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Microphones.Mount Eerie: bio (K Records)

Mt. Eerie/”the Microphones”
born May 26th 1978, Anacortes Wash.
schools: Fidalgo Elementary, Anacortes Middle and High schools

quote: “In school one of the outlets I found was music. Making tapes and loud noise and staying up late and getting into coffee and cookies. Anacortes is (to me) in a beautiful place and I have always loved it here, and been creeped out in a really good way in the black forest at night. Once I realized that it was possible to make songs and books and pictures about this sweet creepiness, and not do any other “work”, my life got hyperactive. Beginning in 1995 I recorded tapes by myself on borrowed machines and got deeper into the world. In 1997 I moved to Olympia Wash. and did the same thing and lived among friends who were all older than me. For 5 years I stayed there, living in different houses and always recording at the Dub Narcotic studio in the K compound. The idea that I could also travel around and sing and dance in front of people, and get enough money to live did not occur to me. I traveled around a lot anyway, and I got enough money to live. I ate dinner with my friends every single night. I worked on albums for 1 year each before releasing them, usually beginning work at dawn. I did 4 albums in this way under the band name “the Microphones”, and also many other more marginal music projects and books and souvenirs. This all culminated in the “death” themed album “Mount Eerie”. In 2002 I went on an endless tour and stopped for the winter in northern Norway and died. The next spring I returned and pretended I was a different person and a different “band” and “artist” and “singer” and everything. I began calling my songs “Mt. Eerie” songs and working slowly on a new idea: dark mountain, mount eerie, cold songs, grandmother’s face, and so on. I moved back to Anacortes where a renaissance had begun again (finally!). Now I live here and I am enjoying it. I am still constantly traveling, playing weird shows everywhere, and making up songs. I also am recording and releasing records by my friends, whose music I love.”

Artist’s website: http://www.pwelverumandsun.com

As abstract and contradictory as scientific thought tends to be, it is often necessary to take measures into one’s own hands when answering questions of human existence. In yet another attempt to come to terms with a greater meaning, Chad Stayrook takes the entire universe into his grasp in his latest video, “He’s Got the Whole Universe…” Using any artistic means necessary, Chad creates work that attempts to deal with these inconsistencies and contradictions in scientific, socialistic, and philosophic “fact” that make our reality so confusing. Also in exhibit is a new work by Chet Danger, the first artist to exist solely as a cognitive mind piggy backing on the brain of another being (in this case Chad). When asked about “It’s All Relative”, Danger explains, “I truly believe if William Tell and Albert Einstein got together to shoot Isaac Newton’s apple off the head of an illusionary deer, the answers to what happened in the moments just before the Big Bang would reveal themselves.” He goes on to say, “If Einstein is the Father of Relativity then I’m the Father of Irrelativity.” Chet Danger’s work is also on display at the Steven Wolf Fine Arts gallery this month.

www.chadstayrook.com

WHORE!MAGAZINE and the St. James Infirmary present a monthly program of feature films exploring sex, money, power, & the goodness of going bad. Cupcakes, sex toys, and post-screening sparkling deconstruction for all who attend. (Proceeds to benefit sex worker health care at St. James Infirmary and smart whore art & culture via WHORE!MAGAZINE.)

This month’s film and discussion:

Monday, April 28th, at 8PM

Butterfield 8

Elizabeth Taylor is stunning as a New York call girl who wears nothing under her fur coat but a slinky slip. Outside of Hollywood fiction she also stole the leading man from good girl Debbie Reynolds. !960’s NY has never been more scandalous.

with salon conversation
Ginger Murray (editor, WHORE!MAGAZINE)
Melissa Gira (development coordinator, St. James Infirmary)

www.whoremagazine.net