My old band, Marathon, has some announcements: MARATHON Announces Reunion Show Lineups And Live Album/Video Release Reunion Ticket Pre-salesWe are pleased to announce the details for our reunion shows on Friday, February 28th at St Vitus in Brooklyn, NY and Saturday, March 1st at Lovin’ Cup in Rochester, NY. We invited some old friends to play to maximize quality and fun. It’s gonna be a blast! Hope you’ll be joining us. Presale tickets available at MarathonArmy.com. The venues fit a couple hundred people and we have no idea if they will sell out so we recommend buying early. (If you are buying a ticket for the Brooklyn show, make sure you follow the link at the top to the TicketFly page.) Show lineups are below. If you can’t make it to the shows, you can still go to MarathonArmy.com to get a t-shirt or poster, designed by the incomparable Richard Minino of Horse Bites Design. Live Album/Video On May 20th, 2006, Marathon played (what we thought was) our last show for a packed house at The Furnace in Syracuse. We recorded the show, and though it’s no Frampton Comes Alive!, it’s a document of what we were as a band at one of our finest moments. We once planned on releasing this as a DVD, but we are in the digital age, my friends…and we are lazy. We finally got our act together, and with the help of a few friends, we polished the footage as best we could, and you can watch the full set on Youtube. Additionally, the audio tracks of this show are available on Bandcamp for pay-what-you-like download as the album Live At The Furnace 2006. Finally, our vinyl S/T record is still available over at Secret Audio Club. We’ll have them at the merch table at the show, too. We hope to see you at the shows!- Marathontwitter.com/Marathon_2013 Friday, February 28, 2014St. Vitus1120 Manhattan AveBrooklyn, NY 11222Doors at 7, Music at 8, $15, 18+With No Trigger, Fire When Ready, Oscar Albis Rodriguez Saturday, March 1, 2014Lovin’ CupDoors at 8, Music at 9, $16, All Ages 300 Park Point Dr, #101Rochester, NY 14623With Fire When Ready, No Trigger, Soul Control, Benny Beyond
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My old band, Marathon, has some announcements:

MARATHON Announces Reunion Show Lineups And Live Album/Video Release

Reunion Ticket Pre-sales
We are pleased to announce the details for our reunion shows on Friday, February 28th at St Vitus in Brooklyn, NY and Saturday, March 1st at Lovin’ Cup in Rochester, NY.  We invited some old friends to play to maximize quality and fun.  It’s gonna be a blast!  Hope you’ll be joining us.  Presale tickets available at MarathonArmy.com.  The venues fit a couple hundred people and we have no idea if they will sell out so we recommend buying early.  (If you are buying a ticket for the Brooklyn show, make sure you follow the link at the top to the TicketFly page.)  Show lineups are below.

If you can’t make it to the shows, you can still go to MarathonArmy.com to get a t-shirt or poster, designed by the incomparable Richard Minino of Horse Bites Design.

Live Album/Video

On May 20th, 2006, Marathon played (what we thought was) our last show for a packed house at The Furnace in Syracuse.  We recorded the show, and though it’s no Frampton Comes Alive!, it’s a document of what we were as a band at one of our finest moments.  We once planned on releasing this as a DVD, but we are in the digital age, my friends…and we are lazy.  We finally got our act together, and with the help of a few friends, we polished the footage as best we could, and you can watch the full set on Youtube.  Additionally, the audio tracks of this show are available on Bandcamp for pay-what-you-like download as the album Live At The Furnace 2006. 

Finally, our vinyl S/T record is still available over at Secret Audio Club.  We’ll have them at the merch table at the show, too. 

We hope to see you at the shows!
- Marathon
twitter.com/Marathon_2013

Friday, February 28, 2025
St. Vitus
1120 Manhattan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Doors at 7, Music at 8, $15, 18+
With No Trigger, Fire When Ready, Oscar Albis Rodriguez

Saturday, March 1, 2025
Lovin’ Cup
Doors at 8, Music at 9, $16, All Ages  
300 Park Point Dr, #101
Rochester, NY 14623
With Fire When Ready, No Trigger, Soul Control, Benny Beyond

My first Portland show in awhile… (Note that I’ve apparently gained local legend status…finally!)
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My first Portland show in awhile…  (Note that I’ve apparently gained local legend status…finally!)

