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<li>Portland has the #1 Independent Music Economy in the PacNW.</li>
<li>Live Nation must not build a venue in Portland for it to remain that way. </li>
<li>Seattle has the #2 slot because corporate big-hitters and hierarchy (such as Live Nation) have stifled upward mobility. </li>
<li>Washington and Oregon must work closely at the level of government and NPO's to facilitate tour support for Alaskans and Idahoans.  </li>
<li>Bands, artists, labels, and managers must become educated on the music industry. </li>
<li>The language and policies of the cities must take into account the needs of rural areas and be proactive about outreach to those regions.   </li>
</ol><p>My biggest takeaway? </p><p>I NEED TO GET BACK ON STAGE AGAIN! </p><p>My music industry experience over the past 25 years being based in rural Arizona has been too similar to the stories I heard from Alaska. There are definitely systemic issues here that need addressed, but my experience has hit the ceiling. </p><p>The main reason I want to get back on stage is that I simply just miss it. I miss the Gork. I miss the music Ben and I wrote together with our friends. </p><p>But there's another reason to play now, and it's to draft policy. </p><p>Until next time!  </p><p> </p><p>Jesse</p></div>
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  <div class="message"><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/s:bzglfiles/u/322962/930565628218c37a7bdeaa942a9214f244d76ec4/original/mupo-gorky-final-cover-photo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="360" width="820" /><p>NOTE: All candidates endorsed in Gorky's official PDX-Music Voter Guide are invited to the Candidate Appreciation Mixer at THE OLD PORTLAND WINE BAR in Portland from 4pm to 7pm on October 23, 2024!</p><p> </p><p>DISCLAIMER: The following represents the views of JESSE VALENCIA on behalf of GORKY RECORDS, FILM, and PUBLISHING and does not reflect the views of MusicPortland or of the Jamie Dunphy for District One campaign. <br><br>***<br><br>Hi friends! Lot to update around here, but for the past year I have been knee-deep in Portland politics…namely music politics. I moved here a little over one year ago, and my friend Zia McCabe of the Dandy Warhols invited me to a music policy forum a couple months later. The rest, as they say, is history…or soon will be! <br><br>I have been particularly involved with MusicPortland as a guest volunteer member of MusicPortland's Music Policy Council, which then led to me being hired by MPC's chair Jamie Dunphy as his campaign for East Portland's District 1 ramped up. Jamie has been leading the fight against Live Nation, and there is a whole bunch of that to read up on, but in the interests of time, with two weeks before the election, let's get to the brass tax of this voter's guide. <br><br>MusicPortland does not endorse candidates, but voters still deserve a strong metric to go by when it comes to music policy. I have had a front row seat to this issue every day for the past year, and being a working musician and small business owner myself, I feel it is my responsibility as such to communicate my own informed observations to Portland's music community, for whom music policy is at the very center, so that they too can make informed decisions with their votes.  <br><br>For this guide, I used a very specific calculus. The ones who made it met some combination of the following criteria:<br><br>1. They co-signed a letter disagreeing with Prosper Portland's decision to change Live Nation's land lease to an outright land sale to the developers, <br>2. They testified at City Hall against the Live Nation venue in MusicPortland's land use hearing.  <br>3. They answered MusicPortland's City Council Candidate Questionnaire in a manner that shows they are aware of the needs of Portland's music sector. <br>4. They've taken an extra step beyond the above three things doing their part to put music policy front and center in this election. Whether that's giving a public speech, attending an important event (such as MusicPortland's controversial Sep. 3 townhall at Lollipop Shoppe), or championing music policy in their own platforms. </p><p>These were the only criteria I used. Once again, I want to reiterate that this voter's guide does not represent the views of MusicPortland or of the Jamie Dunphy campaign, and is intended to inform Portland's music community as to who are the most engaged candidates in music policy this election cycle. <br><br>That being said, if you'd like to support me and my work fighting for Portland music policy, please consider buying a LIVE NATION SUCKS Gorky T-Shirt today at GORKSTORE.com!  <br><br>Thanks and happy voting! 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  <div class="message"><p>Music is healing. </p><p>Since Ben's passing, I'm not going to lie… it's been rough. The roughest, even. </p><p>But there's also a bright light at the end of this tunnel, and that's the fact that even though he's gone, we have all of this music we made together to celebrate, and even more music we haven't shared with the world yet to explore. </p><p>So, as I move forward through my grief, I have been going through all of the Gorky archives and finding treasures. </p><p>I believe it is also important to share the stories behind these songs, or at least what I can remember. Going through it chronologically is going to be impossible, so I am going to try and go through the songs as alphabetically as possible. Recorded, unrecorded, released, unreleased…all of it. </p><p>Eventually, I will rebuild the band. There are some plans now, but nothing set it stone. </p><p>In the meantime, let's get rolling with Gorky A to Z! </p><p>First in the queue… “About The Good Times”! Here's a picture of us and a couple of fans outside of the old Rumor's bar in Show Low, AZ where we played a few times. I feel this picture captures the attitude of the song. </p><p><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/s:bzglfiles/u/322962/8bb6392f40374e5e1166e6567bd085adf6517558/original/ed080c86-eb58-4297-8b78-450bb9c476f8-1-105-c.