Evan Kanarakis and I had a conversation last year that lead to yet another side project for us.

Gascan Magazine is an online music journal was highlights the music that we like and the people who will talk to us. Our goal was to create a non-critical, non-holier-than-thou publication that we could use to counteract the cynicism that pervades a lot of music blogs.

We don't know if we've succeeded yet. We're trying. Take a look, if you'd like.

My photos are up for a month at Port City Blue.

The theme? Animals that I've bumped into around the world. A horse taking a shower in Nice, France. A cow wandering along the highway in northern California. My first impulse was to use the street photographs that I'd taken but I kept noticing the creatures popping up. Taking a page on r/aww, I decided it made for a less fussy show.

The opening was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who came and drank wine with us.

Photographs (c) 2013 by Troy Keiper. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Reprint only with original attribution.

We are chalk lines
Grass lined boxes
We have no hope of
Abandoned metros

We lose our way
We count our losses
And nothing opens
Again

We down prescriptions
Like mementos
build up resistance
To what upsets us

You are the only one
I believe

We talk ourselves up
We push our chests out
We hide our mics
Beneath our clothes

We have no exits
our days aren't ending
The frills we buy in,
the drinks we're tagged with

You want forgiveness
It still eludes you
Your only movement
is in your windpipe

And, yet,
you are the only one
I believe

It's beneath us
Beneath our answers
It circumvents us
we're always cold

We’ll never find
We aren't these people

Photo from previous show. Oops.

This Friday is your one chance to catch a live intimate show of some new material. Joshua Madore's band will be playing as well. Let's drink.

Location: Not at One Longfellow as pictured. Slainte on Preble.
Date/Time: This Friday at 9PM.

We weren't down in Hyannis Port for photos. Mostly drinking. Drinking and some photos.

I recently recorded a live interview with Chicago's Somebody and Me show. It's a comedy podcast that often features Chicago bands.

It was a bit revealing for someone who doesn't like confess to much. Sadly, the Skype connection was a bit wonky though and we weren't able to play a game.

It's always an entertaining show. You can download it via iTunes or listen from their website.

Click here to check it out.

I recorded a live song today. If I go the way of Icarus, I wanted to leave with a smile. "ER" from the new CD.

[UPDATE 5/30/2011: The AP site is undergoing some revisions and won't be back up until the end of June 2011.]