Purvis' Darkroom Mix

This mixtape was created for you by the phenomenal photographer, my good friend Jonathan Purvis , who apparently is not only uber-talented in the "picture-taking" field, but also has extraordinarily great taste when it comes to music ... this mix is testimony to that fact ... It sorts of breathes in and out of dreaminess and danciness and makes me think of a well put together soundtrack to some movie-yet-to-be-made ...

But what inspired such a great mix?

Well here's the scoop from Jon himself:

"these songs are old and new staples for working in a darkroom. i prefer danceable or singable and something fairly easy to listen to. these are those. versions of this mix were listened to the past couple of weeks while making prints for a collaboration with pinky bass that is up at barehands right now. it'll likely be listened to for another show of photography at lite box gallery at the end of the month."

Wow ... He has a lot going on right now...

June is his month (and also happens to be the name of his awesome cat! haha)

On that note, Purvis also has a rad show of colorful prints up at Bottletree ... go over there and check em out!

Prepare now to step into Purvis' DARKROOM!

Cheers, Jonathan!!!

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Gee whiz ... so much stuff happened this week ... and most of it was really fun (the only exception being both a rained-out Bad News Bearons practice AND game = boo!) Our next game should be pretty funny to watch cuz it'll be Gay Pride themed and we're playing a church team ... haha!

One thing that was pretty unexpected was me working with Walker on a video promo for an upcoming rock show he has coming up at The Flying Monkey up in Huntsville ...

Check out what I turned into! haha ... meet "Enus Nannerpuff":

This is what we ended up with ... Walker's one twisted little dude ...

Be very afraid:

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Speaking of "afraid" and "creepy" and "disturbing", all three of these words come to mind when I want to describe Salad Fingers, a rather bizarrely dark cartoon that my pal Lee Dunnie turned me onto ... yikes!!!

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Oh yeah ... And whether you already love one of my favorite bands, Male Bonding yet or not, HERE's a nice session they did for Day Trotter ... very enjoyable stuff

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Speaking of enjoyable, it was an extremely enjoyable weekend: I went to two very different parties in one night ... First up was Chris Lawson's birthday party ... Chris recently went on a very memorable Nowhere Trip with me ... his party was at Joe DeCamillis' place and seemed pretty laid back with candles burning and folks chatting here and there ...there was a kind of "esoteric" vibe going on ...

Behold Chris' amazing birthday cake made by Cliff Simon:

photo by Cliff Simon

The next party was in Montevallo and served as both a birthday party for Acijro (and Wenda) and a going away party for Ryan ... There were DJs and loud techno music pulsing in the livingroom, dancing aplenty and painted kids dressed like "undead disco dancers" traipsing through the yard ...

Rosie took this adorable photo of Ryan ... Personally I think he's more adorable when his arms aren't so tiny (and plastic):

photo by Rosie Maguire

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I don't know why I approached this in reverse order, but the night before the "double party nite" was the incredible opening of the Bare Hands Gallery 14th anniversary "Strange Bedfellows" collaborations show ... Hey look! The guy in the plaid shirt is Jonathan Purvis! :

Here's an above shot of the show ... as you can see, it was packed:

There were a ton of amazing collaborative pieces ... I only took a few photos, but there was so much to take in (Jonathan and Pinky Bass' beautiful photo collabs being the tip of the iceberg)... Go to Bare Hands and check it out!!!

Tracy Martin and Byron Sonnier built a huge and very realistic juke joint / storefront that had a real live rooster inside of it! Later, live country music was played on the porch ... sooo great:

Daisy Winfrey (who I'll be collaborating with myself at Bottletree in September) did a huge wild boardgame piece with Andrea Paschal and Michael Bonadio:

Birthday boy Chris Lawson did a crazy cool tree type thingy with Spider Bradford ... it has creepy things in bags "preserved" in colorful liquid ... they call it "Alabama Voodoo":

John Lytle Wilson and Wes Frazer's framed collaborations were wonderful, but their Whiz Wheel was by far the most entertaining thing at the opening ...

3 dollars bought you a spin, and a spin could win you everything from nothing at all to a Whiz Tshirt, some candy, an original drawing, some random object spray painted gold, a shot of Old Crow whiskey ...

Witness the masters of the ceremony at work:

There was even a Challenge section on the wheel ... People who wound up with this were challenged to do incredible and oftentimes disgusting things for an increase of prizes ... Gwendolyn and Kara actually took off all of their clothes and streaked through the gallery!

Seth ate an entire can of smoked oysters for his Challenge (and obviously enjoyed it ... haha):

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Oh yeah ... I'll have three pieces in the "Signs Of Our Times" group show at Naked Art Gallery, which opens this Friday, June 11th ... come out and support!

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Once again, I found a shit-ton of shiny-good videos this week...

The song for this 1st one (by Wild Nothing) felt a bit like a life-altering experience the 1st time I heard it ... It's definitely my favorite song of this year so far:

That mind-twisting Tame Impala video from last week got me curious about what they sounded like before their epic "Innerspeak" album ... this will give you an idea:

Jimmy turned me on to this great post-apocalyptic feeling video ... thanks, Jimmy!



Wow ... sounds like Tokyo Police Club have really gone up a notch ... love this:


I stumbled across this nice 90's oldie from Elastica and just had to include it ... I wish this band had made more albums:

Brian posted this on facebook (thanks!) ... MC5 were like no other band ... testify!

Elise, who makes gorgeous puppets herself posted this on facebook as well ... it is nothing less of brilliant and very bizarre (thanks, Elise!):

Ryan sent me this after we had been talking about how the core of America's problems basically consists of fastfood and TV ... This sums up that theory rather nicely (cheers, Ryan!) :

And to bring everything back to where we started, here's one more by Wild Nothing, simply because I cannot stop listening to his new album, "Gemini" ... ENJOY!