They’re real! Marathon (my old band) on vinyl, pre-orders going live at noon EST. Go get one! (Seriously, go get one.) Marathon will also be doing a couple reunion shows, Feb 28 and Mar 1. Details TBA, somewhere in the NY/NJ area. Start following @Marathon_2013 for the most current updates!
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They’re real!  Marathon (my old band) on vinyl, pre-orders going live at noon EST.  Go get one!  (Seriously, go get one.)

Marathon will also be doing a couple reunion shows, Feb 28 and Mar 1.  Details TBA, somewhere in the NY/NJ area.  Start following @Marathon_2013 for the most current updates!

Blogs from the Inside has moved! My friend Bruce, whose incredible blog about his experiences inside prison was once hosted here, has taken up residence at his new tumblr page, Incarca. It’s a blog dedicated to prison activism through art, visibility, fashion, dialogue, music, and media. And he’s taking submissions! Get in on the discussion.
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Blogs from the Inside has moved!  My friend Bruce, whose incredible blog about his experiences inside prison was once hosted here, has taken up residence at his new tumblr page, Incarca.  It’s a blog dedicated to prison activism through art, visibility, fashion, dialogue, music, and media.  And he’s taking submissions!  Get in on the discussion.

Portland! I’m playing a show tomorrow. That’s right, I’m not on the flyer…last minute addition! Katie O'Brien’s, 2809 NE Sandy Blvd. I play first, get there by 9ish!See you there, - Aaron
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Portland!  I’m playing a show tomorrow.  That’s right, I’m not on the flyer…last minute addition!  Katie O'Brien’s, 2809 NE Sandy Blvd.  I play first, get there by 9ish!


See you there,

- Aaron

(Photo by Tim Hunt!) This is what I did last weekend. I was transported to a simpler time…an easier time. A time when I lived in a town where everywhere worth going was within walking distance. When my commute to work was a path through the gorge. When my friends and I made music that was, if not great, at least unequivocal. When I didn’t worry about 34 year-old worries; I did 26 year-old things. I have no regrets, and life is still as it should be, I suppose. But goddamn, Fire When Ready was a great band. And as of last Saturday, they still are. Thanks to Steve, Brandon, Justin, Travis, Oscar, and Phil. You bring me back, and keep me there…where I belong.
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(Photo by Tim Hunt!)  

This is what I did last weekend.  I was transported to a simpler time…an easier time.  A time when I lived in a town where everywhere worth going was within walking distance.  When my commute to work was a path through the gorge.  When my friends and I made music that was, if not great, at least unequivocal.  When I didn’t worry about 34 year-old worries; I did 26 year-old things.  I have no regrets, and life is still as it should be, I suppose.  But goddamn, Fire When Ready was a great band.  And as of last Saturday, they still are.  Thanks to Steve, Brandon, Justin, Travis, Oscar, and Phil.  You bring me back, and keep me there…where I belong.

Ithaca Show Is ON! (Okay, it’s actually in Danby, just outside of Ithaca.) An old friend recently moved to town and offered to open his home for the show. I am super-excited about this. Two great local performers are joining the fun, and it should be a blast. Thanks to the incomparably generous Matt Gauck for letting me poach his artwork for this weird-looking flyer. If you come to this show, consider sticking around town for the huge Big Day In show the following day. Fire When Ready (reunion!), Oscar Albis Rodriguez, Batista, Summer People, and a lot of other great bands for only 5 bucks!
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Ithaca Show Is ON!  (Okay, it’s actually in Danby, just outside of Ithaca.)  An old friend recently moved to town and offered to open his home for the show.  I am super-excited about this.  Two great local performers are joining the fun, and it should be a blast.  Thanks to the incomparably generous Matt Gauck for letting me poach his artwork for this weird-looking flyer.

 If you come to this show, consider sticking around town for the huge Big Day In show the following day.  Fire When Ready (reunion!), Oscar Albis Rodriguez, Batista, Summer People, and a lot of other great bands for only 5 bucks!

