30th ANNIVERSARY
PAUL FLUM has been recording your favorite songs for the last THIRTY years. He began his odyssey in Baltimore circa 1992 as Doug Shanahan, playing bass and singing in the grunge-famed trio HELIKOPTER.
After a trip to Montana in 1997, he was inspired to change his stage name to PAUL FLUM which is a character played by Al Franken in the film "One More Saturday Night", and he would go on to use that name in his next band THE UNIFORM.
(below: photo 1 from FLUM'S LAST STAND December 2004. Photos 2 and 3, gigs with The UNIFORM. All taken at The Talking Head / Ottobar downtown Davis St. Location)
2024
HENRI EDSON XIMENEZ
HENRI EDSON XIMENEZ is a deeply psychological novel. It follows a Baltimore punk rocker on the road in the MTV Nineties looking for inspiration and an answer to his missing faith. By desecrating a tomb in New Orleans he generates a hex and another personality takes over his mind, creating a long sequence of time slips and mysterious clues leading to a startling conclusion. Paul Flum's staccato style and game-playing action marks HENRI EDSON XIMENEZ as an exciting new direction for the American novel.
2023
I'M CARLOS NOW - The Soundtrack
2022
June 17 -
The sequel to I'M CARLOS NOW premieres with 4 episodes : SEATTLE ROCK
TODAY
In this early 1990s spoof, Jackson Parker is back, turning the hip and strange onto some hot new sounds of the Pacific Northwest.
Oddly enough, he becomes distracted with I'M CARLOS NOW, a Youtube TV Series that has blown his mind. His engineer, Garry Jean, sets up his shots and comes along for the ride.
Here is a web page with episode synopsis:
2021
March 8 - THIRTEEN SELECTED POEMS taken from the 3 Season / 39 Episode epic video series I'M CARLOS NOW
Here is a web page with episode synopsis:
2020
May 1 - Season Three of I'M CARLOS NOW is loosely based on The Prisoner, James Bond, with a dose of David Lynch and theological references to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. A total of 13 more episodes...
Six episodes to run through June 2020 with the remaining seven episodes expected in the fall 2020
Here is a web page with episode synopsis:
2019
February 9 - Season Two of I'M CARLOS NOW is loosely based on The Prisoner, James Bond, with a dose of David Lynch and theological references to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. A total of 13 more episodes... Carlos emerges from exile.
"First will uniting with third will to defeat the second" - Texas Red
Here is a web page with episode synopsis:
2018
January 20 - Here is a new project from the minds at the Western Way Institute.
INTEGRATED MEMORY GLYPHS or I M G (as taken from .IMG files that get uploaded to Youtube)
In this exploration, you can find the source by simply searching for IMG 5421 on the internet.
Culling the forgotten basement of Youtube, we turn these accidental scraps into an expression of imagination, dream, and reality. Guest musicians (in 5421 it is Mulatu Astatke) as well as the sound of ATHENAPOLIS.
2017
February 4 - A 13 Episode TV Series, I'M CARLOS NOW is loosely based on The Prisoner, James Bond, with a dose of David Lynch and theological references to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. A drama, a comedy, it is a high art - an absurdity.
"An idea within chaos" - Plato
Here is a web page with episode synopsis:
June 1 - A 1080p theatre version of THE RED DREAM is now available a long with a playlist for the first three films packaged as STORIES OF THE WILL :
2016
February 2 - The third film by ATHENAPOLIS is called PEREDUR. This completed the Stories Of The Will in the trilogy as the comedy. It presents a riddle : If the future is red, and the past is green, what is the true color of blue sky?
2015
November 1 - The second film by ATHENAPOLIS is called CARIDWEN. This is presented in the Stories Of The Will as a tragedy and as a romance. Raise the will and consciousness follows ; you remember, you write, and then you understand.