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_xl justify_center border_" /></p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tZBjQIWMKLM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tZBjQIWMKLM?rel=0&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p dir="ltr"><strong>THE LYRICS</strong><br><br><strong>ABOUT THE GOOD TIMES (Valencia/Aldridge/Holladay)</strong></p><p dir="ltr"><i>This song's about the good times, buddy</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>So grab a seat and hug somebody</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>I'm headed to the fridge and I'm grabbin' a brew</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>I'll grab one for me and I'll grab one for you, too</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>Everybody's here having such a good time</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>It's the party of the year and the party of your life</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>The radio's playing and it's much too loud </i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>The radio's playing and it's singing to me now </i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>And it's singin' woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh </i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>Woah-oh, woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh</i></p><p dir="ltr"> </p><p dir="ltr"><i>This song's about the good times with old friends</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>“Hey, man. What's up?” and “how have-a you been?”</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>She takes her drag and passes to the left</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>The smoke is so thick, I can smell it on her breath</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>And it looks so fine I can nearly taste it</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>She won't know ‘cause she so fuckin’ wasted</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>Never had a chance but I've got a chance now</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>Everybody's dancing and they're singing to me now </i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>And they're singin' woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>Woah-oh, woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh</i></p><p dir="ltr"> </p><p dir="ltr"><i>Everybody clap your hands with me now</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>‘Cause we’re singin' woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh… </i></p><p> </p><p dir="ltr"><strong>THE STORY</strong><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">This song was very much a party song. It came about because Gregg couldn’t get the notes to “Waiting For Your Love (Hey Now)” right and started jamming the bassline to this instead, and we started playing around it. Boom. Instant song once the “Woah-oh’s” came in, and a lot of songs were written like that in the early days, us just jamming around. To us, back then, it was always about ‘the good times’...hanging out, drinking with your friends and blasting music as loud as you can. Being stuck in Show Low, there wasn’t much else to do. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color:#ffffff;">The second verse could be easily seen as problematic these days, but it wasn’t meant that way when I wrote it. When I was in high school and my early twenties, it was the mid-2000’s, and as can be seen in many of the movies I grew up with from the 80’s and 90’s, there was a lot of what we now call “toxic masculinity” and “rape culture” that was the butt of many jokes we now find tasteless. That kind of crude, crass, shock culture was heavily prevalent with my generation, and so the second verse came out of that same spirit: “Ooh! Score! She won’t realize she’s coming onto me because she’s faded! Now, at last, is my chance…” much like the virgin who scores with the drunk girl trope in those cringey teen movies so celebrated by Gen X. </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">With no one around to tell you how to practice safe, responsible sex, particularly in rural America where abstinence-based sex ed is the norm, our response was to get drunk and high and hook up when we were drunk and high with whoever would take us. </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Still, when I play this live now, I change the lyric to “I won't know ‘cause I’m so fuckin' wasted" just to make it less cringe-y. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Whatever the case, the song was a set-closer around this time, 2005-2008, and at its core is a celebratory song praising debauchery itself. Whenever I hear it, I remember those old parties and late nights partying in little mountain towns. There’s a guitar solo that was supposed to go in the blank space where one was supposed to be, but we ran out of money before we could record it  -  Jesse </span></p></div>
