adapted from the name of a character in John Barth's 'The Sot Weed Factor.'

I play "live" most weekdays around lunch hour at Warner Park in Woodland Hills, CA. I'll be making up songs in the bandshell.

Mike Borgsdorf records at home with help from friends like the Furbish Lousewort. Grew up with piano, punk rock drums in high school, acoustic dorm room jams, plugged in to electric traditional american rock & roll in the basements and bars of East Lansing MI. Cover tunes gave way to original manic hippie prog punk. Improvisational 'jam band' style held sway in popularity, so a dual musical personality was forged for simultaneous split band adventures. Interpersonal travails led to forging living room 4-track partnerships. A move to Los Angeles led to bass playing in the shiny little pop combo Uluteka to the enjoyment of dozens in the hipster bars of Hollywood. Dissolution, reevaluation led to current non-band solo and collaborative park playing, home recording status.

Creaking, dusty, rattling things. Vegetables and vegetation. Steve Stills and Califone. Lunar cycles, wind and weather. Sparklehorse and Neil Young. Suburban sprawl. If Joe Walsh and George Clinton went on a camping trip. Seasons and seasoning.

the San Fernando Valley. The imaginary campfire singalong that's always going on in my head, somewhere between my backyard and the Good Hart ghost town.

old guitars that I've had for a long time. broken acoustic lap-style frankenslide with nut extender (lifts and separates). whatever's around in the garage.

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