Brooklyn show! My triumphant return to the East Coast! (Clarifying statement: not entirely sure over whom I’m triumphing, and it’s more of a one-stop-shop than it is coastal-visit. That said, if you know anyone in Ithaca who is down with me playing in their living room and inviting a few strangers for the following day, please please please let me know!) - Aaron
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Brooklyn show!  My triumphant return to the East Coast!

(Clarifying statement: not entirely sure over whom I’m triumphing, and it’s more of a one-stop-shop than it is coastal-visit.  That said, if you know anyone in Ithaca who is down with me playing in their living room and inviting a few strangers for the following day, please please please let me know!)

- Aaron

Song Tabs, Part I

With some nudging from my pal Clayne, I put together the chords for Tires and Mint.  I’m working on getting more of my songs on paper like this, but here’s a start:

Tires and Mint
Am G7 Am G7  C E
Am G7 Am G7  C E
Am G7 Am G7  C E

Am               G7            Am

bright, the flash of the knife
               G7                C                              E
blinding glimmers of light bouncing back off the scalpel
Am             G7             Am
shrill, the whine of the drill
      G7            C                         E             
the sickening chill of spinning steel ‘gainst the nerve
Am             G7             Am
choke, the heat of the smoke
      G7                     C                         E       
the blood starts to soak the smell of burning molars 
Am             G7             Am
pain, his words are deranged
          G7                   C                 E       
we’re gonna try this one without novocain

Am G7 Am G7  C E

Am      G7            Am
fangs, sparsely arranged
  G7               C                              E       
i hate to complain but this looks kind of strange
Am             G7            Am
doubt, just pull the rest out 
  G7                  C                               E       
i think that my mouth would be fine with some dentures
Am        G7       Am
shit, aw sonofabitch
          G7          C                         E       
something is amiss, why is the dentist swearing
Am           G7               Am
attack, of copper and wax
       G7                 C                              E       
my gums turning black pull back the molds and you’ll find 
E                         E                                                 C
bloody designs, my mouth is a fire-bombed skyline

                                 G                             Am
a bony playground geek hiding secrets in my cheeks
                E
never smiling
C                                     G                                     Am                                      E
they teased my snaggleteeth now this butcher’s carving me like holiday turkey

Am G7 Am G7  C E

Am           G7                 Am
grin, now stick out your chin
         G7            C                       E     
we’ll glue porcelain onto those nasty chompers
Dm         Am                 G
see you next time and thank you for the potty mouth 
Dm                     Am           E          Am
now i’m kissing asses and eating shit 
Dm          Am             G                                                Dm             Am          E 
have the magazines send down a photographer for my before-and-after pics

Am G7 Am G7  C E

Am            G7               Am
stunned, i rinse off my gums
      G7          C                           E       
the lingering scum tastes like tires and mint
Am             G7            Am
alive, somehow i survived
       G7             C                          E       

the dentists hi-five and say now you’re perfect 

Another new song! I contributed to one of the tracks on The Animals of Ambivalence, a 5-song EP. It’s a collection of collaborations between Katy Otto (of Trophy Wife, Del Cielo, Bald Rapunzel, and a bunch of other great bands) and various musician-friends of hers. Katy wrote the lyrics for our song, “Owl”, and I performed the music and vocals (with some additional instrumentation help from my buddy Oscar of Ghost Robot Ninja Bear). I’m particularly excited to share it because I think it’s a slightly different style of acoustic music from what I’ve normally written. You can download a track from the record and purchase the CD on the Exotic Fever website. Go for it!
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Another new song!  I contributed to one of the tracks on The Animals of Ambivalence, a 5-song EP.  It’s a collection of collaborations between Katy Otto (of Trophy Wife, Del Cielo, Bald Rapunzel, and a bunch of other great bands) and various musician-friends of hers.  Katy wrote the lyrics for our song, “Owl”, and I performed the music and vocals (with some additional instrumentation help from my buddy Oscar of Ghost Robot Ninja Bear).  I’m particularly excited to share it because I think it’s a slightly different style of acoustic music from what I’ve normally written.  You can download a track from the record and purchase the CD on the Exotic Fever website.  Go for it!