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<p style="text-align: center;">The Strokes<br> </p>
<p>Watching "Meet Me In The Bathroom" was like looking through a window into my high school years. </p>
<p>I've never been to NYC. Always wanted to, but of course money, life, and bad decisions kept me from going. What would it have been like to be twenty-something, playing in an up-and-coming rock and roll band in Brooklyn or Williamsburg at any time from 1999-2002?</p>
<p>For myself, and a million other kids at the turn of the century, it was a pipe dream. NYC was a far-off distant utopia, a city that never sleeps, bustling with artists, musicians, poets, hipsters...the centerpiece of America's rock and roll mythos. When you're a 16-year old dreamer, in a small town in the middle of nowhere, the kinds of people you read about in magazines who lived and breathed New York, and most importantly created there, were like demigods. In many ways, they still are, twenty years later. </p>
<p>When I first heard the Strokes, it was the music video for 'Last Nite' and a bomb went off in my head. I was a teenager just learning guitar, barely learning how to string together a tune, and here were five guys in their twenties, embodying exactly what I wanted to become and do with my life, up there doing it for real on TV. The guitar solo to 'Last Nite' was the first guitar solo I ever learned on my cheap Squire Strat. </p>
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<p>Suddenly, I was saved from all of the contemporary music my schoolmates liked that I loathed. I couldn't get into pop punk, emo, metal, adult alternative, grunge, post-grunge...and being bombarded with those bands on American radio and MTV was excruciatingly mind-numbing. None of it was cool to me. It was all hokey, goofball shit. I didn't want the American small-town high school experience. I wanted to smoke cigarettes in 70s and 80s clothes I bought from the thrift store and talk about the Beat poets on Manhattan rooftops. I still do. </p>
<p>The Strokes gave me a window into a world where I could do that, or at least replicate it. I did my damndest, and of course that led to me starting my band, Gorky. The reason why Gorky is 'Gorky' and not 'The Gork' or 'The Gorks' or something is because, inspired by the Strokes, I wanted to do my own thing, and everyone at that time who was cool was a 'The' band ripping off the Strokes. The press even called them '"the" bands' like having the word "the" at the beginning of your band name was a fad.   </p>
<p>The Strokes' music video for "Bad Decisions" is funny for that reason, because it pokes fun at the many, many bands over the past twenty years who've tried to emanate the same vibe and aesthetic the Strokes did when they first came out. "Strokes Clones," for lack of a better term. I'm guilty of copying the Strokes myself. In some ways, my favorite songs of Gorky's are just Strokes songs they never wrote.</p>
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<p>So, watching "Meet Me In The Bathroom," seeing the Strokes being the Strokes in NYC at the turn of the century, seeing the actual footage of everything I was daydreaming about them doing when I read about it in <em>Rolling Stone</em> or the <em>NME </em>meant looking lovingly into my own past, and it is incredibly validating with regards to what my 16-year old self was trying to do.   </p>
<p>The Yeah Yeah Yeahs were the flip-side of the Strokes. The only people who knew who Karen O was in my town were all in my band, and she was a towering goddess to us. Her voice was so powerful, so sexy, that listening to that first record of theirs, <em>Fever To Tell</em>, was like having an inner pornographic experience. Mind-blowing to a 16 year old small town kid, but as a man in his thirties watching this documentary I was disturbed by how the press objectified and sexualized her. When I was in high school, I wanted her to beat me up. Now, I want to beat up all the people who did that shit to her. Life is weird.</p>
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<p>I never got into Interpol quite as much as I guess I could have, but watching them have similar struggles to Gorky was also validating. In one scene, they were booked at a rap metal festival, which of course they hated. In my mind, I thought "yep, been there!" because in the 2000's we'd get booked with the same kinds of bands, so we really struggled to find our audience. We'd be there playing music like the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to people who had no frame of reference to our scene, so we'd get compared to bands like Three Doors Down or Smash Mouth (gross). It is a terrible feeling to go out on stage and then come off of it feeling misunderstood and misrepresented. </p>
<p>LCD Soundsystem was never on my radar either, but it was refreshing to see James Murphy, a guy who was then my age now, being in and of the scene making something new, which is what real artists always strive to do. You can't stop. You gotta keep doing it, and not even because you may or may not make it, but because it still means something whether or not you do. </p>
