Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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Big thanks to my buddy Mark for digging up this GEM from Junior year of high school. I simply had to post it. This piece of audio nostalgia features myself on acoustic and electric guitar, Mark on piano, and Kevin on viola. We wrote and recorded it in my basement for one of our ridiculous video projects for our Junior year English class. This my friends, is how i spent(read:wasted) my time in high school. Those really were the most care-free years of my life and I don’t think I will ever have that much fun again; I just wish someone had let me know while it was happening.
I will come back here and listen to this whenever I miss those days and people.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Poster for Thievery Corporation at Rams Head Live this upcoming Friday. I decided, as I tend to, that even though I have no experience screen printing on my own and this is my first print in more than one color, that I would try and screen print an edition of these. The results were expensive and disappointing. I got a few prints where the distressed/grunge look is actually kind of cool, but on most of the 25 its just really sad and unfortunate.
Raphael Saadiq, Cosmopolite 2009. Foto: NRK P3.
I suppose one cannot technically be “Motown” without being signed to the Motown label (now rolled into Universal), but singer, songwriter, and producer Charley Wiggins (a.k.a. Raphael Saadiq) has a fantastic sound I associate with Motown legends like The Temptations, Diana Ross, The Four Tops, and the Supremes. Though his latest album, The Way I See It, came out just last year, its upbeat nature, use of horns and tambourines, and infectious vocals remind me of my favorite oldies station from back home. He has been grabbing a gratuitous percentage of my music playing these last few weeks as spring breaks in Baltimore, and I highly recommend his album to any and all music lovers out there.
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Some photos, courtesy Bryan Connor, of myself and Dai Foldes playing at MICA’s monthly coffeehouse. We played Palmcorder Yajna by the Mountain Goats and Under thr Bridge from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. (more…)
Thursday, October 16, 2008
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Song I wrote awhile back, finally got around to making a half decent recording of it. (more…)
