Beginning Work on a New Album

I am very excited to announce that tomorrow morning, shortly after 4am, Hosey will begin recording songs for our new album:Cavalry!... and I Don't Mean Horses. This one is going to be a wild departure from previous albums, even by Hosey standards. Less sampling this time around, more original components. Earlier Hosey tracks that are somewhat indicative of the new stuff would be "Ludicrous Speed", "Cribs", "Mode 7", and "Just a Few Seconds".

The album's theme, in typical convoluted Hosey fashion, is a post-apocalyptic Western-style nightmare of a young man who loses the love of his life to the seductions of a twisted cult. She is kept in a castle, cut off from the outside world. Unwilling to lose her without a fight, he hires the only person with the balls to take on the castle with him: a helicopter-piloting, sharpshooting cowgirl known only as Harriet. (Did I mention that horses and helicopters are the only means of transportation?)

[Video + mp3 ] "Blow Up the Moon" - Cavalry!... and I Don't Mean Horses

Here's a short clip of me playing a little guitar. This piece is called "Blow Up the Moon" and it's part of an upcoming project/release/happening/etc sort of thing called Cavalry!... and I Don't Mean Horses. Below the video is a link to a free mp3 of a longer and more elaborate version of it.

     -----======   Free Download of "Blow Up the Moon" [bandcamp.com]    ======-----

Back in Action! ... Apartment Fire, etc

[ Happy Veterans Day! As the son of a Vietnam vet and the grandson of a WWII vet, I have a lot of respect for the U.S. Armed Forces. Also, Hughes (the "quiet" half of Hosey) has a brother who has served in Iraq and is currently stationed... well, that's classified. Anyway, Hosey has much love for U.S. troops, past and present. ]

I suppose my internet activity has been lacking lately, but for once it’s totally not my fault. As some of you may know, there was a fire in my apartment building on October 23rd. Everyone and their pets, and presumably all their stuff is fine. The fire started downstairs at the (in)famous Otto’s Shrunken Head, a tiki bar that I reside above, at about 9:30am on Sunday the 23rd. It was just a few hours after they had shut their doors for their 8th anniversary party. Everyone in my building was evacuated for about an hour, and then we were without electricity for several more. Nothing a good ol’ Southern boy can’t handle.

I live immediately above the band room where the fire started so my apartment filled with smoke and gripped on to a smoky “flavor” which is still lingering today. Oh well, can’t complain. My lovely cat Samus is OK, although she was a little freaked out by all the excitement of being rudely awakened and stuffed into a cat carrier. All of Hosey’s equipment, vinyl, and computers survived unblemished for the most part. I’ve already mentioned the smell, which seems to stick to everything.

The only "serious" problem is that the fire melted a wire in the back of our building which severed my internet connection. Also, my land line. I know! People still have those?!

That’s it for now. I’d like to recap the fire more. Discuss how we finally made it onto the hip NYC blog EV Grieve, perhaps. But, we’ll see. Hughes and I are still busy cleaning up... oh! And we’re recording a new album: Cavalry!... and I Don’t Mean Horses. So... yeah. Big news as a footnote in a pointless post. Gotta love it.