February 2010
1 post
Superbowl/Mardi-Gras/Album-Release/Am-I-Missing-Any...
Howdy dowdy gang,
Who dat?
Happy Mardi Gras!
Album’s coming out tommorrow!!
End of a long road, ladies and gentlemen, a few long roads actually; let’s handle them in order, shall we then?
First of all the Superbowl. Fuck yeah. That’s prolly been the longest road on the list, aye? Saints took it to the max, though I wish they’da beat the shit out of Peyton Manning a...
December 2009
4 posts
happy happy happy happy happy happy happy holiday!...
howdy!
remember that episode of south park with charlie manson learning the meaning of christmas at the cartman house in nebraska? happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy holiday? happy happy holy holy happy happy happy happy holiday?
well, it’s a hell of an episode, and a hell of a song, and from the molten black kyrptonite core of my heart, i’d like to wish you and yours...
Tease him a lot cause ya got him on the spot,...
Hey kids, whats crappenin?
Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving/November, no matter how cold or not cold enough it is wherever you are.
I’m watching that episode of South Park where Randy’s got alcoholism right now and looking at my neighbors creepy nutzo Christmas lights right now, worked delivering pizzas earlier today (that’s right, I got a job!!). Let’s see, what...
October 2009
6 posts
Halloweeeeeeeeeeen
Happy Halloween Ghouls and Goblins!
It’s my faveorite time of year here in Stathakula land, and I don’t know about you filthy bastards but I’m ready to hit the town and get me some goddamned candy!
I don’t know if everyone knows what Halloween in New Orleans means exactly. Hmmmmmm. Picture Mardi Gras but just with all the weirdos, and no big official parades, just little...
The Final Frontier.........
Howdy Doody kiddies,
Well, put another notch on the endless nerd-belt of my life this week. It was coming for a long time, I’m suprised it hasn’t come up sooner. I always thought I was a better man, but perhaps I was wrong.
If you haven’t guessed yet, I’ve started watching the original Star Trek, starting at season one. Spock, Captain Kirk, Sulu, etc etc etc etc. Yeah,...
Finally, it's not a steambath outside anymore
So hows everyone been then?
You ever sleep waaay too late for no apparent reason/againts your will, then wake up all foggy and confused because your dreams have had waaay too long to develop and now you’ve forgotten everything about them?
It finally feels like fall here in New Orleans, and I’m fucking loving it. I don’t wake up covered in sweat, I’m not covered in sweat...
Random Updates from the edge of the world
Whats going on kids,
Sittin here watching Enter the Dragon, been a while, pretty ridiculous shit; reminds me that I need a secret hideout and a whole mess of karate-trained henchmen, and somekind of death ray or super soldier formula or something like that.
Anyway, Peter’s in town for the next week, we’re chillin’ pretty hard and having a decent few meetings about the album,...
September 2009
4 posts
Ramblings and other Things You've Come to expect.
howdy all,
Don’t really have any decently assembled thoughts to lay down just yet, so I’m just going to throw words and sentences at ya and see what sticks to the conscious wall.
Everyone should find a copy of the book The Ninth Configuration by William Peter Blatty immediately. I’m pretty sure it’s out of print, which means you’re going to have to go used, but...
Life and Death are just things you do when you're...
Howdy Squirts,
Camps Counselor Stathakula here, fresh from the newest rehearsal of the Stathakula rock trio, in preparations for the 26th show at Cafe Prytania w/ Natalie Mae and Andrew Duhon. Ted Long will be joining us on the bass guitar and Ross McIntire from the Blue Party will be rocking the drumkit like a hurricane. Everybody should come out and drink a lot and have fun, or we’ll...
Life and Death are just things you do when you're...
Howdy Squirts,
Camps Counselor Stathakula here, fresh from the newest rehearsal of the Stathakula rock trio, in preparations for the 26th show at Cafe Prytania w/ Natalie Mae and Andrew Duhon. Ted Long will be joining us on the bass guitar and Ross McIntire from the Blue Party will be rocking the drumkit like a hurricane. Everybody should come out and drink a lot and have fun, or we’ll...
Back from the Dead..... er, Tour!
Bet you thought I was gone forever aye bastards?!
Well, I survived another BlueParty tour. Motherfucking fivehourenergy and booze and sheer Willpower, torque and inertia, lots of blankets and pillows, I’m babbling already aren’t I?
Ah fuck it, I’ve been to Millwaukee and back, I’ve got a right to babble.
Anyway, Blue Party tour was fucking awesome, even more awesome than...
August 2009
4 posts
Blue Party Tour!!!!?!
`The time is nigh thee of the inner church,
The Blue Party’s going on tour tommorrow, with me and my Bazooka Bazouki in tow, and as I’ve said many a time in a most pleasant and excited manner: “this, this should be one hell of a fucking shitshow.” In the best way possible of course.
We’re going all over the damned Midwest over the course of the next two weeks,...
Krautrock!
Yes, that’s right kids.
Krautrock.
That weird wild wonderful and German music that took the music nerds all over the world by storm in the 1970s. Fabulous bands with fabulous names like Can, Kraftwerk, Faust, and NEU!. Strange and exciting droning and screaming Teutonic madness and wisdom filtered out to the masses.
What is Krautrock, you might ask yourself? Krautrock, broadly, developed...
