2026
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The SPARK w the Boodle Am Sheiks Jug Band.
Huh. Interestingly the video was shut down and blocked in Russia when it reached the Bach violin music on slot #7. The Bach also got more copyright claims than any other piece of music I’ve seen at any of my open mics ever. Pretty good for a dead guy. I’m also definitely planning on doing…
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Mmm. Good Day.
That was a killer 24 hours. The madness of running up to Friday afternoon with a critical mass of adulting, the drive up and back to New Jersey to pick up the CDs, the non-stop hurtle that started two months ago with certain mom-stuffs and the completion RUSH to finish the new album all came…
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Rife with Difficulty.
I feel like I need to make a list since things started going amiss a week ago. There’s just SO MUCH and if I wasn’t so angry it’d be comical. Tues 9/15 – Heather’s car starts acting up, we limp into Toledo just past 6pm which is when all the shops close. We make an…
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the SPARK open mic w Kyra Gordon
Returning to the SPARK after a 3 week hiatus ESPECIALLY for one of my favourite road warrior artists. Kyra Gordon’s voice has all the raw-edged emotion that I crave from music – the sense that in a world filled with AI-generated slop and performative politics, here is a woman who is absolutely, 100% here and…
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The Nightmares of the Dream.
I’ve been having nightmares ever since we got home. Of course, that only means two nights – but between recycling trucks, leg cramps, helicopters and bad dreams, I’ve woken up and fallen asleep more often than I should’ve in the past 48 hours. It’s festivals and music: usually a source of solace – for at…
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September 20th, to be posted on the 25th.
I might have finally rid my family of the fell property that is my childhood home. It might come to pass this week. It might happen. I might feel a sense of weight lift from my soul and maybe my mother, after she settles down and quits being angry, will feel it too. [my mother…
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That’s just… a lot.
Kristen is making sauce. Delicious sauce. I’m a fan of sauce. Nothing’s anything without sauce. Goo. Delicious syrups and gravies. Oh Hell yeah. We’re listening to Roscoe Beano, watching the sun creep down the wall. The cat is getting lazy and we’re getting the opportunity to be lazy in the aftermath of launching our fundraising…
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Tonight’s show CANCELED in Pittsburgh.
Tonight’s show at Mansions on Fifth has had to be canceled due to car troubles in Toledo. We’re okay – but we’re going to limp straight home and will NOT be able to visit Pittsburgh as planned. We’re so sorry and hope to come visit you in the spring. -rob ilyAIMY Wherever the Hyundai Makes…
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Support ilyAIMY’s 25th Anniversary…
I’ve felt a little bad that Heather has spent hours and hours on the past couple of days getting our brief funding campaign up and running, but I’m also really impressed with it all. She said it better than I would’ve. Coming together with the quote “there’s nothing less we could’ve said” is a truism…
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This 9/11 Post is not about 9/11.
9/11. It still seems inappropriate to be thinking about a gig for the night, but you can’t set the date aside forever. Waking up in Belleville, IL at our friend Susan’s house, the clouds are low and glowering and 9/11 could be far from my mind if it wasn’t for social media and our parents.…