I tried to make this theme as basic as possible. It uses one plugin (which you can find in the plugin folder within the zip file) to include a flickr feed. Just drop the “flickrrss.php” file in your plugins directory and activate within the dashboard. You can set how many photos appear in the feed, I’d suggest staying with multiples of 4 to keep the design balanced.

The theme also includes a prototype-based tab effect (via stereotabs) that allows users to browse latest posts, comments and tags. The front page is set up to show excerpts of your 4 latest posts, and also includes a mini-nav in the upper right side to allow for page navigating.

Download:

• Simply Ornate “Twirl II” (blue)
• Simply Ornate “D.A.R.K.” (military green)
• Simply Ornate “Pinkie” (pink)
• Simply Ornate “Pixel Gray” (grayscale)
• Simply Ornate “Royal Red” (deep red)

Please leave the footer intact as is, with links to both EvanEckard.com and DinPattern.com for usage. Feel free to modify any themes as well. If you do, send me a link so I can check it out – Enjoy!

Feel free to hack it anyway you see fit; all that I request is that you keep the logo (or link) at the bottom of the site.

To switch from logo to link, simply rename “footer-link.php” to “footer.php”

Also, there are a few different color versions of the shield up top for you to choose or manipulate.  Just garb the one you want, tweak it and rename it “shield.gif.” Drop the new version into the images directory to change.

Enjoy!

Feel free to add, remove or tweak any part of the theme, just please keep the link back intact. Thanks and enjoy!

The only issue is, I don’t have a business card that works across all audiences. My card right now is very generic, trying to cover all bases and impress anyone enough to pick up the phone and give me a call.

I went to a concert a few weeks back, for the sole purpose of checking out one band and talking to one of the members specifically. It’s hard to be prepared to chat with someone at a show – it’s usually total chaos and hard to pin anyone down. Then when you do, good luck finding a pen or a scrap of paper to write down any info. I can’t write on the back of one of my cards, cause whoops, it’s printed double-sided.

1. Promenade
2. God Help You Dumb Boy
3. 17 Lashes
4. The Cold House Hymns
5. Belle’s Palsy
6. Mother Is A Carpegian
7. Sleep Sweet Countrymen
8. King Of Men
9. Oh Lord, Why Have You Been So Cruel To Me?

I have become less than a man,

November 23, 2005

By G. Moses “theonlytruegeo” (Men…Of…The…Sea!)

Our Lady of the Broken Spine may initially disappoint fans of Reverend Glasseye’s superlative debut album, Black River Falls. In the four-year gap between the two, it’s only natural that their sound should not have remained static, but initially the change is a little disorienting. There is considerably less of the “midnight cabaret” vibe on Our Lady; it sounds, if not exactly anything approaching “conventional,” then less aggressively stylized. MUCH less like Tom Waits. This at first disappointed the Waits fan in me, but the music here is strong enough to ultimately sweep away any misgivings.

The Reverend has always had great lyrics, even if they have frequently been nearly indecipherable; thankfully, this time they’re included in the booklet. Thematically, this is actually a much more unified record than its predecessor: nearly all the songs are first-person narratives delivered by people who are horribly, cripplingly damaged-physically, mentally, spiritually, or, more often, some combination. Hence, the album’s title: Our Lady being presumably their patron saint. They desperately struggle to escape their burdens, but-naturally-their efforts are inevitably doomed.

Take “Mother Is a Carpegian.” The narrator rails against, and exacts horrible revenge on, a man who has seduced (or that he imagines might seduce) his daughter, as he exhibits a strange fascination with genetics: “I’ve got a daughter and she looks like me/well she oughta, she’s got half of my genes.” This is one seriously deranged individual; the song would be good enough as it is, but then at the end we queasily come to realize that the narrator’s concern for his daughter is not entirely paternal in nature. It’s deadly effective, and illustrates the band’s increasing lyrical sophistication.

Or look at “The Cold House Hymns,” which is pure coal-black Southern Gothic. It begins with the narrator at his birth praying to be able to exact violent Old Testament retribution on his parents: “Let my small hands grow stronger so I may hammer away your wrongs;” and ends with him setting fire to the house in question in an effort at achieving transcendence via immolation: “There’s a fire! There’s a fire in the cold house!/Planks rustle, the windows they crack/The Lord, the Lord bequeathed me a gift/I beg my master to take it back.” Quite potent. Or my favorite, the wonderfully-titled “God Help You Dumb Boy,” in which he rages futilely against his own impotence: “But I can’t load the bullets and I can’t use a gun/I can’t have no children so I can’t have a son/I can’t get up early, so nothing will grow/I’ll lay on my land `til the Sun hangs low/’til the sun hangs low.” It evokes to me the same sense of apocalyptic, eschatological allegory as did “3 Ton Chain” from BRF.

This is just skimming the surface, of course. Some songs are a bit weaker than others, but overall, this is a dense and fascinating album. Let’s hope we don’t have to wait another four years for the next one.

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