I must have received two hundred emails regarding “rock and roll heart attack“, which I previously posted on this blog here as something of a joke. Apparently, despite being, uhh, readers of this particular website, it seems not many people actually got the joke. The most common question, however, is whether or not I was on heroin. I was (and am) not. I had spent the previous year training for marathons. Anyway. I have been building muscle lately, which means the shirt I am wearing in the video below does not fit me. The music, however, is real.



Large Prime Numbers is currently, as far as I am concerned, a “real band”. I think any band with one video of one rehearsed song as good (if I do say so myself) as this one on Youtube is a “real” band, anyway. The drummer is a man named Zak McCune. I met him at a Boris and Michio Kurihara show; he was the only white man among the surrounding audience members who was not revolted when me and my friend post-heckled the opening act (a one-man show by the name of Masonna, whose set consisted of him screaming into a microphone while squeezing a couple of buttons on a hand-activated delay / flanger clicker-thing; he spiked the mike, and then walked off stage after not forty seconds had elapsed) by pronouncing “sound check complete”.

Anyway, I’ve got an album worth of songs and a man who can stab Big Drum Fills into them to cover all the terrible mistakes that come naturally alongside my ecstatic exuberance in such a way as to make it sound like we absolutely never don’t know what we’re doing. There’s even two or three songs that I feel are exactly the kind of music I set out trying to make. The rest of the stuff was born and endeared itself strongly to me, as with this song here. There’s also a couple songs that started as bare-bones rock-guitar-riffing Ryuichi Sakamoto covers, which then somehow transformed into original instrumentals. So we’ve got a mix. Some variety, if you will!

Thanks for waiting, everyone! Please email me at tim108 (at) gmail (dot) com if you want to get on the mailing list for live show updates. We’ll be playing a couple ultra-small shows in Tokyo in the next three months before jumping into something that’s probably way too big for us this August. I’m sure we’ll do fine!

I’m not going to apologize, anyway, for not updating this blog, because I’ve been doing a lot of important things. Just two days ago, I started a novel based on a theme suggested by a friend. Last night, instead of continuing that novel, I wrote 6,000 words of a James Bond novel — something I’ve wanted to do since I was seven years old — which I don’t know if I’ll continue. The other novel — the realer one — is turning out pretty well. Late last year, I also wrote most of the follow-up to my “novel” “The Most Gorgeous Situation in Korea”, which, in addition to being a bit longer, is also a lot less wanting of quotation marks around the word “novel”.

Anyway, I just wanted to link this song here. If I find the time to finish the next Gorgeous Situation, you will of course all be notified immediately.