tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246502011-10-24T18:55:51.986-05:00The FoxymoronsOnline tour diary and daily journal of indie rock heart throbs, The Foxymorons.David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comBlogger901100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1140321893918982432006-02-18T22:00:00.000-06:002006-03-02T20:58:56.863-06:00sxsw on march 17th at spiro'snew foxymorons t-shirts soonpre-sxsw show at the wreck room in fwwelcome crawfish seasongoodbye arrested developmentthanks vince youngsee cache at yr local cinemajerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1130349940640066172005-10-26T13:04:00.000-05:002005-10-26T13:24:43.863-05:00The October Update: JJ got to the bottom of the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah hype. The Astros are in the World Series! Our dancing keyboard player, Jackson, got married. I had a song written about me. Brian and I saw our first South San Gabriel show. We demoed a ton of new songs. The new Silver Jews album was released. Our friend Duke started a music blog. The new My Morning Jacket blew my mind. David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1126836417559008672005-09-15T20:56:00.000-05:002005-10-23T23:49:45.916-05:00look for shows in philadelphia and dallas soonlost my swiss army knifeput the amps in the closet and start a stamp collection.glimmers of beauty/excitement:ssg albumanimal collective's new onebabe's (fried chicken), roanokemy sister's dogthe dallas cold front. thank you, thank you.jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1123473415460045932005-08-07T22:37:00.000-05:002005-08-13T19:31:43.313-05:00saw dwight yoakam at billy bob's last night and it was worth every penny of the $11 ticket price. it was even worth the ethnic slur i took with a smirk from a drunk cowboy on my way out. i shoulda given 'm the old knuckle sandwich. what else? skip the aristocrats. but rent gilmore girls on netflix if you can. just don't admit it to yr friends. alright, back to gtr strum, the thin blue line onjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1122534488143359552005-07-28T02:02:00.000-05:002005-07-28T02:08:08.143-05:00we're leaving for a long california weekend tomorrow and i'm finally getting my packing done. it's hard to cram merch, cds, pedals, and a guitar in a carry-on suitcase. this calls for some extreme measures. i might have to "check" some baggage. the horror. anyways, drummer brian and i are flying out of nashville and hooking up with jerry in el lay. our pals duke and sylvia have hooked us up big David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1118621811960933372005-06-12T19:03:00.000-05:002005-07-03T22:51:04.483-05:00first thing's first: i'd like to send a shout-out to dr. bernstein for the zyrtec and flonase scripts - the 1-2 knockout combo for this brutal allergy season. alright, a hearty thanks for the friends, fans, and innocent bystanders at our virgin megastore and trees shows. thanks to the deathray davies too. here's the quick scoop:the nashville guys got to mesquite around 3:30 am on saturday morningjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1113619830829097662005-04-15T21:43:00.000-05:002005-04-22T22:24:41.376-05:00well, it's tax time and i still haven't even looked at my w2. heck, i'm not even sure where it is. meanwhile, it's nearly 10:00 and i should figure out how to file an extension asap. which explains why i'm writing a journal entry.what a week! i had a root canal, saw the jandek documentary, ate fried chicken at babe's, and found myself in a traffic accident (i was in the back seat). anyhow, the jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1108954168231052572005-02-20T20:30:00.000-06:002005-04-03T16:55:54.876-05:00howdy friends. well, well, well...looks like we finally got ourselves a release date. and lots of other news to announce! well, not really but....i'm booking a ticket to play a nashville show on march 26sometimes i imagine our gang is bjorn born at the 1980 wimbledon finals. we're hanging in there, but it's only the 28th point of the tie-break and we're emotionally and physically exhausted. but jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1104678104900600622005-01-02T08:39:00.000-06:002005-02-26T21:24:33.520-06:00our 'gang' has been calling 2004 a "break-out year" since last january. and despite some skepticism early on, guess what - it really turned out that way. sure there have been bust-ups, relocations, tough jobs, broken friendships, etc. not to mention the ongoing class envy that we can't seem to get past. but there's also been some real progress. we're going into 2005 better human beings, i jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1099422513872278932004-11-02T13:04:00.000-06:002004-11-02T13:49:06.523-06:00Well, the album is officially finished. I picked up the masters last weekend. Mixing and mastering have both been completed and all that's left to tackle is the artwork. We're currently duking it out over all the proposed cover ideas. Maybe we should just take a cue from the Beatles and make it a solid color. No muss, no fuss - over and done with. The Foxymorons - The Aqua Album.
