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This corny old thing just crept into my head this morning and I decided to record it, all quiet and romantic like.
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at 12:44 PM on February 1, 2012
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A folk epic about airport security and cats and butter,
as told recently by
mie.
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at 3:59 PM on January 30, 2012
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Lofi acoustic waltz version: piano, drums, harmonica, solo vox. The song adapts surprisingly to 3/4 time.
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at 12:17 PM on November 30, 2011
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My best effort to turn a Neil Young song I've always disliked into a big blustery rock thing.
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at 3:22 PM on May 31, 2011
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I loved
ianK's minimalist take on All The Small Things the other day, and I thought it'd be fun to fill it out with a bunch more acoustic instrumentation and harmony vocals.
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at 11:17 AM on May 25, 2011
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Some rollicking bluegrass as a spoon to the heart of Bryan Adams, Kevin Costner, and basically that whole period of the early 90s.
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at 12:51 PM on May 9, 2011
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This is a song about how I feel weird about writing this song.
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at 9:28 AM on May 2, 2011
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An appeal to President Obama, because I'm tired of him getting all the good nutters.
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at 2:41 PM on April 26, 2011
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One of my favorite tunes from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, given the super lofi iPhone Fourtrack treatment. Guitar, melodica, piano, drums.
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at 6:10 PM on April 7, 2011
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For
null terminated.
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at 9:26 AM on January 6, 2011
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A pragmatic carol for hungover sinners. Oh come let us eat breakast.
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at 10:37 AM on December 27, 2010
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Extremely spartan recording, for me. Vox, piano, a simple vox harmony, and a melodica solo.
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at 4:07 PM on December 22, 2010
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A special encore performance by
Christopher Walken and the Lounge Fellas.
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at 1:18 PM on December 21, 2010
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So yesterday
dmd mentioned in IRC that his wife
miagaille was going to be stuck in a hospital room for a few days being very bored because of some neural testing stuff, and how she'd be amused if I wrote a song, and I was like "just a song about anything? Like, 'fish are awesome'?" and he was like, yeah. Yeah, that would work.
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at 5:21 PM on December 7, 2010
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A last-minute SongFight entry with a one-liner lyric.
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at 10:33 AM on September 30, 2010
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Uptempo garage rock take on the chimey classic.
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at 12:55 PM on September 27, 2010
(1 comment)
So this afternoon on twitter, Nathan Fillion
said: "I want my own theme song. Original. Short and long versions. Write music? Post it. Let's hear."
Twist my arm.
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at 4:35 PM on September 23, 2010
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Country Western waltz ballad. Featuring faux-pedal steel and more twang than I usually evidence.
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at 12:00 PM on September 6, 2010
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The year is 1996. I'm in my neighbor's tiny basement studio. I am making my first remotely professional recording. I am earnest. I am 17 years old.
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at 7:50 PM on September 2, 2010
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So scody
had a medical adventure today, which got me thinking about how awesome scody is and how much I enjoyed hanging out with her and being music dorks in LA last fall, and this is one of the songs I remember really enjoying during our drunken singalongery.
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at 2:48 PM on August 31, 2010
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I had an idea for a sort of epic slow-build, slow-burn song but I didn't have time to work out an appropriately epic-in-length arrangement so this is a little under two minutes long instead.
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at 8:15 AM on August 27, 2010
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Noisy old testament stuff.
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at 10:50 AM on August 16, 2010
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Astro Zombie's
words, my music, Steven Slater's
epic flight-attendant flameout.
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at 1:06 PM on August 10, 2010
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I decided this morning that it'd be fun to try getting involved at long last with
Song Fight, but it turns out that submissions for the next round were due this morning. This is probably the most frantic writing-and-recording I've done in a couple years.
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at 10:17 AM on August 5, 2010
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I read
this post and immediately thought a loud crappy punk song with that title had to exist. And now it does!
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at 4:57 PM on July 20, 2010
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My loud sloppy garage rock version of
Jessamyn's song about Randolph being in a lake.
