it's hard to say if the members of Bodisartha even care about "being successful" in the music industry anymore. they just float from one thing to the next, occasionally pulling themselves together for long enough to throw everything into a car and play a show.

the joke's on them. it's true. in a fast food culture that suggests anyone can be a rock star and everyone is special, josh thomas and justin piatt have woken up, six years and two bands deep, into a world where you can no longer sell music. music is free now, haven't you heard?

this is a little story about a few kids that didn't have anything to do:

one day, josh, after bouncing around a few continents and a handful of states of the american variety, ended up in the lovely, oceanside property of springtown, missouri. there he met a young man from texas named piatt and within a few hours, josh was throwing up from over consumption. the meeting was a success.

a band called grasscanon followed, with josh on bass (but writing a majority of the guitar parts) and piatt on drums. there were comparisons made to such bands as the deftones and radiohead, but i'm with you, i don't believe the hype.

parties, broken things, arrests, and other fun stuff ensued. then, almost two years invested, as grasscanon was preparing to record its first full length album, the band fell apart on stage at the Burgundy Room in Springfield, Missouri. by the end of the evening, several guitars, a few glasses, and a band were irreparably broken.

josh drove around the country for a few months attending hippie festivals and indian pow wows, piatt hung out in springtown doing whatever it is he does. so what's next? why not move to kansas city? okay, let's do it.

josh holed up and wrote a bunch of new songs. piatt came up when he could. a friend, bret steil, was tricked into playing bass. recently, trevis hutchens, a good friend of piatt's from "back in the day", has taken over bass playing duties for the overworked and overly sexy bret steil. he'll be missed, but it was his choice.

a year into its formal existence, bodisartha has played shows in several states and released an album, 'find yourself getting lost', recorded in equal parts at Chapman Recording in Kansas City and at the band's home studio. as far as i can tell, the band is most often compared to the pixies, nirvana, and queens of the stone age.

album number two is almost completely written. bodisartha has traded in the power chords and screaming for weird jazz chords and moaning. a concept evolved around the songs. the album seems to be based around a revolutionary character that thinks it's possible for one person to change everything. the songs are equal parts philosophy and narrative: the philosophy of this character and the reaction he gets from the general public, more specifically, the authoritarian government of the united states. reactions include: stalking, wiretapping, crucifixion, you know... the classics.

the addition of a second guitar player, another short tour of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Missouri, and a quick trip to Austin, Texas are in the works are well.

as with all adventures, there's no ending in sight and no way of knowing what might happen next.