Super excited to be a part of Benn’s latest and greatest “Terra Firma” featuring a great remix from Bartel as well as one from myself. This was the last bit of music I produced before all my gear got stolen… I’m glad I had time to get it out! Pick it up for only a few bucks via bandcamp.

We also have a remix coming out for another local Chicago group…Details on that TBA.

ALSO, super sexy secret ABt remix coming out for a special someone very soon. More on that later…

Working on a couple new aliases for fun. Planning to drop a couple EPs this winter, more remixes etc. About to launch into a new studio as well. THINGS HAPPENING.

thanks for your patience…

-m

For a cornucopia of reasons, this has easily been the most emotionally twisted, and heavy year of my life thus far. Saying “I’ve learned so much” seems an almost naive and vastly inadequate justification. Of course I’ve learned so much…but beyond that I’ve almost felt like a teenager again, confused and excited by things I should very well be familiar with by now, but apparently have no solid understanding of. We can spend an entire lifetime trying to figure out how to love someone to the best of our ability or be as productive and diligent as humanly possible, but in the moment, we are infinitely capable of acting like complete fools. The key seems to be finding that rare group of people, or one, that appreciates and understands your foolishness and not only embraces it, but helps transmute it into some twisted kind of inspiration. The point is, I feel like I have been largely ungrateful to those I am close to, that have helped me along in this delusional and undoubtedly enlightening jaunt through life; those who may or may not embrace my foolishness.

I’ve spent the last 7 years writing music, touring, playing gigs all over chicago with my favorite people, building studios, learning trades, smashing walls, building new walls, driving through deserts, sitting on beaches, smoking cigarettes on balconies, throwing champagne bottles off of rooftops, falling in love, blowing up speakers, buying gear, selling gear, cooking food, eating food, taking drugs, sleeping, not sleeping, so on and so forth…all enabled by those that embrace the inherently foolish and experimental nature of humanity. Sometimes we try things not because it’s the best idea in the world, but because it’s fucking fun….. Or it will look good on camera, or make a ridiculous story later. Sometimes you walk away with a bunch of severed nerves and your knee is gushing blood and you can’t walk straight for 3 months, but somehow it was worth it and somehow I still feel compelled to say “Thank you.”

This isn’t to say we are always fools. Sometimes we get it right. We know when we get it right, because suddenly things just start working… It’s during these moments when I feel the most vulnerable and I end up forgetting that I can still be a fool, and it will still be ok. I might catch myself thinking, “I figured it out and I’m going to win this shit…” and suddenly I’m a fool again. It’s a delicate balance and as much as I would love to conquer any number of things by myself, as to satisfy that primal survivalist urge to stay on top, I can’t stress how wonderful it’s been to be surrounded by a vast support network that simply delivers because that’s what they do. My only worry is feeling like I don’t deserve it for whatever reason, and that I may not have something of equal value to return…maybe that’s bullshit, but isn’t that the fundamental struggle here?

It seems a horribly shit cop-out thing to say “Some day…I’ll get you…” but maybe that’s what I have to say, and if it’s true and if I really really mean it, then HELL YEAH some day…

So THANK YOU. For everything and then some…

max g

I usually think that I’ll come home after a long trip and feel an unparalleled rush of energy, refueled and ready to go…And usually I do. Today however, I am flat out exhausted. I’m just fine with that. We drove from Chicago to Vancouver and back again with a backdrop of more America than I have ever experienced before within a two week stretch. Literally from the rainforest to the ghetto.

The cast of characters was nothing short of stellar and hysterical…Ceephax Acid Crew flew into Vancouver where we met him on the first leg of our trip. From there Bartel joined up and the touring flock was assembled. Ceephax, The Flashbulb, Bartel and myself hopped about on our way back to the last date in Milwaukee, where an angry drunk threw pizza at a taxi just before we all decided it was time to part ways. “WELCOME TO MILWAUKEE MOTHERFUCKERS”

Twas a pleasure and an honor to share the stage and move around with such maniacs…I may have more to reflect on as I start to process what just happened. As promised, here is the EP that I sold on tour. Available via bandcamp for 1$…

Thanks to all that made it out!! Lets do it again…

2011 Summer Tour EP by The Abominable Twitch

Fortune Days (ABt’s reverse metaverse ho-down mix)

For the sake of being entertained, let us for a moment humor this concept: What if, the entirety of our time here on Earth was meant to be nothing more than “just for fun.” We have this occasionally unhealthy fascination with alternate realities and video games and hallucination and role-playing and any form of detachment from the human, so who is to say that our entire experience here on Earth is nothing more than (gulp) a giant video game? We have all these bizarre systems in place that allow us to fuck off until we die, or kill each other, or get rich, or get run over, or catch a virus, or buy a houseboat…and we just let it all happen like “Yeah, that’s what was supposed to go down.” Sure I guess? Oh right the houseboat program just kicked in…Cool. Next level…

This is no new idea by any means, but think for a moment how these implements sit within the theater of real-life:

THE METAVERSE [programming the programmer to program programs to program themselves and new programs / OR / who started this shit?]

ROLE PLAYING

LEVEL DESIGN

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

LEVELING UP

FACTIONS

ENEMIES AND ALLIES

WEAPONS

REWARDS AND ACCOLADES

CHEATING

WINNING AND LOSING

ETC

These are all very concrete and precise paradigms that play themselves out in very precise ways. We should not be so quick to fool ourselves into thinking that humanity is a seemingly wild and unpredictable spectre of universal achievement. These days it feels more and more transparent, and its inherent systematic and repetitive nature is all too obvious amidst the wake of this technology overload (or overlord). We want all gadgets to do the same thing. We want to augment and simplify operations…seemingly, until robots take over and eat us alive. What is the other option? We live in harmony with our robot children? Nooooo that’s way to boring and completely out of character if we’re going to follow the trend of human history at large.

Sounds like a sweet video game to me. If I was a bored immortal overlord, I would TOTALLY want to play “EARTH: The Odyssey of Man”

Anyhoo…Back to work.