XII. In No Particular Order

1. My computer is dead. I'm at the mercy of the machines that belong to my friends. For now.

2. The UK was a dangerously good time. I need to keep going back there.

3. Black Pig Suite entered the final mixing stages yesterday. It's totally sex. I hope it will be good for you, too.

4. Black Pig Suite EP Release Party will occur in Los Angeles in July. Information will arrive soon.

5. Working on shitloads of art. I need blood.

6. I've met someone who rattles the black pig's cage. God love him. I know I do!

7. San Francisco in August. New York in September. Paris in November. Information will arrive soon.

8. Killsonic is keeping me busy, too. New piece for Killsonic very, very soon.

9. I just picked my nose. Instead of putting my booger on Leah's comforter, I put it on my shirt.

10. Rattle Rattle is breathing mighty, yet calm.

11. The salvia experiment I did last year (2 years ago?) will be unleashed soon. Drugs. Drugs. DRUGS.

Love,

Dorian

XI. DWUK

Sunday, May 3, 10PM
Sounds From The Other City @ The Black Lion
65 Chapel Street, Salford
Manchester M3 5BZ
Presented by Terrorist, and also featuring: Legowelt Troubleshooter Digitonal English Electric Gordon Tinnitus Mark Jones DJs - Resident Terrorists KBeard, James Sizen Bell & Afi Khan

Tuesday, May 5, 9PM
Bar Wotever @ Central Station
37 Wharfdale Rd., King’s Cross
London

Wednesday, May 6, 8PM
Electroacoustic @ The Slaughtered Lamb
34-35 Great Sutton St
London, EC1V 0DX
With Show Without Punch and Mark Hole

Friday, May 8, 9PM
The Hare & Hounds
High Street, Kings Heath
Birmingham, B14 7JZ
With Dorian Wood (UK), Friends of the Stars and the Step Off DJs

X. Big Apples

Brought to you by El-Haru Kuroi, The Petrojvic Blasting Company, princessFrank, Leah Harmon, Erika Duchinsky (not pictured, sadly, but very much there!) and Æ. Love and blessings to Caleb, Ben, the Dusty Walker household, and all our new friends.



Love,

Dorian

IX. DWEHKNYC

I will be in NYC this week, with my friends El-Haru Kuroi. We will be performing day and night, night and day, in venues, parks, streets, alleys, subway stations, sidewalks and all manner of street corners, around, about, NYC. Joining us will be: Leah Harmon (accordion), princessFrank (percussion/guitar), Erika Duchinsky (percussion), The Petrojvic Blasting Company, Æ and others.

Sunday 4/12, 9:00 PM
Don Pedro
90 Manhattan Ave., Williamsburg

Tuesday 4/14, 9:00 PM
Barbes
376 9th St Brooklyn

Wednesday 4/15, 9:00PM
Trophy Bar
352 Broadway, Brooklyn

10:30PM
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn
(Dorian Wood solo)

If you're in the city, we would love to see you. :-)

Love always,

Dorian

VIII. Heathen Skin, Tremble In Silence

The first seed of "Rattle Rattle" was planted yesterday, March 28, 2009.

Sixteen of us gathered in the studio to record the "Black Pig Suite". So much love, goodness and bro-heat, thick enough to cut with Paul Bunyan's bloody axe. My dear friend, I wish you could have been there.

Mixing will occur within the next couple of weeks. Hopefully, all will be done before I leave for NYC. As I may have mentioned before (I can't remember a lot of anything), this Black Pig will serve as a "bocadillo"; a dark and juicy morsel of what is to come. The 4 songs that comprise the Black Pig will be recorded officially for the album later in the year. Yesterday's recording will be incorporated into a luvrly proposal package, which will (hopefully) attract a well-known producer, or that one label that does not believe in hoarding all creative control. Yesterday's Black Pig will not be released to the world. I apologize in advance, my friend.

After the 9-hour recording session, Leah and I came back home and ate a delicious fruit plate. Corwin came by and we all watched "The Holy Mountain". I was exhausted. I dozed off a couple of times (Corwin pointed out how quickly I slipped in and out of consciousness), and then I was alone.

Alone, yet truly grateful for these dark days.

Love,

Dorian

VII. Plastic Only

Last night, there were 10 other people in my living room. A delicious bouquet of percussion, voices, accordions and one bass trombone. We rehearsed the "Black Pig Suite" for the first time. Actually, we got through 2 of the 4 songs in the suite: "Echo Round My Heart" and "The Re-Creator" (the latter is bleeding into another title, I am certain). At next week's rehearsal, we get more horns and more voices. And guitar. And bass. Possibly musical saw. Charles, can you pleeeeeeease bring your saw to next practice? Totes thanks.

Going back to NYC in about 3 weeks. Shit. I need to book my flight. Need to get the info to princessFrank, who wants to fly with me. On a plane. Gotta design posters. Gotta practice accordion. I'm rusty in the bellows, and so is my accordion.

From what I've been hearing, there will be an army of us in NYC: The Blasting Company (3 members), El-Haru Kuroi (3 members), princessFrank, Angel Hernandez, and Eva & Aurelia from Æ. That's 11 of us. I suspect there will be more. And whatever sound we produce collectively will be my doe-eyed bride. We plan on doing venues and streets, a la Killsonic last October. Why fly out to another city, leaving behind job security, to work the streets?

Because, deep down inside, everyone wants to be a hooker.

VI. Fara-onu

I sang "Pale Blue Eyes" last night. It's a delicate torture device of a song. I'm afraid of letting go of the words as the song moves along. And I don't recall ever loving anyone with blue eyes.

To lay with those married to others?

Linger on.

On March 28, we record the "Black Pig Suite". Four songs from Rattle Rattle, with as many musicians as necessary to make this mountain peak to the moon. This will help with securing a strong future for Rattle Rattle. Two more L.A. shows before then. NYC shows in April. UK in May? This week, I will know for sure.

In a couple of hours, Killsonic invades the East Hollywood ArtCycle. At the rate the dryer is going, something tells me I'm gonna be in soggy black tonight.

Love,

Dorian