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Just a reminder, the 2007 EP is still available through the i-Tunes store for download.

Track listing is :

Song for Vara
Automata
Call and Response
Survival
Loose Arrow (Live)
Discontent (Live)

If you never got a chance to get your hands on this EP, and are needing something to tide you over till the new album is finished, take a spin by the i-tunes store and download some high quality mp3s.

You won’t be disappointed.

Head over to http://www.cafepress.com/catroomrecs

and get yourself a snazzy new Shortwave Dahlia T-shirt, complete with new graphic designed by our own Ethan Grim!

So one New Years Eve, many years ago, I was with a group of good friends.  As the clock chimed 12, I felt something needed to be said.  “May you all live in interesting times” I said, not realizing then that this was, apparently, an ancient Chinese curse.  One of those good friends spent most of that year cursing me.

 Cut to a year later.  The friend mentioned above is at another New Year’s party in another state - one of those loud and crowded affairs.  He happened to be near the stage as those midnight toasts / wishes were going around and, through some irresistable urge, grabbed the mic and wished the entire crowd an interesting year.  As he tells it, the room fell into a perplexed silence, except for one irage voice that shouted back “You !!!!”

 So if you happened to find yourself at a party this New Year’s where someone was paying this particular one forward, watch out - it could be a wild year.

 For my part, I am looking forward to this one.  The band has our first album (with this configuration) on the horizon and there are some interesting changes in the old personal life as well.  Even the day job is looking up… well, later than sooner, but still this year.

 So with that, here is hoping that at least this year does not bore you to death

New Year, new blog…I ruined the previous blog good and proper trying to set it up as the front page of SD.org so here we are again.

The band cranks up again next week–we’ll be writing and hopefully finishing up this beastie of an album. The end of last year was spent introducing Dana to the material, so with that (mostly) behind us we can get back to the business of The Wilderness…

Love and gourami!
J

Once upon a time, I knew a guy named Hart Littlejohn. He was in this band, The American Tenants, who played the Map Room and crashed at our bungalow post-gig. Caught him nicking some green tea out of the pantry the next morning but we ended up friends. He sent me records, I reviewed them. He added “well” to his Hart and another “A” to “American”. “Aamerican”. What the hell? Well, wife and I saw him again in 2003, before we had a kid…got him a gig with the Monsieur (Jeff Evans). I think it was 2003. He was headed out to LA. That didn’t work out and he ended up in Nashville last time I heard. The man was fantastic. Every once in a while, that conceited bastard artist ego came out of him, but most of the time we talked about stuff like how great the original Star Trek was, and our mutual love for Tom Petty. Yeah, bet you never saw that coming from me. I was thinking about Hart(well) tonight. Thinking he might be proud of me for actually getting a band together. He’d get a kick out of us playing on a bill with burlesque at the best place in town–to think of it, how in the hell did that happen anyway? That’s the fraidy cat in me, knowing we’ll be bumping elbows with the garage rock crowd doing music that couldn’t be more left of that particular center…well, it could be Yanni…still, you know what I mean. I’m gonna look him up somehow.

Hey all! I wanted to quickly remind you about our last gig for 2007, which is 2nd annual Memphis Roller Derby Ho Ho Ho Burlesque Show–a fundraiser to take place at The Hi-Tone Saturday, December 8th! Of course, you want to jet on over to http://www.memphisrollerderby.com to find out more, but did I mention burlesque is involved?