Athens, Georgia

Last week I tagged along with my brother's puppet troupe, The Pull the Strings Players, to get an interview in Athens with Henry Owings of Chunklet Magazine and Brian Teasley of Man or Astroman and The Polyphonic Spree. Henry books comedians and is fond of our little puppet routine, so he got us on a three day run in Birmingham, Atlanta, and Athens. The comedians were great and every club was extremely accommodating to our antics. We had such a good time, it didn't even hit me until the car ride to Athens that there's was work to be done.
We got their early, walked around, looked at comics, smoked too many cigarettes and then headed to the club. On our way, we stopped inside a record store and I checked for Silkworm and found nothing, not even a card. I can't say I was surprised.
After doing the show, we set up in the basement of the club and interviewed Brian and Henry. Most of the questions centered around "indie rock" but their love and respect for Silkworm was very much expressed. It always amazes me how passionate people are about this band, we have yet to have an interview that is uninspired. When we first started doing this, I think we really had some doubts of whether or not we could express our understanding of Silkworm through the words of other people. After forty or so interviews, we've definitely learned that our opinion on this great band is shared by many others. And the donations that have come in have proved it even more.
Thanks to these generous contributors, we will begin shooting again in December. We are hoping to wrap things up by early next year but we still need a lot of money to get there. One way or another, we will get it done.
Stay tuned for more ramblings and updates...
Buy Chunklet and visit the Bottletree when you are in Birmingham!

-Seth

LINK CITY:

Chunket
The Bottletree Cafe
The Pull The Strings Players
Still Born in the USA Comedy Tour

Check out this video of Joel Phelps (ex Silkworm) performing "Pilot" from "In The West."