birthdays

so my birthday is coming up. and it made me think of this thing i wrote for someone on their 33rd birthday. thought id share.

33 you are
woman child cub
like the record
33 times around
like the music
to make sound
fingertips feel 33 years
of raw life
a year as a record
of an event
of fall winter
spring summer
one time around
oh how much sound
explodes into the air
into open arms yet
sometimes on deaf ears
so it bounces back hard
hurts but reminds
you of you
save some sound for you
as a salve
on tired bursting heart
and cracked worn fingers
mother to sound and thought
painful delirious birth
33 times around
sing your desire
for then you will
sing your life
fully wholly in its possibility

recent show

we had a chance to play at ras cafe in DC a few weeks back as part of Uptown Friday Nights with the amazing DC band Laughing Man and incredible spoken word artist natalie illum. It was a benefit for Life Pieces to Masterpieces.

a new dc friend of ours captured a video of one of our new songs which will be on our next record to be coming out in the near future. check that here.

thanks a million to art under pressure for helping work with us on the show. if you need music, clothing, skateboarding stuff, custom graphics, art supplies and you are anywhere near washington, dc, go there.

john cage- how to get started

I did a project modeled after John Cage's "How to Get Started" piece about our band. I chose ten words to describe my collaborative creative process and relationship with Diane. Discussion on those themes is layered on top of each other, as Cage did, on the subject of how one gets started in the creative process. I wanted to share it here.
-ko

new record

so my band is going to the studio this weekend to make our second record. well, we're starting the process. at this moment, im feeling the weight of expectations, for which im totally responsible... but it also does come from hoping we make something exciting, relevant and interesting, something that contributes to cultural creation in general but also to culture in the context of social change.

for me, recording is exciting and cathartic. at the end there will be this tangible object- thoughts, emotions and heart embodied in something that i can hold in my hands. but the birthing process is demanding and intense and in the middle of it i wonder if its all worth it. for katy and i, our songs are very wrapped up in our separate and mutual emotional, physical and mental struggles so that while recording, there is a reliving of all the shit we've navigated by writing these songs; its impossible not to unearth some of what we have buried in them. there is also this desire to have one of the more permanent manifestations of all that struggle and intensity and growth be what you want it to be, to sound like you want it to. to be a good representation of where and what it comes from. i guess thats why we named the record sing what scares you.

quakes

a dear friend shared this article with me post-earthquake yesterday.

What Coverage of the Earthquake can teach us about the LGBT Movement by Reverend Emily Martin, from Mineral, VA

trophy wife teeshirts

buy our shirts and hoodies online! tees are 10 bucks and 15-20 for a hoodie plus a few extra for shipping. get in touch if you are interested. i also could probably make you something with custom color/size if you wanted.

trophywifetheband(at)gmail.com

active, apparent, clear, live, manifest, obvious, open, public

we will combat latent inequality together tonight in dc at c.l.i.t. fest.

article in washington city paper here

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