Jason Wilder

Back in the 90s, I used to have a xerox’d print zine named Psychocandy. A bunch of labels sent me stuff, including Carbon Records. Joe from Carbon Records sent me two Muler 7 inches to review. I was under 21 at the time so I couldn’t see Muler, yet. My first Muler show was at the Bug Jar, I believe the album release show for The State of Play. I remember nervously buying a CD from a sweaty Dave. Wish I still had copies of those zines. At some point much later, I learned of Hinkley, which is Will Veeder’s band. Became a big fan and made a bunch of photos of them playing live for fun. Then, before Christmas 2010, Will and Carbon Joe asked if I wanted to help make a cover photograph for a new Muler album. Luckily, the band liked my friend Casey and she modeled for the cover on a Saturday morning at the Bug Jar.

We saw Muler Saturday night at Bar Bad Ending. Muler plowed through a set of recent stuff, ending with the classic Slowpoke, my favorite song of theirs. Then Beth and I named a drink after a bartender, the Conley. After that, Rectangle Creep played. I only learned of Rectangle Creep because of this show. They have an impressive catalog and while you may say their albums sound much like Guided By Voices, you would be right. Singer Matthew Cutter wrote a book about Robert Pollard, which I need to read. Anyways, their catalog is vast and impressive. I played Circle of Sky a couple weeks ago on Fantastic Voyage.

On Sunday morning, I put on my finest UFO t-shirt before heading out to the WAYO fundraiser at Radio Social where I drank a mimosa and played an hours worth of 70s and 70s inspired cosmic funk, disco, hiphop and R&B. I had to start the set queuing up the music on eyesight because of faulty headphones but once a working pair was delivered it was smooth sailing. I do have to admit, it kind of boosted the ego/confidence seeing some people vibe out to my weird music selection.

I did buy two records, which I will probably review on the Fantastic Voyage site, which I have been neglecting sadly.

This evening I watched The Magnificent Butcher.

The fighting calligraphy scene early on in the movie was pretty damn cool. The Criterion channel has a few Sammo Hung movies which I will be watching.