DES ARK

@desark / desark.tumblr.com

Anonymous asked:

Nikos in Drm here. Have a question--is being a musician working out? do you think you'll be able to do it for the long haul? Just wondering! As always, I'm curious and, of course, jealous of your talent and creativity and will to keep going. As I get close to 50, I wonder what's going on and I'm trying to play some music again--in another vein, but it's incredibly hard, and I'm just not that gifted. signed-Eeyore

this message is from one of the best musicians i ever knew in NC. just goes to show, it really is so hard for everyone, we're all fucked up, questioning ourselves, thinking we don't got something we most definitely probably got. love you nikos, i hope you're doing something that brings you joy and confidence, my thoughts now are....if you're worse without it then you keep going, if it's making you fold in on yourself then you quit it. it's just a math problem, i guess. sometimes when im having a hard time, i think about quantum mechanics and how it seems to suggest that somewhere, many wheres, so many other dimensions, there is a nikos (more likely there are many, many nikos') shredding harder than ever and loving every second of it. i like to think about all the dimensions where aimée is not struggling, and then I try to imagine standing in a crowd of aimées, soaking in their energy, just the ease with which they are moving through their lives, all the joy they feel in their dimensions that i often struggle to feel here in mine. i believe in them, that they're out there, and that they're me. i dont know if they believe in me, or see me, it doesn't matter, they don't have to. they are happy where they are, so i just try to connect with them when i can.

noisilyminiaturegiver-blog asked:

Love your song titles! How do you come up with them?

long car rides with friends, deep exhaustion, trauma induced a+ sense of humor

johnecollins92 asked:

Is "Don Taco" in Double C tuning and is the intro one continuous banjo part, or two banjo parts overlapped?

WHAT?!?!! you're talking to me in fancy language. it's one banjo. double c i only know for bras

Anonymous asked:

Hey Aimée, has that Rickenbacker 650c you play, ever had anything to do with Dave Laney? :) I am sure I saw him playing it...or something identical then. GRG

HA. yes. dave sold me his guitar to buy some new fancy guild. shortly after this very bad investment, his bandmate tripped over the new guitar, breaking it beyond repair. that new guitar sucked anyway, so he re-purchased a different 650c... well, it never played as good as the one he sold to me. but that's a dave laney problem, not an aimée argote problem. dave recently became my neighbor. it's been 15 years since that "situation". we still fight about this weekly.

ryanwolfwins asked:

will you come to portland again? I was working in the arctic circle last time you were here. ryan wolf

humble brag. also, no.

faultyfoundation-blog asked:

How did your voice get to be so amazing? What influences you the most, in life?

i got my astro chart read. the only notes i took were:

"your house of creativity is connected to your house of suffering."

chuckb53 asked:

Hi my name is Dante Castro from No. 14 Studios in Somerville, MA. Our studiospecializes in live concert recording. We would love to record your entire set at Obrien's on 11/17/11 . Our rates are $150 for just audio, $200 audio and video,$250 for audio, video and photos.We have a 16 channel mobile Pro Tools rig, all of our studio mics, and a NikonDSLR camera. After recording the show we will edit, mix, master the audioand resync the video for a finished product. All post services are included.

wait are you paying us? sure.

danielmautz-blog asked:

What banjo tuning do you use for Don Taco?

the don taco tuning

viewsfromthisbranch asked:

how do you like making crepes? (lemon meringue with strawberries?!! well done.)

never, and i mean NEVER, work for your family business. lol.

mytherapistsayshotdamnband asked:

Do you guys plan to tour the UK ever....? x

We never did. I wanted to. Our french & german friends always told us how hard it is to tour the UK, but the americans we talked to told us...it's just like touring the US. :) BYOTreats I think is what they meant.

mcberio-blog asked:

Hey Ms Argote, I f*cking love your songs (if not always the recording production). Would be awesome to collaborate on some music with you (but I'm in London UK), if you ever write with other people? For your amusement I made a wallowing piano version of Two Hearts Are Better Than One but tumblr won't let me include a link.... pfff. If your interested maybe I can get the link to you some other way?