2014
July 1 - The first film by ATHENAPOLIS is called THE RED DREAM. This is presented in the Stories Of The Will as an experimental film. It is a sound and vision tour de force, recommended for repeated viewings in a room to maximize the volume level for a "trip" to the beyond...to the future.
The Future is exactly like the present. You laugh, you cry, and then you are reborn.
March 20 - The third ATHENAPOLIS recording is called "3" and is the soundtrack for the film THE RED DREAM.
2013
January 5 - HELIKOPTER performed in Baltimore in December 2012. Here is a compilation of the week of practice before the big gig:
(photo courtesy Greg Dohler)
January 31 - Late 2012, before flying to Baltimore for the Helikopter reunion, I had to re-learn the songs. Here is an example for "Triggerglo"
August 1 - After a hiatus, ATHENAPOLIS returned with their second album simply titled "2" which is based on Romeo and Juliet.
2012
February 7 - A landmark 23 song collection called THE GUALALASPHERE CHRONICLES Books I & II, based on THE GUALALASPHERE was created as a double CD set. It includes a dozen recreations of THE GUALALASPHERE setlist from October 2002 plus eleven new songs.
Based on the book ALREADY DEAD by Denis Johnson.
Book One : Find it on REVERBNATION
Book Two : Find it on REVERBNATION
July 28 - It was official - Helikopter would reunite after 20 years. I had to re-learn a bunch of songs. I found an old notebook from the attic of 4101 Greenmount Ave in Baltimore.
This is an outtake from Velvatone - ultimately, we didn't play it.
December 2 - HELIKOPTER performed live at The Ottobar in Baltimore. Here is the set, recorded from a laptop on stage:
2011
January 8 - First video attempt of Daffodils. I still have the Kapa Continental - and it plays great.
December 9 - ATHENAPOLIS would complete their first album. This is the first collaboration with Lawrence Johns and his son Clarence Johns. The Title changed from The Body Erotic, then to Still Being, then presently as "1"
2010
January 20 - Getting back into The Gualalasphere and Denis Johnson
Gualala is a seasisde town in Northern California featured in this book
"Anchor Bay Suicide" live with Geoff D, Colin S, and Randy R
January 21 - The long awaited UNIFORM music video!
Well... actually, its the guys hanging out recording AT THE STATION with Eric Hatch, then getting beers at The Club Charles.
"Needless to Say I Pleasured Them All" recorded on Tascam digital four track 2001
January 26 - Holey Moley! It is a tribute to The Sugar Hill Gang and Black Sabbath by Flum Rampage!
Guest vocal - Matt Richardson
Give me "Sugar On The Sabbath" ...give me shuggggarrr.......
May 10 - CARROCKSWATERPIERSUN was originally recorded in 2004, so here we have the deluxe re-do, featuring additional drum tracks, and music videos and a DVD were made
July 24 - Here is the CD quality version of CARROCKSWATERPIERSUN
In 2009, Lawrence Johns epic poem BEYOND EXILE was adapted into a text adventure game. The next adaptation was *playing* the game, and documenting that experience with audio and video. The below links require a DIVX plugin:
Here is a screenshot:
December 15 - An old VHS I transferred from a Helikopter "Her Photo / Triggerglo" mix over train photography somewhere in Eastern Oregon
2009
This adventure is a fictional point-and-click interactive adaptation of Lawrence Johns' epic poem, "Beyond Exile", (published: Conscious Publishing, 2034 SW Vermont Street, Portland, OR, 97219, ISBN 9781929096046, ©2008 by Lawrence Johns, All Rights Reserved)
2008
The Cougar In California / Longest Day In Oregon
SHONE UPON
Revisiting a song collection from 1994
New Years Eve 2007 / 2008 ...I discovered a four track demo made from 2 accoustic guitar, one bass, and tapped percussion done in my living room 1994. It was time to revisit and complete in time for the holidays
2007
DREW SLUM & Company on Portland CableTV
THE WURST OF HELIKOPTER
a 2 CD set: 1992-1996 features Cullen Davis, Doug Shanahan, Adam Cooke, Greg
Dohler; live at The Rev, Memory Lane and The 8x10 Club, and recordings by Mark "Strazz" Strazza and Tony French
SOMETHING 'BOUT A HEX
A Text Adventure Game
2006
October 4 - First release of UV-171 (one-third of UV-373) which takes band tapes and splices something more beautiful together.
