Formerly of littlejeans, the BunkBeds, the Haunted Pines, and Kitty Hawk, lovehandles has played music all over this land, from Mililani to San Francisco to Arlington to Portland. I first met the personage who would become lovehandles in an undergraduate screenwriting class, where he had me listen to a cassette of his acoustic multi-tracked cover of the Beatles' "Real Love" on his Walkman. Ever since that moment, lovehandles has consistently flipped my wig with the breadth of his talent and taste.
Following the music career of the artist formerly known as Tommy for the past seven or eight years--as both a collaborator and a fan--has delivered one revelation after the other. His first cassette complilations were what I might call, if I chose to wear the shit-stained music reviewer's hat, "ad hoc indie folk guitar pop," but lovehandles is not the kind of artist that should be judged by the crippled measurements so commonly used to classify guitar-based songs. In fact, lovehandles is a different kind of artist altogether.
Whereas many musicians exploit their lives as material to create an artificial statement of their feelings, lovehandles' life is his music. His songs are not abstract and miserable musings on the injustice of existence; rather, they are vibrant photographs of a particular moment when he felt a particular thing particularly. Each lovehandles song celebrates a moment and feeling in all of its wonder, and the immensity of his output is testament to the limitless number of transcendent moments, the chasms and the pinnacles, a person can experience from one day to the next.
You can check out the newest lovehandles recordings on his myspace page here:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=20292258
And you can also see videos for his "skeleton smiles" and "yesyesyes" here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG2Ip805wgc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rDZGWOXy6s
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