If you’re in Chicago, Illinois you can now pick up a copy of “Hitler High: Pandora’s Bong, Some Short Stories and a Haiku or Two” at Quimby’s Bookstore! Get a copy before they sellout!
It even made their Instagram account, you can see my face on the cover peaking out there to the bottom right! I’ve loved Quimby’s since I was a teen and used to go there with my grandfather the few times I visited Chicago. It’s pretty cool that something I did is now being sold there.
The Tripp Nasty/Echo Beds split 7-inch has been the bestselling local record at Wax Trax for a little over a year now!
Thanks duders!
My good friend the Magic Cyclops has a person very important to them named Adrienne Lisa.
She tripped and fell through a plate glass window this summer severing her arm, and lacerating her neck and chest so badly she had to get open heart surgery (rumor has it she died twice on the operating table, whoa!). Adrienne is a public school teacher and although she has some pretty good health insurance it still isn’t enough to cover the massive amount of money her surgeries and recover is going to need.
So this week the Magic Cyclops has organized a fundraiser for her with some local bands at Deerpile.
Please, please, please if you’re in Denver come down on Friday night and help our friend and teacher out! It’ll be good times all around and Mr. Pacman is telling me they’re going to play a few songs from the old school days to make the evening extra special. Check out the Facebook events page here!
After a year of touring around the U.S. with it, my 12 minute film is now online! Sit down with some hot tea, a good joint and enjoy!
Note: As of 12/08/2016 STONER WITCHES will no longer be available online as I am taking it on a small tour during the Winter/Spring of 2017. It will be available again on Youtube in the Fall of 2017.
Can you find all of my appearances in Luceo’s 2016 Reel?
I bet I was the only person in the world today who carried 51 lathe cut records in their backpack to work so they could be delivered to a heavy metal band!
The good news is that CP-208 has reunited under a new name, “Quits”. The bad news, for me, is that I wasn’t invited to join them.
Instead, Luke Fairchild, the singer of such famous Denver bands as “Git Some” and “Maka 1972” has taken my place.
Go and see one of their shows, I’m sure they’ll be awesome!
The thing I’ve learned after years of trying to do long-term projects is that sometimes those projects change or need some adjustments to see them through to completion so:
Though I’ve enjoyed doing my zine on a regular three month basis I’m going to move the upcoming issue back until I feel the writing comes closer to what I want rather than try to keep to my deadline schedule.
The short film, “Blue Skies” that I’ve been trying to make will also have to be pushed back due to financial reasons beyond my control right now.
I’m going to start recording “Cutie Eyeballs” (the production group I work with) in the studio instead of DIY’ing it with my 8-track. My recordings of drums are good but not as good as a permanent studio could do and I’d really like the drums to stand out in the pop stuff we’re doing. Expect some of our first recordings to show up on the Internet in the beginning of winter.
I’ve closed my record lathe business except for a few “friend” clients and I’ve ended the recording section of Alta Fidelidad Productions. I was never able to charge enough to make money on the lathe cuts and I could never get a band to give me music to put out on the label. Both were super fun things to do but in the end each began to take too much time from other projects.
I have always made art and been fascinated by mass produced art, like Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol. This summer I began to experiment with creating mass produced art pieces and will be coming out with my first line this winter which will be available through the upcoming Tripp Nasty webstore (I know I’ve been promising to open up one for years but this time it’ll happen.). I’ll post more information about this project as I work through it.
Also, I have five copies left of the third printing of my collected fiction zine, “Hitler High: Pandora’s Bong (the trailer) and Some Short Stories and a Haiku or Two”. If you’d like a copy write me at tommypython at yahoo dot com. They’re $3.00 shipped to anywhere in the USA, for outside the USA please write me so I can figure out mailing costs.
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I lost my Internet connection at home so I haven’t been able to post for awhile, my apologies.
Luckily for me and you, not much has happened to me lately.
Summer has been great. I soldout of all of my issues of the second volume of the Lipstick Diaries and my short story collection, “Hitler High: Pandora’s Bong, Some Haiku’s and a Short Story or Two” has now sold a little over 100 copies after two years of release.
I’m still playing keyboard with the Denver band Mr. Pacmen. At some of their upcoming shows I’ll be playing sweet heavy metal guitar. I’ve never done that before so wish me luck!
I’m working currently on volume 3.0 of the Lipstick Diaries which I’ll put out in October. I’m going to make it an all Halloween issue so I’m working on writing a long horror story (think John Bellairs!), part two of Nightmares and Desires and probably some drawings of monsters and other seasonal themes.
I’ve run into some money problems this summer so I’m delaying the shoot for my next short film, “Blue Sky” till early winter. This will probably be better since it’s a horror short and winter skies are always scarier than summer’s.
So, until next time….
Come down to the Denver Zine Fest tomorrow! I’ll have a table there along with, I believe 74 other zine creators. It should be a load of fun and I’ll have Volume 2.0 of my new zine The Lipstick Diaries.