<p>This kind of music and scene is referred to affectionately as "Indie Sleaze" now, which is both great and accurate. The coolest part about it for me, looking back on its evolution, is the realization that I was on my own wave, doing my own thing artistically with Gorky very much by the time the 2010's came around.</p>
<p>We formed at the same time as The 1975 and the Arctic Monkeys, who also thrived on the high that these NYC bands had made. I couldn't connect to Vampire Weekend, the Vaccines, or other bands that came out after we started rolling with our songs because we had what they were doing already. Did people notice? No, of course not, because Gorky are from rural Arizona and Vampire Weekend are from NYC.</p>
<p>And does that matter? Also no, because we got to be that NYC band to the kids here in our small town anyway, and we've been able to make our own path of success without piggybacking on anyone's scene or style. If we couldn't do it there, if we couldn't be there, we had to do it here. We just had to. So that's what we did. Us, and our small group of hipster friends. Instead of smoking and joking on Manhattan rooftops, we did it in the woods and at each other's houses. Instead of playing CBGB's or the Bowery, we played the local gyms and dive bars. I imagine it is the same situation for a thousand other bands in a thousand other small towns.  </p>
<p>Like I said before: it's validating, and for myself, as both a viewer, a fan, and as an artist, that's what makes "Meet Me In The Bathroom" so special. </p>
<p>Thank you, Dylan and Will, for making this <a contents="documentary" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.meetmeinthebathroomfilm.com/">documentary</a>.     </p>
<p>Thank you, Lizzy, for writing your <a contents="book" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Me-Bathroom-Rebirth-2001-2011-ebook/dp/B00NLLVAY0/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=meet+me+in+the+bathroom&amp;qid=1671255968&amp;sr=8-1">book</a>. </p>
<p>And above all, thank you, Julian and Karen, for giving me a window out of my world so that I could daydream a way into yours.</p>
<p>Maybe one day I'll make it to NYC. </p>
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<p>-JMGV,<br>20 years later, looking back at the silly cool kids we used to be, and still are...</p></div>
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  <a href="/gorkblog/blog/7091624/ufo-s-steven-seagal-screenwriting-new-music-and-my-new-book-about-prince">UFO&#39;s, Steven Seagal, Screenwriting, New Music, And My New Book About Prince </a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/322962/edca330acea95d68fc71ee42f7cfd02b3a831aa6/original/fbomposter.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br>Hello, friends!<br><br>I definitely haven't been writing in here as much as I should have, because I've got a lot to share, but better late than never, as they say. <br><br>The brief version goes something like this: this year has once again been full of high notes. I've done more acting and released more music than in 2020 and 2021 combined. I've doctored some screenplays, written a couple more features, and continue to work towards my ultimate goal of becoming a filmmaker. <br><br>Are things where they should be? No, of course not, but them's the breaks when it comes to being a working-class artist. You keep pushing. You keep going. <br><br>The bad news is I had to drop a couple of projects on account of the people I was working with, because they were narcissists full of negativity. A bit of advice to other artists, whatever your medium: be careful and wary of anyone who wants to work with you, because if you're good at what you do and they know it, they're going to try and use you. I mean "use you" in the sense that they lack what you have, and they have to trick you into thinking you're working together, but really what you're doing is supplementing someone else's unhealthy fantasy of wealth and fame. If you're doing anything creative with the goal of wealth and fame in mind, you're not trying to be creative. You're trying to get rich and famous. And if that's what your goal is, then great, but not everyone is in the arts for that. I'd even go so far as to say most aren't, and for good reasons. There are, after all, other types of success. <br><br>Now onto more happy bloggy things...<br><br>If any of you are screenwriters, I highly suggest getting a <a contents="Coverfly" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.coverfly.com/">Coverfly</a> account. Earlier in the year, I used their free notes program to land a few script doctoring jobs, and the experience has frankly been priceless. They even featured me on their social media, which was pretty cool: <br><br><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/322962/70786d40194564527e1ecf7a12aae2f905e4726e/original/coverfly2.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/322962/5a8dda49de837dec48bbc13997f6ddc3ff790c07/original/jesse-valencia-coverfly.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br><br>Earlier in the spring, I recounted my experience seeing the Phoenix Lights back in 1997 to Benjamin Leatherman for the Phoenix New Times... <a contents="READ UP ON THAT HERE&amp;nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/the-phoenix-lights-ufo-sightings-in-1997-an-oral-history-25th-anniversary-13176244">READ UP ON THAT HERE </a><br><br>Then, I kid you not, mere weeks later me and a friend were going for a joyride and a UFO hovered right over us.