Originally posted on twitter Hello! It looks like @patreon is up to it again, so I’d like to offer a thread illustrating why and how I went about leaving the platform in 2017 as an artist who wasn’t quite making nothing, but wasn’t quite making … ContinuePatreon
Many thanks to my Itty Bitty Hizzy Tiny House contributors John H. $70, Phil B. $50, Scott S. $51.50, Sam L. $30, Eric B. $8, Shatter N. $23 (to get me to $1337. \m/ \m/ ), Edgars K. $50, Jason S. $40, Peter V. $35, … ContinueThings I’ve Learned on the Road
| Download | Buy CD The flashpoint where Courtnee ran out of fucks; A neurotic album with multiple personalities, Cold Front explores the worlds between both the beautiful ambient-electronic vocal landscape lullaby songs of CFR’s “Not Applicable” era works, and vulgar feminist punk ukulele diddies … ContinueCold Front, 2018
| Download | Buy CD Comprised largely of sultry, torchy cover songs, Decatur hails directly from the melancholy streets of New Orleans. Less challenging in subject matter/language than CFR’s albums Cold Front or Keep Going, Decatur is a crowd pleasing, atmospheric marvel noted for a … ContinueDecatur, 2016
This house has stories. Many, many stories. Some of them have been stolen and then trapped here, I think. Some of them died, became the earth, and now have nowhere else to go. They preside, vibrating, low and powerful, a collaborative magnet in the soul … ContinueWRITING/MUSIC: Wishing for Collapse
| Download | Buy CD CFR’s inarguable coming of age project, Keep Going is an aurally pleasing soft rock album about patriarchy, rape culture, and heartbreak. Solidly rooted and lyrical, these songs illustrate the direct acknowledgement and rejection of a previous life of amatonormative struggle … ContinueKeep Going, 2014
NOTE: I first wrote the below guidelines on a personal blog many years ago, and in the time since, I have again a mere fraction of the physical belongings I did then, now living most-time in a van (which is not nearly so glamorous as … ContinueStuff
PROLOGUE As has happened to many before and since, I officially stopped being able to afford Seattle, my home of 17 years, as a small (massage) business owner around 2009. I stayed another 6 years in large part due to the generosity of my housemates, … ContinueRoad Life
Note: This is, first and foremost, a personal thinkpiece about living with, and interacting with, my own suicidal ideology, followed by resources that have helped me cope. Though I hope my sharing these things helps, the following is not meant to address acute crisis. If … ContinueSuicide
When I first circulated a previous version of this piece on Medium, I began the essay with quotes from prominent rape advocacy groups and supposed expert talking heads who disagreed that rape culture was actually a thing. Due in part to the tireless and ongoing … ContinueRape Culture
| Download | Buy CD A provocative multimedia show and design project, Embodied is CFR’s most technically ambitious of live shows to date, including video projection, live painting, live musical performance and first foray into crowdfunding. Performed for two nights in November of 2011 with … ContinueEmbodied – Live in Seattle, 2011