NEWS
Wednesday, June 25, 2008  

"Don't try to be original, just try to be good."

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11:30 AM
Wednesday, December 26, 2007  

Persepolis

Go ahead and watch this movie when it comes out. If you've got about 10 minutes, you should check out the making of the film here (in the videos section). Every frame was hand drawn and then traced by real human beings on actual paper.

If I had given into despair, everything would have been lost. So up until the last moment, I'll hold my head high and keep laughing because they won't get the best of me. As long as you're alive you can protest and shout, yet laughter is the most subversive weapon of all.

Marjane Satrapi

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9:06 AM
Friday, December 07, 2007  

Chattanooga's a strange place. And, lately, there have been some strange happenings going on... There are condos going up all over the place (many on the river's edge) with prices so high that a good portion of them remain empty. SUVs are parking in the Low Emissions Vehicle spots at the new Greenlife & Rock/Creek complex while Greenlife employees get laid off and demoted left and right since the new store opened (contrary to reports in the local paper). Even most of the graffiti in this town seems to be misguided rebellion toward counter-culture coolness.

So what do we do? I shared my concern with a wise Tetris Master. Here is what she had to say:
Reeve,

i'm not sure... soon chattanooga very well may lose it's title as the scenic city. in that case i can only suggest what the prophets already have....

get your ass to mars.

For more information, visit this website (best viewed in internet explorer). To download just the instructional audio file, click here (or right click, save as)!

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11:01 AM
Wednesday, October 17, 2007  

Waco.

These are the days the form us. These are the days that have passed and yet go before us. These are the days that we have, we are offered no others. These are the days that define us, my sisters and brothers...

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12:24 AM
Sunday, October 22, 2006  

So, I've never seen a 3D movie before. It was pretty dope.

I got a pretty funny compliment the other day. I went into work to check the schedule on the crazy cold last Friday. Ann from work said I was the perfect example of a winter man. Apparently it was my multiple layers of clothing as well as my personality. What does that mean?!

Later on, Jessie told me how she was trying to describe my music to someone at her work. She kind of had a hard time classifying it and ended up saying, "It's different... from itself." Comedy!

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12:32 PM
Friday, October 13, 2006  

I just finished reading Shampoo Planet:
My mood changed now. And the sun has gone behind the clouds. I'm in this mood I feel occasionally... this mood where there's a very good friend nearby who I should be phoning. If only I could reach that friend and talk, then everything would be just fine. The dilemma is, of course, I just don't know who that friend is. But in my heart I know my mood is merely me feeling disconnected from my true inner self.

I liked it very much.

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4:08 PM
Sunday, October 08, 2006  

Sparrow Love Crew on YouTube?

My Korean Friends on YouTube? Part I - Part II (feat. D-bag)

P.S. Hot Chip will break your legs, snap off your head.

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3:31 PM
Tuesday, September 12, 2006  

Would you like to hear one of my poems?

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4:46 PM
Monday, September 11, 2006  

I've my father's tastes and hurt. I've my mother's worries and mouth.
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We fall into patterns quickly.
We fall in patterns too quickly.


- Owls, Anyone Can Have a Good Time


I applied for a job as a copy editor today. I've got the education requirements down. Let's pray they don't need someone experienced, 'cause a brother like me is not. I can make a wicked latte, though...

I've been watching a lot of Firefly (thanks to Robair) and listening to the Owls.

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5:49 PM
Tuesday, August 29, 2006  

Phone charger recovered. Thanks Mom.

My friend Jesse Conway once said:
i got a ticket once at UGA for parking the wrong way when Adam Perry and I attended a Halloween dance party at Karri Bishop's house.

*if you didnt know this, although i think most normal people do, if you get a ticket on a college campus that you have never attended- they cant really make you pay. that is until you attend that school and they get all your info. i think there is some kind of policy in place that prevents a school from talking to the Feds about where you live so they can send you a bill.

exploit while you can my friends, exploit while you can.

I believe that sorry joker is set to go to UGA in January. What now, Jesse?

Also: When in doubt, Boddington's.

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12:32 PM
Saturday, August 26, 2006  

Is a very good one. Is nice.

The Kirby's own the Alien Quadrilogy, so you know what that means... I gotta watch 'em all.

I think I'm going to apply for a job or 3 at UTC here in Chattanooga. We'll see what happens. A brother like me doesn't have much experience in the real job world. "Can't hurt to try," is what I've been told. But I've also heard, "Do, or do not. There is no try." Who should I believe? Mere mortals? Or a Jedi master?

