#drew gardner

[officialhbo]

Search Party (2016-2022). The Inferno.

[colonellickburger]

Drew Gardner. Austin Morris, a college soccer player in Alabama, from The Descendants of Black Civil War Combatants

[fairweathermyth]

Okay, it's official. They are fully lying to us. I swear to God, there is not a single article on here about "Mickey Skunkman," and I don't think there was ever any such thing as… as the "Lenny/Danny Radio Hour" or Doris Monkey. I mean, none of these things ever existed.

SEARCH PARTY 4.06 The Thoughtless Women

[theonlyadawong]

Search Party season 1 episode posters by Sam Hadley

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Drew Gardner - Cygnus A

The Elkhorn boys can be tough to keep up with — for several years now, there’s been a steady stream of excellent releases for an array of labels, working in a wide variety of settings. And then there’s Drew Gardner’s killer solo work, too. Cygnus A is his latest and it is very much worth your time. Here, Drew adds mbiri and zither to his arsenal, creating a gorgeous, moody song suite. Hypnotic, minimal, beautiful — somewhere in between Laraaji and Alice Coltrane. Get into it.

[morganaconda]

search party dialogue reads like tumblr text posts more than some texts posts do

[dracoj]

drew strikes me as the kind of guy who was unaccustomed to and unprepared for the level of passion dory would begin to inspire in him starting in season 2. this newfound intensity, combined with his natural passivity and cowardice, keeps drawing him back again and again against his better instincts and I think he really did mean it when he screamed he was “addicted” to her. and on dory’s side, what she wants the most in the world is to be significant. i wouldn’t go so far to say she cultivates his dependence, but she does enjoy it and knows how to play it. together, they’re almost uniquely posed to make each other worse. drew is too weak willed to reign dory’s delusions in, or even stop tacitly supporting them by helping dory deal with the consequences. dory is too egotistic to really encourage drew to grow a spine. AND layer on top the familiarity that comes from a multi-year close friendship followed by a mediocre but cordial relationship. i really think they DO love each other but the versions of each other they liked are no longer people that exist.

[dustedmagazine]

Elkhorn — The Red Valley (VHF)

Photo by Sam Erickson

The two guitarists of Elkhorn meet up again for a bout of mesmeric drone, the sound this time more electric than pastoral but as open-ended as ever. As always, Jesse Sheppard mans the 12-string, whether acoustic or electrified, while Drew Gardner plays the six, as well as a few other instruments notably zither and vibraphone. Gardner is responsible, as well, for the pounding, grounding percussion in The Red Valley, nothing complicated but a key component of making this duo sound like a band. And finally, Jesse Sparhawk contributes lever harp and pedal steel. It’s a lush, enveloping sound, nothing minimal about it.

“Black Wind of Kayenta” runs dark and more turbulent, building ominous, western-tinged expanses in distortion blasted low-end runs. An acoustic dances atop these shadowy foundations, bending and flowering in high blues licks. I hear a sunset here, the air darkening, the clouds lit up with brilliance, a few stray rays of sunlight still on hand but not for long.

“Inside Spider Rock,” by contrast, is a prickly blossom, all pizzicato runs and trebly flourishes, aided by Sparhawk’s lever harp. This is an instrument favored by Celtic musicians for its quick, hand-manipulated tunings (as opposed to the classical harp which works with pedals), and Sparhawk makes the most of its sparkling, note-flurrying radiance, an excellent match for the ethereal overtones of 12-string.

Elkhorns roots are in blues, folk and country, though you won’t hear much of the latter until “Jackrabbit Hops” with its eerie masses of pedal steel (Sparhawk, evidently) and bent notes melting like Dali’s clocks. A jangle of bells, a slash of cymbals works as atmosphere, but not really as timekeeping. This track moves on its own schedule, stretching minutes out like taffy and snapping back in quick rhythmic bursts.

“Gray Salt Trail” is the long one, quiet reverie that sits at the intersection of blues, folk and raga, very much the neighborhood Jack Rose inhabited when not in Dr. Ragtime mode. There’s a bit of rock churn in the way that the guitars roar up, a bit more distortion and dissonance than on, say, “Cathedral et Chartres,” but the vibe is similar. The song goes on for more than nine minutes, but who’s in any hurry when the shimmer hits the shadow like this?

Jennifer Kelly

[razorsadness]

1 Letting the groove be what it is. Letting the sounds go where they need to go. Committing to repetition, committing to texture. Following mind and ear rather than form. Trusting self-oscillation. Letting mind manifest itself. Beautiful and filthy, from attenuated to expansive. Letting the drone open the feeling. Panning slowly over the landscape. Trusting honesty. Moving toward feeling.

