My brother played at the Townhouse with his new project, E S S (mainly pronounced "ess"). It is much darker than his previous music project, Ellie Fortune, in which his songs were mostly delicate and folkish as he alternated between an angelic falsetto and a voice deep and brooding but still gentle. In E S S he explores the latter vocal style, adding elements of a dark growl and hardness. The band accompanying him adds a fullness rather than a flare, each instrument creating a new texture, almost as if they are all elements of the same instrument. They feed into each, becoming their own entity. The result is a darkness that engulfs us into itself; we have no choice but to succumb to the power and intensity of it's black beauty.
It's definitely an outfit I have never seen him step into before, and I am excited to see where it takes him.
After smoking cigarettes with some friends, it was time to head back to the party where had previously been at our dear friends Dave and Laura's, for their moving-to-Oakland party.
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| Laura's boy and my boy, and their love for one another. |
Their apartment had the pure, clean beauty of being almost moved out.
Nathan got David a present:
A frisbee, since Dave's previous one got engulfed by the sea while they were playing their avid game of beach frisbee while camping.
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| What a gorgeous couple. |
Outside, we made friends with a cat. He was big and fluffy and put up with all of us taking turns holding him.
We fed him the meat of a bear, and yelled to some bikers about it.
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| "A cat is eating a bear, when will you ever see that again?!" |
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| Baby Crystal! She reminds me of a cat.. maybe it's her love of kitty meow meows shining through. |
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