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Another dreary Saturday morning in Providence. Yesterday we went to the Bristol 4th of July Parade which was fun if a bit crowded. One of the parade floats was just Buddy Cianci walking alone down the middle of the street. It was touching. I will spend the afternoon setting up my guitars, listening to old songs, taking notes, and mixing down some of the much-neglected electronic output. I’m feeling pretty good about the whole thing and quite relaxed. I hope to have something to post soon.

All the best,
RK

I’m going to Victoria and Vancouver this week. I’ve been doing research on things to do when I’m there. I found Andy Dixon (of Vancouver, I think). I really like some of his paintings. Also been listening to vincat and My friend Wallis (this really sounds like the old-school electronic music I used to make).

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As a semi-hilarious corollary to my previous post, here are some other people who dedicate their free time to making models of buildings: http://www.flickr.com/photos/magiccityrepairs/

Both are inspiring, although in different ways.

RK

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This dude has made amazing model railroad scenery of all these rundown urban locations. Seems like the majority of them are invented and not actual places. ;(

Check it out: http://www.vestaldesign.com/projects/modelrr/

RK

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A long time ago, in some other, alternate summer version of New York (a version without time-constraints, long before the weather had turned) we went to a really amazing todd p. show.

It was sort of a funny thing. Finding ourself back in the big city, and having dozen if not hundreds of events to choose from, we did what any self-respecting Providence kids would do and joined hundreds in going to see Providence’s reigning export (that’s “Lightning Bolt“, for you day-dreamers) play alongside DMBQ in some giant garage in Bushwyck. Top notch.

But that’s not what this post is about: Big-A-little-A opened, but so did APES, an act about whom we knew very little. At the time they came off as another spacy, psych rock band. They had an organ and a bassist but I think no guitars? The songs were the usual verse-chorus-verse fair but seemed to miander and become freeform at times. We liked them quite a bit. For some reason I was under the mistaken impression that Apes were a very new band, that they didn’t have any records, and that perhaps this was even one of their first shows. How wrong I was. Imagine my surprise when I, as I wandered one morning through Frenchkiss Records’ website discovered that Apes were in fact not only on that imprint but in fact have not one but two full-lengths already out. Should have done my research. Anyway, the free mp3s are breathtaking. A perfect medium between the minimalist glam I currently tout and my prog-rock loving college self.

• The Apes at Frenchkiss records
  
• The Apes on myspace

Watch the Top Chef Finale Pt. 2 tonight. You know you’ll be sorry if you miss it.

Oh, all the best,
RK Thornwell

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Exciting news. The Sharp Guns record is finally available for sale on iTunes! Definitely check it out if you haven’t already. RK

I just set up a ziki at ziki.com. Really a top-notch service. Finally something that lets me aggregate all my web stuff into one place. God knows I didn’t have time to write something myself.

RK