BOOK NO. 2 ALERT :: So damned proud to announce today that @rejectionlit and I have put the finishing touches on the follow up to Plain Clothes Hamburglar. Out July 4th, available only at UFC on the White House lawn!! Thx @dt_robbins and @jefflengerdesign
SXSW 2016
We braved every single element known to dude to get to the reimagining of SXSW last week (this week?). The bizarre Thursday to the following Wednesday timeline of SX 2026 made us think that we didn’t want to play their exact game so we flew to Austin on Friday the 13th (later finding a Chuckie cutout that we wanted at Sagebrush) and we left two days early because Ghostnote is not about doing it the way everyone else does. One of us got out of a foot of snow left by a blizzard the day before and the other guy got clocked hard in the jaw by a nasty wind storm that dicked over the Midwest for half the day, leaving us travelers spoiled rotten by the ten-dollar Miller Lites and demonic delays. But we got there and we partied as if we didn’t get shortchanged.
While on the ground working the streets, we came upon our first-ever stick concierge, our millionth trip to Sam’s BBQ (with the finest faded photograph patina a weirdo for a taste for things like that could ever want) and an old woman who’d recently lost two old cats who sold us a Cookie Monster pinata that had seen better days but we wanted to show it one more. We took him to the Paste party at High Noon where we knew he’d be welcomed on stage by Dad Country Jonny Fritz and his esteemed cohort Albert Hickman. He got into a fruckus and wound up crowd surfing. We got him back and soon he could be yours.
New discoveries that we were psyched to learn about were as follows :: Next of Kin, Spencer Thomas, Swapmeet, Jack Fister, TI’s son Buddy Red, Diles Que No Me Maten (which is a Spanish-singing version of Chet Baker doing sad boi emo songs) and the embroidery/trucker hat outfit Trash Flowers. Old things that we reconfirmed rule very hard :: David Ramirez, Jeff Dazy, Kirby Brown, She Returns From War, Dylan Earl, Rattlesnake Milk, Cotton Clifton himself (but we DID learn that his crawfish boiling skills are tiiiight), Liz Cooper and smash burgers (the food).
We will return. I’m sure of it. For more pinatas at the very least.
- Sean Moeller
Ghostnote: Create, Connect, Collect.
Ghostnote On The Road: NYC (Day 2)
We found out that the spaghetti mafia is alive and well in New York City and they might be colluding with the Ministry of Lamination. We can’t be sure. We haven’t seen any celebrities yet and it’s a drag. Two pigeons got in our way when we were just trying to get dumplings and spicy beef soups. We found a book that will teach us how to sell sex and art at Spoonbill and Sugartown. Bought two 45-year-old boxes of German-made Marlboro matches for giggles and then found god at the Lucky Dog, which featured bathroom decay in the distinct shape of ET along with an homage to Eddie Meehan, an original hipster and fireman. Alan let us help him with the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle before we hung with road warrior Darryl Rahn and Renny Conti of the indie group HUT. Comic Zach Pugh popped by in his Phoenix Suns Starter jacket and we talked Saturday Night Live and demons and dogs, over 24 ouncers. The crispy night wound to The Commodore for Caddyshack on the small TV and late night tuna melts and nachos. The Ghostnote team was complete and tuckered out from all the precision hangs. Classic Ghostnote BS.
- Sean Moeller
Ghostnote On The Road: NYC (Day 1)
The Ghostnote early arrivals touched down just before sundown Monday evening and were greeted by snowless streets, something we hadn’t seen in weeks. We passed one of the good McDonalds on the way to the Moxy, which features a blue fiberglass popsicle and cologne pumped through the lobby vents. They also have pickleball and our old man limbs tingled and sang. We dropped bags in our room and found some Korean BBQ and red four blocks down. From there, the kind folks at the Bowery Ballroom found two extra spots for us to catch MJ Lenderman, Katie Crutchfield/Waxahatchee, Allison Crutchfield and Brad Cook’s new supergroup Snocaps with Kentucky greats Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band. It was a packed house and we slam dunked all over the cool kids quotient we hoped to meet. The night ended with Pacificos at The Globe with some raccoons and then Triscuits and cheese in our bunks. Priceless.
