One of the heaviest loudest bands I’ve ever seen live. Like Hella and Transam and 80s action movie soundtracks. Very riff based and plodding. Music for driving a Mach truck into a volcano. Listen here.
Just as a bonus here are some kaleidoscopes based on the text at the bottom, which was very fun to draw. 
Here is a fun project you can do at home with kids: printing with fruit.
We painted with tempura and watercolor paints on to a piece of cut fruit, we used strawberries, bananas, oranges, star fruit, a lime and an onion. We found that limes and starfruits worked the best.
Makes cool wrapping paper
You can even make a landscape, as one enterprising young student did.
This band has a new Cellist! Julian Kosanovic, who also plays in Portland Cello Project! I played with them at the Eugene Cider Festival and they are playing November 17 at the Doug Fir with Three for Silver!
I made some kaleidoscopes out of my drawing. They look so trippy and cool! 
Local Trekkies put on an original series episode “Amok Time” with original songs by Dr. Jason Heald. These are drawings I made of the cast and crew.
They let me open the show, performing my Star Trek rap and playing the theremin for the audience. They also had local bell dancer sarina Dorie as an Orion slave girl!
And here are some photos of the production. It really was a great show!
This drawing has been in my notebook awhile. I found a video of their performance from 2016 in YouTube! This troupe has many more performers that I didn’t draw, and I’m not sure about their costumes and hair color, and the page has some splotches on it because my markers were water based and I had it in the rain! It was a good show, full of laughs.
Slime Girls play hyper hyphy happy chiptune pop with some ska and some saccharine lullabye melodies. Pedro composes the music and says on his bandcamp, “listen while you are at a cute beach.”
Of all the comics I saw at bumbershoot, Kate Berlant was my favorite. Her show was so utterly confusing and unique. She would threaten us that if we weren’t up for staying for the whole three hours we should just get up and leave right now! I also loved that she steals makeup as a radical feminist act.
Khadija Hassan was quite funny too! There were so many women and people of color at the shows, I really appreciated that.
I was invited to a private party where bands played inside a living room. These bands are so delightful. Era Coda plays accessible mathy rock. Its delightful.
Jor-Dan plays electro rock. It’s huge and loud and sounds shimmering!
Saffron plays heavy grungy rock. It’s catchy, but has a sharp edge.
Ghost Tour plays pop with keyboards and sometimes horns. some songs are sung by Olive and some are sung by Andy.
A friend reached out to me on Facebook and asked if I could email her a track I recorded way back in the day called “William H Macy.” It was a silly song, but some sort of a hit, and parts of it have been recycled into a performance piece I do today. Here is my 2006 album “Great Alaskan Laser Tag Company.” it has many songs on keyboard and many songs recorded by my friend and mentor Lester Smiley (the Moon Knights). I remember Planar Chaos was coming out soon when we recorded it… sigh. I remember that his bunny would rub his scent glands on me in between recording tracks. Here you can find such hot tracks as “the anthropic principle lullabye” and “annabelle” as well as some awkward clunkers like “lies” and some that weren’t recorded very well. I also have two covers on this album, both songs recorded by Frank Sinatra and that appeared on the Muppets show “Slow boat to china” and “I Wont Dance.” William H Macy is a Bonus track not on the list below.
I’m sorry, I dont have any video of me playing a song on this album, but here I am playing with The Bacuntry Bruthers, Bernie Bousa and Rebecca Menzia back in 2008.
Oh what am I talking about, here I am playing with Nessa on drums at the Marlin!
And here is one called “Leave Me Alone.” I didn’t put this song on an album. Not sure why… I do remember I played it in New York City at the Sidewalk Cafe. They didn’t like me.
And finally, performing “every time a credit card is maxed out…”
I don’t really expect you to listen to these old songs, but hey, if you do and if they put a smile on your face, maybe you could donate. The songs are pay what you want!
I enjoyed this woman’s songs and bird like voice. Look her up on Spotify or her website here.
Isaac and the Awkward Situations 