—Drew Gardner, from “Five Essays” (Poetry Magazine, January 2020)

[thegardencharts]

July

Demetrio Cecchitelli : Jump

Concrete Cedars : Gold Code

Dark Fidelity Hi Fi : Formations

Dan Melchior UND DAS MENACE : Natural Anxiety

Drew Gardner : Cygnus A

Flaer : Burrow

FMSAO : У​л​ь​т​и​м​э

Sour Widows : Revival of a Friend

Bianca Scout : Pattern Damage

John Cale : POPtical Illusion

[haveyoureadthispoem-poll]

"The helpful flute riff. The blurry moments. The gigantism of open-mindedness. Feeling what kind of person you want to be, and letting that guide you. A kind of strength that comes from unfolding layers. Flammable things that never burn. You travel by staying in one place."

Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!

[noahandthegiraffe]

So I've just started watching Search Party and I hate how much I'm already crushing on Drew.

[beuatifulbuttercup]

bitches be like “oh i love the pjo series!” then only ramble on about the minor characters and ignore what is written in cannon

its me i’m bitches

[bugwolfsstuff]

Headcanoning the Stolls as sons of chthonic Hermes and Katie as a daughter of Demeter Erinys (Demeter when she was grieving Persephone and killing everything) is fun because

A. using the epithets gives ways to explore powers for non-big three kids (THEY ARE CHILDREN OF GODS WHY THE FUCK CAN THE HERMES KIDS ONLY OPEN LOCKS AND RUN 'FAST')

B. Demeter got another one of her daughters falling for a Chthonic dude and she does not like it.

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Elkhorn 2023

A very busy year so far for the Elkhorn guys. Let's get caught up ... First, the duo has a new LP out on Centripetal Force — On The Whole Universe In All Directions, which features Drew Gardner on vibes throughout instead of his usual electric guitar. The change-up works magnificently. (Oh and I reviewed it in a recent issue of Uncut.)

Next, we've got some Aquarium Drunkard action: a great Transmissions episode with Gardner and 12-string-er Jesse Sheppard chatting with Jason P. Woodbury for an hour and change. And! The pair also taped a fresh Lagniappe Session for AD — just one song, but it's a doozy, an inspired re-interpretation of Miles Davis' interpretation of David Crosby's "Guinnevere." Did you get all that??

What else? Definitely head over to NYC Taper to dig into a recent Elkhorn live set taped by Kliked at Tubby's; here, Gardner and Sheppard are joined by ace drummer Ian McColm for a set of heavy/heady jams.

And definitely get Gardner's latest solo album, Flowers In Space, where the guitarist reunites with the all-star rhythm team of Andy Cush (Garcia Peoples) and Ryan Jewell (everybody) for four long and groovy explorations. Brent Sirota calls it a "slab of sympathetic magic from what amounts to a veritable dad psych supergroup." And he's right!

Finally, there's The Return, a previously unheard archival release from a Gardner group that played together in San Francisco in the 1990s. Over a quarter century old, but its spiritual jazz modes sound as fresh as ever.

[sprucestairs]

part 2 of incorrect pjo quotes

Featuring, once again, mostly background characters that I really like.

*at the police station*

Pollux: Hi, I'm here for Connor.

Police officer: Who's Connor?

Pollux: Ah, you must be new.

Nico: Would it be discrimination to only hire employees at my doughnut shop who have the same name?

Clovis: Legally, I don't believe that breaches any discrimination laws. Morally... I don't know.

Nico: I believe the Gods are on my side when it comes to Duncan's Doughnuts.

Clarisse: Dammit, Damien, you've ruined everything!

Damien: You're welcome.

Sherman: What kinds of sounds annoy you?

Malcolm: Are we talking real sounds or imaginary ones?

Sherman, now interested: let's say imaginary.

Malcolm: Spiders wearing flip-flops.

Will: You don't know anything about me!

Katie: I know EVERYTHING about you! You are an open book written for very dumb children!

Austin: Ew, what kind of tea is this?

Pollux: Boiled gatorade.

Lou Ellen: Last night, I found out Annabeth is a sleep talker.

Kayla: Oh, really?

Lou: "The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell." Right. In. My. Ear. At 3 am.

Castor: Whoah, dude, premarital handholding? That's just not cool or groovy.

Katie: Drew, this is disgusting. You're only giving out free samples to beautiful people.

Connor: Yeah, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Drew: Oh, yeah? *gets really close to Connor* How about a muffin on the house, baby?

Connor, giggling: I'm pretty.

Annabeth: I did it! I memorised everything in the book! I'm gonna ace this test!

Percy: Okay, I'll give you one more question before you go: what ended in 1918?

Annabeth: 1917.

Percy: ... You're ready.

( last one could be swapped & it would still work )