Forrest Armstrong's Blog, page 14

Frostbite

(Thank y'all for comin' by lately. Here's a free poem)

Under the aquarium of the sky where the whales bump their faces on glass walls, snow buries the stove of my youth and makes a new hill, a lump like a shot elephant that the men in black jackets can't dig out. And the funeral flowers pale in the unlamented December. Your voice is cough syrup to me because you are still in the place I left, and when you breathe out I can smell that you recently inhaled in a room I only

half-remember. I could...

Mixtapes and Books? Huh?

It occured to me why this whole mixtapes & books things makes sense. How many of y'all listen to songs to kind of trigger nostalgia in yourself, or soak in a mood (sometimes sadness, sometimes euphoria), you know, letting the song repaint that moment for you? I do it all the damn time – I got songs that make me sad as hell because they're tied to specific memories (that I listen to anyways) and the same is true for the happiness… well my goal is to give you moments to live inside with the...

Ask a Five-Year-Old

This "Ask a Five-Year-Old" series that my writer-friend Kevin Shamel (author of Rotten Little Animals) has being doing with his son, Zane, is fucking hilarious. And the kid's already given me some dope advice. He's zen-deep. Join the group here on Facebook and get askin'.

Things I like about Europe more than America

Just about everything. Every time I come here I'm reminded how much better they do things. I've been partying with kids from all over Europe at the Danish folk school my sister goes to (a folk school is a place kids go to take a year off from high school, or they go to in between high school in college… it's all focused on art, there are no grades, and the teachers get drunk with the kids) and lounging in the beautiful city of Arhus.

In Europe you can start shouting along with drunk people in...

I'm in Denmark

& people love this song here. So god damn much. Maybe it's just 'cause I'm here and happy to see my family and all that, but I love it too. Get some glow sticks and vodka and dance. (Only time you will ever have glow sticks recommended to you on this website, I promise.)

Urban Sleep food

Wanted to share a few of the albums I've collected as sample material for the upcoming Urban Sleep mixtape. There's A LOT more than these in my stash already (which I'm continuing every day to build) but some of it's secret. And some of it's random as hell and you'll have to wait to find out. For example: the first song I made for this used samples from Dialated Peoples and some Fisher Price lullaby CD they made for kids. Probably in the 80's. That song's probably not going in the mixtape...

Two new GAS MONK beats

Yeah! Two new ones for you before I venture out to Denmark and Boston, where my family's at. Over the entire trip I'm gonna be working on the Urban Sleep mixtape, which I mentioned last post. Which leads me to some cool news:

Over the course of making the mixtape I'm gonna be releasing tracks, accompanied by excerpts of the scene the track corresponds to, for free download. But these downloads are only gonna be available for 24 hours each. So keep glued to this site and you'll be receiving a...

2010

The way I write I generally do things in batches, trying to keep a bunch of big things floating at once and then letting them all sink into the world at once. Which is why I feel inclined to talk about what I'm writing now, since I've been keeping those whales floating for a while now without telling you much about them. I probably still won't tell you all that much about them but at least I'll tell you what exists.

In April I put out both Asphalt Flowerhead and Avant-Garde for the New...

Woo Haa

 

Just somethin' to make you feel a little less in touch with the world.

Underground Pick #7

JUICE FUCKING WILLIAMS

This band's got Timmy and Dave from Twists in it, so for everybody who downloaded the CD over the last week, check out what they're up to nowadays. I really like this new group – you can see a lot of  the same vibe as what they had in Twists but it's gotten tighter and a little more emotional. It's funny because two of the three other guys in the band come from this other group we played with back in high school, along with Twists, called Pandafied - well the vocalist...