- Sean Moeller
Once you’ve tasted spicy deliciousness you’ll do ANYTHING to taste it de nuevo.
Proud to present our own Devin Allbaugh wearing Sean Moeller’s shirt in Thirsty Vaquero’s heist feature piece exclusive.
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Sean Moeller, the booker of countless acts at Davenport’s @raccoonmotel , heads next door to @ragged_records and @trashcanannie78 for another episode of Favorite Finds with KALA!
Catch the FULL EPISODE at the link in our bio!
One of the most important movies in my impressionable days was That Thing You Do. It was up there with Bull Durham, La Bamba, Back To School, Roxanne, Howard The Duck and Adventures In Babysitting. One of the most important albums in my impressionable days was Live at Bonbonniere by The Candy Butchers. Mike Viola is the voice of Jimmy, the lead singer of the Wonders in That Thing You Do and he’s the lead singer of the Candy Butchers. He’s one of my favorite voices and songwriters and we had ourselves a morning, following a night out at Healing Force of the Universe with Jonny Fritz and Chris Crofton. He built out a monster room in his house – painted the walls blood red and filled it with the creepy crawly characters from his youth, Grandpa Munster, Uncle Fester, Dr. Zaius and more. The only place I want to be is that monster room.
Los Angeles through @moellernights eyes:
Maust
Straight from the airport and an early flight, I parked the silver Nissan in the fryer grease and piss stained parking lot of the Astro Family Restaurant. Cold War Kids bassist Matt Maust met me in the orange booth. Two booths down was Stephan Malkmus/Steve Harrington from Stranger Things portrayer Joe Keery. We got a BLT and a meatloaf platter. From there we moved on to his shared studio, with stuck upon piles of pieces of art, lying and fermenting in their subtlety, patient for their picked up imperfections. Maust’s art is masterful in its festering and unfussiness and has been the prominent look and feel of the CWKs since the band started. Stacks of inspiration and globs of paint, look books and mood stingers litter the floor and form heaps in corners, every inch of the space original and demanding. We checked out a Henry Taylor exhibit at Hauser & Wirth, with half nails and buttons trapped in the floor of an old cotton mill. A side room held black cotton trees and paintings featuring eyes that ran circles. With a fake Mike Watt seated near us, I had a kolsch, Maust had a pilsner, then we both had a kolsch and a pilsner. He thumbtacked Bruce Dern Bruce Dern to a community wall and we looked at some Cindy Crawford.
- Sean Moeller
What a brilliant time last night 🥰🫶🔥which all started on Sunday when we were reunited with @stelthulvang and @heavydiamondring ! More to come about that, but for now make sure to find us in IOWA @raccoonmotel this Saturday, July 26th at 12:30 in the afternoon for a sweet outdoor show. @moellernights is bringing us around. Find us Davenport! We wanna zee ya 🦓
HUGE NEWS!!! Plain Clothes Hamburglar comes to Los Angeles for a special one on Monday night!! Reading from the book and having a few cool homies play some songs! Come hang out. Grab FREE tickets on DICE, on Gold Diggers or in bio!! This is gonna be very fun!!
The poems in Sean Moeller’s ‘Plain Clothes Hamburglar’ “are not drive-thru poems,” writes @rahelgatian . “They want to wrap around the reader’s mind, they want to give the reader pause.” Read the full review at the link in our bio.
BBUDZ Episode 13: Abarrotes Carrillo w/ Hembree & The Boys
“The Breakfast Budz would like to apologize, somewhat profusely, for our time apart. They had no good reasons for dicking you out of the premium, silly butt content you’ve come to tolerate from them. But here they are, back with a lost episode, a stunning new theme song, more handsome men than ever before, some sloppy eating and at least a loose promise that there could be a season two. If you’re good. If the freaks get hungry again.“ -Sean ‘Ska’ Moeller