Is there really anything worse than Keanu Reeves?
Children,
I’ll be honest, it’s past four in the morning, and I have been drinking. Of course you’re shocked. If this seems like babble, will anyone really be able to tell the difference between this post and a “normal” rambling blah blah blah babble post then congrats.
I’ve been reading a lot of classic Hellblazer Garth Ennis issues (its the comic that not...
Busy Busy Dammit Busy
Highdely ho
it’s been a very very busy weekend here in the Big Easy; spent like three days moving, had a great gig last nite at the Olive Branch in Mid-City (thanks to all who came out) and have got a Blue Party gig tonite at the Blue Nile (Come on down kids, we’re playing with Big Rock Candy Mountain and the Roadside Graves, both really fucking cool bands).
But, I thought I’d...
July 2009
9 posts
Rainy Day Discourse
howdy doody kids,
Its a rainy afternoon in New Orleans and I’ve been engaging in one of my faveorite activities this afternoon: laying around listening to music and going in and out of sleep for a little while. Phone’s on silent over there in the chair, speakers aren’t turned up too too loud, and the rain tap taps on the glass in the most musical way.
I’ve been drifting...
A proclomation
Proclomation,
I hereby decree that my first born progenus, male or female, shalt hereby be named Seven. Seven Stathakes its little name shall be.
Or, if the lady bitches too much, Nine.
Yours,
Stathakula
Time to Nerd Out For a Minute
hallo boys and girls,
Exposing my own incredible nerdiness is not among the top of my list of priorities, but after such a wonderful wonderful day in the world of comic books for me I just can’t resist babbling to all of you about what I’ve consumed in the past three todays.
Point first:
So I recently got a hold of Grant Morrison’s incredible run on New X-Men a few years...
Good afternoon ladies and Gentleman
hallo,
A few things today
Wrote a song today and yesterday, hoohah! Hoohah! Hoohah! (you know, pacino, etc….)
I need an announcer guy like bob dylan has. I feel like the best way for preparing for me is to have someone read a monologue about my life to the audience right before I play over Aaron Copeland, right? that’s not insane is it?
So I bought Blackest Night #1 and Green...
An emmission to the masses
Children of the Kingdom,
good morning
alright, it took most of the movie, but I must confess my own fallibility for perhaps the first time in my meager life: I was incorrect in thought and opinion.
I know, it does seem a bit bizarre, me fallible. Alas, tis true. It took the better part of an hour, and me not watching a good ten minutes in the middle (a man must bathe, must he not?) but it must...
Happy Fourth of July Fools!!
Happy fourth ladies and germs, a coupla days too late anyways.
I spent my fourth at the beach, soaking in the sun, drinking up the beers, and hanging out with family. Gotta love a good beach trip to recharge your batteries.
What in the hell is the deal with the tags on mattresses, mmmm?
So the gig the other night at Cafe Prytania went well, not a huge turnout but a fun set and a good time; I...
June 2009
5 posts
Thoughts here and there
A few things here and there,
Nacho Mamas is gross, sorry
Felipes is better
Batman the Brave and the Bold is good
Hannah is as wiley as a feret
Reid is as mad as a hatter
Batches is as insane as a buffalo.
Gigs soon, this thursday cafe prytania mmmmmmm, mebbe a couple new songs if theyre good enough to stay in one piece (its fun to chop them up into bits and bits)
There’s no business...
Gone Fishin'
And a sweaty how-do-ya-do to all of you,
Well, Birmingham’s not as hot as new orleans but its still hot as balls, and today I decided to spend my time on a boat sweating all day. My friends Kelly, Ben, Senora Beth, and I took to the beautiful lake at Oak Mountain state park to relax and fish and hang today. And sweat and row and complain that we should have brought beers. It was a lovely...
Post Session 2/Home notes
howdy all,
this evening’s post finds me typing to you while once again wrapped in the synthesizer train swooshes of Station to Station, in Birmingham Alabama, speaking to you from the magical motherboxx seated on my parents computer desk.
I got in to Birmingham two days ago, it’s hot and muggy but not as hot and muggy as New Orleans certainly; it’s good to be home, hang out...
Post Recording Session One Notes
Good afternoon/morning/evening all,
Well, on Friday myself Ross McIntire and Matt Bodie headed in to the Loyola studio to lay down the first tracks for the album. We got all of Ross’ drum tracks laid down, and I must recapitulate what a freakin genius of a drummer Ross is and how lucky we are to have him playing drums on the album; yowzers. Ross hopped on a plain back to Cali-for-nie-aye...
Apologies for Being a Lazy Ass
howdy doody all,
sorry I’ve been away from the blog for so long, but I’ve been pretty busy juggling a few different things at the moment and it just hasn’t been able to happen until now, this very minute, this very hour. Just got done practicing all the tracks with Ross, every day I get more and more excited to get into the studio at ten am Friday with all my gear and just start...
May 2009
1 post
And then there was........Stathakula
Howdy doody children,
Tis the dawn of a new age of man and blogs, the start of my new Tumblr blog (hooray). I’ll be posting in more detail various things about my music, my life, etc etc etc…….. thoughts and feelings and opinions and secret other things, I’m sure you get the vagueries of the idea by now.
I’m going to talk about all kind of things, on a fairly...