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About Me

I was reared among cattle and a waterfall, but gravitated toward the grimy obelisks of Ol' Lady Chicago. It's sad, really. Probably hints at something irreparably wrong with my brain, or the world, or public education, or fluoridation, or Dr. Spock. Something. Also I make some books and music. You can put things on top of them.

Click yourself silly:

Forlorn Funnies (my comics, books, and hour devouring blog)

The Holy Consumption (Chicago Cartoon Art Collective featuring Jeffrey Brown, myself, John Hankiewicz, and Anders Nilsen)

Margo Mitchell Media (Design and Illustration)

MUSIC HALL (Chicago band, an amalgam of disparate sonic junk)

ARKS (former band in which I yelped and punched guitars)

THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW OR SOON:

My Interests

waffles, piccolo, that thing over there that looks sort of melty, Charlie Brown, sketch comedy, new wave music, well delivered jokes, Mr. Rodgers, don't you think that looks sort of melted?, interpretive dance, seriously I think that's actually on fire, I think we should leave, doesn't that smell weird to you? No? Well, fuck it, I'm leaving.

I'd like to meet:

People who don't punch, other than with wit. Wind sock designers. Paisley purists. Anglers! Anyone named Chumley. "Bring on the badminton!" That tooth.

Music:

Six Finger Satellite, Talking Heads, DJ Shadow, Joy Division, Bird and Flower, Brainiac, Lazy, Devo, Guided By Voices, Aimee Mann, Beck, Swirlies, Cibo Matto, The Fall, Enon, Missy Elliott, Trans Am, Magnetic Fields, The Kinks, Jurassic 5, Tchaikovsky, Kraftwerk, Jon Brion, Johnny Cash, AFrames, Cat Power, Rufus Wainwright, Brian Wilson, The Buggles, The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth

Movies:

The Straight Story, Network, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Together, Barry Lyndon, The Life Aquatic, Logan's Run, Creature from The Black Lagoon, Annie Hall

Television:

Six Feet Under, Freaks and Geeks, Tim and Eric, Flying Circus, Law and Order, Passions, Price is Right, Turbo Teen.

Books:

To Kill a Mockingbird, Slaughterhouse 5, Stranger Things Happen, Ice Haven, This Shape We're In, Native Son, The Westing Game

Heroes:

Mr. Rodgers, David Byrne, Winsor McCay

My Blog

Music Hall, Monday, new song, any day

Monday night just never gets its love. So we're out to make that right. One love, Monday! Divorce yourself from your "another week of crap" feeling that you've just renewed at your thankless craft and...
Posted by Paul Hornschemeier on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:13:00 PST

April 2nd, two times the NYC

April 2nd I’ll be sweating southward along New York, starting in Manhattan and ending in Brooklyn.First I’ll briefly let my jaw drop at the humbling cast of the Dave Eggers curated "Lots o...
Posted by Paul Hornschemeier on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:17:00 PST

This Friday: Music Hall Beta Test, Chicago

The nuts are still half-tightened, but regardless, we're rolling Music Hall out for a test run this Friday at Subterranean with our good friends The Pawners' Society and Charlie Deets (who will be rel...
Posted by Paul Hornschemeier on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:12:00 PST

Listen! My mouth opens for an hour. What slithers out?

This Thursday, February 7th, at 4pm (CST), I'll be doing that verbal ping pong between narcissism and self-deprecation, courtesy the interrogation of the gentlemen at the Inkstuds radio show/podcast. ...
Posted by Paul Hornschemeier on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:38:00 PST

All The Rest of The Road

I've finally cobbled together my notes and brain scraps from my late band Arks' most recent (and final) tour. The disasters and successes are all displayed in nauseatingly self-aggrandizing detail on ...
Posted by Paul Hornschemeier on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:53:00 PST

Arks final show. Tonight. Also: free booty.

This evening watch the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning, or the beginning of the start, however you choose to view it. The glass is half relative.Arks will take the stage as itself on...
Posted by Paul Hornschemeier on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:12:00 PST

Goodbye Arks, Hello Everything

It is with the almost every possible emotion concurrently that we announce the end of Arks.We are of course saddened to depart from beneath a banner that's served us dutifully for these past five year...
Posted by Paul Hornschemeier on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:55:00 PST

24,480-Minute Song: Arks Tour journal

I've finally emerged from the heap of to-do's enough to get a hand on the keyboard and type out my recollections of our recent few weeks on the road. The first account is up today, with more time burn...
Posted by Paul Hornschemeier on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:08:00 PST

Arks Monday, Free, at Empty Bottle

Today we barrel westward toward the broad shouldered city, tomorrow we will plug into our home electrical grid, and help ourselves to an increasingly missed Chicago audience. We'll be honored to share...
Posted by Paul Hornschemeier on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:29:00 PST

Cutes Not Dead (Completely)

I can't claim that this little fellow is for everyone, but, for better or worse, I have another shirt up for sale on woot.Early comments seem to indicate a fair amount of anger and disgust over the th...
Posted by Paul Hornschemeier on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:15:00 PST