This is such a classic email I get. strunk and white could have included a whole chapter about how dudes address female/femme presenting artists. Compliment > dilute the compliment > ask > assume > ask. Makes me laugh every time. Anyway, my answer is no.

brettmaddux asked:

You wrote just now on twitter about $1,200 for an "experiential" trip. If that means you put out another record, I will front that. Gladly. Send me signed copies of all former records, signed "I hate you Brett" obviously, and name the experiential record "Fuck Brett Maddux" and come play it in Hartford, CT, and I will straight up give you $1,200. This is a serious offer.

Sending this person love. In general. Wherever they are.

Anonymous asked:

Hi, my name is Jason. This morning I was researching some family history and wound up finding you: the unsuccessful NC state senate run made by my grandfather, Robert Lee Jolley, in 1964 produced the campaign slogan 'Send Jolley to Raleigh'. I was just wondering how you came upon that tag, and what inspired you to appropriate it. At any rate, I'll have to dust off my old 506 membership to make your show next month.

My best friend for many years shared a grandpa with you. i know nothing about him or his campaign but i did steal his line. secret's out!! cute little rhyme.

iam--here asked:

Do you think it is possible to rekindle a friendship after sexual tension (sex, then tension) has interrupted it? Also, are you playing "Yes Sir, Yes Way" on this tour?

I found my tumblr login & all these unanswered questions. it's pure fucking chaos in here. let me show you. is anyone on tumblr anymore? im going to answer these now. 10 years late.

Home sick today, reminiscing abt this very important film @_sea_of_ice_ & I made last week (volume at 11, please). #queercinema #film #frenchfilm #jeanlucgodard #tomwaits #urbanoutfitters #winterfun

#jeanlucgodard #winterfun #urbanoutfitters #frenchfilm #tomwaits #film #queercinema

desark reblogged

On the Women’s March ‘Guiding Vision’ and its inclusion of Sex Workers

I am proud of the work I’ve done as part of the Women’s March policy table – a collection of women and folk engaged in crucial feminist, racial and social justice work across various intersections in our country. I helped draft the vision and I wrote the line “…and we stand in solidarity with sex workers’ rights movements.” It is not a statement that is controversial to me because as a trans woman of color who grew up in low-income communities and who advocates, resists, dreams and writes alongside these communities, I know that underground economies are essential parts of the lived realities of women and folk. I know sex work to be work. It’s not something I need to tiptoe around. It’s not a radical statement. It’s a fact. My work and my feminism rejects respectability politics, whorephobia, slut-shaming and the misconception that sex workers, or folks engaged in the sex trades by choice or circumstance, need to be saved, that they are colluding with the patriarchy by “selling their bodies.” I reject the continual erasure of sex workers from our feminisms because we continue to conflate sex work with the brutal reality of coercion and trafficking. I reject the policing within and outside women’s movements that shames, scapegoats, rejects, erases and shuns sex workers. I cannot speak to the internal conflicts at the Women’s March that have led to the erasure of the line I wrote for our collective vision but I have been assured that the line will remain in OUR document. The conflicts that may have led to its temporary editing will not leave until we, as feminists, respect THE rights of every woman and person to do what they want with their body and their lives. We will not be free until those most marginalized, most policed, most ridiculed, pushed out and judged are centered. There are no throwaway people, and I hope every sex worker who has felt shamed by this momentarily erasure shows up to their local March and holds the collective accountable to our vast, diverse, complicated realities.

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Last year we went up to NYC & recorded this short quiet session for Daytrotter/Paste Magazine; couple unrecorded things + some familiars (playing my beloved custom tenor from Wes Lambe Guitars!!). Session came out really nicely. Plus you know it's a truly #authentic & #professional Des performance bc I forgot my own lyrics. Thanks Daytrotter & Paste folks, who have always been & will probably always be the best. Happy snow day everyone!

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