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Archive for May, 2009

RH2, RH3, and RH4 now Available, mostly in person.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

You Can, no longer available,…all foregoing requests in the mail in the morning.

Then off again, first to Boston,… where we should have already been had it not been for a series of events which stemmed from me having having left the lights of Lauren’s brother’s car on last night, which awoken the car’s long slumbering alarm system, as well as causing the doors to lock with the keys in the ignition just as I connected the jumper cables to the battery,… with no remote switch, and a too good to pass up deal on a good G/C Concertina in Foxboro,….. we had to pass up the last train and opt for the sanest solution, which lately seems to be adding a new instrument to the already to heavy slew we’ve already accrued. Oh well,…
Lately I’ve told myself that I’ll try and never complain too much about the things in my life which only give and give.

So,…after Boston will need to be decided no later than just after tomorrow, as we will need to be in Southern Washington/ Portland, by the 21st of this month of May,then Portland Oregon, before hopefully heading into either the Black Hills of South Dakota; or Cumberland Ohio. Which means we decide by sundown tomorrow to stay the next few days in New York, then lazily fly out, or begin the beat down the long health heavy street almost immediately.

But either way,… this is advertising, or something,…or order a CD and maybe we’ll swing through and deliver it on the way to wherever.

J/L

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battle

fake-ass-pilgrims

rh4

Follow the 1620 link off to the side for music for now, or,…

www.myspace.com/1620music

Oh, and we are in the market for a short bus, if you have a good lead get at we.

The more things change,….

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

An old cliche; but not only.

I believe this photo was taken in 2000.

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Today Lauren and I took a visit to the Dungeon, or the basement and personal home recording studio of Larry Anzuoni, the third, though I’m glad to hear (verbally unfortunately), that Larry Jr has been known to hit the skins as of late.

We found that in playing You Can for people that we were often asked for a verbal back story to what was going on at any given moment, the hows and whys, as far as Lauren and I could guess to tell it, of how or why we got to wherever or whatever sound was playing. We had played the disk for a handful of people on our trip from Boston to Los Angeles, but felt that the first person we played it for in its entirety, Larry, got what we felt was going on on it right away, and most fully. Which, besides the fact that I literally met the kid as we both went to hide under the same piano in high school, in an effort to skip our respective classes,..was enough reason for me to once again trust his ear, and this time place our efforts in his hands,..or computer,… Which we are glad we did as we feel he added just the right touch of mastering to our forthcoming A Battle at a Party.

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Oh, and, because he still has everything, including my old DD-3 delay pedal in accessible position, he gave me the old tracks we cut for Borden back in high school,…as well as all the other bands we were in back then.

Tape sleeve from the last show.

Tape sleeve from the last show.

Fear.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

05/05/09
09:25:29 PM

Welcome to,…wherever.

This fumbling for a footing in reality called life has kept me fighting for my own. In the knick/knack collection of wake up brush your teeth, deliver, it becomes a life raft to simply calm, cool, consider.

Dive into the calm sea of self;
then deliver.

Things are not going right for many.
And now the fear of diseases has your attention, and now the economy, and now the man moving in or out next door, down the road; wherever,..and what? Consume;greed.

Need has never
surfed the cusp of evolution,
for a new pair of shorts
lined with
whatever,…

For these and more reasons we at the Roving House consider those some what sane and resilient, healthy souls who refuse to go down under, to lay and wallow in the work disease too common devour of all that is human.

For to act contrary to human desire on an all too regular basis is to breed in ourselves contempt for not only ourselves, but also, others.

Are we saying, “quit your job.
Why don’t you experiment with a Home Free existence for a while too?”

Yes.
But you wont.

Still, relax.
Remember;
Consider.

They have,…you can.
Or, we will.
Are,..

in control of this spaceship flesh, navigating humanity; or not, alone in a darkened room, tent, hole, cave,…your god, Allah, or the Great Pumpkin only knows; all cases considered.

First order of business,.. assemble a documented collective conscious.

It is my feeling that with a pooling together of civic minded intellectual property a certain future historic preservation society could be created, watch dogs of the present with respect for tomorrow.

But here my friend Erik would say I am getting in over my head, starting with lofty end goals when I have yet to do anything but spray paint a few obscure hardly accessible CDs. Besides, haven’t you been stoned for, what? Like 3 years now?

Four.

But,….

John Ford
the roving house.

09:40:28 PM

10:16:15 PM

PS, meet us in New Mexico on the fourth of July.

Washington, Oregon, North West, in the mid spring.

East Coast for another week.

Or somewhere between here and there along the way.

10:18:37 PM