Thursday, March 11, 2010

Bookmarked for future reference...

"A letter to my daughters about weed" by Dan Shapiro
http://open.salon.com/blog/danshapiro/2010/03/09/a_letter_to_my_daughters_about_weed

"...I want to write you the truth because you already know the “no one has ever used” speech is crap and if I leave you to figure everything out on your own you’ll just ask your friends -- whose sum of information comes from only slightly less clueless older brothers and sisters or the internet – which is a three car garage stuffed by hoarders. There may be some truth buried in the internet about weed, but you’d have to clean off ferret droppings to find it..."

Friday, March 05, 2010

The Sirago 17 - Set The Controls For The Heart Of Your Heart

The Sirago 17 - Set The Controls For The Heart Of Your Heart

This is an approximation of what would have become our first proper album. If only...

Back in the late 90s I began sending cassettes to Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3/Spectrum/E.A.R.). We weren't necessarily angling for a record deal, I just wanted to see if he dug our stuff. Soon after, we were contacted by Space Age Recordings (Sonic's label) and we were offered a contract. That's when the well ran dry. We didn't sign, and I didn't do much creative again until mid-2002 when I joined I Am Not The Janitor. Then THAT fell apart and I again did nothing for several years....