A video was made for "Glue Waist" with pictures taken with Tony and Alice in Virginia, Lisa in North Carolina, back in 2002.
The Fabulous EDITH PUNCHBOWL Page
GOLDEN WEST SERVICE
(Part Two of "The Shrimptrawler")
2005 - The Move to PORTLAND, OREGON
Placing_My_Finger_Over_The_Flash.com
Dugish & The Embalmer visit The Spruce Goose
Follow Paul Flum in his cross country Van / Photo Journal "GREAT WHITE HOPE"
"The Move From Baltimore Went Well"
(selfie taken at Cannon Beach in the spring 2005)
2004 - The last year living in Baltimore
"FLUM'S LAST STAND"
See pictures from the final Paul Flum performance in Baltimore, MD at The Talking Head,
12/29/04
Paul Flum Basketball Clinic 10.02.04
qALRUS & tHE wALRUSES 9.20.04 featuring Keeve Nachman, Colin Seven, and Paul Flum
September 20 - Q&TW met at the Club Charles for beers. They formed a band. Q&TW headed for Social Svcs for band practice. Q&TW recorded this CD. It was mixed midnight - 3AM
September 21 - Q&TW released their first CD
Here is a tribute to Q&TW repurposed onto a Cape Kiwanda winterscape with photobath:
090504
Early UNIFORM recording, "Mainstreet Physics"
plus early HISTORY of the band
NEW for 2004! solo record
"carrockswaterpiersun"
"Hollowed Log" written April 18, 2004 by Paul Flum
Dirty Rippaz Litigation, 01-04-04
Paul Flum Live shows, Fall 2004:
2003
NEW for 2003!!! 2 CD RELEASES...
1. Flum Rampage
"The Man's Clever, The Man's Good"
The Cougar In California 6/21/03 - Early Pics
2002
THE GUALALASPHERE (featuring Paul Flum, Randy Rampage, Colin Seven, & Jeff Danek)
DJ
FLUM! FLUM! FLUM!
@ The Talking Head, July 17, 2002
11-29-2002! !PRAISE JE BUS : A Photoessay
Pending FLUM Litigation /
"Arch of Stone" Publishing
2001
May 31 - dullinarticulatesafedrearyadmirersofcarnivals - AKA - d i s d a o c pays tribute to poems from Bukowski's 'Mockingbird Wish Me Luck' and 'Love is a Dog From Hell'
Original Press from the PAUL FLUM DISCOGRAPHY
September 11 - The Uniform release BLACK AND VAIN on Morphius Records
featuring Christian Sturgis, Randy "Rampage" Davis, and Paul Flum
2000
June 20 - Peaceship 2000 mui is released...sort of like THE SHRIMPTRAWLER in outer space...remnants of the Y2K nightmare and the world premiere of the hit tune "Sweet Pain"
Original Press from the PAUL FLUM DISCOGRAPHY
December 22 - After the hoopla of PEACESHIP subsided, it was back to the drawing board, this time will absurd covers. The press release is required reading.
Original Press from the PAUL FLUM DISCOGRAPHY
1999
Holy cow...what a busy year.
