Due to the unfortunate and inevitable absence of Spanky on the Kinnar front we have been unable to start recording just yet. However, Eric, Pear, and myself have been entering the studio all sleepy-eyed at 8AM on Saturdays so we can keep making progress of some kind. We've been averaging a song a day from scratch to recorded demo, complete with lyrics so......now instead of TWO, we have THREE albums written and ready to record.

Square Wheels

The 27th Letter

& Kinnar's Acoustic Dance Party

(Which is definitely not going to be called Kinnar's Acoustic Dance Party, but is as of yet untitled. It may feature some live tracks that if you play your cards right, you might be involved in.)

We will of course try to get this all done in a timely fashion. The only obstacles are waiting for Spanky to return, and deciding whether we will record it on my 8 track, or wait a bit and invest in a 16-track. Since a lot of these songs will require 20+ tracks, and we don't like to bounce down when we record, the 16-track might be our only option.

And we will also have to teach Spanky the songs, which will be a lot like the montage in Encino Man when they are trying to teach Link the in's and out's of fitting in with 21st Century society.

(Enter seque into non-Kinnar biz here)

I wandered around Border's Books for 45 minutes today looking for something that I haven't yet read that I've been meaning to get around to. (You'd think that with all the reading I do, that I wouldn't have ended that last sentence with a preposition. It didn't hurt anybody though.)

Where was I...Borders... The Kerouacs, Thompsons, Greenes, Hemingways, Fitzgeralds and the like, don't have many stones that I have left unturned. I intended to look for anything by Tom Wolfe, but instead I walked the aisles aimlessly trying to remember the names of authors I assembled in my head while planning out my bookstore trip in bed last night.

Oddly enough after being unable to remember anyone I thought of before the dreams took hold, I ended up walking out with a King James Bible. I am not born again by any means...I am still the atheistically leaning agnostic I've always been in spite of the best efforts of my childhood CCD teachers. However, there have been multiple times in which I've found myself sleepless in a hotel, rummaging through the drawers for the Gideon's Bible, to flip through the brutal wielding of words known as the Book of Revelations. John's prophecy of the final battle between good and evil. It's some serious shit to say the least. When I was a kid I had no idea the Bible contained anything of that nature.

I've always secretly held a grudge against the people that tried to fill my head with the catholic mythos as a child, so I have always kept the bible at arm's length when I have searched the bookself of a friend or family member, looking for anything to tear through. However, taken as literature and mythology placed throughout historical backdrops, I'm kind of upset with myself for not cracking it sooner.

I also walked out with Aimee Mann's the Forgotten Arm, which is a CD I've almost walked out of Newbury Comics with at least a dozen times. I now know nothing I left with in it's place could have touched it. It's so beautifully sad and lonely, and so unbelievably well thought out and executed. It's one of those albums that immediately gets it's hooks into your heart and sinks it's barbs deeper and deeper with each each discovery you make upon a new listen.

In order to keep this page current, I'm taking a page from Rich Cerasale and starting a Q and A on this page. If anyone wants to ask a question regarding books, tv, politics, movies, 8-bit Nintendo, guitars, cartoons, or anything no matter how ridiculous, of any Kinnar member send it along and we'll compile them once a week or so. If you're asking a question to a specific member make sure you put that in your message.

In the meantime don't hesitate to write and tell us how handsome we are should you feel the urge.

Keep in touch (with yourselves)

--BA