<br><br>We had just pulled onto Snowflake, AZ's Main Street, when we saw these lights coming right at us from the left side of the road. It looked like a plane was about to crash into us. It was so close I flinched, but then whatever craft these lights belonged to slowed way down, then turned and hovered right over us, right over the street. It was so close to the street, I thought it was going to hit the street lights. It looked like it was vibrating, but it made very little sound, and I could see that it was in a triangle shape. <br><br>I told the story to my buddy <a contents="Doc Skinner" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.tiktok.com/discover/1028-Live-with-Doc-Skinner">Doc Skinner</a>, who is an expert on all things UFO. He then introduced me to filmmakers and producers <a contents="Blake and Brent Cousins" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/c/thirdphaseofmoon">Blake and Brent Cousins</a>, who asked me to recount the story, which I did here, on their Third Phase of the Moon Channel:<br><br><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FXMNA2LI51I" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>  <br><br>I had such a great time with them that we started brainstorming, and the result of that brainstorm was for them to direct the music video for "Be In The Now", which we did in July: </p>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P0SMk98TVrg" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br><br>And then the video won an award at this years <a contents="Show Low Film Festival" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.showlowfilmfestival.com/">Show Low Film Festival</a>! <br><br><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/322962/84c1eed40e63a9c3554160b2a116cc5f9df64dc9/original/jesse-award-2022.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br>Equally groovy to this was that I also got to act in Ryan David Orr's music video for his new jam "Mr. Anderson", which you can see here (and also won an award):<br> </p>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tN6oowk3bCU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br><br>Then, my friend and fellow filmmaker Garrett Moldrem, who also appeared with me in Ryan's video, later directed me in a funny short film where I got to spoof Steven Seagal, which you can see here:<br> </p>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_H7mLO7VSSY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br><br>As it turns out, the clip became a smash hit with YouTuber Space Ice, who reviewed it on his channel:<br> </p>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yyCF16vPYP0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br><br>Besides acting, aliens, and the like, I also released not one, but TWO albums this month. Since they're both my first solo albums, I guess you could call them both my debut albums. <br><br>The first one, "The First Band On Mars," was meant to be a Gorky album, written and recorded while we were making "Mathemagician," but there being no band, I'd been sitting on it for a while and decided after meeting and hanging with the Cousins Brothers that it was time to introduce it to the world. <br><br>Chris Coplan of Phoenix New Times then graciously interviewed me to help promote the record, which you can <a contents="READ ABOUT HERE&amp;nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/jesse-valencia-joins-the-space-race-with-the-first-band-on-mars-14301421">READ ABOUT HERE </a><br> </p>
<p><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="380" loading="lazy" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/391EN8g88XfxIotXIZ2uIX?utm_source=generator" style="border-radius:12px" width="100%"></iframe><br><br>My good friend Michael Mahoney also took some awesome photos to promote the record, featuring a spacesuit designed and built by my good friend Chase Dahlberg, and an awesome model spaceship by Gorky drummer Ben Holladay's brother Vaughn Holladay: <br><br><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/322962/8054fcae795151efcf710b88c7b57f8003e9b297/original/img-5019-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/322962/8874d3fb7c71c5e37cfdcfc2ad3eafbcb185df8b/original/img-5013.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/322962/af4dfa883a65525b4a1737183fa41f224f4cbc91/original/2b4a4bb5-07b7-4ccd-b9e5-2320b54229e1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/322962/8b4f8e70aaea947073af10daf82ff12ee4463638/original/img-4994.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/322962/4412f812a2a412ab9755a03fb8b9fb729631595c/original/img-4998.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br><br>And then, most recently, I released my album "MPLS '83 DREAM" to announce my next book, about the superstar musician, actor, and filmmaker PRINCE! On the 40th anniversary of the release his groundbreaking album "1999" no less, October 27. <br><br>The book's working title is "The Dreams Xperience - The Musical Cinema of Prince" and will be the follow-up to my 2019 debut nonfiction book "<a contents="Keep Music Evil: The Brian Jonestown Massacre Story" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Music-Evil-Jonestown-Massacre/dp/1911036475">Keep Music Evil: The Brian Jonestown Massacre Story</a>." In it, I interview my friends Al Magnoli, Jerome Benton, and more. <br><br>There is no publisher as of yet, but I am working on querying agents and indie publishers in hopes it will land a home in the near future. <br><br>Until then, you can enter the Dreams Xperience by listening to the record: <br> </p>
