swarbles.
sometimes i sing.
sometimes i make things.
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i’m at my psychiatrist’s office and somebody upstairs is playing a very difficult piece on piano and they’re making small mistakes but i want to...
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Music makes the people come together
Holy frack! After lamenting over the absence of one of my most valued creative outlets, I am incredibly happy to...
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there's nothing in the constitution that says a dog can't design and regulate a currency system
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sometimes i name animals i see at the park or on the street and then wonder how they are months later
there is a duck named jimby who i have to...
since cllct appears to have died, i uploaded all of my elephant 6 townhall hoursongs thus far (with the exception of superstition, which you can message me about if you really want it, but it’s not very good, and you’re not missing much) to bandcamp. this is convenient, i think, since you can download all of the songs in one fell swoop. and you can download them in wicked audiophillic quality formats. audiophillic is not a word, but it should be. audiophile friendly.
also i’ve been considering having an option where one can purchase the songs on a cd-r and make a really nice handmade set of liner notes for something like $8, but i want to do a mock up first to see how long it would take (because in my mind, i picture this taking forever to actually do, and i’m not sure that people [myself included] care enough about hoursongs to want a really nicely hand made set of liner notes. i am definitely doing it whenever i release my first official “album” or whatever it will wind up being, but it seems pretty labor intensive for a slew of songs written and recorded in an hour).
but anyway, is that something people would be interested in? maybe?
swarbles; little pod lullabye.
this week’s elephant 6 townhall hoursong is up! the theme this week was vanilla. i played the banjo. I PLAYED THE BANJO! for the first time in almost three weeks. it felt okay. my wrists feel fine, but my banjo callouses started peeling earlier in the week, so my fingers feel pretty dreadful.
the song is alright, i think. i keep thinking my vocals sound like they’re going flat, but probably they aren’t. i think it’s just that it’s in a low register. i don’t know why i sang it so low. i don’t think it started that way, but i recorded over the original “sketch” i recorded. it’s kind of morose, but i mean. you know.
you can download this song from cllct. all songs available to download on mediafire. and don’t forget, i have a page on farcebook where i post sometimes.
lyrics:
little vanilla vine
growing in the summertime
how are you doing today?
little vanilla vine
glowing green in the sunshine
how are you doing today?
you grow all you can
and when summer’s gone
you’ll be so nicely tan
you grow all you can
and when summer’s gone
they’ll pluck you from the plant
and they pull you apart
and take your seeds
and place them in a jar
and they pull you apart
and take your seeds
but never take your heart,
they make take your seeds
but never take your heart.
swarbles; Relish with a capital R.
this week’s elephant 6 townhall hoursong is up! this week’s theme was summer, and to pay tribute to ray bradbury, i pulled the lyrics for this song out of dandelion wine, which i read for the first time last year (and will be reading again shortly) and it surpassed fahrenheit 451 as my favourite bradbury book (andso both fahrenheit 451 and dandelion wine and are amongst my favourite books i’ve ever read).
the song is available to download via cllct. all the songs are available to download on mediafire as well. and don’t forget, if you enjoy this song, you should follow my musical endeavors on farcebook, which i am going to start using more actively real soon.
lyrics;
and suddenly,
everything,
absolutely everything
was there.
i’m alive,
and everyone’s alive,
but what’s the use
when they’re more alive than me?
the first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool,
and the last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.
a crazy creature with a head full of carnival spangles.
and time is so strange
and life is twice as strange;
the cogs miss,
the wheels turn.
and lives interlace too early,
or too late.
all i know is i feel good going to bed nights.
that’s a happy ending once a day.
but what makes the night?
shadows crawling out under from five billion trees.
i made a farcebook page for my musical endeavors! if you enjoy my musical endeavors, you should “like” it! i’ll be posting updates about writing and recording whatever it is that i’m writing and recording at any given point in time. it’ll be real fun, i promise.
also if you enjoy my musical endeavors, be sure to like the page i created for said endeavors on farcebook!
i made a farcebook page for my musical endeavors! if you enjoy my musical endeavors, you should “like” it! i’ll be posting updates about writing and recording whatever it is that i’m writing and recording at any given point in time. it’ll be real fun, i promise.
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