this is the original photo matt hogan took of me in my apt in burlington, VT in 2016. i love dressing up and had 900 wardrobe changes for this shoot, but this idea w/ the cigarettes was almost an afterthought. so much so it was taken on an iphone bc the camera had been put away…
happy 5th birthday, LONER!
many thanks to paul butler and andrew sarlo for helping me make it and in the process teaching me a buttload about how to make records. for reasons i won’t get into it was a miracle this record ever came out! cheers to the little album that could!
did u know that Shakespeare wrote King Lear during quarantine of the plague? all we have to do is write the world’s next great masterpiece & this will be time well spent! ✍️😷
if i did a special edition of LONER with this original album art and different versions of the songs (and maybe some bonus tracks??) would anyone buy this
this morning our cover art was nominated for a grammy. a round of applause for my brilliant friends who helped me bring this crazy idea to life, and to my parents (both book cover designers) who raised me to 100% judge a book by its cover.
yrs ago i confidently walked backstage w/ my gtr to open up for John Prine. had dinner and wine w/ the band before they asked who the hell i was. i wasn’t on the bill (*yet*) but if there was anyone who’d admire the gumption to try, it’d be John.
just passed a guy on the sidewalk who seemed to share the same heavy gait of someone with the weight of humanity on his back. it was bernie sanders lol.
3 years ago i put these post-its up on the wall to remind myself life is worth living, even in the hardest of times. it makes me emotional to see this, and of course i’m crying again, because at that time any gesture of kindness toward myself was so valuable.
dusting off ye olde twitter w/ a new track, new album, & new tour. get ready for ‘SUPERSTAR’. march 6 lil bich. 1st single premiering here, along w/ tour dates & preorder
our
@kexp
session is out now! rly proud to have mixed this one :) turned out pretty great given i was standing next to the drums, had a vocal disorder & was an emotional wreck! also proud of my band, who are so talented & handled me with grace when i cried every night of tour 💅
walked into a store & ‘more of the same’ comes on. i go, ‘ah! this is my song!’ and the clerk looks at me like, cooooool yaaaaaa this is everyone’s song 🙄
i dunno why seeing this record out in the wild is so cool to me, perhaps bc i’ve been sitting on it for a while…or perhaps bc it’s been accompanied with a lot of inner turmoil for me, but randomly stumbling upon this wheat/paste poster in brooklyn yesterday…
TOAF was designed to tell a story so it will be performed in its entirety. i promise we will also play the greatest hits. if you have a problem with that i don’t give a rat’s dick. see u there or see u never bc i’m taking 40 yrs off after this
love almost all of you,
uncle c
the music biz sucks a big set o balls but playing shows and meeting all the ppl who come and seeing all the cool fan art and just knowing how nice and wholesome our fans are is the fucking best ever love yall
little acts of rebellion matter. go plant a seedling, make a song, hike up a hill, call your grandmother, help a stranger, stand your ground. hang on everybody, it’s dismal out there.
hate to break it to everyone but this happens all the time. when i was 20 i was approached by a guy who was “floored by my talent” & wanted to manage me. a dozen emails & 2 meetings in he asks me to be in his S&M films.
ugh i fear nothing now and have no filter so here goes. my therapist tells me i have an anxious attachment style, i masturbate to Angelina Jolie in Girl Interupted, and i prefer to be socially distant from most ppl regardless of a virus. signing off.
nothing makes me prouder than when my year and a half of backbreaking, anxiety-inducing work on this album receives a moderately passing grade from 9 strangers
#blessed
a moment of appreciation to our small and incredibly capable band and crew putting together this traveling circus. i’ll probably say this a scrillion more times, but this is truly a special show and i’m so proud of what we’ve made. it’s pro-level DIY (1/2)
tired of having climate crisis nightmares so i’m finally gonna do something. i’m planting flowers all over the yard for honey bees to pollinate & milkweed for the monarchs. filling up the hummingbird birdfeeder with nectar. i’m researching solar panel installation. what else?
i have a bunch of ridiculous merch designed by yours truly up on my website, including a pink tie dye comic sans masterwork of graphic design inspired by my love of the Sims. n joy.
Tell Me What You Want is out in the world today. a classic break up song, if you will, but also so much more. when i started making this record a lot of painful things happened all at once and it knocked me on my ass. for many months the only thing that got me out of bed (1/4)
maybe it’s just me, bc i’ve played venues where there isn’t a single toilet with a seat & everyone wants u to kiss their baby, but the whole cancelling-everything-due-to-coronavirus seems over the top
scared she was gonna tattle that i was smoking 30 cigarettes at once inside the house. anyway, the photo turned out to be absolutely perfect and in my mind, it’s one of the best album covers of all time. thanks Matt Hogan and also Matt Etgen and Kim Buie for suggesting we try it
one time in school someone pulled a prank on me and planted a ‘beauty & the beast’ themed porn on my laptop. it’s taken me years to forget about it...til i saw this still from
#CatsTrailer
our short film has quietly been gathering laurels from film festivals as we prepare a wider launch to your phones and laptops 🥰 so proud of this little film and all the incredible response it’s gotten over the last several months
was just thinking of Richie Rich & how he had to pay ppl to be his best friends & thought “aw how sad” then realized this is exactly what i do with my bandmates
god bless my dad, who has taken it upon himself to have hours-long phone conversations w my grandma’s fox news-watching friends, to try & undo their belief that bill gates & george soros did not create the pandemic 😂
just got home after driving 2000mi w/o touching a single object or person 😂. doing a reddit AMA tomorrow 2pm EST to talk about literally anything. if you’re scared, i will be your therapist. if u want my opinion on whether or not u should get botox, ask me.
touring for The Art of Forgetting starts in 2 days :) without giving too much away here is a tease of the lighting show designed by me (maybe at some point i will post the 9000 sketches, blue prints and models it took to figure this out)