<![CDATA[ELECTRONIC COTTAGE - Crank Sturgeon]]>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:36:41 -0500Weebly<![CDATA[voices from the inner whom]]>Mon, 08 Apr 2019 05:42:42 GMThttps://www.electroniccottage.org/crank-sturgeon/voices-from-the-inner-whomHello hello! 

It has been a while since I tapped words or shared goodies hereabouts. Apologies for the absence: time seems to have gotten away from me while getting my bearings following our transcontinental move last summer... not that it's been bewildering so as to stifle creative juices; the juices simply flow differently when one no longer lives and produces in relation to landscape, seasonal & temperature change, and so forth. Yup, SoCal kinda scrambles things when one is used to living in New England. And so, I've hatched a few new ears while adjusting to the beguiling lack of snow this winter. One particular outlet has been my new podcast, A Buford Whoso. It's still in the primordial-goo / loosey-goose format... freeform collage and sonic snippets caught here and there, plopped into the centrifuge, spun backwards a few times, and, voila! Have a listen.
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​Being out in here in these dusty lands has also reawakened my love for smushing annoying soundtracks on top of idiotic cinematic actions (or lack thereof). Results: here's a shorty, to be released later this year on VHS (which will be a shared split with Spreaders). In keeping with the spirit of the medium, I filmed with an ancient Quasar brand pre-camcorder-video camera for majority of the shots - that, or used it to rescan iPhone off the TV set to give it that grimy pixel-glorp. The entire process had me grinning like a cheeky twenty year old art student again. I love that these seemingly outdated technologies can still nudge their way into our digital boxes. Heh. Anyway...
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Lastly, Alien Buddha Press is going to be publishing a book coming featuring collaborations with my pal, Marcel Herms. We're wrapping up the manuscript right now... hopefully we'll be able to share some links once the ink dries! Here's a peek.

Until then...
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]]><![CDATA["don't forget to include the note"]]>Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:28:53 GMThttps://www.electroniccottage.org/crank-sturgeon/dont-forget-to-include-the-note1. I promise a friend that I’d snail mail some of my new stuff. While they live about 40 miles away, we’re on opposites ends of a very large city. I figure that the postal carrier will know how to get it there more quickly.
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2. Of course, I have to wrap the hell out of it. I’d hate for the cd to get damaged.
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3. Then I realize I forgot to include this tape!
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4. So, that gets wrapped up
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5. and affixed to the package containing the cd.
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6. There!
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7. Well, almost.
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8. Then there’s this nice brown paper…
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9. gotta tape that up, too.
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10. And it’d be really bad if I didn’t include another note
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11. which at this point, seems to have an un-apologetic vibe.
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12. And then I remember this OTHER tape… can’t let that one slide by.
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13. Add it to the pile, secure it with cardboard
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14. and more packing tape, but this time with the sticky side out
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15. so that I can drape it in some nice, plush toilet paper
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16. and swaddle it
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17. with even more reading material, pages from Vanity Fair, I think (?)
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18. and a red balloon …
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19. an old block print,
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20. this festive woodcut of a cabin,
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21. and a xerox originally intended for a tape release from some years ago.
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22. Next, wind it up with some freshy, minty dental floss
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23. and don’t forget the note… jeez.
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24. I have to wrap the crap out of that, too — hate for the note to get lost.
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25. But will it fit into a standard 8.5 by 11 envelope?
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26. Oh, you bet!
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