I just finished scoring the film Blue Potato and it’s currently wrapping up post production.  I’m super excited to have worked on such an amazing project and i’m gearing up for more good stuff!

I’ll pick up dan in 2 weeks to go play the Norman, OK Music Festival which will be followed by a week of recording at breathing rhythm studios there.

After that i’ll be touring through kansas, colorado, utah, idaho and oregon… i’ll be in the portland area for a week or so in mid may and then i’ll head down the coast to california.

i’m still getting the dates together so if you want to host a house show, let me know and i’ll see if i can make it work.  Otherwise, stay tuned for upcoming tour dates on the right>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Happy April!

-d

Winter is upon us and i’ve sought retreat from the damp, grey, northwest in southern New Mexico for the foreseeable future.  Kyle and i have relocated to Silver City, NM where we’ve been enjoying a nice little rental home and lots of sunshine.  It’s been a long time since we really had a space of our own and we’re looking forward to all of the nice things that come with that.

Welcome to New Mexico!

I’m in the process of scoring a film which should be out next year sometime and i’ll be starting to “campaign” for another year of CSM very soon.  If you haven’t signed up yet for 2013, stay tuned for details or hit me up for more info!

fabuloso!

-d

I’m making an effort to keep this site more active and update you with some photos and tales from my travels.  If you’ve been here before, you know i don’t blog much so please bear with me as i figure this out. (side note, i just looked that up because i realized i didn’t know whether it was bare or bear and i found this: Bear with me is a standard expression used as a request for forbearance or patience. Bare with me would be an invitation to undress.)

Anyway, I was just in Kansas City, MO visiting some family (we had a reunion actually) and it was really nice to see a lot of family that i haven’t seen in many years. I didn’t take any pictures of that but plenty were taken and we you probably don’t need to see those anyway.  However, i also had some interesting meetups with friends along the way.

Ezza Rose was on tour and happened to be playing in Kansas City the first day i got there.  Her bassist, Willem Joerz, is an old friend of mine and was the first “member” of Run On Sentence besides myself (he played bass on the first two albums).  He was flying in to meet the band and it just so happens that my parents live near the airport so i went to pick him up.  I took him down to the RecordBar in KC that evening and when i got there, someone called my name.  I turned around to see my friend Max Barcelow from Fort Collins, CO.  It turns out, Fierce Bad Rabbit (a band Max plays in) was playing the show with Ezza Rose… adding to the coincidence, I met Max because he was playing drums in the Nick Jaina Band and Willem used to play bass in the Nick Jaina Band.  The two had not met before and i was glad to be there with such fine individuals.  Max and i took a walk around Westport and found this crazy burger truck.

Ran into Max in KC and we found this giant burger-mobile!

A couple of days later, my sister recommended we eat at the Westport Flea Market (supposedly the best burgers in town).  I had totally forgotten about this photo and the burger truck.  So, when we arrived and i saw it, i knew it was right.

This kind of stuff seems to happen a lot in the life of touring musicians… or touring anybody’s really… by nature of the fact that we are always moving and going to the same kinds of places (if not the exact same places) it is not so uncommon that i may see friends more in various parts of the country than i do in their own home town.

On that note, i’ll leave you with this picture of a labyrinth i saw carved into the concrete on a sidewalk in Portland.  I don’t know how common this design is, but i have only seen it twice.  The first time i saw it was in New Mexico.  I was staying with a community of friends at “the ranch” and there was a dilapidated labyrinth there.  I asked if i could rebuild it as a work project and a woman named Meme drew out the original design for me to follow as a guide.  That was a couple of years ago.  I have since met Meme’s daughter Marya.  It turns out that Marya, lived in Portland, across the street from the Roadside Attraction during the time that i was the “house band” there.  I never met her though.  Also my friend Sarah, who was a bartender at the Roadside attraction, had a pair of earrings that she loved and wore frequently.  She did not know Marya or that Marya made those earrings and lived across the street from her work.  Anyway, i was walking down the street the other day and found this labyrinth carved into the sidewalk:

The Labyrinth that binds.

It was the same design Meme had drawn for me a couple of years earlier i saw it here less than a block from her daughters old house… i’m gonna go ask her if she put it there….

I plan to play quite a few solo gigs this summer on the west coast, maybe some as soon as next week so keep a lookout on the schedule.

Hope to see ya soon!

p.s. if you didn’t get a chance to sign up for the CSM, I’m offering the second half of the year $5-10  (sign up in May and i’ll through in June too!)  Just click on the CSM link above.

swellness!

-d

But as age spills out of hiding like a shadow, i see a fetter.  I feel roots lashing out against my feet, but i am chained to the wandering goat, married to the tornado’s tumult.  In the calm void i long for the call of a crowd, the expulsion of my demons, the temporal nature of being, tied to the table of a city or a desert oasis and split open end to end by it’s festering wanderlust.  I reminisce in half truths, pining for the adoration of a few, the understanding of a a fewer, and the ambivolence of the masses.  I follow fortune like an albatross, and yet, as fortune’s captain, wear the weight of my own misgivings around my filthy neck, forever destined to be blinded by freedom’s sun.  And though freedom and fortune forever dwell at odds, we sail until the splinters slice our hands and the sea soaks through the marrow into that dark blood that suckles still at the teat of eternal uncertainty. Is there falseness in my feet?  Is it fair to flush the wanting with the flowing jug? Sometimes when the whirlwind wanes, i see a soft light glowing. It welcomes without needing and nurtures without knowing.  I want to become it but it will not have me.  So i sit with it a while, trying to burn it’s grave beauty into my being.  And when time begs me to fear death, i say, “not now”. Now it’s Friday and in a few hours i will be 34.  I’m not sure where this (or anything else) came from, but i can’t shake the feeling that there is something that ties us all together.  I don’t know how to reconcile the weight of aging other than to shrug it off as an irrelevant detail and attempt to tap into that stream of being that underlies us all.  I see glimpses of that stream which cannot be conveyed neatly within the constructs of our social limitations but i guess i’ll just keep trying to build veils out of words and sounds and hope they are transparent enough to share some sense of the human experience.  Here’s to another year of living and sharing in the art of life.  Thanks to everyone who takes the time to look into this little window and to those who allow me to look into theirs. may flowers grow in our footsteps, -d

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here’s a video of our ramshackle performance.

I’m going to play some shows this week in New York.  In addition to the two shows posted to the right, i’ll be performing a couple of times this week at the Wall Street Occupation in Zuccotti Park.   Hope to see you if you’re around!

I’m on the East Coast for the month of October.  I’ll be traveling with Kyle whom you may know from previous posts, is my lady friend who is touring with a print studio in the back of her truck.  I’m playing a couple dates this week but hoping to fill in some more last minute.  See booked shows to the right.

Here is a list of places we will be.  I would like to find opportunities to play in these areas so if you have any ideas, or know something going on in one of these places or someone who has a house or art space that may be willing to host a show please contact me at dustin@runonsentencemusic.com

Oct. 5 Sharon, NH
Oct. 6 Portsmouth, NH
Oct. 7 & 8 Boston, MA
Oct. 9 Hadley, MA
Oct. 12 North Adams, MA
Oct. 13 New Haven, CT
Oct. 14 Providence, RI
Oct. 15 & 16 Newport, RI
Oct. 17 Providence, RI
Oct. 21-24 Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC
Oct. 25 Atlantic Highlands, NJ
Oct. 26 Princeton, NJ
Oct. 27 Lancaster, PA
Oct. 29-Nov. 1 Philadelphia, PA

thanks!

-d