Correction: Jesus was a Lich

Unless these spinning plates come crashing to the ground, it looks like I'm going to be playing at the Bike Oven after the Spoke(n)Art ride on May 14, where I will be joined by the unquestionable Michael Alvidrez and the illustrious Leon Le Doux, playing double-bass and drum-set, respectively. More info to come, pending I feel like it.

School is for Morons

I know what I want to do. Nothing I'm doing right now has anything to do with what I want to do. But I'm so close to being done, I have to finish this thing like Johnny Cage. I am in real danger of failing a class that I need to pass in order to be done. My mind continually drifts towards music, and building a career as a freestanding I-do-what-I-want artist. But I have to put that out of my mind. Just for a few weeks. Pray to Eris for me, on this holy day when we remember that Jesus became a zombie for our sins.

New Song and Video: Dumb

I bought a new video camera. I wrote a new song. Therefore:



Click here to stream or download the mp3. (If you want to actually download the mp3 rather than just stream it, click on the link and when the player opens, right click [control-click for apple] on the player and "save as...")

If you are curious, the talking in the background is from the movie "Waking Life." I was watching it while recording the guitar/vocals. It seems like a bad idea in most recording situations to have a movie on in the background, so I'm not sure why I didn't turn it off. It ended up adding something to the song, though, so I guess that's why.

Here are the lyrics:

Dumb

I wanna be famous
I wanna go on tour
I wanna write the songs that everyone sings

I wanna be blameless
I wanna be pure
I wanna find a nice pretty girl and give her a ring

But I'm just dumb
I'm selfish and cruel
I learned all of my lessons but I'm still in school
I'd stop being so foolish if I wasn't a fool

I wanna be lonely
I wanna be rich
I wanna scratch for every itch

I wanna have power
I wanna have praise
I wanna little bit more than a 25 cent raise

But I'm just dumb
I'm selfish and cruel
I learned all of my lessons but I'm still in school
I'd stop being so foolish if I wasn't a fool

Circling around and around and around, etc.
Turning around and around and around, etc.
Spinning around and around and around, etc.

But I'm just dumb
I'm selfish and cruel
I learned all of my lessons but I'm still in school
I'd stop being so foolish if I wasn't a fool

New Version of a Newish Song: Salvation Mountain

I didn't mean to do it. I was messing around in the "studio" (aka the dingy half-garage where I sleep and keep my things) and all of a sudden I had a full band-style recording of "Salvation Mountain".

Click here to download the mp3.

I wish I had filmed it - would have made for a neat video. Given the lack of space, it is a mega fucking hassle to record a full drumset, even one as small as mine. So, I recorded the drums one instrument at a time. I took the beater off of the kick pedal, mic'd the drum and went to town. I recorded the snare without sticks: just fingers like drumming on your desk. Etc. Etc. Everything was close mic'd, so you can't hear the acoustic suckiness of my room. It was really fun, and really easy, and I only had to do one take on everything.

Oh, and I think the vocals are terrible, but whatever.