All in all, David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1097261019480928252004-10-08T13:43:00.000-05:002004-10-20T13:04:05.160-05:00big star/third
van dyke parks/song cycle
rififi by dassin
where was i last year at this time? where were you?
speeding down the bel air stretch of sunset blvd
ripping off the intro: 'father to a sister of thought....'
this is the discreet charm of the foxymorons
last-minute el lay diversions:
beers at the roost
running into (quite literally) eleanor friedberger at the thrift store
orange grove jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1095296276375184642004-09-15T19:35:00.000-05:002004-09-16T13:32:06.463-05:00my inbox has been flooded with complaints regarding the last journal entry. the gripes ranged from the whiny (angela writes "why was the blog so loooong?"), to the nitpicky (mohinder grumbles "why does david say 'sweet' and 'wicked'? is he making fun of us?") to the unimpeachably true (tameka from houston gushes "jerry, your [sic] the cute one anyway. come back.")
so i'm glad to be back. jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1092153751828699222004-08-10T11:01:00.000-05:002004-08-10T13:30:09.680-05:00so i flew out to los angeles last weekend to see jerry and take care of some foxy band business. last time i was out there our lil' buddy was living on a series of friend's couches. this time was a different story - he's living in a wicked cool apartment on sunset boulevard. i felt like i was on that show melrose place. one of his neighbors is winnie cooper! she's just as foxy as a grownup as sheDavid Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1091034654897360722004-07-28T11:41:00.000-05:002004-08-03T12:06:06.836-05:00ahhh.....there's nothing like driving around el lay listening to yo la tengo's fakebook and basking in the summer sun. someday soon i'll find time to do that. instead, i've been reading more john fante, kicking television, listening to the will johnson solo album, playing with dogs, watching movies (the third man, last year in marienbad, old school), and laying around the chateau marmont jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1085797825790644202004-05-28T21:18:00.000-05:002004-06-05T23:53:29.556-05:00the summer issue....5 things we recommend:
'all my friends are going to be strangers' by mcmurtry
a sunday afternoon hike in griffith park
the loretta lynn record
order a chocolate milkshake for no reason
cancel the cable
5 more things:
avoid music magazines
...and anyone on the atkins diet
get up early on the weekends
if you want to sing out, sing out....
no more prez bashing
i'm tiredjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1082960692648355112004-04-25T11:24:00.000-05:002004-04-28T21:19:14.200-05:00sunday night and i've got the 'sunday scaries' as someone put it. ahh, the anxiety of a new week. before i forget, last week i bumped into wes anderson at the whole foods by my crib. the consensus in the foxymorons camp is that rushmore was one of the best movies of the last ten years, so it was a cool thing getting to say hi. not to mention, we were making lo-fi tapes in mesquite while wes jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1081227980775291092004-04-06T00:06:00.000-05:002011-08-26T12:43:28.284-05:00hey y'all. it's jj rockin' the laptop surrounded by cd's and a shiner bock. after being owned by the 1st season of 24 on dvd, i've finally got my evenings back! missed the deathray davies at the troubadour last night b/c they went on at (get this) 8:30 pm. early shows are pretty lame - the last time i saw a show that early was beck at danceteria (erm, i can't think of the real name) - but i jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1078978673860044962004-03-10T22:17:00.000-06:002011-08-26T12:43:28.294-05:00greetings from my apt in el lay (across from the slightly upscale liquor store on sunset for the assassins in our audience.) so david finally got the journal back up and i'm ready to ramble. first the good news, sistren and brethren: the new foxymorons album is in the hands of our friend and favourite delicate genius, matt pence. man alive, i really couldn't feel better about it. 11 or 12 (jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1068009706171333962003-11-04T22:38:00.000-06:002011-08-26T12:43:28.303-05:00the foxymorons were devastated to hear about the death of elliott smith last month. he's been a longtime hero of ours and an inspiration. we accidentally saw him open for sebadoh in austin back in 1996. there aren't many artists whose entire catalog i own. he's the reason i'm still not embarrassed to play a crummy yamaha acoustic with a dean markley pickup. we've chased his sound on many of our David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1066149691615081832003-10-14T11:38:00.000-05:002011-08-26T12:43:28.313-05:00hey, wilco cleans up pretty nice. check out these excellent photos from the recent chicago show. i looks like they had some extra musicians on stage. cool.David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1064608327993272542003-09-26T15:32:00.000-05:002011-08-26T12:43:28.322-05:00september has been a sad month. now we lost our cool-as-a-cucumber man of letters, george plimpton. he's played pro football, tamed lions, befriended muhammad ali, and launched maybe the best-regarded literary journal of the century. i wonder if he's strumming a guitar with johnny cash right now? i'd like to hear "folsom prison blues" in that well-bred, patrician accent. in other news, i sawjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1063843245066517032003-09-17T19:00:00.000-05:002011-08-26T12:43:28.331-05:00centro-matic is playing tomorrow night at spaceland. i cannot wait. what a staggering, wonderful new record. if you don't like will johnson and company, i'm sorry to say that we can't be friends. but i'll love you just the same.jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1063399959511240232003-09-12T15:52:00.000-05:002011-08-26T12:43:28.338-05:00i wish i could let it pass, but i just can't help it. j.r. cash died today. i could just feel it coming. i remember reading about johnny and june carter's love story on david's couch in nashville back in may. i don't remember what i was reading, but that kind of love just makes your heart sing. anyhow, the next month i was making the long drive to el lay from mesquite and i had johnny and jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1063063306455426482003-09-08T18:21:00.000-05:002011-08-26T12:43:28.346-05:00i won the mother hips' lost classic, 'later days' on ebay. now i'll be driving around el lay with some california soul!
jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1062615454617992742003-09-03T13:57:00.000-05:002011-08-26T12:43:28.353-05:00sorry about the unreliability of the blogger comments window. you can blame dave for that one. i've met some interesting new cerritos friends. have you guys heard of crip-walking or c-walking? it's the proprietary 'dance' of the esteemed la-based organization called the crips. i believe their team colors are blue. anyhow, a friend has made an 'underground' "how-to" c-walk dvd. and i'll be jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1061795685160201672003-08-25T02:14:00.000-05:002003-08-26T11:16:55.556-05:00sleeping on a tick-infested couch has left me itchy and irritable, so pardon me if i sound a little cranky. let's hope for the best. tonight i saw belle and sebastian at the greek theater in los feliz, ca. a beautiful august night for literate pop music. although i'd have liked a more 'tigermilk'/'if you're feeling sinister' set, it was a lovely evening. after coming home from that kind of jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1060747099034199982003-08-12T22:58:00.000-05:002003-08-15T23:36:21.166-05:00well, i accomplished one good thing today: i won an ebay auction for the legendary half japanese record, 'charmed life'. it's mine! it's finally mine!jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1060142668190591092003-08-05T23:04:00.000-05:002003-08-06T16:40:56.526-05:00so..........the foxymorons' talented half, david, made a trip out to el lay this weekend for some california soul. i knew we'd have a great time when double down ignored the awful traffic and exclaimed "wow" or "awesome!" every time he saw a tall building or palm tree. there's really too much to tell so i'll stick to the highlights. we spent our first el lay morning shopping for records at jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1058919027174261312003-07-22T19:10:00.000-05:002003-07-23T21:44:02.296-05:00howdy from the left coast. right now i'm enjoying the bucolic surroundings of sunny cerritos, ca: orange trees, blue skies, and a dog named maya. i have to say, despite all the mythology surrounding this venerable state, i'm feeling ok and getting adjusted. the gorgeous cerritos library is such a good friend, i even bought a t-shirt at the gift shop. i've been reading alot. thanks to the jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-1058414321130847902003-07-16T22:58:00.000-05:002003-07-16T22:58:40.920-05:00i love the idea of jj living in california. i hope he ends up in the movies or getting one of our songs played on the wb. i can hear baby blue or august moon playing during an episode of the gilmore girls.
