Starschreck presents Montrose Sinkhole: Release Candidate 1.0. That’s the title for a test silkscreen tshirt I made the other day. After being covered up and reopened and covered up and reopened and covered up and reopened the sinkhole has now been covered up again and is sleeping. You’ve seen it here first, the Montrose Sinkhole lives on.

If you are not familiar with the glory that is Montrose Sinkhole you can read more about it here. Also here’s a clip from Fox News covering a recent protest where a group of locals opposed the covering up of the hole.

Today I am proud to announce the release of ‘Grow in the Dark Watch‘ on the awesome netlabel test tube. GITDW is a rhythmic experiment without beats, spanning 6 tracks. It’s playful and simple music with disjointed rhythms that change their mind, wander back and forth, and forget what their point was. Thanks to everyone involved, especially Pedro Leitão, Gordon Tebo, and Sabastian Alvarez for his great cover artwork. I hope you all enjoy it, it was really fun to compose.

Just got back from the 25th Anniversary Chicago Blues Festival in Grant Park. My friend Randall and I stayed for most of the afternoon and saw a wide variety of entertainment. There was a great mixture of old and young people on stage, people who were connected to the music bloodline and people who weren’t, and full blown polished bands to stages that had only one dude with a guitar and a microphone.

So I suppose the festival is one of those ’something for everybody’ ordeals. I for sure got my something but given my terrible memory have already forgotten the name of the two guys that lulled me into a stupor for over an hour. Never mind their name at the moment, the important part was watching people staight up rocking. That was quite rejuvenating. These guys had me dancing like, what Randall refers to as, ‘the 40-year-old mother who is comfortable in her own skin and wants everybody to know it.’

After taking 8 years off from building websites I am back with a vengeance. Things have changed and I am looking around and trying to get my barrings. This site is intended to be an online presence for myself and other people, focusing on developing new artworks and ideas. I wouldn’t consider myself a blogger but I have become a lot of things that I would have never considered.