B-Sides
The homepage is the A-side: the work. Flip the tape and you get everything else: a band, a laser squad, and one very long run down Farnam Street.
Go Motion
2006–2011An Omaha three-piece making dance rock when the city's indie scene was loud. Two albums, Kill The Love and Get In Control, plus nights at Sokol Underground, The Waiting Room, and Slowdown. Spin.com noticed, and the band charted on CMJ without a label.
[Your part in it: member, early lineup, filming, road crew? One or two lines in your own words.]
Above: CD release show, Sokol Underground, 2006.
From the vault
- The Waiting Room
- “Different In Time” · Convergence, OKC · 2007
- “Somewhere, Nowhere” · Sokol
- “Moonlight” & “Night In The Sea” · Sokol
Lazers Everywhere: Wal-mart
[year]The Lazer Squad blasts onto the scene for the first time, in a Wal-mart.
[Behind the scenes: who made it, whose idea it was, and the moment you realized people were actually watching.]
Eight Hours on Farnam
March 2020One Saturday I ran up and down Farnam Street for eight hours straight, about 40 miles, to raise money for pancreatic cancer research with Project Purple. Friends and complete strangers took turns running alongside, and shops along the street sold purple pretzels.
What kept me going was a conversation from earlier that day with a man whose wife of 57 years had died of cancer.
“I won't be thinking about my legs.”
Liner notes, as a logic program
% everything above, in clingo lives_in(luke, omaha). side(a, work). side(b, everything_else). track(b, go_motion). track(b, lazers). track(b, farnam_run). % a track is worth keeping if it was fun keep(T) :- track(b, T), fun(T). fun(T) :- track(b, T). % they all were
Answer: keep(go_motion) keep(lazers) keep(farnam_run). SATISFIABLE.