Hello. First important order of business: please help these friends in need.
Our good friend and collaborator KP of Black Belt Eagle Scout finds herself in a medical emergency that is pausing everything else in life and is probably pretty terrifying. Please consider helping KP and her husband Camas if you can.
I’ve known KP since she was a teenager, astonishing with early performances at the all ages venue Dept. of Safety in Anacortes. It’s been a joy and honor to witness the growth through the years into her current life as a major force in music, rooted deep beyond deep here in this place where we live. I got to sing a song on the last Black Belt Eagle Scout album. We got to tour together last fall as a loud version of Mount Eerie, with KP and Camas shredding my songs into woodchips. We have plans to make even louder more beautiful music together sometime in the future. But now everything is on pause in this chasm of medical uncertainty. Please help them.
other stuff
There are still tickets available for the thing Mount Eerie is playing (solo) at this Saturday, this thing called Dylanfest on Orcas Island:
Sat. July 27th, 2024 - Eastsound, Wash. - Houlme (Dylanfest) (poster here)
and likewise for this other thing:
Sat. Sept. 7th, 2024 - Olympia, Wash. - Northern Sky Festival at Oyster Bay Farm
the past
What The Heck? was last weekend. It was very fun. I’m still recovering from the crush of timewarp compression on the brain, sorting through what is my previous lives and what is the now? Everyone in one room. The feeling of these familiarity baths persists through all the years no matter how each of us attendees morph weirdly. Thank you for everyone who made the trip to Anacortes.
even further back
I was asked recently to remind my readers of an old interview I did with Brandon Stosuy for the Believer magazine in 2009. You can read it here. It’s still a cool magazine.
Here’s a picture of two sasquatches resting before a recent local parade. The one in the mask was weeping loudly.
that’s all for today. thanks everyone,
please donate
bye, Phil