The audio component to the second installment of my Heart to Heart collage zine series.  

This is the scene as I knew it in Houston, circa 2007.  These are my friends and I doing what we did best: poetry, music and shootin' the shit.  

Time has passed and we've continued on our own paths.  I thought I was creating a new form of collage; what really happened was I made this cool time capsule.  

I recorded and edited all these tracks; got help from Mark with the mixing, and got help from Ryan Edwards with the mastering and final production touches.

Ryan continues to be one of the best audio engineers in Houston, and he still does improvised music (prepared guitar/vocals).

Mark is now touring in his band Khruangbin and living his rock & roll dreams.

Capt. Kittens is back to being called Ian I think.  He lives on a farm somewhere off grid.

Thunderbird was a band I was in with Mark.  He played guitar and I played drums.

Signe is my friend from UH; we were English students together.

Khrystah is a badass creative entity who lives in Houston and loves New Orleans.

Lucas lives in L.A. making his rock star dreams come true.  

Worms was Capt. Kittens and Clay.

Eric was another college friend.  We suffered through a couple poetry classes together.

Claire is now the wife of a very nice man and the mother of 2 sweet kiddos.  

Ilea continues to reign as the underground rap goddess of HTown; she just released a new EP, Machine Mammal.

Gwar: not the band, but a sweet cat friend I used to know in Houston.

The Gladiators was the house band at the Silver Slipper, a southern soul/blues bar in Houston's 5th Ward.  I was good friends with the drummer, Jackie Gray.

Every Wednesday night is open mic poetry night at Notsuoh, in downtown Houston.

10 - I'm So Real (Mark & Paula Anne)

9 - Worms

8 - Hawaii 5 - O Mashup (Paula Anne)

7 - Field Recording - Lucas And His Guitar

6 - Gorham Jam At 1510 Nevada (Khrystan & Lucas)

5 - Jack Kerouac Was Not A Good Father (Paula Anne)

4 - I Am Not Going To Move To New York (Signe)

3 - Summer Forever (Thunderbird)

2 - Subliminal (Mark)

1 - Intro (Mark, Capt. Kittens, Paula Anne)

Paula Beja