I love Neil Diamond and I love America. It was quite an honor to be asked to perform this song at The Bushwick Book Club Seattle’s event: original music inspired by Howard Zinn’s The People’s History of the United States. If I remember correctly, this performance closed out the show. I was accompanied by my good friends Wes Weddell on guitar and Ben Mish on piano. What a night. God bless America.
The rumors are true. Yes, this Sunday night I will in fact be performing at the monthly comedy/variety show known only as Weird and Awesome with Emmett Montgomery. I am very honored to have been personally invited by THE GREAT BEARDED ONE himself to stop by the Annex Theatre this Sunday and bust out a small handful of tasty jams. I hope you all can make it.
Take a look at this poster for an upcoming Bushwick Book Club Seattle event. Guess who designed it? That’s right, I did! My favorite part is when the bird stands on the stack of books and doesn’t move. He just stands there, completely still, forever…
I brought up an interesting point – stillness. In a world full of video games, and television, and professional wrestlers, and cats, all constantly on the move, whirling all around us everywhere we go, there is something poetic about having to intentionally stop moving to fully appreciate something. So even if that something is just a poster of a bird standing on some books, the combined stillness of both the image and the viewer set to the busy background of the outside world helps make the overall visual experience more interesting.
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Trouble Cat’s life gets turned upside down after a hilarious encounter with an unusual bug.
Much like the title of this blog post suggests, I did indeed just finish up another Lynda.com training course. This time around I learned all about Adobe Illustrator. I used my new found skills to create the illustration you see above. Are you impressed? I hope so. It’s a drawing of me – look how happy/sleepy I look. Read More
A friend of mine is hosting a baby shower soon and she asked me of all people to put my fantastic design skills to use and make an invitation. Her concept was a bit odd: use the image of the sloth hugging a cat and include the phrase “Please join us in toasting the future president” at the top. I followed her instructions to the T even though I still have no idea what sloths, and cats, and hugs have to do with presidents, or the future, or babies. Well, I guess I can see the link between babies and hugs…. Anyhow, I think the invite turned out OK. The results are below (Some names and some addresses have been changed.)
I had a lot of fun the other day performing with The Bushwick Book Club Seattle (just take a look at the video!). For those of you who don’t know, The Bushwick Book Club Seattle is a Seattle based non-profit that puts on these awesome book inspired music events (they do lots of other stuff too). The basic concept for each show is:
- a book is chosen
- artists (and audience members) read the book
- artists write an original song inspired by the book
- artists perform their song for a live audience (who have hopefully read the book too)
- audience claps
Every time you call me I find out who the baby’s daddy is, courtesy of the great R. Kelly.
Thanks, Kells — I love you and my ringtone. Read More
This is my new favorite twitter account…
@PizzaHaouseTV by Trouble T. Catt
PizzaHaouseTV: wouldn’t you rather watch the shows I invent instead of the crap that’s on regular TV?