Will be posting a few random live things from work over the next couple days.

Sigur Ros - Saeglopur (by hsojnamrebeil)

In case you missed it.  

Coming soon -  Better filmed videos featuring my face.

thecolortwo:

…

So here’s a simple solvent - (Feat. robots.)

- josh @ thecolortwo

Parquet Courts Borrowed Time at Death By Audio (by Parquet Courts)

I have had this chorus stuck in my head for at least two weeks now, when I saw these gents open for some friends.

Now it’s on you.

(They’re playing in Portland tonight @The Bunk Bar if you’re around and lacking a good reason to get excited about something.)

For fans of : Garage Rock, Listening to too much Lou Reed, the Vibrators, (and probably Vibrators in general), shouty catchy stuff over loud guitars.

First song of the year. Iphone demo style.

Still trying to figure out which ending I prefer, but going with this version today because of reasons. Don’t be afraid to Challah if you’d like to hear the other ending, just include an email address.

Really looking forward to doing a full recording of this upon my return and/or purchasing of fancy attachments to let me use decent mics on my iphone.

Stoked.  Hope you like.

(Thanks for not ending the world, John Cusack.)

Haven’t posted one of these in a while.  

So, I don’t tend to do this often, but some of my favorite friends, ex-coworkers, musicians and all around human beings THE EXTRAORDINAIRES have taken their newest album onto kickstarter.  

They have supported the likes of Man Man, Gogol Bordello, and a slew of other insanely talented artists both locally and on tour, one would be quite awesome to invest a few bucks into their various endeavors.  They painstakingly make illustrated booklets for all of their releases.  Plus, they put on one hell of a live show, and you will never see another gent play a fish quite the way that Jay manages to.

You’d be well served to bring a little extraordinares-ing into your daily what-have-you.  And after their label went kaput, this is just the type of thing to get an insanely talented band back on their own two feet, and for you to take advantage of a lot of the humble artistic brilliance they have to offer.

single-take via Iphone.  

as I am now apparently writing a theme album about the upcoming robot vs. human conflicts.  And without further ado, (or any ado at all really) the tentatively titled -

Tetsuo-5 comes up with a plan for Battle (demo)

At least I won’t 
forget to build myself again today 
recount the bones 
the muscles all come pulling into place 
and what they want 
is another harlequin to make them ok. 
but we can beat them at their own games.

So don’t call it off. 
we’ll make them sweat 
they’ll rue the fucking day 
they might’ve thought 
we’d be better served by falling into place 
with what they’ve wrought, 
you think they’d acclimate to jackpot stakes 
but they just wave.

They’ll tell you at least it’s something 
Are you trying to sell it to me 
or to yourself? 
But you got a bigger thing coming, 
and you’re not inclined to let it show 
so the hell with you, we’re moving on.

When we last talked 
I could’ve sworn you called me out by name 
it doesn’t happen often 
that’s why it stayed with me 
with all the things you think are fast asleep 
because they’re not on my sleeve.

but I swear I believe 
in some things.

oh what the hell.

early morning demo.  Feat. machines.

Superchunk play Watery Hands live and acoustic at Aquarius Records in San Francisco (by moceanviewjournal)

I requested this, and somehow influenced Mac to remember how to play it.  Such a brilliant set.

Next step : June Showers.

It’s been over a year since this.  I’m not certain I remember how to play it, and I should probably re-record it, but I still like it.   Swinging in the dark.  Loud and Melancholy 2.0

thecolortwo:

#5 out of 52.  Finals knocked me back a week. 

half.thought

consider it
what you’d have to do
to get their claws out of
your outline and your shape

and you know better
but you’ve run aground
and crashed your course
set light to all your sails
and future bridges you’ve yet to see

without a half thought

the greatest trick
they ever pulled
was to make us think
those dark impressions
were ours alone
did you ever think
of just grabbing hold of the wheel
and aiming straight for the first thing you see?
just to see.

just another half thought

As I have to turn this in today, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

thecolortwo:

Ideally, I had hoped to redo a louder, more back and forth vocally version of this with drums by this week, but I slacked on getting together with my drummers.  Keep an eye on the next week or so.   

But fellow denizens of the Internet, I require your assistance.  Turning this in for an assignment for one of my political science pre-reqs, and I need at least 6 people to comment on “your reaction to the song and its message.”  (Personally, I’d be OK with a virtual hi-five or a fitting .gif, but you know those academic-y types.)  

If you click on the link through to the song, or visit its home @soundcloud, you can click on the blue bar underneath the song waveform, and leave me some love it’d be gratuitously appreciated.  

Thanks in advance and stuff!

L: You promise expectations
Yeah, you promise to be blind
with an armor of excuses
you’re protected for a time

but you better get out,
before you’re caught up in something

we’re making no mistake,
you’re not the person you describe.
A blatant fabrication, they can see it in your eyes.

they don’t know what it is,
but there’s something about you.

so you’re taking it to bed with you
every single night
have you bought stock in your bullshit?
do you still put up a fight?

you better get out,
and tell them your story.
Another quivering crowd,
to sacrifice for some glory.

And you won’t even hesitate.

Ideally, I had hoped to redo a louder, more back and forth vocally version of this with drums by this week, but I slacked on getting together with my drummers.  Keep an eye on the next week or so.   

But fellow denizens of the Internet, I require your assistance.  Turning this in for an assignment for one of my political science pre-reqs, and I need at least 6 people to comment on “your reaction to the song and its message.”  (Personally, I’d be OK with a virtual hi-five or a fitting .gif, but you know those academic-y types.)  

If you click on the link through to the song, or visit its home @ soundcloud, you can click on the blue bar underneath the song waveform, and leave me some love it’d be gratuitously appreciated.  

Thanks in advance and stuff!

L: You promise expectations
Yeah, you promise to be blind
with an armor of excuses
you’re protected for a time

but you better get out,
before you’re caught up in something

we’re making no mistake,
you’re not the person you describe.
A blatant fabrication, they can see it in your eyes.

they don’t know what it is,
but there’s something about you.

so you’re taking it to bed with you
every single night
have you bought stock in your bullshit?
do you still put up a fight?

you better get out,
and tell them your story.
Another quivering crowd,
to sacrifice for some glory.

And you won’t even hesitate.

I got bored today and this was the byproduct.  Forever avoiding homework.

an arrangement of The Company Dime - oneofmyfavoritesongsofalltime originally written by The Get Up Kids

(Arrangement in the sense that I transcribed this version from memory and went somewhat crazy with melodica effects in post.  I reserve all rights to hate parts of this in the morning.)

(… I did warn someone about letting me have one.)

T-minus 10 (Doomsday edition) or How I Learned to Love the Bomb.  

 An alternate, more slow-like version.  Spending a bit more time working on finalizing songs as home recording has gotten a bit less feasible of late.  (Have a preference?  Share.)

Poorly recorded from the trunk of my car as I seek to resolve my currently tumultuous living situation.  (Don’t ask how I fit the piano in there.)

On the Fatalistic nature of love and other things.