<p><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="380" loading="lazy" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/5a0m0EcWCQ8fGPuTVYmpyP?utm_source=generator" style="border-radius:12px" width="100%"></iframe><br><br>I think that's all for now! Like I said, I'll try to be better about posting updates in the future, as they happen rather than dumping everything at once.<br><br>Thank you so much for reading, watching, and listening, and please remember to <a contents="FOLLOW ME ON MY SOCIALS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://linktr.ee/gorkyrecords?fbclid=IwAR03iTaFu-LZFq2FRi9U23exAoezi3MuNrJboEbZnpf3pbguv-Fcig9CoHc">FOLLOW ME ON MY SOCIALS</a>! </p></div>
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<p>I'm sure a lot of my friends out there in bands agree. When you've been performing in bands for most of your life, which I certainly have, it simply doesn't feel right not to play for a couple of years. Now that we're getting it back, I hope we keep the momentum going. <br><br>I love the White Mountain music scene, and looking around and seeing people succeed at their bands is so fulfilling to me. I want to encourage everyone to do more, and to push, and to keep it going. There's a beautiful thing happening here and I am excited to see it grow. <br><br>A big thank you to Phil The Band and Negative Thirty-Two for including me in this. We have much, much more to do together guys! It was also good to see Christian Tyler cox get out there and sing some tunes, and see his wife Lindsay sing some as well. </p>
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  <div class="message"><p><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/322962/16b001a32ac23fa7b15cae8bbd32f383f8623558/original/243116778-10224835428766091-7907530702410031626-n.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/322962/783c09c94173f88ff84b424735db9aecdd1d4b42/original/kme-cover-audible.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/322962/5b5eadba20475a2968f66e17cafbe18dcd76df5c/original/jesse-winner-2021.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br>Well, it's been a pretty eventful month! <br><br>First off, I was invited to appear with actor Rainn Wilson and scholar Reza Aslan on their podcast "Metaphysical Milkshake" which was great! You can check out the episode <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5n1WX-TqJg&amp;t=2996s">HERE</a>! On the podcast, we dived pretty deep into the big question of what came first...consciousness or matter?<br><br>Next month, which is November, my Audiobook for <a contents="Keep Music Evil: The Brian Jonestown Massacre Story" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Music-Evil-Jonestown-Massacre-ebook/dp/B07NS58V1Z">Keep Music Evil: The Brian Jonestown Massacre Story</a> is FINALLY coming out! The biggest challenge? Actually recording it. The second biggest challenge? Getting the cover past censors, which is weird considering that no one seems to have a problem with the actual book cover, yet I have to bleep out Anton's middle finger on the audiobook. Oh well. The world we live in. </p>
<p>"Metaphysical Milkshake" wasn't the only Podcast I appeared on this month...I also appear on my friend Shawn Maus's podcast Art In Your Heart! To check that out, click <a contents="HERE!&amp;nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1658026/9425099?fbclid=IwAR16_ST-7jsWKZAXPwCcpPW1qV8tQMqqxpmso5lkI7md8oxRyU0w9BblfKU">HERE! </a> Shawn is a good friend whom I worked with at the David Lynch School. From his site: <em>"Art In Your Heart" is a podcast for those who have been told their dream/career in entertainment isn’t realistic and for those who need hope to continue to follow their arts dream during these tough times. Your host, Shawn Maus, is a screenwriter, storyteller, marketer -- and former stand-up comedian! Let's talk about the Art in Your Heart!</em></p>
<p>Last but not least, I won a 'Top Ten Best of the Fest' award for my screenplay "Nicholas Kringle" at this year's <a contents="Show Low Film Festival&amp;nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.showlowfilmfestival.com/">Show Low Film Festival </a> which is held every year at my place of employment, WME Theatres. I feel very honored! Screenwriting is one of my many endeavors. I've got two finished projects at the moment: "In The Land Of Good Oaks" and "Nicholas Kringle." If you want to find out more about those projects, please click on the 'Screenwriting' tab. </p>
<p>Other than that, I have been posting more regularly on TikTok and YouTube doing some acoustic performances. I hope you dig those! I will likely post new songs as I write them, and maybe play some older Gorky tunes as well, just stripped-down acoustic versions. </p>
<p>It has been a great month, to say the least. Hopefully there will be more to report next month! </p>
<p>In the meantime, remember to <a contents="follow GORKY on Spotify" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/4bTfwYUJPTpdqVopzpg8UR">follow GORKY on Spotify</a> and please consider <a contents="making a purchase at our Bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://gorkyrecords.bandcamp.com/">making a purchase at our Bandcamp</a>. </p>
<p>Thanks so much for your continued support and I will see you on the flip side! </p>
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