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at 4:07 PM on June 15, 2010
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One of the tracks off the bizarre algorithmically-reconstituted album I
recorded constructed today called
The Seattleward Spiral. Because the world needs more industrial pop reconstituted from Frasier audio clips.
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at 5:07 PM on June 4, 2010
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A busy, silly, energetic million-things-going-on-at-once cover of the Blondie song that was #1 the day I was born.
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at 3:45 PM on June 1, 2010
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This just kind of
happened.
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at 6:16 PM on April 30, 2010
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Journey's
Don't Stop Believin' as a kazoo quartet improvisation.
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at 6:11 PM on April 29, 2010
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Roy Orbison gets the lofi FourTrack treatment. This is pretty rough stuff, but has convinced me that with some care You Got It could be a fucking tremendous bluegrass number.
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at 1:42 PM on April 28, 2010
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An abbreviated acoustic take on the done-to-death Eagles song, on uke, banjo, upright, and brushes. Another breakneck iPhone/FourTrack recording.
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at 11:01 AM on April 27, 2010
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Another loud, sloppy, first-takes-only FourTrack cover. One of my favorite earworms, though I should really have listened to it a few times to figure out how the verses go.
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at 10:57 AM on April 26, 2010
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The break-neck lo-fi fest continues with this cover of a song I just loved to death back in high school.
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at 5:22 PM on April 16, 2010
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I still don't know why exactly I just did this, but here is a deeply lo-fi cover of Avril Lavigne's
Complicated, from vague memory and sight-read lyrics, on an iPhone using the Sonoma Wireworks/retronyms application FourTrack.
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at 5:18 PM on April 15, 2010
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The tenth track from
Inchoatery, and the finale—a letter to the ex. Probably the most structurally complicated song on the whole album.
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at 7:57 AM on March 23, 2010
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The ninth track off of
Inchoatery. The other side of the story.
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at 3:42 PM on March 18, 2010
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Track eight off of
Inchoatery. One of those trying-and-failing scenarios—merely grabbing your boot straps and yanking doesn't always do the trick.
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at 2:45 PM on March 17, 2010
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Track seven from
Inchoatery. As much a mixing stunt as anything—trying to synthesize a drinking-buddy monologue in a crowded bar while the band plays on.
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at 11:48 AM on March 10, 2010
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Track six from my new album,
Inchoatery. A 5/4 instrumental follow-up to
Drunk Again. Theremin solo!
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at 10:59 AM on March 8, 2010
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Boozy lounger from
Inchoatery.
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at 5:04 PM on March 5, 2010
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Track four from
Inchoatery. More Microkorg than you can shake a stick, and a lot of other changes from
the demo I posted last month.
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at 7:59 AM on March 3, 2010
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The second track off my new album,
Inchoatery. Sort of a pop-rock braggadocio, the euphoric declarations of someone still feeling the relief instead of the pain of a breakup a long time in the coming.
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at 11:09 AM on March 1, 2010
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Lead-off track from my new RPM album,
Inchoatery. I'm still getting my ducks in a row as far as the album's proper home on my music blog, but I'm pretty happy with what I came up with and I wanted to share.
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at 8:38 PM on February 27, 2010
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I'm starting in on the final recordings for the album in a month, and I've started with this big epic third track. Still needs work but it's a good start.
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at 7:42 PM on February 17, 2010
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Another RPM demo, this one a super-upbeat thing about neurotic fears about what one's ex is getting up to.
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at 8:31 AM on February 13, 2010
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Uke-driven boozer's lament. One of the demos I recorded yesterday for my album-in-a-month.
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at 10:19 AM on February 9, 2010
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Pixies cover, with the debut of my new theremin (and a little bit of my new cowbell).
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at 3:40 PM on February 3, 2010
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News-of-the-weird recording from 2006. One of my favorite compositions back from when I was doing
The Aural Times.
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at 12:20 PM on January 4, 2010
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This is one of my favorite bits of not just holiday music but music in general, but it's not something I usually hear people rock out to. This is my attempt to help change that.
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at 11:58 AM on December 8, 2009
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