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My name is Jordan. I pretend to be a writer, photographer, movie-maker, and illustrator while playing music with my friends and traveling the globe. I also help operate Fork and Spoon Records. Want to ask me a question? Click on that button that says "ask me anything." Want to send me an email? jordan@forkandspoonrecords.net. If you want to use any of my photos for any reason other than reblogs and whatnot, please credit or ask permission. Thanks+enjoy. |
another pussy wizard recording
THOSE LAVENDER WHALES - “GROWTH IN QUESTION”
To help hype the first-ever full length Those Lavender Whales record, our dear friend Dorian at Lunch & Recess / SK803.com put together a fantastic music video at one of our monthly Fork and Spoon potlucks. The video captures all the weirdo fun contained in a Whales show while depicting our love for Columbia, SC and the community we are so fortunate to be a part of. Thank you everyone in the video, everyone who comes to the potlucks, and everyone who lends us your ears. None of this would exist without you.
Those Lavender Whales - “St Augustine (Friendly Arctic//St Meowgastine Remix)”
We didn’t have a Those Lavender Whales remix contest. But if we did, Friendly Arctic would have won. Hope you all enjoy it as much as we did and we hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!!!
Big Star “Take Care”
no better way to shoot yourself in the foot than by getting sick right after proclaiming your distaste for the internet. today i spent some time on tumblr.
so sick of drake and i haven’t even heard his new album yet. fuck anyone that isn’t the ying yang twins doing whisper rap and fuck someone talking shit about tumblr while maintaining a blogspot. i have been posting shit on this trashdump called “fuck it party” since june of 2008 and i am beginning to think i have exhausted myself of this outlet.
i almost posted some pictures from the south american tour today. then i thought about how tight it would be to try to make a real photo website or a book or something with my homeys instead. fuck “the end”. shits gonna start in 2012.
go outside. don’t read a book, make one. don’t google image search photos or look for shit to reblog. make it yourself. and supporting an artist doesn’t mean reblogging them. go illegally download a record then sneak into the show, but make sure you buy a t shirt.
love you.
jordan
tumblr bums me out. no one can seem to find a balance between taking everything way too seriously or turning everything into a meme. fuck the internet. time for real life. adios for a bit.
Aaron said I did a great job.
Jordan did a great job introducing this song, so I’m not going to add anything. It’s the first single from our first full-length, “Tomahawk of Praise,” coming out on January 17th via Fork & Spoon. We’re so excited.
Those Lavender Whales - “Exist”
I think “Exist” was one of the first Those Lavender Whales songs I ever heard off of Tomahawk of Praise. It was either that or the song “A Loose Interpretation of Something Augustine of Hippo May Have Once Said,” but for this track review’s sake lets just lie and say it was without a doubt “Exist.” My (slightly distorted) memory is from May of 2009. I hadn’t seen Aaron in over a year and we realized we were both going to be in Columbia, but he would only be there for a matter of hours. I was in town visiting (I lived in San Francisco at the time) and he was on his way into town to catch a flight to Alaska (he lived in Nashville at the time). I met he and his mom with a six pack of beer in the driveway of his childhood home at around midnight. We passed back and forth a guitar and played songs we had written since we last saw each other, drank a few beers, then around 3 he left for the airport. One of his shared tunes was a song he had conceived the lyrics to while trying to nap on the seven hour trip from Nashville. And I am pretty sure that song was “Exist.” And what better way to remember a song that begins on the topic of loving and helping one another than paired with a memory of sharing songs and drinks with a best friend you hadn’t seen in a long time in the early hours of the morning. So that is why even if that song wasn’t “Exist,” I will say it was because in a perfect memory it would be. Haziness of my remembering aside, I definitely remember thinking about how great the song was and how cool it would be if Aaron made a full length record instead of a bunch of EPs.
Fast forward two and a half years. Aaron’s “solo project” became a family and the test pressings for Tomahawk of Praise rests on the turntable at the Fork and Spoon headquarters. ”Exist” is the first single from this record. I hope it brings as much pleasure to your ears and heart as it does mine.
Love,
Jordan
i got some scans back from cvs and they are all shit so my friend grant is rescanning them for me. until then, here is a snippet. from my blackout drunk roll. ringing in chaz’s 25th birthday. it consists entirely of things i don’t remember.