CALLING IT QUITS
This Song Is A Mess But So Am I May 2003 - May 26th 2007
So I am throwing in the towel on This Song Is A Mess But So Am I. I am not quitting music. I will just no longer be creating music under the name This Song Is A Mess But So Am I. When I originally started this project in May 2003, it was a way for me to deal with the death of my mother from cancer in January of that same year. I don't think I really had any intentions of dragging it out this long. Through this project I met some really really amazing people who had been through or were going through a similar situation of a loved one suffering from or having passed away from cancer. I know that those people really helped me alot in contributing to understanding my own situation and it also opened up pathways of communication that are very important. I also have become great friends with some amazing bands who I continue to look up to and continue to have much respect and admiration for.
Lately, I have been feeling too much negative personal baggage from my mothers death and other things associated with this project to the point where I cannot deal with it anymore. It is not a healthy situation. I feel as if it is stuck in the same spot it was when the project was born. I finished what I originally set out to do with it, which was a personal motivation from the start.
The last two This Song Is A Mess But So Am I shows ever will be:
05/06/2007 - Los Angeles, CA @ PEHR Space w/
To Live And Shave in L.A.,
Widows Wound,
Privy Seals, Obstacle Corpse
05/26/2007 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell w/ Baseck, Libythth, Eustachian, and DJ Humorless
I am not quitting music though, I will continue doing stuff but under different names maybe.
I am also currently focusing on some upcoming collaborations on a couple of different projects: one is for Sam Mickens of the Dead Science's solo record and the other is with Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu on a synthpop project.
For all future updates visit the new webspace: http://www.freddyruppert.com
Love,
Freddy Ruppert