Today is Tall Can’s birthday. (Don’t ask how old he is. He doesn’t know.)

He won’t get to see this for a while, but two key pieces of Tall Can media came out via Nathan Hubbard today. First is the new record Sky Burial Atop The Devil’s Dancefloor, recorded over the phone from the South Bay Detention Center.

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Second is a new music video for “Cuz I Drive The Seven,” from Tall Can’s self-titled debut with Nathan as tall:shadow, in which Tall Can offers the following tribute to some assholes he knew a long time ago:

i am inspired by the gnomes who grind daily to make music

just trying to re-hone my skills, sharpen my sword and re-learn its usage

Accordingly, I play a little bass in the video, which you can watch below.

Tall Can has been my brother a long time. The photo above is of him dancing with Hannah’s dad at our wedding in his (formal) Fuck Racism shirt, which feels like it sums up Tall Can better than any words I could write, so I’m just going to close with a quote from Mumia Abu-Jamal:

Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today’s empire is tomorrow’s ashes; that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

FREE TALL CAN