Honeybee at the Bemis from Lindsay Trapnell on Vimeo.

I joined a small writing group a little while back. It has been a great experience thus far. It is a great group of people and it’s nice to have a forum to share work and ideas. And now one of those ideas is coming to fruition. We are starting a small, independent press called Moxie Paper Press (click to go to our website) and we have a blog titled Fistful of Paper. A big shout out to the wonderful, hardworking Cody Peterson who designed our website, blog and logos. Thank you!

And for those of you in the Omaha area, we are gearing up to host our first event titled Monster Holiday on December 13 at the Bancroft Gallery at 10th and Bancroft. Honeybee and Talking Mountain will play and there will be readings by the members of our group/press: Annie Dilocker, Christin Goetz, Drew Hanson, Katie Wudel and myself.

Just wanted to get the word out. More stuff to come from Moxie Paper Press!

p.s. I’ve added a permanent link to the Moxie site on the left.

glimpse

Above is a link to photos taken at the shoot for a music video I’m directing for Honeybee’s song Glimpse. The kids were pretty adorable. I just added some that were taken with my Lomo (they’re at the beginning of the album). Thanks to the various photographers!

Some photos I took while Honeybee was recording are up at the Slumber Party Records Flickr site if you want to check them out.

*the link should now correctly take you to the Flickr site – sorry!

I saw a bunch of great local bands this weekend. On Friday, Thunder Power (now sans exclamation points) had their CD release show at Slowdown with Honeybee, These United States, and Midwest Dilemma. It was the first time I’ve seen Midwest Dilemma and they sounded really good and full (they should sound full with that many members) and I’m always excited to see Honeybee live. Thunder Power sounded great too and the EP Love Yourself looks and sounds awesome.

On Saturday there was a benefit show at The Waiting Room for the Peace Center, which amongst other support, offers free counseling for soldiers with PTSD. Bands that played included: Bear Country, Simon Joyner, Bill Hoover, McCarthy Trenching, Outlaw Con Bandana, Orenda Fink and Baby Walrus (pictured above).

It was the first time I’ve seen Outlaw Con Bandana, and they were really, really good. I’ve heard good things about them, and they did not disappoint. I haven’t seen Baby Walrus in what feels like forever, and it was way too long, because this band is SO good. They played a few new songs which were really promising and is a sign of more good music to come from them, and the old stuff reminded me how good their album was. I guess I’ll have to take Lykke Li out of my CD player. It was bound to happen some time.

This week’s “Meeting the Band” for City Weekly was Honeybee. Honeybee is a group of great people making great music. My friend Will wrote the article, and I took the photos. The scanning didn’t work out so well; the quality isn’t so great and the first page didn’t fit on the scanner. To read the whole interview in a possibly easier format, you can go here: Honeybee article.

Honeybee, from Omaha, Nebraska.

Talkin(g) Mountain, from Omaha, Nebraska.

The Lisps, from Brooklyn, New York.

I’m leaving for Park City, Utah tomorrow. I’m super excited. I hope I can remember how to snowboard. I know I’ll remember how to Rock Band (yes, it’s now a verb). I’ll take some photos and maybe post some here, if you’re lucky.

I’m in between classes right now, so I have a week break. It feels necessary…although I’m actually really excited about the upcoming class called The Art of Film. That should be a lot of fun to teach.

Also, last night I saw Thunder Power!!! and Honeybee at The Waiting Room. Both bands were great. It was the first time I’ve seen Honeybee live, and I was really into it. They’re catchy and have some interesting instrumentation (say that five times fast). I can’t wait until they have music on a physical CD.

Also coming up next week: Mamma Mia, the online premiere of the Thunder Power!!! video I directed, Tilly and the Wall at The Waiting Room and much, much more.