thoughts. music to share. April 21, 2008

I don’t plan to post too many personal entries on here because I’m not here trying to sell my life like a soap opera or some shit. But I would like to start having active communications and friendships beginning with fans. If you connect with me through my music, chances are we connect in relation to many other things as well.

If you read this entry and can relate to any of it or second anything I recommend or talk about, please don’t hesitate to speak out. I want to hear from you.

To start, I’m trying to stay ‘gung-ho’ on the promotion and marketing of “Exile In Circuitville.” Yeah, maybe I was trying to come at my listening audience with a serious hook (the ‘exile’ concept and how it interrelates across the “Exile” classics by Liz and the Stones. But it’s not a subject that has been further explored and it still intrigues me to the very present moment I’m sitting here typing this.)

I really did go balls out with this record, despite not matching the other two Exiles 18 song-by-song long players. I took into account the length and intensity of most of my songs and realized that 18 songs from start to finish could be slightly daunting. So I have 14 songs instead of 18. But I still have my “Sodomite Angels” reaching out to the Stones’ “Sweet Black Angel.” I have my “alpha” stepping up to Liz’s “Soap Star Joe.” I’m very proud of this record in much the same way Liz felt with Guyville. I guess in a way I have always wanted to create my own “guyville.” I think I did.

Ok, those are my thoughts on the record for now. Maybe as time progresses, I will wish I did ‘this’ or ‘that’ differently on the recordings. But at the present time, using the resources and devices I had fully at my disposal…. I’m content with them.

Many other things to share. In the effort to expand the Prude presence over the web, I created a Pirate Prude profile on Reverb Nation! Check it out. www.reverbnation.com/pirateprude

Within the next few months I will work on making a video for the song “420.” If you are a fan of the song and have any video recording skills, please feel free to make a video for it and send it to me. I will plaster it on youtube and the web. I just really don’t have a concept that is grabbing me for the video. I don’t want to be boring and have a bunch of lame footage of me playing my guitar and lip syncing.

Ok. On to music sharing.

Albums you should be listening to :

Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers - Her most recent record that sounds audibly magical. Get it.

Katell Keineg - High July - It came out back in 2004 but that’s irrelevant to how amazing a songwriter/storyteller this woman truly is.

Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - sooo good…. just don’t listen if you are suicidal.

Veda Hille - Riot Life- you can hear her single “lucklucky” on www.mog.com It’s seriously killer. She’s always been kind of like the female Sufjan. Her myspace is pretty swanky looking (as far as myspace profiles go…. www.myspace.com/vedahille)

Also on www.mog.com when you search for aimee mann, there is a post with one of the upcoming tracks on her album that is coming out in June. The song is called “Thirty-one today.” Typical Aimee…. which is just always amazing. I’ve listened to it obsessively.

Oh, and if you live in the Tampa Bay area in Florida…. come out to this!