///unbelievable drive through rural upstate New York between Ithaca and Oneonta. rolled into town around 5pm and headed straight to Hope and Joseph Von Stengel’s place… good buddies of ours from the Moscow days… they were hosting a pre-show potluck and invited us over for some grub and hangtime.

show that night was a benefit for the Oneonta Teen Center and held there as well. what a rad space. decent crowd came out on a rainy and cold Wednesday night. it had been set up by Joe, who has collaborated with us on several occasions now doing projections with his MAshUp, RE-Mix Digital MEdia SHow. the space worked great for the collaboration. the whole show was videoed and we should have footage soon. really really fun working with Joe. check out more of his work and philosophy at culturerecycling.com

Jared Mees & The Grown Children played first. here’s a few photos and a video of “Slabtown (Friday Night)” featuring Joe’s projections… keep in mind that this video is lo-fi off of my digital camera, and not from the video that the venue did… still pretty cool though… note Zissou Cam dancing….

Joe’s always been a wealth of quality conversation… thus we conversed into the wee wee hours… lots of big thinking. psyched we’ve been able to schedule stops in Oneonta on all of our tours out East… this was the first official show though. cool town. look forward to more.

///gilbert

We awoke in one of the dirtiest parking areas we have ever stopped in. It had this beautiful view looking down on a town, and over some hills, but the hill just over the guard rail where the cars park was covered in litter. It was pretty gross, and I think really added to our excitement at leaving the city after a few days there.
We headed north, and a little west to get to Oneonta. Beautiful beautiful drive through barn country.

We visited our friends Joe and Hope here in the fall, and this time we did a little house show at their place. We would at least hang out, see what happened. Hope cooked some amazing vegetarian food, and we set up our gear to do an acoustic show if the mood should strike. Oh and boy did it strike.

After a couple of hours of engaging conversation with Joe, Hope, Barry from the US Postal Service, and some other rogue characters, we fired up the music making juju and played a short acoustic set. Couple of the tunes got captured on video and should be surfacing soon, but in the meantime, here’s a stripped down version of Detamble Wings that we filmed the next morning. Joe – Joseph von Stengel – doctored it into 8 bit to fit the nakedness of the music. Sorta looks like video game versions of ourselves. Check it:

It was nice after the hectic pace of the city to have a bit of a night off in a small town in upstate NY. And with friends and good food. It was pretty much amazing.

reporting for all of us finn rigginses.
lisa

PS little reminder. check out more of Joseph von Stengel’s work at www.culturerecycling.com