We are humbled that the Boston Phoenix has nominated us in the category of Best Psych/Experimental Act in this year’s Best Music Poll. If you’ve got a second, we’d really appreciate it if you click our name and cast your ballot. You’re the best.
Obligatory Facebook event.
Big thanks to the mahoney sisters.
There is a facebook event.
Improvised sometime during 2011.
Look what we found! A point-of-view video of some mountain bike action featuring our song, The Lodge. It can be pretty hypnotizing if you let it. Watch for some over-the-bars action at the two minute mark.
You may have seen the skate vid we posted recently. Is this a trend? There must be be more of these floating around out there on the internet. If you find any let us know. Specifically, I’m hoping we’re the soundtrack to a backflip tailwhip—my favorite bike stunt ever.
So we were googling ourselves—no, not like that—and happened upon this cool skate video featuring our tune Sunrising in the back half of the vid. Pretty cool.
delacosta from nueva california on Vimeo.
I once met a poet who kept a drawer full of discarded lines. She would, when she was stuck on a new idea, reach in the drawer and grab an old idea, convinced that her discarded dead ends weren’t dead ends at all, but simply hadn’t yet discovered their destinations. She could only write in the morning. Some poets write all the time.
I know an architect who paints unstructured color fields for pleasure at night in order to shed the rigidity of his business during the day. He lies on his belly when he paints. Some painters use an easel.
A famous photographer would study his subject from all angles, crouching around it for tens of minutes or more in an attempt to understand the thing as fully as he could before finding the perfect view from which to capture it. Then he would capture it. But just once. Some photographers will shoot and shoot and shoot.
The creative process has always been an interesting topic for me, often more so than the actual creations that result. That we do similar things in dissimilar ways is an obvious thought as trite as cat-skinning and folks’ strokes. Nevertheless, every time I meet an artist I want to know how she does it, so I can drop new ideas in my drawers, waiting for the next time I’m stuck.
So thanks to Berklee PULSE for having us be a part of this. Can’t wait.
