David Rhoden

Sleepy Heads played the Circle Bar

December 7 2001 by David Rhoden. Day .

We were getting to be a regular thing.

rock New Orleans Circle Bar Sleepy Heads

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2021

My new band Golden Ray makes its re-re-scheduled debut

My new band Golden Ray makes its rescheduled debut

My new band Golden Ray makes its debut

Otter came over for a nap on my work table.

Dark sky in Arabi.

I realized I hadn't read a lot of the books on my shelves

Gina's show, Shape-Memory, officially opens today

What did this note mean?

Blender practice makes...?

Consider the stumpgrinder.

Organic form painting, again

Animated metamorphoses

Burned Altima on Alhambra Street

2020

Gina and I went to the Chalmette Battlefield.

Gina got me exactly what I wanted for Christmas

dreamed: a new Rod Stewart tune

Watched a sunset with a dog.

Buddy Long Legs

dreamed I was on tour

Exhaust fan for Buddy

saw a nifty slasher truck at the grocery store

Buddy on the porch.

Holy Cross Music Hang

Gina was part of a small show at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.

Buddy and I learn a hard lesson about discipline

Nature TV, featuring Hurricane Zeta

Otter in the garden

Buddy on the desk.

Report from the hermitage

made a little animation

I just like this brown truck

I painted a lighter.

Buddy and Otter are frenemies.

A mystery is solved

Gina made some videos about her art

Got my keyboard fixed.

Influences: Milton Glaser

Buddy on the backporch

Gina looking like a valentine

Stacks in the Studio

I grew a beard for the first time in my life.

Cats on a car on Douglass Street, Lower Ninth Ward

I made some half-sours

ten or twelve albums that really influenced me

standing on the levee near the sugar plant

I got robbed, probably by some shady women

Buddy offers a headbutt

Our band had just started recording when the stay-at-home order came.

the inside of my house in New Orleans

Technicolor Gina

Before The Next Teardrop Falls

backyard bonfire

This is in the warehouse across the street from me

last picture of Sally

Morning fog on the Industrial Canal

Buddy got in the dryer.

We went to Picayune, Mississippi for a bonfire.

2019

I played bass with Fore Day Creep

Buddy making biscuits

A soft daddy long legs, for lack of a better description.

A walk by the Mississippi in December

I took a picture of a sign.

I went to Chattanooga for Thanksgiving.

throwback diner in New Orleans

offering on the levee

Sally on the desk as usual

at Kukhnya with Gina

Sally catching up on reading

Family feud is the ultimate game show

one day you're all yeah, the next day you're like no

I found a snazzy nest

speckled king snake in the road

I made an animation rig.

I animated a sasquatch

I saw this anti-Trump truck in New Orleans

went to open mic night at Old Arabi Bar

a happy bonfire at Gina's

funnin' around with Gina

Mardi Gras 2019

showed some paintings at Bywater Bakery

2018

I went to Galatoire's for an office Christmas party.

seen on the ground in the Garden District

started working at Online Optimism

Stacks played at Siberia with Rubber Maids and Egg Yolk Jubilee.

Stacks played the Circle Bar

Sally investigating zinnias from our garden.

found some marbles in my firepit

The Stacks played at Gasa Gasa

I showed some paintings at Treasure Tattoo

Sally stretching on the bed

Gina and I went to a dog track to watch the Kentucky Derby in Birmingham

Black racer on the fence.

Gina's work tent failed in a storm

David and Gina on the levee

My house in New Orleans

Holy Cross Neighborhood Association

a cruise liner in my backyard

we had a little pickin party

Mardi Gras 2018 costume

2017

Sally keeping watch at 321 Clark Street

a gloomy shot from my backyard

sketch of Daisy, sitting on the couch with me

saw huey lewis at gretna fest

Sally enjoying an AC/DC record

my shed at 321 Clark Street in the rain

My shed on Clark Street.

I took a picture of a pickle

Sally in the weeds

saw Wayne white exhibit at the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga

saw Wayne-O-Rama in Chattanooga

Goldie's radiator blew up near Poplarville, MS.

My grandfather Percy Reeves, in about 1927 or 1928.

2016

Smoker's Paradise, Toomey, Louisiana, December 2, 1016

a warehouse caught fire while I was home for Thanksgiving

Halloween 2016 with Mountain Shoutin'

Mountain Shoutin' played one show

Finished this painting of an angry woman.

A lunch hour disaster, averted

I played some shows with a band called Speedcrawler

My office put a piece of mine on the conference room wall

Speedcrawler played Valentine's Day

2015

Sally got under the covers.

saw The Mummies and OBNIIIs in Austin

Sally scowling.

My house in Austin

gratuitous cat pic

2014

Welcome to Hempstead

I did a man on the street interview for The New York Times about Bill Cosby

Went to a bar in Austin with my old band mate (not pictured)

Ate a lot of tacos in Texas.

first day at Sanders/Wingo

I bought my truck, Goldie.

New picks are here

Stacks played at Siberia with Scott H. Biram

I got to be in the 'tit R&schwa;x parade

Sally on a sunny desk in Austin, Texas

The Stacks played the Saturn Bar

I saw the Hall Monitors.

I sold this orange squiggle.

We had a benefit for Lauren's dog Rose

Gravestones in the cemetery on Spruce Street

I photographed an old sign in New Orleans.

riding bikes before Hurricane Gustav

Mardi Gras 2014 costume

Mardi Gras 2006 non-costume

Buddy getting in a bucket

Stacks played the Saturn Bar on Valentines Day

Stacks played Siberia with Settly

2013

I sang two songs on The Goodnight Show

na dat jiss nasty

The Stacks played the Saturn Bar, with Mystery Girl, I think?

driver needs kidney

Fixing up my blue bike

I was just proud of this juxtaposition.