March 21 - THE SHRIMPTRAWLER is born
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT - 1. Original artwork tri-folded, photos from Peabody Studios, Curtis Creek, and Tampa 2. Original disposable panoramic camera shots in Tampa and at Lettuce Lake
3. Sunken tug at Curtis Creek looking North taken 1999. 4. Same as 3 looking South.
5. From Google Earth, August 2017
Original Press from the PAUL FLUM DISCOGRAPHY
May 1 - Flum Rampage brings its Bukowski brand of rock to the scene with the release "Las Palmas Red"
Original Press from the PAUL FLUM DISCOGRAPHY
January 1, 2010 - WHITE LINES / TV EYE cleverly moshed together as a video tribute to Granmaster Flash and The Stooges
June 2 - UV-373 File to Motion Remixes released (finally) almost 2 years after their show in Missoula, MT
Original Press from the PAUL FLUM DISCOGRAPHY
July 4 - The Uniform release their first 12" vinyl IF IT TAKES THE FORM OF A HUMAN I'LL KICK ITS ASS on Morphius Records.
(limited edition with CD sleeve embedded into artwork) Find it on DISCOGS
1998
February 7 - February 14. A roadtrip from Las Vegas through San Diego and Tucson. The creation of PRAISE JEBUS, a photoessay.
Find the photoessay HERE
July 4 - The Uniform record and release their self-titled demo, recorded directly to DAT machine.
September 1 - A cheap Tascam cassette four track, originally acquired to record The Uniform (and to replace my broken Fostex four-track) was put through its paces. A cassette was made using Akai crystal mics.
A Lizard with Four or Five Fingers was born.
Find it on PAUL FLUM DISCOGRAPHY
1997
February 7 - My second trip to Tampa, Florida.
"Lettuce Lake" Find it on REVERBNATION
July 14 - A cross country drive to Missoula, Montana with Colin Seven and UV-373. Paul Flum is born!
"Warminster - Live" Find it on REVERBNATION
August 3 - Crayon drawing
November 12 - "Dougturns 32" a second compilation of twenty four-track recordings released on my birthday.
Original Press from the PAUL FLUM DISCOGRAPHY
December 22 - The first Uniform demo recorded at Social Services Studio in Baltimore.
1996
May 14 - Helikopter reunited to play a farewell show at Memory Lane in Baltimore with local bands Plow and Big Heifer
It was also the record release for The SOFA CHARMER LP on Hat Factory Records
Here are 4 different versions of the cover art designed by Nancy M and Cullen D
Find "MOTHBALL" on REVERBNATION
June 6 - UV-373 played a house party at The Copy Cat building.
The Fender Jaguar is no more, the Squire Telecaster is in the PDX, and the P-bass is doing fine in Tappahannock, VA.
Note: the debut of the UV-373 t-shirt.
(pictured : L-Paul Flum C-Colin Seven R-Tony French)
1995
April 4 - Helikopter release their second single TRIGGERGLO / CALL IT
June 30 - The first compilation of cassette four track rercordings is released on AL D's birthday. The cassette had 29 tracks, the CD was shortened to 25 and is called "ALTURNS THIRTY"
Original Press from the PAUL FLUM DISCOGRAPHY
November 12 - Colin replaced Adam in UV-373
The UV-373 drum salon was constructed within Social Services Studio
December 16 - Helikopter broke up
1994
Cullen took a hiatus from Helikopter
Tony and Adam joined UV-373...the band played shows under various names including "Silt Flats" and "Blinder" and rehearsed at the Hour Haus
Hat Factory records released WALKING BY A BUILDING their second compilation of Baltimore bands. UV-373 and HELIKOPTER contributed songs and assisted in CD layout
Find "Stench" by HELIKOPTER on REVERBNATION
Find "Marble" by UV-373 on REVERBNATION
June - Helikopter went on hiatus
1993
June 7 - Greg D resigned from Helikopter.
Penultimate Records releases their debut 7" single TRANSISTER / LIMBO
Greg F fills in on drums for record release party
Artwork from label misses deadline / substitute art (below) designed be Eric M
Adam C becomes full time drummer
1992
June 26 - Helicopter (original spelling) played their first show in Baltimore at the Schroeder Street firehouse in Sowebo.
Note : Bunny cover from '94 and BxW photo from City Paper at 8x10 in '93
December 16 - Helicopter demo cassette completed. Recorded by Mark Strazza at Hound Sound.
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