so David aka The Flight Orchestra arrived on thursday afternoon. we then proceeded to play at Goodbye Blue Monday with Jack Ryon aka Sir Honey with Martin Keith and Dave Bodi. Also following us was The Holy Experiment. we got a few hours of sleep, loaded up the car on friday morning and drove straight down to Gainesville.

It was about 17hours to Florida and wasnt that bad. however right on the Florida/Georgia border at around 330 we pulled over to go to the bathroom. David went down to the fence by the side of the road. I was by the car when out of nowhere another car pulled off the road ahead of us. it then started backing up. i thought it was going to be a cop and got worried he wouldnt be too friendly to yankees like myself. then the car started going backwards faster and faster and i realized that not only was it NOT a cop, that it was also prob gonna hit our car. the car stopped about two feet from us and a tweaked out guy who was sunnin’ and gunnin’ (aka sleeveless tshirt) and half mumbled something AT us. David asked for a clarification while i considered jumping across the passenger seat straight to the driver seat. The guy muttered something again which sounded like “are you straight?” to which David questioned again. By this time I was around the other side of the car and yelled at David to just get in the car and we took off. the adrenaline from that got us the rest of the way there. We decided that the guy was just high and stopped to see if we needed some help. but when we told this story to the peoples of Florida we were informed that “scraight” meant drugs and he might have been asking if “we were scraight” and needed some crack or meth or what have you. it was possible that either he was so high he thought it would be good to sell to random peoples on the side of the road or we had inadvertently stumbled into a drop spot. Either way we were not “scraight”. we also almost hit a dog that got hit by a car in front of us. that was sad.

we crashed at Chris Miller (founder of Electronic Subsouth’s) house that morning and slept most of Saturday. We awoke to go to Lenny’s Studio “Light in Progress” for a pre show party with drinks of science from the science bar. The show kicked ass much and the Aliens and Spangandy made wonderful performances (see pics). It was really hot and humid in the venue but everyone seemed to have a great time. From there it was a little more sleep and off to Jacksonville for the show at Jack Rabbit’s sunday night. This was the first non-Gainesville ESS show and it went off very well in my opinion plus it was awesome caravaning out there. Disembodied Voices and Sidecar Racer also performed and i cant thank Mr. Spagandy enough for stalling in such a beautiful manner whilst i solved technical difficulties. After the show we packed it up, had some waffle house and caravaned back to Gainesville. Chris almost hit a white cat on the highway and then of course we almost did as well. no animals were harmed this time.

much huge thanks to Electronic Subsouth, Chris Miller and Lenny!!!

the illustrious Slatkin-

Sirhoney aka Jack Ryon w/Martin Keith and Dave Bodi

stinking it up at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn-

my set at Goodbye Blue Monday

South of the Border




were the Residents in Florida?

shovel tree

punk flamingos

flowerchild

creepy neighbor

The Flight Orchestra @ Light in Progress

Electronic Sub South

just in case

catching lightning bugs in Florida with ESS founder Chris Miller and TFO

seriously disgusting bathroom in Gainesville

seriously disgusting bathroom in Gainesville

Mr. Spagandy Pre-show

me and TFO post show

the fabulous photographer Elora and El Zombo!

Merch table?

Mr. Spagandy (note the skull on his cane)

TFO kicking ass

TFO kicking more ass

the BEING FROM KLYSTRON 7, oh NO!!!

Alien interference on the set?

aliens in the crowd

TFO kicking ass

more of the Being

TFO’s set ill-uminating the stage

TFO

Being from Klystron7

TFO

TFO on camera

me and El Zombo

The Flight Orchestra

some heads

a duel?

outside of 1982’s post show

driving to Jacksonville

a turd

our flyer in Jack Rabbit’s

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so sorry for the late update but due to unfortunate last minute circumstances, my Fatbaby performance tonight has BEEN RESCHEDULED to MONday DEC 18th. Thats next Monday- same time (8pm) , same place (Fatbaby). (unfort. Dragons of Zynth will no longer be playing.)

So sorry for any confusion and conflict. Thanks as always for your support and see you next Monday!

also kickass news- Mr. John Schaefer was kind enough to play my new song “DRP-601″ on his New Sounds program on WNYC. to view the show’s archives click here.

dont forget my tour with The Flight Orchestra is gonna kick off in a couple of weeks and shows will be announced shortly.

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so the pianos show was fucking blast! got some pictures here for those who couldnt make it. much thanks to the head of spidey who lit up all night long and my new dino for inspiration. feels great to play live, what an awesome release.

also—–speaking of playing live- Myself and The Flight Orchestra will be going on tour this Jan 2007. We will start off with a show at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn on Jan 4th and then immediately heading South South South! We will keep you posted on the dates and locations. Man this will be a blast.

so the new album is finished! took a while but its done! needs some mastering and then it shall be done done. i will post some new tracks over the next weeks for you all to hear soon. this came at a good time cause the packaged version of Shukar Rough is running low so grab em while you can! (it will always be on itunes in digital format too but that doesnt come with an army man!).

love,

elijah

ooooh also- check out an awesomely interesting delusion i found- Fregoli Delusion

wow.

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ok none of these make sense but here ya go-

my cats on my tape delay-

an awesome insect-

a head made of cheese -

some clouds-

a lunamoth we found literally 24hours after discussing not seeing luna moths for like ten years-

my twenty year old frog that i got in the mail-

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a little behind on the posting of things here but here are some pics from the June Warper Party at Botanica. Make sure to check out the videos in my videos as well as coming to July’s Warper Party on July 25th at the Delancey!

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got some pics from the DC show at the Black Cat last month finally.

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i get more and more excited to play this show in D.C. on sunday. the wonderful Arion Beger was kind enough to do a write up about the show in the Washington Post Express and tooo include a picture of me! huge thanks to her for that! made for a wonderful birthday! D.C. gets their first taste of the beard! -

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