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1:15 PM
Thursday, August 10, 2006  

"I li-i-i-ike my bi-i-i-ike. It's not like other bikes." - Ghoti Hook

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3:45 PM
Sunday, June 18, 2006  

half bear, other half cat

Well... Everything for the My Korean Friends CD has been recorded. We should be mixing that piece here in the next few days. So there. I feel like I've been mad busy recently with getting ready to record and then actually recording as well as getting ready to play at Steve and Marybeth's wedding that took place yesterday.

Anyway, all this recording and wedding business is over now. This weekend Jessie and Doni came to visit from GA/TN, so I didn't just sit around and do mostly nothing all weekend, I sat around and did mostly nothing all weekend with cuddies. Cuddies, however, had to leave this morning, so they took a bunch of my stuff with them in their rental car (thanks Jessie's mom). That's right, little pieces, I shall be following my things to Chattanooga in a couple of months.

Here's a little summary about why I'm moving:
Rocky Top
by Boudleax and Felice Bryant

Wish that I was on ol' Rocky Top
Down in the Tennessee hills
Aint' no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top
Ain't no telephone bills
Once I had a girl on Rocky Top
Half bear, other half cat
Wild as a mink,
but sweet as soda pop
I still dream about that.

Rocky Top you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
Rocky Top Tennessee,
Rocky Top Tennessee

Once two strangers climbed ol' Rocky Top
Lookin' for a moonshine still
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top
Reckon they never will

Rocky Top you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
Rocky Top Tennessee,
Rocky Top Tennessee

Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top
Dirt's too rocky by far
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top
Get their corn from a jar

Rocky Top you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
Rocky Top Tennessee,
Rocky Top Tennessee

I've had years of cramped-up city life
Trapped like a duck in a pen
All I know is it's a pity life
Can't be simple again

Rocky Top you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
Rocky Top Tennessee,
Rocky Top Tennessee

So, there you have it. I think the first and last verses are especially applicable.

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3:30 PM
Wednesday, April 12, 2006  

Why carry one when my tongue is equivalent to a gun?

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2:16 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2006  

Two nights ago I awoke from a dream in which I was giving birth to a baby. It had just started having this baby, and it didn't really hurt at all. I just had this thought in my head that there was no way this thing was going to be able to make it out.

I, too, made a rare visit to church today. It was not bad. I want to go on an adventure.


"Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think."

- Maureen, A Long Way Down

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11:34 PM
Friday, March 10, 2006  

I live with 6 other people in a house we occasionally refer to as 'Baron Estates', a funny, Rich South-sounding name that Jared came up with. One of my roommates, Steve Meadows, is leaving in the near future due to marriage, moving, whatnot. If you don't know Steven, then you don't know that he owns his own Tile Company (Meadows Tile), and you probably don't know that he is a really cool guy.

The reason I bring up Steve is this: There is a certain kind of person indigenous to the Southland that has the ability to casually drop the most hilarious colloquialisms into regular conversation without thinking twice about it. Klif Kinnamon used to immitate this kind of speech with 100% perfection due, I'm sure, to his status as a proud Southerner.

Here's a few examples of what I'm talking about.

1 - How about the other day at Jason's Deli. Steven orders his potato, goes to pay, gets his receipt back... What is the polite thing to say? Why, "grassy ass," of course. Shameless.

2 - "Man, where did I put my _________? I can't find it/them anywhere." The classic Steve response to this scenario is, "if it was up your butt, you'd know it." Crude, but to the point... or is it?

3 - Just last night, Steve and I were talking about his future plans of marriage, moving, shutting his business, and whatnot. Understandably, Steven has been a little freaked out by the upcoming changes even though none of these changes are actually bad. It's all just "mind games," Steven tells me. He's just thinking too much about stuff that is going to be totally sweet. "You know," Steve says to me as he smokes his last ciggy of the day out on the upstairs porch, "I'm just pole-vaulting mouse turds."

So there you have it. Well everyone, I think I'm going to go take me a little bike ride.
"Hey Reeve."
Yeah Steven?
"Why don't you go take you a little bike ride."
Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good idea, Steve. Why didn't I think of that...

