After a great deal of work and about a dozen different ideas, here’s a poster for two of our favorites - AA Bondy and Elvis Perkins:

2a.m., and Joey and I have been battling with a collage/poster.  Can’t seem to get it.  And so off we go, leaving it for tomorrow.  I close down photoshop, put the box of pictures away, and then with one last check of the email, the facebook, the music news…and…there it is, like it was only supposed to show up at 2a.m.  What other time should it appear?  Tom Waits has a website - and not only a website (his first), but an announcement for a live record from the last Glitter and Doom tour.  The very tour, mind you, that my girl and St. Thomas and Marvelous Joe and Little Mandy all saw, with the first track taken from our very show in the Magic City.  How ’bout that.

As St. Thomas would say: OH BOY.

Best thing about the site is page after page of Waits’ quotes.  He calls it ‘Wit and Wisdom’ and verily it is.  I’m up an extra hour - and that’s after watching the splash page images cycle 15 times over - whiskey in hand, reading through them and hell if I don’t have class tomorrow.

Really.  OH BOY.

WONDERWOMAN

or,

MISS AMERICANA

All great music, all released today.  We are especially excited to be currently at work on posters for Califone and BHP as they both tour in support of their new records.  Also, our best pal Chris Lawson did the artwork for Orenda Fink’s Ask the Night and  co-wrote most of the lyrics on the record.  If only we had a Scandinavian connection we could make this four for four on our tangential Kevin Bacon-like connections to these bands.

Tonight!

Uncle Marv (that’s me) is showing collages at the Birmingham Art Collective’s Show at Woodlawn. Check it out his artist page on their site here: B’ham Art Collective.  The show is happening tonight only, at Woodrow Hall (formerly a Masonic Lodge - where there are still signs of rituals carved into the architecture) on 5504 1st Ave. No., from 5-10pm.

Marv also has a piece in the Paraphrase exhibit opening tonight at the Darkroom Gallery in New Orleans.  Paraphrase features work “paraphrasing, spoofing, caricaturing, parodying or lampooning icons of photography” and is juried by the legendary John H. Lawrence, director of museum programs at the Historic New Orleans Collection.

Between the hipster-styled Scottish rite rituals in Woodlawn and the hedonism in NOLA, it should be a fine, fine evening.  I’m going to attempt my first mobile posts from the Bham show.  Stay tuned.