Photo by
Julia Fredenburg.
This morning in my email I got a new song from our friend and former housemate John Acquadro (
Goodbye the Band). John produces multimedia hits like most people grow hair. The song is called "
Everyday, My Day's a Cop." This style is so advanced that even Google doesn't understand.
Julia and I used to live with John in Santa Cruz, CA. Now he lives in
New Jersey. He goes by all sorts of amazing names like William Darkblood and
Johnny American.
John once produced a video that claimed to be the long lost sequel to J.D. Salinger's
Catcher in the Rye. Salinger supposedly authored this sequel direct-to-video. John submitted
The Picture in the Rye to the Whitney Biennale.
John is a big fan of seminal avant-guarde filmmaker and Kansas City native
Stan Brakhage. I think he would be a good housemate with
Jonas Mekas, Ryan Trecartin and Thurston Moore. He makes
real albums and
fake album covers.
Last fall John visited KC with our friend
Shan Raoufi. They make movies together.
They were in town to scout locations for a feature project called
Demalgamation. While they were here Shan shot part of a music video for John's "Amazing Marsheen." See if you can spot Julia, me and more geniuses of Kansas City and Santa Cruz.
I have a feeling that Kansas City hasn't seen the last of William Darkblood!
really enjoy traveling to install video. I did this show at the advice of our friend Shan Raoufi in Brooklyn. Shan, Julia and I met in Santa Cruz, CA. But his aunts and brother live in Kansas City! He is fond of telling me that if it wasn't Santa Cruz, it would have been KC.
Photo by John Acquadro.
