Alan had a hard time settling on what confession to make. First he mentioned “I love God,” but abandoned it favor of “I want to get married.” He dropped that confession too, seemingly because of fairness after acknowledging that not everyone can. His next idea was the one that stuck:

Alan adds in explanation:

My grandpa is a retired baptist minister. My uncle works for Billy Graham. My family has roots in Texas and Indiana. I have a lot of guilt as a result of all the decades of hearing about the righteous life. I like to think that I am a nice guy and that should be enough, but when hard times follow you around and you get dark, its easy to think maybe it’s like, Satan, that is just biting my shoulder. I want to be like my Grandpa and get married and have kids and that makes me guilty because I can’t sell out. But I really just want to be a boring guy who comes home and falls a sleep and wakes up early and rejoices in the morning and treats my body as a temple and is happy with one special person and paint my picket fence green, not white. Til then I play the game, I tip the bartender and I try to get the courage to talk to random beautiful strangers and get dragged to seedy clubs. There is just so much, “what if.”

Links:
Alan Singley official site
Alan Singley and Pants MachineSpace
Alan Singley and Pants Machine Cut of the Day

Photos by Nilina Mason-Campbell

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For the first edition, Zach Osterlund (who just won a Society of Professional Journalists award for his photography in WW’s Sonic Youth article about the lack of all-ages venues in Portland) spells out his confession outside of Holocene. It’s not about the spacey electronica he makes as Breakfast Mountain, but definitely music-centric. See for yourself:

Click on a photo to see the name of the performer and/or head to the photoset on Flickr.

Zach has more to add about New Kids on the Block’s “Summertime”:

That song hits me hard. Real hard. It was actually the first song that I had heard in two or three months that made me happy. Granted I hadn’t heard any of my friend’s (hint: Doubledutch) new recordings in about the same amount of time. But really, that kind of production is my absolute favorite and has been for a year or so. J Holiday’s “Bed” was the first song that really did it for me, then it just went on from there… “In This Club” by Usher. “Don’t Matter” by Akon. Anything directly along those lines. The stuff makes me feel like I could explode into a ball of energy and never have to think about another thing again. I’m not fucking kidding you. It makes me so happy.

Just two days ago though, I heard Dhani and Jordan’s new song and to be absolutely modest it is, by all means the best piece of artwork anyone I have ever known has made. There’s nothing more I can say about that shit. Just wait. Dhani is a millionaire.

And there you have it.

Download audio file (confessions.mp3)

Links:
Breakfast MountainSpace
New Kids on the BlockSpace – where you can stream “Summertime”
DoubledutchSpace

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