i'm looking forward to my trip out there in a couple weeks. he's gonna show me the town and all the happening joints. i know a trip to largo to see jon brion is on the schedule. i also plan toDavid Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-958129662003-06-18T21:45:00.000-05:002003-07-20T12:49:47.850-05:00i'm really sorry for not posting sooner. so much to talk about - and i have to do it before my tea gets cold. ok, let's get cracking....so i graduated from b-school in austin (really a sad moment - happy, but definitely bittersweet. i will miss the mexican food, willie nelson concerts, wine tastings, boat soirees, and 'the bachelorette' parties). afterwards, i rented a u-haul, drove my stuff jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-944861392003-05-16T23:56:00.000-05:002003-05-16T23:56:58.570-05:00congratulations are in order. jerry graduated from the university of texas business school today. i think that means people have to call him "master" now. way to go holmes! welcome back to the real world. college life is over... again. now, it's time to get some serious rocking done.David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-929024152003-04-19T15:42:00.000-05:002003-04-19T15:42:33.450-05:00i'm sorry it's been a while. where to start? the trip through southeast asia was pretty great. motorbikes in laos, karaoke in singapore (bowie's "changes" - but i sang it to the wrong song), snorkeling off phi phi island. i can't complain. you should come by sometime to see the pictures. anyhow, david sent me a rough mix of the new foxymorons album, and i have to say, it's sounding good. ijerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-905341492003-03-11T12:22:00.000-06:002003-03-11T12:22:17.216-06:00jerry's overseas again. i'm not really sure where this time though. one email came from singapore. another from malaysia. i wish i could say he was on a rock-n-roll tour over there but i think he's really just laying on the beach and meeting girls. sounds good to me. be safe bro! don't drink the water and don't forget to eat an applejack a day.David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-890404192003-02-13T11:04:00.000-06:002003-02-13T11:04:28.916-06:00what the? i knew he was writing songs for a movie... but who put jack white in a movie? if any musician should be in a movie it should be jerry. he's the woody allen of our generation. girls, you know what i'm talking about.David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-886029242003-02-05T13:01:00.000-06:002003-02-05T13:01:26.423-06:00jerry just hipped me to this cool elliott smith live mp3 archive. yea, jerry and i both like elliott smith. deal with it!David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-885532392003-02-04T16:19:00.000-06:002003-02-05T17:40:46.000-06:00well, i just had another birthday last thursday, january 30th. i suppose they call that your golden birthday. anyhow, it really was a great day. mom called in the morning, girls sang at school, and there was a fine dinner party (with cake!) that night. thanks cynthia and angie. all the b-school peeps were so darn nice. really. you couldn't ask for much more. i'm a little older, but still jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-877403222003-01-20T13:11:00.000-06:002003-01-20T14:22:30.000-06:00i had a productive album #3 recording weekend. set up my guitar amp in the living room and ran a bunch of really long chords into my studio room. my axes for the weekend were my usual 1997 gibson sg standard, andrea's 1967 fender jaguar, and andrea's 1995 squier telecaster. i ended up using the tele for most everything. we have 14 songs in various stages of production so i just went from song to David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-872788912003-01-11T16:21:00.000-06:002003-01-15T17:33:19.000-06:00hey there. so my christmas break is nearly over. school starts monday. my new years resolution is to regain my early 20's easy confidence. somehow i've been wringing my hands about the dumbest things. no mas. i don't wear nervous very well. so anyhow, the break was good. i slept in every day, stayed up late, watched a lot of tv, and rented some movies. i can't really complain. but i jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-858645402002-12-11T18:08:00.000-06:002002-12-22T02:12:01.000-06:00so the foxymorons played a hometown show at trees last friday opening for the deathray davies and superdrag. david practiced with a nashville drummer, mike, all week and drove down from nashville at 7pm getting to mesquite around 6am. our friend craig learned his bass parts by himself (what a pro). jackson (our pal who screams, sings high harmony, plays keyboards and tamborine) did a great jobjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-851125932002-11-26T09:56:00.000-06:002002-11-26T09:56:00.716-06:00well, i didn't get as much recording done as i'd hoped. thursday night was wasted rounding up extra drum parts. my drum kit is so old and crummy i had to make a few calls to help piece together a working kit. friday night i figured out the tempos of all five songs and i recorded an acoustic guitar and vocal for each song. i also had to re-learn some of the songs. whoops. couldn't remember the David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-846018342002-11-15T19:21:00.000-06:002002-11-15T19:21:46.190-06:00i'm ready to rock! i put in a hard day at work, cashed my check, and headed to the store. stocked up on pizzas, waffles, and drinks. it's a foxymoron weekend and i ain't leaving the house. i plan to cut my 5 songs for the album this weekend. we cut 8 of jerry's songs back in august when i bought the recording gear. i've spent the last few months figuring out how to use it and adding the finishingDavid Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-835235062002-10-25T15:40:00.000-05:002002-10-25T15:40:53.173-05:00thanks for that story david. that was a pathetic ending. i've had a couple of weeks off for what the university of texas business school calls "texas plus". my holiday has included the usual diversions: movies, reading, a few new records, and the pavement documentary dvd. i guess malkmus has been a brat since birth. gary young was a superstar. and i have a sneaky feeling that thurston jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-827918392002-10-10T09:20:00.000-05:002002-10-10T09:20:53.406-05:00when i'm not doing foxymorons stuff i make web pages at a place called echomusic here in nashville. most of the time i do sites for regional independent artists but every once in