10 Questions - Amanda Hand

Welcome to FWN's 10 Questions. We are pleased to showcase the quiz responses from Amanda Hand of two-headed fuzz pop dream, Big Heaven. 

Besides tomorrow's ZineFest at Shipping & Receiving (6p), you can catch them at Tin Panther Friday 3/9 (9p). Amanda will play solo at Grackle Art Gallery 3/24 (7p) as well. Big Heaven will be recording a follow-up to their exquisite EP Strike a Match later this spring. -- LB

1) With which animals do you share your home?

BB the chihuahua mix and Spencer the pitbull mix. Multiple nameless fish.

2) Most likely Pop Culture Alien Overlord?

The Kardashian/Jenner/West/Whoevers.

Look Sharp + Live Smart.

3) What can’t you live without?

Music, kindness & coffee

4) Most Important Morning After Food?

Cheese toast

5) Personal Symbol of Freedom?

My band

6) Build a Bridge or Open a Door?

Open a door, to return the favor to those who opened doors for me

7) Super Hero Alter Ego?

Rogue (just don't touch me, ok?)

8) Who’s your favorite Underdog to Root for?

Orange Starburst

9) Given the choice to come back as any animal, which one would you choose?

Shark

10) Most important person with the initials MJ from history and why?

Mary H. Jones, better known as Mother Jones.

Strike a Match by Big Heaven, released 07 January 2018 1. Creature 2. Jim Smells Like Weed 3. Pearls 4. Rock Bottom

I Like This Song - Animal Spirit's "Doom Surf"

I Like This Song celebrates songs by local bands sans clichéd music journo over-analysis.

The furthest we take the dissection of songs featured here is, well, you guessed it: "I Like This Song." 

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Today's featured song and accompanying music video comes from Animal Spirit and their soon-to-be-released album "This is Relevant," due out in February.

New music from this wondrous Fort Worth band started my 2017 on the right foot when they released the above vid for "Doom Surf" this past New Year's Day.    

If this track is a harbinger of what's to come, get stoked about their new record Fort Worthians.

Wait for it. Wait for it.

#Wait4It

*waiting*

*still waiting*

*ok, this is getting ridiculous*

I.

like.

this.

song.

Image via Animal Spirit's Facebook Page

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about the word writer person:

Prewitt Scott-Jackson writes Dad poetry & short fiction when he's not hyping and typing for Fort Worth Noise. His writing can be found in Ghost City Press (New York), Five 2 One Magazine (Los Angeles), Prairie Schooner (University of Nebraska Press) and Sick Lit Magazine (Texas), among others. He prefers short walks on the beach because – and I quote – “It’s really hard to walk on sand.”

10 Questions Interview - Vincent Neil Emerson

Welcome to FWN's 10 Questions Interview. We are honored to have Fort Worth's Vincent Neil Emerson join us today. Be sure to catch him live at Granada Theater next Friday Jan. 20th as he rounds out an amazing lineup feat. Eleven Hundred Springs and Billy Joe Shaver. 

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Image via Vincent Neil Emerson Facebook Page

1. Dogs or Cats? Why?

VNE: Dogs. Because I've never met a dog that made my eyes itch.

2. Aliens. Do they exist?

VNE: Oh hayl yeah. Of course. You never saw Men In Black?

3. Drug of choice? (None is not an option btw)

VNE: Beef jerky.

4. Brown or white gravy? (Neither is not an option btw)

VNE: Any gravy is my favorite kind of gravy.

5. Favorite weapon of mass destruction?

VNE: Did they ever find those?

6. Favorite marsupial?

VNE: Clam Chowder.

7. Favorite Superhero?

VNE: QuailMan.

8. Did Dez catch it?

VNE: I wonder how many people are gunna answer this with "I don't know, but he should probably see a doctor!"

9. When you die, if you were given the choice to come back as any animal, which would you choose?

VNE: It would be tight to be a lobster.

10. The best MJ is: Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Mike Jones, or Milla Jovovich?

VNE: Michael Jordan. Because Space Jam was my...

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about the word writer person:

Prewitt Scott-Jackson writes Dad poetry & short fiction when he's not hyping and typing for Fort Worth Noise. His writing can be found in Ghost City Press (New York), Five 2 One Magazine (Los Angeles), Prairie Schooner (University of Nebraska Press) and Sick Lit Magazine (Texas), among others. He prefers short walks on the beach because – and I quote – “It’s really hard to walk on sand.”