Category: Musicology

  • Kidney Shaped Pool

    Been real busy writing and little time for recording lately but I did manage to capture myself singing along to Cake’s “Meanwhile Rick James” (without really knowing the words), so I mixed it up together with some string effects on some ridiculous single-note keyboard-mousing, yielding this whimsy, Kidney Shaped Pool (about 2 meg).

  • My internet radio debut

    Yes, that’s me, originating the part of Guy Forcips in Bill Cassel’s delightful radioteleplay now current in rotation at Monkey Vortex Radio Theater: Everybody Loves Money Available in plain, and peanut.

  • Helena immortalized

  • RSS meme gets a weblog

    Just when I’m thinking of saying webfeeds to people and wondering why any normal person would care if Atom or RSS were or were not offered in equal measure by some service, Dave Winer puts his weblogging where his mouth is with the new Really Simple Syndication site. I’ve just posted more about this (and…

  • flesh cartoons

    words and music by Robyn Hitchcock (email downstyle of capitalization mine all mine mine mine): linda ryan in the sky i seen her laughing but i never seen her cry she took her fireman it was her half-empty flight he brought his hose and everything just turned out right i’m just watching… german leather a…

  • Phish calls it quits

    I’m not a huge Phish head but I really like some of their material and I love their whole approach to making live improvised rock ‘n’ roll together. They also share some contemporaneous New Jersey-in-the-mid-’80s experiences with me in their origin stories (the Rhombus, the miniature guitars, the strange period in 1985 where the Dead…

  • Hot damn

    It’s too early to celebrate but I just resubmitted Chapter 9, the final chapter of my book, the recursive, regressive one about media and publishing and information and knowledge and journalism and books and this book itself. That leaves one chapter left to rewrite. Of course it’s the politics chapter, the biggest mother in the…

  • Who else loves cake?

    Hallelujah. Jeff’s Spleen is producing its… er, bile? once again! But that design, it’s so 2003….

  • Goodnight, Irene (raw mix)

    Sometimes I live in the country Soometimes I live in the town Sometimes I live inside a bass amp And run Cecil’s organ through a classic rock guitar filter for that sludgy hard rawk sound. Laramie gave me the chord changes. I wrote ’em for Cecil. He played ’em on his electric pianer thing and…

  • Let's get Meta-phiz-sick-ill

    metaphizickillin’ great tase less filling when i’m chill’n dissing bob dylan* while my radiator’s illin’ *see remix nightmare (land of toil and bluff mix), see also Metaphysical home[sic] Blooz Nos. 12 and 35 if only because of the stoopit name. And plus that’s what this post is about to, almost forgot.

  • Effervescing Elephant (Take 6)

    Another reference track, a uke-and-voice take of EE. (Separate rhythm and vocal tracks available for anyone who wants to mess with them.)

  • The Yeah Yeah Song (Take 3)

    I’m starting to work out a bridge and even some finger-picking ideas for the verses of this song. I’m refining the lyrics and haev some thoughts for lyrics for the bridge as well. This take starts off as a straight rhythm-uke reading of the first verse and a clumsy finger-picked take of the second, before…

  • Postcartesian Metaphysical Home[sic] Blues

    Not knowing the real words to the Wesley-esque hymn transmitted to me through John Fahey’s Skip James-loving hands, I’ve made up some postcartesian lyrics of my own. Here’s a reference vocal take of all the verses.

  • No Outside

    Cecil found the chords underlying my vocal, and has developed them in a new direction. I am having trouble matching his time (swing, swing) but it’s fun trying on this take of No Outside.

  • Or Outside

    Cecil put his moneymaker where his If Jesus were an a capella song about himself, I’d like to think this is the song he’d be is.

  • Fire on the Mountain (Churchbells Softly Chime mix, take 2)

    What I really want to know is this: Is this Churchbells Softly Chime remix (about 7 megs as MP3 – it was closer to 50 megs as an AIF) an improvement over the previous take or not?

  • Jazz Fest 2004, day 2

    Still behind on taking notes, but here are my photos from Saturday.

  • Jazz Fest 2004, day 1

    I’ll post my notes later, but for now here’s a photo album.

  • Breaking for lunch

    Even the fugitive has to do it. I print out chapters six and five, prepare to mark them up in pen while wolfing down a bagel and whtefish sandwhich after buying some lox for the flight on southwest tomorrow. (bagels out, po’boys back, that’s our motto). On return (from lunch, not n’awlins), I will key…

  • In X

    Here’s a vocal in search of some instrumental accompaniment in the obligatory MP3 as well as the (possibly more Cakewalk friendly?) AIFF format.

  • Cecil Vortex has a blog

    Best. Tagline. Ever.