Joe's Exploding Updates Late Summer 2025 Edition

Funny how that headline makes it sound like this space will be updated even MORE sporadically, but I have the OPPOSITE news, as Joe's Exploding Zoo takes another step in its' own evolution, as I intend this space to be much more active in a blog/diary of a record label sort of way. But really this space is evolving in more ways than one, there is an art component now, something I have been wanting to move into this space for a long time.

My music and my visual art are connected in many ways, so it makes sense to fully commit to the two things nobody can earn a fulltime living out of any more (art and music.)

And if that is so terrible, one might ask, why are you doing it in the first place? And the answer is simple, really. I am what the people on BBC television call "bloody-minded" which to mean means I'm all in on an idea in a totally contrarian fashion. Doomed to fail? That's potentially true of ALL human endeavors except of course for the ones that do NOT fail.

Then it's all 20/20 hindsight and everybody congratulating each other for pretending to have believed in it all along.

That may sound intensely cynical and angry but I am really laughing into my shirt sleeve while I think about it. The bottom line is that I am fairly unfit for conventional employment, I have a brain that won't turn off, and I have a bully pulpit (this record label) from which to unleash fun chaos into the world. Nobody who loves that has any kind of fanancial stability, at least that's what some of the voices in my head would say if I actually heard any.

But if you listen to what the voices tell you, aren't just as bad as they are?

The Exploding Zoo idea is, well, trying to explode. I've toyed with a YouTube channel that really goes after our pet obsessions round here, and it seems that to survive whatever is happening to the world right now you need to earn money as a performer and culture creator rather than an employee of The Machine, Inc. So this endeavor is part therapy, part survival, and part WTF figuring out how to get thru the next four years without a lobotomy.

Join me, this crazy journey is just getting started.

In other news, there is new music by Joe's Exploding Zoo artists Orangutron, Paisley Babylon, IDoS, and Thelema USA. Details in a separate blog post.