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10:55 PM
Wednesday, February 22, 2006  

I just finished reading a book, Reservation Blues, that I received as a Christmas present from Jared Himstedt. I had previously ordered a hardback copy of the exact same book which I received the very next day. A while later I received a hardback copy of Life After God by Douglass Coupland that I had ordered. A few days after that, I received a paperback copy of the exact same book in the mail from Shannon Wilson in Georgia. So, the last 4 books I acquired were actually only 2 books.
"I get scared, Thomas," Chess said. "When I'm up there singing, and I look out at the crowd, sometimes I see a thousand different lovers. All those men. It's not like I love all of them like I love you. I don't. And I know they don't love me like you do. But I still feel pressure from them. Sometimes I feel like I have to be everybody's perfect lover and I ain't nobody's perfect nothing."

"So what are we supposed to do?" Thomas asked.

"Sing songs and tell stories. That's all we can do."

Thomas thought back to all those stories he had told. He had whispered his stories into the ears of drunks passed out behind the Trading Post. He had written his stories down on paper and mailed them to congressmen and game show hosts. He had climbed up trees and told his stories to bird eggs. He had always shared his stories with a passive audience and complained that nobody actively listened.

"Thomas," Chess said, "if you don't want to be famous and have your stories heard, then why'd you start the band up?"

"I heard voices," Thomas said. "I guess I heard voices. I mean, I'm sort of a liar, enit? I like the attention. I want strangers to love me. I don't even know why. But I want all kinds of strangers to love me."

The Indian horses screamed.

- from Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

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2:28 PM
Wednesday, October 15, 2003  

Boogie jive and rap is life where I'm from.

Give it a listen:
Digable Planets - Where I'm from

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5:38 PM
Friday, October 10, 2003  

Eryk Lugo on Reeve Hunter:

G3NERYK: i know you have something planned out
G3NERYK: i know you want the apple jelly even before we reach the aisle
G3NERYK: you just stand there for effect

A related story here.

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6:38 PM
Wednesday, October 01, 2003  

I watched Frankenstein last night! They warned me, but I did it anyway!!!

I just finished reading a book by G. K. Chesterton called The Man Who was Thursday. According to the author, it's a book about pessimism. I guess it's pretty good. I liked it. (Zellyn, I think you might enjoy it.)

"They were walking like old friends, and were in the middle of a conversation about some triviality. But Syme could only feel an unnatural buoyancy in his body and a a crystal simplicity in his mind that seemed to be superior to everything that he said or did. He felt he was in possession of some impossible good news, which made every other thing a triviality, but an adorable triviality."

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6:12 PM
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LINKS
Uttereast - Family
Judy
Seth Worley
C. Anderson - II
MC Sweetie
Luke Greco
Eleanor Lewis

Chattarock
Waco Co-op
Esotype Records
Suburban Tumbleweed
Immigrant Design

Reeve on Myspace
Ethan Durelle
Adeline
Meryll
Loxsly
My Korean Friends
American Sasquatch
American History Project

bikes
Why don't you just say it?
MUSIC
I like to make music. Here are some songs I have made. They are listed in roughly chronological order.

2001-2004 - Waco
Soundscape
Mt. Fuji (live @ Brookstock'03) [Vocals - Christine Gentry, Bass - Robbie Bourland, Drums - Evan Lecker]
Mt. Fuji (live @ UBC) [Vocals - Christine Gentry]
Letters (live @ UBC) [Vocals - Christine Gentry]
Flame (live Seldom cover)
We Are All Dying
Want What Want
Are You Flying?
You Hold Us Down
The Past (Because it Always Happens) [Bass - C. Anderson]
We've Had Time

Fall 2004 - Suburban Tumbleweed Sessions
Batta
A & G
Heads Part II
Number 1
Number 2 [Trumpet - Jared Himstedt]
Number 3 (Green and Gray)
Number 4
Number 5
Slow Jam
The End of the Day
Can't Stop the Eyes from Bleeding
Practice for Your Kids

2004-2005 - Winter
We Will Get Rid of You
You Don't Know
Get You in Trouble

2006 - Barron Estates
Integrated Physics and Chemistry (live in 6th Period)
The Rummage

2006 - Kirby Sessions v2.0
Cocoon Boy

2007 - Pulaski High Blanks

Slow Pulaski 1
Slow Pulaski 2

2007 - Beck Manor
Not It


For more music that I have been a part of, check out these sites:
Math Minor
My Korean Friends
American Sasquatch
American History Project
Esotype Records
Waco Co-op

VIDEOS
Here are some videos you might like to watch (also in chronological order):

Sparrow Love Crew - Live @ the H-E-B
the American Culture eXperiments - Freedom in Part
Reeve Hunter - You Hold Us Down (live @ Beepcon'06)
Sparrow Love Crew sing the hits (live @ the Cold War Kids signing party)