Download "How Long?" Here

"How Long" is a funny song actually...it's in the tradition of "where's my baby" and "baby, don't leave me" and "baby, i'm goin' down the road"...

It's about a fight between a girl and boy and the boy leaves. For the night? For the week? It's not known.

So, the girl is left to wonder where the hell he's at. She starts to wander around in her car to look for him. Days and nights go by. She realizes though that she likes being out there on the road, so she just keeps on going.

Nevermind where he went. She has her bag, she has her cat, so ...what else?

She'll be fine by herself.

The end.

(dedicated all of my lady friends with bad exes and boys who don't call)

Download "How Long?" (mp3) here

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by Patrick Kauffman




by Patrick Kauffman



by Jenn Sczur

Wild Bones - CD Packaging Project

Ongoing with the CD packaging assembly; and it is such a fun challenge to make each release a completely different process.

Wild Bones starts with finding the right outer paper shell. I'm only limited to the collected papers that are in my apartment, and half of them date back to...around 1996. Some were taken from the trash at my old printing job-end cuts; press tests and printing mistakes. Some belong to a whimsical series of hand lettering I did testing cover ideas for a friend's book cover. Some are watercolor tests from when I thought the cover was going to be a comic-book-looking cover. Some are wallpaper.

I then cut each to size, fold by hand, and stack. Next is the sewing part. I straight-stitch up each side with my machine. I just learned to sew this year!! Lots more to learn.

The cover and insert have already been printed at this point. I still need to adhere the cover on though. After I do that, I'll insert the inserts as I wait for the discs to come back from the place. Then numbering.

But man, the prototypes are rad. So after I do all that paper stuff, I insert each into a plastic bag. Then, I throw in the fun stuff: sharks' teeth, all pieces of thread from the previous sewing, dried flowers, glitter, more ephemera and love. They all land where they want to and the thread gives more bones to the bones.

Here is a finished one!


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