MEGAFAUN - GREG DAVIS -OAK @ MONKEY HOUSE 5.2.08

Greg Davis has organized a show at the Monkey House on Friday, May 2nd featuring Megafaun (whom you'll remember from the Akron/Family show at Metronome), Oak and a set by Greg himself. I will definitely be there and you should too.


Oh, and while you're at it, contact Greg about purchasing a copy of the Eleh/Sun Circle split (180g vinyl 12" from Important Records). It's fantastic and it won't be around much longer, so get it now.

HELP ME WITH AN EGO DRIVEN GOOGLE BOMB

In a fit of boredom this evening, I decided to perform the most pathetically insecure & post-modern of narcissistic acts: I Googled my own name.

Ok, so maybe this isn't the first time I've done this...and every time, I get a page full of Jay Blanchard, Senator of Arizona (like I couldn't do that job...) and some geek who apparently posts a lot on a site called "evolt". Oh yeah,and just recently, I've even been upstaged by a registered sex offender in Florida who shares my date de naissance...

(Do I sense a family resemblance....?
Uhhhh....no. No I do not.)

So, I plead with you....

I'm not that bad of a guy. Sure, I'm a pretty lousy DJ and piss-poor blogger. But I'm certainly not a sex offender, or worse, an Arizona politician ((shudder)). So help me Google bomb my name into the Google top ten. Just post a comment that includes my name. Jay Blanchard. Jay Blanchard. Musician, gentleman, scholar, non-sexual offender, anti-politician Jay Blanchard.

We shall prevail. :)


(EDIT: Just realized after posting that, with the help of my sketchy, potentially currently-incarcerated Florida name-brother, I've now forever solidly linked the terms "jay blanchard" and "sex offender" on the internet. I...am...the stupid....)

SPITTING OUT TEETH RADIO SHOW - EPISODE 10 - 04.12.08

Wolf Eyes, "Time of Clearing" (from the album "Time of Clearing")
Univers Zero, "Jack the Ripper" (from the album "Heresie")
Oxyd Meets Sumad, "Land of Pain" (from the album "Mysterious Places of Dead Souls")
Exotoendo, "Inner Picture I" (from the album "Endorcism Process")
Andrew Chalk, "Untitled III" (from the album "Harvest")
7 From Life, "Withdrwl" (from the album "Coral Assault")
Nadja, "Skin Turns to Glass" (from the album "Skin Turns to Glass")

Background music: Birchville Cat Motel, "Seventh Ruined Hex"

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THE TRANSITION FROM A GLOOMY, DOOMY WINTER...


The weather is starting to get nice & I'm getting in a gradually more upbeat mood. Don't expecting Spitting Out Teeth radio to go all twee pop or anything over the summer, but I do have to warn you that it may be hard to keep up the oppressive doom on the nice summer days. I've been searching for a nice middle ground, and I think I found it in the Univers Zero's classic "Heresie". Still dark and creepy, but with a campy "Mahler meets the Ringling Bros." vibe. If that doesn't sum up VT spring mud season, I don't know what does.

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YES, I'M NEGLECTING THIS BLOG

Ok, yes, I'll admit it--the Spitting Out Teeth blog has not been my top priority lately. But I think I have some good excuses:

1) I'm getting married August 16th. I never had any idea how much work was involved in planning a wedding....
2) I'm trying to finish a full-length album. Solah. Eternal Humm. Coming soon.
3) I'm just coming back to reality after a long, severe seasonal depression. Boo hoo emo crap.
4) I have an awesome new radio show. On 105.9 The Radiator. The name sake of this blog. Tune in.

Otherwise, I'm just lazy. I haven't seen many shows lately & my radio show has been the best outlet to express my current musical interests. So.....what am I saying? Am I pulling a "Tanner"? Or am I playing Web Catholic performing a virtual guilt-catalyzed confession? Or am I just filling space and wasting bandwidth?

A little of all of them I guess. But I feel guilty obviously, considering I'm writing this post. So I intend to try to make this blog a priority again, so expect some interesting, well-considered posts over the next few months. Well, better than this one at least...