NEWS: August 2007 Archives
yes hello hi i was just thinking i would put this yarnlazer.com news update here cause i took the time to make all the links work and everything and to re-write it to fit the vibe here would be a drag and i am lazy. beyond this semi official business news, i am doing fine. i pretty much hate my wine delivery job right now. just sick of it after 2 years. if anyone reading needs a job, has a working car, can lift 35 to 40 pound boxes repeatedly, knows how to get around portland, is familiar with working with a hand-truck, has a high tolerance for this city's growing traffic crisis, can work well under the pressure of impending deadlines, can tolerate mild to fairly overt guilt-trips from asshole and/or yuppie restaurant and/or wine shop owners, knows how to add, has a mild understanding of spanish and french pronunciation, can decipher others' butchered pronunciations of french and spanish, likes an occasional free bottle of wine, has a valid driver's license, can work tues thru friday from around 10am to around 4pm, will be happy with the average weekly pay of $200 to $300 and would be willing to train with me for a few days to a week...well then.....do the do... so on a related note if anyone needs their record mastered at affordable rates, would pay to listen to the rants of a bitter young man, would pay for pretentious, possibly useless and misguided advice, would pay to learn the pentatonic "blues" scale on the guitar in any key or any other such thing...well then.....lets get pizza'd. furthermore if any reader has actually useful tips towards alternate income sources that lead to actual earnings in cold hard american cash dollars, i will gladly give up a small percentage of these earnings as a sort of "finder's fee".
as a side note, someone should do something about the entertainment booking at the Produce Row cafe. jazz jam mondays suck, as do the shitty bar bands that play on saturday nights. only generic, clean, pastel colored spineless indie pop would upset me more if blasted straight from a loud outdoor PA into our windows every god damned night of the week. seriously. this band down there just played the worst rendition of that "whats your name (chik-oo-ahhw) who's your daddy (chik-oo-ahhw)" song i have ever heard in my fucking life.
besides all that everything is great! here's the yarnlazer update. love adam
"Wow sorry no update for 3 months! Yarnlazer took the summer off kinda. Everything from the spring/early summer 07 is sold out on our end. One can always try the various little online shops that specialize in these sorts of things, someone somewhere has something you might be able to purchase and enjoy.
Valet has been hard at work on a new record for Kranky, which will probably come out early next year. And she's got an awesome new seven-inch of the songs 'Fire' b/w 'Beach Gaze' on the new Burnt Brown Sounds Label out of Chicago. Aquarius has some now.
Two new White Rainbow releases are about to drop. Prism of Eternal Now CD on Kranky comes out October 1st. The double-vinyl gatefold fancy version on Marriage is available NOW. Secondly, the sequel to SunShifts called SKY DRIPS DRIFTS is coming out on States Rights very very very soon. White Rainbow will be on tour with Dirty Projectors and YACHT on the west coast in early September 2007. Check the white rainbow page or myspace or virb for the dates.
Valet, White Rainbow and Rob Walmart are all playing the second annual Halleluwah Festival here in Portland. This time Aug 31st thru Sept 2nd at Holocene, 21+. We play our own sets on friday the 31st and then on sunday the 2nd we play with Damo Suzuki as part of a portland improv super group of 'sound carriers' as part of Damo's ever expanding Network.
Also, this fall Valet and White Rainbow are playing an all-day festival at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California with a bunch of cool groups including Whysp, Akron Family and other weirdos. The show is called "((3D)) PICNIC: A Musical and Visual Arts Gathering." Saturday October 13th. Get in if you fit in! White Rainbow will be in full vibe-hut healing prism audio/video formation, after dusk.
Lots of famly-band collaboration going on all summer. I just helped T Greenwood and the JOMF crew finish up a new record called 'Valley of Fire', which should drop from the Textile label by year's end. Both Honey and I have been playing lots of cool jams with Adrian Orange and Curtis and anybody else who stops by the Marriage Records Official Jam Room and Club House upstairs from Yarnlazer HQ. Honey's been working with M. Evan Burden of Silentist on her new record, which is rad and cool. She's also working on starting a new vintage store in portland tentatively titled Rad Summer. No direct relation but also rad is my deeply un-official title of Assistant Regional Manager (Northwest and parts of Asia) of Rad Records Skateboards and Other Sundries, a new sub-label of Marriage Records curated by Kyle Field of Little Wings. People should check out the first release on Rad, Little Wings' Soft Pow'r.