New Book (No Warning)

January 26, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
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Today, I am pleased to announce the release of my first book, There You Are! and Other Things.

The book includes a poem, There You Are!, I started working on when I began composing the opera-thing, How to Look at the Ocean (Now I am a Flower), and finished shortly after completing the opera. This poem and the opera share a lot of qualities (and material), and I have begun to think of them as brother and sister (or sister and sister or brother and brother). Also included are some Other Things: a few short poems, a longish poem, Wednesday Night in a Small Town, some music pieces, and a short story about a plumber. I hope you find something you enjoy.

On the way sometime this week: that damn opera.

Music Club

January 24, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
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I have copies of old, rare CD-Rs I thought I was going to go give away, but instead they have gathered in my closet. If you would like a free CD of some of my old music, I will send you what I have hanging around. E-mail me or leave a comment with an address, and I will give you one while supplies last.

Lastly, a video of the opera is coming in a week or two. In the meantime, check out my July 4th performance with Crazy Horse (Zak Kirwin). Here\’s Zak and Zeke\’s cover of that Neil Young classic, \”Don\’t Cry\”

Golden Girl

January 14, 2009 by · 1 Comment
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A new track here. It’s called Golden Girl, and it has a hip-hop tinge. Maybe that constant love of Petey Pablo is paying off. Trying to finish a new album. Anyways, who wants an EP? It’s on the house.

I played a show in Savannah, GA last Friday at this new bar, The Wormhole with the Train Wrecks and a ukulele player, Chris Cannon. Very fine show. There was supposed to be a newspaper guy, but I think Shades McGlenn… my friend… scared him away until the Train Wrecks played.

In other news: Birth, Sam Rosen’s band with Aaron Wistar and I is playing at Death By Audio in NYC on February 5th. Hopefully there won’t be a guy recording me with his phone this time. “Guy with a phone, you say?” Yes, but it might as well have been a gun… or a strong, crazy man trying to play my guitar while I was playing the show (which it was).

Review of Fallout 3 coming next week.

Free Music

January 2, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
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I uploaded a few mp3’s off of each of my albums.. That’s right, NEW and OLD in one, place doing nothing, waiting for the curls and coos of boys and girls to come and sweep them up HERE.

Happy new year.

How to Look at the Ocean (Now I am a Flower)

January 1, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
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One of the reasons I got this thing (blog, website… thing) was to host a largish video of an opera-thing that just went down. It is called, How to Look at the Ocean (Now I am a Flower). A lot of folks were involved in making this happen, and I am happy that we can try to get this out to folks via thing.

The writing is by Michael Newton, Ted Quinlan, and myself
Video by Tyler Dorson and Will Field
Lighting by Michael Porter
Scripting and music by me

I have been working on this thing for a few years, and I think what we were trying to accomplish is a melting of multimedia into theater–a more performative opera that would put video and music into the forefront WITH the narrative… or vice versa. Anyway, instead of a babbling, I’ll give a little taste of what’s to come.

Here’s The Wrinkler, featuring Daniel “Taps Fahrenheit” Fishkin on bass guitar, Jonathan “The Doctor”  Nocera on guitar, Aaron “The Wobbler” Wistar on drums, and myself as The Wrinkler on vocals and keys. Hopefully we’ll have the whole video up by the beginning of February. Happy listening.

Future Sound

January 1, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
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As you know, sound travels at a speed of approximately 344 meters per second everyday for the rest of your life–maybe even into the future? No. In the future, reality as we know it has evolved, opened, even signaled new spectrums of entertainment, new music and time. Here, in the future, we enjoy music at a broad range of speeds. Why, take the acoustic guitar (strums guitar). A perfectly boring instrument. But in the future, (strums guitar, again) WOW!

Here it is, my friend: The future. Time and space, ever growing and shifting and going into the future until one day, maybe in the not so distant future, becoming ever so nearer and nearer, a dim light opening over a grey horizon until, you caught me, NOW.

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