a while i do a site for a more established artist. this fall i'm gonna be doing a website for guy clark. he's a texas singer/songwriter legend along the lines of willie nelson, towns van zant, and steve earle. you know, David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-827468842002-10-09T11:59:00.000-05:002002-10-09T11:59:47.170-05:00arrrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!! alright, alright!! i recant. the solo rhett miller album is a masterstroke. "this is what i do" and "world inside the world" and "terrible vision" are really good. you knew i'd come around anyway. i have a soft spot for that guy. i thought the old 97's formula was played out by wreck your life, even though lots of people went nuts for the next album. but who caresjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-813799572002-09-09T19:26:00.000-05:002002-09-09T19:26:01.120-05:00it's been a while since i posted. i moved the website to a new server over the weekend. hopefully all the links still work. let us know if you can't download an mp3 or if you run into any crazy errors. the new server should allow for more mp3s to be posted! so that's a good thing. i think i've finished two of the jerry songs for the new record. we both seem to be pretty happy with the results. David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-804142022002-08-18T23:11:00.000-05:002002-08-19T02:26:08.000-05:00this evening i had dinner with a dear high school pal that i hadn't seen in a while. anyhow, as he drove me back to my car, the car radio was tuned into the sunday night program known as the "adventure club" on the rock station called "the edge." now i haven't listened to it for years, but it remains the most adventurous radio show in dallas. in fact, david and i used to listen to josh (and jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-801494472002-08-12T14:12:00.000-05:002002-08-12T14:21:22.000-05:00mission accomplished! one concert played and eight studio songs recorded. i dropped jerry off at the airport this morning at 8 AM. as you read in his last journal entry, the concert was really fun. i'm pretty sure everyone in the band had a great time and we had plenty of friends, fans, and loved ones in the audience. much thanks to those of you that came to the show. extra special thanks to David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-800874522002-08-10T23:09:00.000-05:002002-08-11T03:03:01.000-05:00just got back from the foxy show. we rocked it. harder than the strokes. better dressed than the white stripes. more sincere than the old 97's. more insouciant than pavement. smarter than oasis. just kidding, guys. but it was good. i won't say too much about it. jackson was the star as usual. we played pretty tight. pretty loose. whatever that means. we tried a few "bits" out on thejerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-800310422002-08-09T11:13:00.000-05:002002-08-09T11:13:59.070-05:00last night after work jerry and i headed right back down to the basement and chose four jerry songs to concentrate on. by 7:00 we had the arrangements figured out. he kept getting on to me for playing too fast. andrea cooked a wicked awesome vegetarian dish. jerry seemed to like it since his plate was totally cleaned. after dinner andrea typed a paper on the computer, which also happens to serve David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-799894392002-08-08T12:33:00.000-05:002002-08-08T12:33:47.553-05:00so things have begun. jerry came two days early so i still have to work the day job. i skipped out yesterday to pick him up at the airport. he exited the plane in true rock star fashion. no suitcase, no bags, no laptop. just him and an electric guitar. rock! i dumped him off at my house and headed back to work. i don't even want to know what he was doing alone in my house while i was gone. when iDavid Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-799644842002-08-07T22:04:00.000-05:002002-08-07T22:04:49.653-05:00i arrived in nashville today to begin the process of "arranging" and recording the next foxymorons album. david picked me up this morning and dropped me off at his huge nashville digs. he and his wife andrea had to work, so he gave me the grand tour of the house and took off. i tried to watch a little tv, but nothing good was on. so i got back on the web and checked out some music sites. sawjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-798495172002-08-05T11:20:00.000-05:002002-08-05T13:50:27.000-05:00hmm...so i'm thinking of what to say. the summer's been pretty perfect. some highlights: a few barbecues, centre court at wimbledon, debauchery in manchester, being freaked out at 3 am by david lynch's mulholland drive, reading jhumpa lahiri's collection of short stories, seeing will johnson play a solo show at a bbq joint in denton tx, and helping my parents move into a new house. not much jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-793811122002-07-25T00:48:00.000-05:002002-07-25T00:48:13.780-05:00jerry will be arriving in nashville in exactly two weeks. i'm getting excited. i purchased some recording gear yesterday. i'm working out the details of our show. i made flyers for the show. i've sent the setlist to the band. now i just have to figure out how to use the recording equipment before jerry arrives. yikes!David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-775701492002-06-10T11:39:00.000-05:002002-06-10T11:42:25.000-05:00so summer's here, and i'm cruising around europe on a "study" abroad program. hilarious. i tell you what... so i heard the white stripes played mtv music awards? interesting. and just when i was going to get rid of cable. i guess the white stripes color-coded uniforms appeal to the kids more than the band-of-epsteins known as the strokes (welcome back kotter reference courtesy of my pal, jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-770756362002-05-28T15:18:00.000-05:002002-05-28T15:18:19.786-05:00why am i just finding this out? jerry saw them in austin a few weeks ago. he said the singer was obessed with talking about slacker. David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-770729592002-05-28T14:07:00.000-05:002002-05-28T14:08:39.000-05:00oh no! what are we going to do now? what has the world come to? god help us all. David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-765444762002-05-14T13:56:00.000-05:002002-05-14T13:56:15.876-05:00man this guy from the dismemberment plan doesn't like major labels at all. i hope the atlantic records guy reads that. i'd like to hear the rest of this story.