The Stacks played the 8th Annual Chazfest

2012

Stacks at Siberia with Happy Talk and a play

Stacks played the Saturn Bar October 5

Painted a two-mouth creature.

Sally on the porch at Orchid Street.

Sailed and failed at the regatta again

Stacks played at Allways Lounge with The Parishioners

Sally playing on a boat

2011

I saw Sebadoh at One Eyed Jack's

I moved out of 181 Irving Avenue

Sally stretching in the backyard

Sally on the yard table at 181 Irving Avenue

deadly jelly on Rockaway Beach

I went bowling at The Gutter.

Jimmy and The Wolfpack played Parkside Lounge

a letterpress printing shop in new York City.

2010

I saw ? and the Mysterians at Great Jones Cafe.

visited Aqueduct racetrack

Watch your language or else I will

2009

saw Future Of The Left at Music Hall of Williamsburg

Headless Hookers played at Zablozki's

walked on the levee with Rosa

I had a great backyard at 181 irving Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn

Jimmy and The Wolfpack at Freddy's Bar, Brooklyn.

Jimmy and The Wolfpack at Matchless, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

went to Slade and Amara's wedding, and DJed the reception

Jimmy and the Wolfpack played the Lakeside Lounge, NYC.

2008

I did karaoke in Brooklyn

Sally on my shoulder

Sally with pink collar

2007

my neighbor Talisha drew me some flowers

I got a cat though I didn't mean to

Headless Hookers played at Passout Records

I got in a fight with Batman on my birthday

2006

Hallowe'en on Grand Street

I saw Archie Bell at McCarren Pool.

I had a show of my paintings at a gallery called Maiden, Brooklyn

I visited my mom and took this picture of Betty

2005

I went to Union Pool for New Year's and met Hannibal

I worked at a law firm with miserable people.

The Stacks played the Big Top again

The Stacks played the Big Top

2004

Stacks played a show at Lounge Lizards

MAXIMVS! played the Cave in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

All-Night Movers played the Emerald Bar in St. Pete

Free like the wind sketch

The Stacks played a party; it turned into a struggle

i did the cover illustration for Where Y'At magazine

Stacks played Lounge Lizards, I made a special flyer.

2003

I had an art show with Mimi at Circle Bar.

Dirty Knives played Strathmore Ballroom

Pictures from Saltillo

Ka-Nives and All-Night Movers in Lafayette, Louisiana

2002

I got interviewed by Bunny Matthews for Offbeat

All-Night Movers played the Star Bar in Atlanta

All-Night Movers played a house party

Dirty Knives at Dixie Taverne, June 10, 2002

Stacks played with Doctor-A-Go-Go at Circle Bar

2001

Dirty Knives played Dixie Taverne

Dirty Knives played El Matador with Sugar Tank

Ernie K-Doe's funeral

I interviewed for the job of running the Offbeat magazine web site

2000

I saw Betty Wright at Jazz Fest and got blown away

the strangest wedding present

Ernie K-Doe at a wedding

I had a bachelor party

1999

Happy Holidays (with the Churchkeys at Lakeside Lounge, 1999)

Betty got on my shoulder.

The Innuendos played Nightingale's

The Innuendos second date recording with Mitro

The Innuendos first date recording with Mitro

I played an open mic at Checkpoint Charlie

I sang to a cat named Tamayo

1998

I saw On The Town

Dark Marbles' drummer got married and we never saw him again

a party some time in the Nineties

Hi-Balls played Brownie's with MacArthur

1997

we used to go to this cabin in Callicoon, New York

532 Pacific Street, Brooklyn

I saw Little Richard on Tom Snyder's show

1996

Betty came to live with me.

We attempted to silkscreen the Hi-Balls record sleeve.

Hi-Balls did a photo shoot

1995

I co-wrote a book

1994

Bachelor No. 1, issue 3

I went to Central Park in the fall.

Bachelor No. 1, issue 2

Bachelor No. 1, issue 1

1993

I held a baby, for the cameras.

Saw American Music Club at Irving Plaza.

1992

a street encounter

pretty great birthday party

1991

My college diploma, laminated

All the pictures I have of my cat Jack

1990

Snake Oil played Gryphons with Swell

Snake Oil's first practice

We played a show or two in Chattanooga

1989

Everything Tool played at China King.

I checked this War Of The Worlds LP out of the Knox County Library

Mercyland, Anastasia Screamed, Everything Tool at Planet Earth, Knoxville, 1989(?)

1988

Everything Tool played with Across The Yard at China King

Everything Tool played with Abstracts at Cityside

1987

Saw R.E.M. at Stokley Athletic center at the University of Tennessee.

Saw Bullet Lavolta and Lemonheads at Adams House Dining Hall

I lived in this not-quite-legal loft on Causeway Street in Boston.

1985

I saw The Ramones at Bucknell University.

I saw the Black Crowes before they were really the Black Crowes

saw Musical Moose and Bend Sinister at the Knights of Columbus Hall

Bev's birthday, 1985

1984

Punk rock comes to Chattanooga

Thanksgiving Punk Fest

buncha guys sitting on the couch.

Playing with a Gene Simmons doll

I took the family car and went to see a rock show in Athens though I was underage

1983

I saw The Day After on TV.

Saw R.E.M. at Six Flags over Georgia.

I took the Kuder test

1979

Kicks, Atoms Win In CYF

1978

I helped make a commercial with Mr. Sulu

1977

Influences: the art of Don Martin

1976

Influences: we got an 8-track tape of folk songs for Christmas

1975

watched The Night That Panicked America

1973

My first appearance in the paper

1971

Me, Beverly, and Matt on a bike with our dad, about 1971

1970