Sooo. Another trip around, eh? Sold Kingdom has had quite a year. In addition to a few lab experiments per usual, I put out an LP that at one point I had decided to shelve indefinitely (before I remembered that my art is a fundamental part of how I fight back). I finally played a... Continue Reading →
BIG NEWS! I’m honored as hell to be one of the featured “cryptids” in Cville’s takeover of HarriSYNTHburg at Sage Bird Cider Works in January! I’ve long admired the nostalgic 8-bit crunch, searing guitar shredding, and hardworking DIY ethos of the event’s fearless leader, Ivan Christo, who, outside of his synth project Jaguardini, is a... Continue Reading →
Last Saturday I returned to Book Club, C’ville’s music-venue-in-an-afterhours-bookstore, opening for some casually virtuosic student shoegazers and some peddlers of self-described “slutty goth-punk”. All of whom were very young and very talented. To be very honest, for the majority of the day preceding the show, I was wrestling with some kind of nondescript malaise and... Continue Reading →
2024 in a nutshell: I dedicated myself to filling the vacancies that created the desire that has traditionally gotten me in trouble, and fought tooth and nail to see the things that do not serve me as inherently unattractive. Progress is a series of small revelations, and it is not always linear. Highlights: I busted... Continue Reading →
A fundamental part of my music is anger. Even if it’s quiet anger, or pretty anger, or glittery anger… it’s still anger. I would not trade this in for anything; it’s at the core of my whole mission, and I’ll be honest: I very well might stop the mission if I ceased to be angry.... Continue Reading →
I’ve probably mentioned before that as a little kid I used to make tapes of a pretend radio station called “K23: Greek music, relaxing hits, and information” (the station ID I delivered in an abrasively singsong tone). I conducted make-believe interviews, gave talk-radio-style commentary, improvised commercials where I hollered about products being on sale for... Continue Reading →
Full disclosure: though at the start of this year I was doing everything I could to let folks know I was able and willing to perform live, I didn’t really expect it to happen anytime soon. I have no name recognition and did my best for the majority of my fifteen+ years in this town... Continue Reading →
The department-wide message announcing my fifteen-year anniversary with my company went out on the first workday of 2024. My head ached vaguely from having had two varieties of libation the night before. I was on about three hours of sleep. And, as I have done for nearly four years, I had de-activated an 8:15 alarm... Continue Reading →
(Note: This will probably be the only time I feature a craptastic stock photo about relationship drama, so SOAK IT UP, PEOPLE)My last entry nodded to elder millennials getting out of marriages they chose in their twenties. Well, I, too, am continuing to feel sour toward a stale marriage I chose in my twenties, and... Continue Reading →
A couple years ago I bought a vintage trunk and stored some old accomplishments away in it. I dragged it out today and went through a thick pile of papers from college and grad school. I had saved surviving things from those days indiscriminately. But as I leafed through them today, it seemed clear to... Continue Reading →
The Sold Kingdom 