in foxynews, it's been brought to my attention that i must arrange and demo the rest of jerry's songs by next weekend. he's off to europe for the summer so we need to agree on the arrangements before he splits. i'll be doing the boring David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-764344522002-05-11T13:00:00.000-05:002002-05-11T13:00:56.260-05:00i don't have anything to say about winona ryder. but the summer's here! no more textbooks, papers, group projects, etc......until next fall. i love it. so i'm going to head out right after i type this, and sell my textbooks at the coop. and then i'm going to look for a new apartment. and then i head to europe on may 30th.
i'm glad to be leaving austin. didn't the buzzcocks ask, "have jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-762315142002-05-06T15:09:00.000-05:002002-05-06T15:10:48.000-05:00here she goes again. what i want to know is, when will winona ryder discover the genius of jerry james? she goes from rock star to rock star, obviously never finding true happiness and satisfaction. she's just not looking in the right places. winona, listen to the music of the foxymorons and fall in love with the lyrics of jerry james. he's an american original. a boy interrupted. plus, i think David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-761271812002-05-03T13:24:00.000-05:002002-05-03T13:27:58.000-05:00i don't know if it's cool to admit this or not but... i'm a huge juliana hatfield fan. i think she might be one of my biggest musical influences in a strange subconscious kinda way. she has a greatest hits comp (with new songs included) coming out in june. now i read that she is a starting a new band called 'some girls'. a chick trio with freda from the blake babies on drums. cool. you can read David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-760873722002-05-02T13:15:00.000-05:002002-05-02T13:15:29.310-05:00last night i pulled out all the cassette tapes containing the 4-track demos for our next album. loaded each song into my computer so i could transfer them to compact disc. so now i have a cd blueprint for our next album. fourteen songs in total. we plan to whittle the final count down to ten. half are just guitar/vocal and the rest are full-on rock band demos. i'm having fun listening to them allDavid Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-105450152002-03-08T20:23:00.000-06:002002-03-08T20:23:18.290-06:00hey, hey, hey. foxymoron jerry here. evan was good. i'll post the review i gave david: evan came out sporting a beard, long hair, and his trusty acoustic. played all the old standards + the velvets + victoria williams + gram. i thought the new song "all my life" and "hard drive" are pretty good. "all my life" is actually pretty great. i wish he'd work harder.
i don't have much else to jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-102014962002-02-27T17:52:00.000-06:002002-05-02T13:47:59.000-05:00jerry is going to see evan dando tonight and i'm jealous. i'm sure it'll be boring but still... it'd be fun to go to. i hope he's sober while he plays. andrea saw him once and he was a total mess. as high as a kite. speaking of evan dando. LemonEvan.com has a new mp3 of him. i'm not sure what the project is but it's really pretty and grown up sounding. i like it. hopefully jj will be coming to David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-100377132002-02-23T08:43:00.000-06:002002-02-24T16:07:56.000-06:00so evan dando is back and i'm glad. he's playing austin next week - and i'm putting aside the grad school cases, papers, and exams for one night. he'll be a breath of fresh air. the current rock landscape is filled with the most uninteresting people. what've we got? - the strokes and pete yorn. when the stock market took a crash, so did rock and roll. people have different theories - but i jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-96503222002-02-12T12:53:00.000-06:002002-02-12T12:53:14.850-06:00why haven't i heard of Loobiecore before. it's lou barlow's own personal website. lots of cryptic artsy pages and some mp3s! i miss lou. jerry saw lou solo acoustic once. i'm going to see centro-matic tonight in nashville. nothing else is new. no plans for the recording of our record yet. we've got the songs, just no recording plans. we're on the sxsw standby list... again. we've been asked everyDavid Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-86877012002-01-14T14:13:00.000-06:002002-01-18T16:09:51.000-06:00howdy from tennessee. hope everyone had a swell holiday season. i was able to visit relatives in both texas and california. for christmas i got a new acoustic guitar from my parents that i plan on using during the recording of the next foxymoron album. it's the perfect little guitar to have sitting around the house. i can grab it on a whim and work out a new song or melody that's floating around David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-80255962001-12-18T14:46:00.000-06:002001-12-18T20:15:29.000-06:00hey, hey, hey....i'm back, baby. for those not in the know, i'm attending grad school at the university of texas. 3 brutal weeks of projects, papers, presentations, culminating in a series of wicked finals. but i took my last one this morning. hoofah. i've got some catching up to do. first, i could've told you tom green and drew wouldn't last. what a joke.
