:: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ::

No one took my offer to shovel their driveways for airplay - I guess 'cause it's still summer....Payola alive and well.....

:: from Bullette at 6:57 AM

I don't own an iPod or portable MP3 player and supposedly "Eighty-seven percent are unfamiliar with podcasting, which lets everyday users distribute audio files over the Internet for playback any time on computers or digital music players." -- BUT FYI -- "Your Eyes Have It" was featured in Podsafeaudio.com's Till Death Do Us Pod yesterday.

:: from Bullette at 6:55 AM

Brother Danielson - Woven Hand - July 15, 2005
Philadelphia Ethical Society, Philadelphia, PA

New Photos - This was a great show - BD hawked items like blinders so you wouldn't stray and check out unwanted purchases and directed sing alongs, clap alongs, and snap alongs. DEE of Woven Hand raised the hairs on many a neck with dirges and verses and a vengeful faith.

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"I Can't Tell You Why I'm Smiling" has been downloaded 4,881 times from my site!

:: from Bullette at 6:39 AM

Won't some Prefix staff member save BULLETTE's cd from the pile of 1,738 CDs available for review at the publisher's apartment? Original artwork put together with my own two hands! Maybe even a few fingerprints or stray strands of hair trapped between the layers.

:: from Bullette at 9:41 AM

Delusions of Adequacy doesn't seem to think I'm lazy...

"...it's clear that Monika Bullette is an inspired purveyor of psychedelic pop, despite the odd fact that her lengthy list of influences is decidedly light on the psych side. No matter, her seemingly voracious appetite for music and art (not to mention her decade-long persistence in the Delaware scene) makes one feel guilty for all that time spent just sitting around the house. And whatever artists she draws from come out sounding like the work of an individual.

But it's still the unpredictable psychedelia of guys like Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean from 60s heroes Love that Secrets initially recalls, albeit a slightly more whimsical variety. Monika and cohort Hangnail Phillips (who helped pen the excellent “Don't Start Believin'”) aren't afraid to kick up some noise either, lacing many of these tracks with scabrous guitars, screeching violins, and a variety of odd sounds. Deeper into Secrets strange lullabies like “Uneasy” and the dreamlike “We Are Not From Sugar” tap different veins of expression. No, not every track here is a winner - could do without the P.J. Harvey sludge of “Lemonade” - but they are all driven foremost by a sense of exploration and experimentation." - full review - Thanks Chuck!

:: from Bullette at 6:01 AM

I'm lazy! - no post yet today but thankfully Mystical Beast and Largehearted Boy are spreading rumors of my disinclinations.

:: from Bullette at 6:17 AM

Live on Scott Birney's 91.3 WVUD with Hangnail Phillips - Cole Porter/Marlene Dietrich song from the Hitchcock film "Stage Fright" - featured in today's Coverville

:: from Bullette at 6:50 AM

Bullette is featured in Philly Feed #10 - The Philadelphia Daily News' podcast - nice intro and a showing of I Can't Tell You Why I'm Smiling. Right after the Comics and the Sports.

"This week, the DN pod people talk with comic book expert and DN freelancer Jerome Maida about why it seems more and more comics are showing up as movies. On the Sports Spotlight, Josh Barnett sorts out the Phillies prospects for the rest of the season, and we also feature new music from local musician Monika Bullette." Thanks Frank!

:: from Bullette at 6:24 AM

My hopes and thoughts go out to London.

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I have written about Wayne White before but here are some more of his paintings.

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"literary brilliance and musical atrociousness"
And if there isn't anything more affirming than a good review it is a spectacular "bad" review! ---

[Self] - from pied-a-terre:


We know what love can do without
It grows upon a glance alone
A tired wink, a lean into
An ancient tale that's ever new

The second time is sweeter still
We know what's there and it can tear
As easily as once before
Dead hopes renewed to mock us more

Bullette - From What Love Can Do Without

What beautiful lyrics, duncha think? You can actually download the entire album FOR FREE over here. They are the latest 'it' band in the MP3 Blogosphere, with a whole myriad of them falling over themselves singing the band's praises.

As for me, I actually hated the album, panning it for an upcoming Think review. So, the lyrics may be poetic and great, but the music is jarringly bad, borderline atonal even. The Secrets seems to be an album filled with spoken word performances that juxtapose and combines literary brilliance and musical atrociousness to send some kind of maddening pretentious bi-polar statement that I can't quite discern.

Please download it and be the judge then.

:: from Bullette at 11:48 AM

On May 5th 2005 Bullette's "The Secrets" was released FOR FREE on the Internets. 2 months later and the full album zip has almost 2,000 downloads!

Thanks for your continued support - A new song from the WVUD radio performance will be available very soon.

:: from Bullette at 6:17 AM

SB says "Watch Your Fingers!".

:: from Bullette at 6:06 AM

"Show Me" and "Your Eyes Have It" were played on WEVL "Music Lovers" show - Memphis, TN on June 23rd and June 9th respectively. Thanks Hayden!

Did I mention that Hangnail Phillips' album is now available for free download?

:: from Bullette at 6:27 AM