Thoughts on culture, politics, music and stuff by Eric Olsen, Marty Thau and Mike Crooker, who are among other things, producers.

 
Residents Interview
I'm very excited about the interview with Residents rep Homer Flynn next week on Blogcritics.com - the Residents have been gracing the world with their unique form of music/performance art for 30 years! In celebration, the anonymous Bay Area eyeballs have much in store, including the release next week of their most melodic record in years: Demons Dance Alone.

Check out Blogcritics.com for more details.

Have a super holiday weekend everyone! Making good progress on book proposal, back to normal blogging next week, but with some surpirses and changes. Thanks for your interest.
posted by Anonymous at 9:44 AM

 
Down the Bloggy Block
I'm adding a lot of music reviews and essays over on Blogcritics.com, and we will have some big changes over there sometime tonight or tomorrow. Please check it out. See you over there.
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Checking In
Hey all - things are going pretty well on the book proposal. At the moment I am sorting through the history of Tres Producers for choice nuggets to go into the book. It's a lot of fun - this site has been pretty good so far, if I do say so myself. I am posting a lot of music and publishing news over on Blogcritics.com, as well as my radio playlists and music reviews and essays. Please come on over and check it out.

Tres Producers isn't going away, but after I get my book proposal done (maybe later this week) and other career-type stuff straightened out, I will likely move all new writing over there. So come on over and root around a bit: it's a cool site and likely to be my new home. I'm in a much better mood by the way. You guys rule - hope you are well.
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And In Other Concerns
As was doubtless evident from this post, I have been in the middle of something of an existential dilemma, which specifically centers around my financial situation and the fact that we have found an ideal house which is ours for the taking as long as I can make the mortgage payments. In order to make that happen, I am going to take a few days off from this site to get my professional writing career back in gear and get my life straightened out in general.

I will continue to post to Blogcritics - please check it out - and when I come back here, I will also have some big surprises to announce. I believe blogging is moving into some exciting new areas and modes of operation - tell you about it soon. Thanks for reading.
posted by Anonymous at 10:56 AM

 
All the Stuff
The Blogger Fiesta - which certainly included more than bloggers - was about as wild I want things to get at this stage of my life, teetering on the edge of virgin sacrifice and the like. When adults are being held upside down and drinking straight from a keg at 3am, playing spin the bottle at 6am, eating tequila-spiked watermelon face first, and frightening the poor teenagers who were present and found cowering in a closet the next morning, you know the envelope was pushed.

Enormous thanks to all who came, helped, participated, and gave of themselves. Though the general scene is remarkably clean now, much furniture remains to be resituated and my head is still very fuzzy. I can only pray that that no one feels the need to "top" this gala next time around, because I fear the next step would involve law enforcement and mental health workers.

There are now, or will be, superior roundups from Dawn (note action photos) and our exalted guests - every one of whom is a real friend - in rough order of appearance: Marc Weisblott, who took the bus from Toronto, kept a watchful eye on the house, and is a major dude - we will be very sad to see him go today; Sulizano, the sweetest of women who ventured to the far north from Alabama, prepared a bewildering array of gourmet delights, and was in truth the soul of the party; Dave Hogberg, who drove all the way from Iowa (and back it would appear), an excellent fellow whose "Cornfield Commentary" shirt I proudly wear at this moment; Doug Dever, who cohosted in the finest style, provided fruits of the vine and field (the tone of the party shifted markedly when Doug and his two charismatic henchmen, Dave and Chuck - who created our party logo by the way - busted through the front door with a full keg of beer and demonic smiles), ferried citizens about town, and was an all-purpose top-shelf social lubricant; our beloved and charming little Moxy, who was SPECIAL SURPRISE GUEST all the way from L.A.; the perspicaceous and stalwart John Scalzi, who drove all the way from the Dayton area and back again at 5am, damn!; my remarkably youthful high school classmate Sassafrass, who was doing a keg stand at 3am and smiling beatifically through it all; Chas Rich and his lovely wife, who were venturing out socially for the first time since the birth of their daughter nine weeks ago and were excellent sports about it; and the intrepid Caleb Brown, who winged his way from Kentucky and appeared gamely in the midst of full-tilt revelry, and survived to tell the tale.

Proving that bloggers CAN mix with citizens with remarkably little harm to either camp, we also had a terrific turnout of friends and family from all corners of Ohio, including celebrity chronicler Steve Woo: in all a smashing good time from which I am still recovering cheerfully. Thanks again to one and all. And if you missed it, we will have another affair when we move in a few months. Can't wait - I should be back to normal by then.
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