austin's fine. everything's jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-79961912001-12-17T15:17:00.000-06:002001-12-17T15:17:57.460-06:00i'm shocked. i had no idea this wouldn't last. they seemed so perfect. i don't know how he beat the 19 day record of her previous marriage. too bad his time with her couldn't bring him further stardom. this could be the last we ever hear from tom green. god bless him. i'm sure drew will continue to charm us for years. she's so annoying but i end up seeing all of her movies and have even watched David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-79285282001-12-14T10:41:00.000-06:002001-12-14T10:43:32.000-06:00hey, what's the deal with jerry? why can't he ever make a post? they don't all have to be works of art man. just let us know what you're thinking dude. i'm a fan of yours too. i like to read ran-dumb stuff and i'm sure the other foxy fans would appreciate knowing that foxymoron jerry is still alive and kicking.
hey jerry, written any new songs? bought any new cds? eaten at any good restaurants? David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-79283352001-12-14T10:34:00.000-06:002001-12-14T10:42:55.000-06:00well, the foxy comments function went out of business. darn. i'll try to find another way to do it. i'm no computer whiz though so don't get your hopes up. i'd rather waste my time making music. new music, old music, weird music, experimental music, foxy music, luxury music, david music, jerry music, verde music, you know... music. that's what i'm gonna waste my time on these days. no more David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-78878732001-12-12T23:13:00.000-06:002001-12-12T23:13:31.856-06:00this is an interesting article on the return on rock. seems that this writer is predicting another "alternative" breakthough next year. the days of britney and staind may be over. does anyone know if we're alternative? this could be our big break. the foxymorons, new-ternative. David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-78739912001-12-12T14:06:00.000-06:002001-12-12T14:06:14.123-06:00if anyone is bored at work or possibily just entertaining lame guests, here's an old classic to keep you happy for hours. click here of the online version of connect four.David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-77046192001-12-06T14:54:00.000-06:002001-12-06T14:54:07.960-06:00i saw this link on the sweet adeline site last month and i've been dying to share it with someone. so you're the lucky ones. check out the guide to bearded musicians. pretty funny stuff. elliott smith gets it pretty bad. now i know for sure that i don't need to try to grow a beard again. i tried back at halloween but nobody could tell.
talked to jerry for a while last night. we're scheming and David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-76238962001-12-03T22:26:00.000-06:002001-12-03T22:27:21.000-06:00so i woke up late friday morning....and "heard the news today, oh boy..." as david put it. george harrison. it's all been said already. but he was my favorite. cool, quiet, mysterious. the way he beautifully falls when the fab four get chased by a mob of fans in hard day's night. sometimes the foxymorons inexplicably sprint down city streets in a carefree, beatle-esque way, and i always jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-76125992001-12-03T15:39:00.000-06:002001-12-03T16:42:29.000-06:00boy am i tired today. i spent four hours last night cutting and cropping 52 pictures for the new photos page. hope everyone has had a chance to check them out. the sad thing is that the most recent images are from may. wish we had some shots from our solo shows to share.
i guess i'll mention a few things that most other people with online journals are mentioning. the death of george harrison David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-74446782001-11-27T12:11:00.000-06:002001-11-27T12:11:24.770-06:00ahh yea! it's back. they are once again streaming the new wilco album, yankee hotel foxtrot, over at wilcoworld.net. i was beginning to have withdrawals.
hope everyone had a good holiday. i went home to mesquite for a few days. luckily i didn't have to see jerry! the ten hour drive did give me a chance to sort out the plans for next year. we plan to do some pre-production on the new album over David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-63572362001-10-15T13:37:00.000-05:002001-10-15T13:37:00.850-05:00my friend todd in dallas sent me the pete yorn album a few weeks ago. it's pretty good in my opinion. i was kinda curious since i'd heard that he'd played most of the instruments himself. today i finally cruise his site and who do i stumble across... none other than a picture of will johnson from centro-matic. he played drums on a few rodeo city songs. i hadn't seen him since a foxy show last David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-61317232001-10-05T10:48:00.000-05:002001-10-05T10:54:04.000-05:00the internet is an amazing resource tool for finding facts and information about all aspects of life. it's also useful for finding out information on dumb stuff like this.
