while

We played at the Fairbanks Ladies of Wrestling Break-up Beat-down this Saturday. Hit a couple of milestones: biggest crowd yet, professional sound reinforcement, and a full set of original music all in one. I got a good recording from the board on my field recorder that I'm going to trawl for a good song to upload to somewhere (soundcloud, funkwhale? idk). This is our last practice recording from the Wednesday before, plowing through the whole set in one track. Time to rest and ...

Horoscope for May 2024

To those of us who are shocked, but not surprised: do not become desensitized to the horror. I know it’s terrible. Terrible things must remain judged as they are. Inhumane, unconscionable, sinister, malicious, supported by robust systems of inequality and xenophobia, supported by technology and capital, intentionally manipulative, tragically misled. Don’t cage your anger, your sadness, your difficult emotions that may overwhelm you. Feel them. Know them. Let them flow through you. Don’t...

...holy shit 05.09.2024

I’ve been working on a piece of writing for about 3 weeks now. I keep having to revise it as the struggle for power and justice intensifies revolving around the genocide, the student protests, the jackboot responses to those protests, the Yemeni resistance, & the United States ruling class getting both clumsier and less concerned with 2024-05-10 06:14:44 +0000 UTC View Post

mail print update april 2024

I've been working on the next sweet treat in the mail this week: Psychic Spychick posters & stickers & letters on tiny yellow legal pad for all! We sold so many stickers at the show last weekend, I had to order more today (wow I could have expected that and set some aside but certainly did not do that), so I'm only about halfway done, but all else is prepped! I am headed to Michigan this week to see my brother perform as Billy in Anything Goes. My stickermule package should arrive as ...