on a more musical note, we received our sxsw confirmation last week. so now we can wait with baited breath, praying, hoping, and crossing our fingers that we'll get invited back again. feel free to join us in the cause. lets David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-58902292001-09-24T17:52:00.000-05:002001-09-24T17:52:06.973-05:00yeah, i forgot ... jeff tweedy said his favorite song title of all time was by the foxymorons. my shoulder hurts. jackson got the story all wrong, though. and i just can't bring myself to waste time correcting him. but i'm not going to pretend to act all cool about it. jeff's a hero. the guy who wrote the song titles "i'm trying to break your heart" and "how to fight loneliness" said he jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-58843862001-09-24T12:59:00.000-05:002001-09-24T12:59:07.303-05:00i just found this link out on the web. it sheds a little more light on jerry's wilco concert experience. sounds like he had an even better experience after the show. hmm, now why didn't i hear about this? just becuase i didn't write the song or even play on the recording doesn't mean i didn't have anything to do with it. i was there in the studio as jerry recorded the song. i was the guy David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-58699962001-09-23T19:36:00.000-05:002001-09-23T19:46:51.000-05:00so i saw wilco this weekend. the new rock album is amazing. goodbye a.m. i agree with david that the experience of listening to the new wilco album (go to www.wilcoworld.net to download it) must be similar to what it was like being a beatles fan in the 60's. real excitement. wilco - our finest export. what would we do without them? american rock would be stuck. but now we have a band thatjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-57295532001-09-16T21:52:00.000-05:002001-09-16T21:53:11.000-05:00i haven't posted since the 10th. it's hard to blog with a broken heart. it really would be a good idea to hug someone, anyone, if they let you. i can't stand it.jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-56059702001-09-10T23:59:00.000-05:002001-09-11T00:16:28.000-05:00by the way - to corroborate my claims, these are some additional comments shared by part-time foxymoron jackson chang:
The only reason I am publishing this, is to let the public know the truth. David Dewese of the Foxymorons is an absolute jerk.
Most of the other band members don't have the huevos to say it, but I am here to say it.
The day of our concert at Trees, we decided it would be wise jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-56059052001-09-10T23:55:00.000-05:002001-09-11T00:17:07.000-05:00david is the biggest jerk i know. he didn't sing one of my songs at the solo show. it ain't the foxymorons if one of my songs isn't in the mix. everything has really gotten to his head and it's sad. i guess he's the frontman for the foxymorons now. i don't know where dd was back in 1998 when i was cutting out cardboard, packing up 7" singles and mailing 'em out like a sweat-shop worker. david jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-55935262001-09-10T13:04:00.000-05:002001-09-10T13:26:47.000-05:00here's the report on my solo show. i'd never done one before so it took me a few songs to get used to the acoustic thing and knowing that i was "the boring acoustic guy" for the night. it was weird to not have a band to hide behind. luckily, i was warmed up after three songs. for the fourth song i played baby blue and gave a big plug for the band and our albums. as usual in nashville, i had to David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-54052282001-08-31T09:36:00.000-05:002001-08-31T09:48:46.000-05:00i'm not quite sure how many artsy foxy-friends/fans we have but i thought i'd ask a question of you. the foxymorons are finally getting around to making some stickers. you know, the kind you see plastered all over bathrooms in rock clubs and on the back windshields of indie rock highschooler's volvos. before we attempted to draw a sticker with our kindergarten chicken scratch crayon skills, we David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-53769032001-08-29T22:22:00.000-05:002001-08-31T13:43:36.000-05:00so grad school's started and i'm busier than a one-legged midget in a butt-kicking contest. what can i say? well, i'm glad that our new album is written (with probably more songs to come.) and i think weighing in at 225 lbs with a 70" wingspan, it can pretty much take any guitar pop album out there. bring it on. look, i don't want to go on and on about it like a moron - but it's a good albumjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17436188722440957499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-53510482001-08-28T18:05:00.000-05:002001-08-30T07:45:58.000-05:00hello. this is foxymoron david making my first "real" post on the journal page. i hope this thing ends up working and stuff. it could be cool. wish i knew how to do a blog voices kinda thing. that'd be cool to have too. so people could make comments and stuff. anyways, making website can be a pain in the butt. i'd much rather be writing a new song. now that's a good thing to waste time on. maybe David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124650.post-53491532001-08-28T16:16:00.000-05:002001-08-28T16:16:16.816-05:00hello, is anybody in there?
testing.
hello?David Dewesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950095432293915662noreply@blogger.com