VDay Mix

Like last year, I'm posting a contrary Valentitne's mix. Click on the picture to download.

1. “You Can Make Me Feel Bad (Arthur Russell Cover)” by Frankie Rose and the Outs (intro)
2. ”Tearing Me Up Inside” by Harrison and the Majestic Kind
3. “I’ve Lost You” by Beat Happening
4. “County Line” by Cass McCombs
5. “Too Hurt To Cry” by Candi Staton
6. “Don’t Pity Me” by Darrell Cotton
7. “Runaway Love (Kanye West Remix)” by Justin Bieber (interlude)
8. “Everything Hits At Once” by Spoon
9. “You’ll Never Change” by Betty LaVette
10. “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” by Al Green
11. “A Certain Sadness” by Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley
12. “Vomit” by Girls
13. “Contagious (featuring R. Kelly)” by The Isley Brothers
14. “Our Dog Is Getting Older Now” by Jonathan Richman
15. “Nothing Lasts Forever” by the Kinks (interlude)
16. “Devil In a New Dress” by Kanye West
17. “Wedding Crasher” by Terius Nash (The-Dream)
18. “Sin Will Be the Chaser To Your Wine” by Lefty Frizzell

I've got this new blog I guess

This might be kind of boring, but I've got this new blog where I write about what I read. I

Zine Index

Here is an index of topics covered in ephemera hatch issue one. If you're interested in obtaining a copy, this is a good way to get an idea of what to expect.

INDEX:

Abstinence rallies: 15
AIDS: 15
Alcohol use, implied: 13
Alcohol use, explicit: 2, 19
Aliens: 6, 15
Almonds: 8
Armisen, Fred: 10
Bands, Imaginary: 16
Bill, Buffalo: 15
Birds: 14, 17, 19
Birthday cards: 8
Bob Newhart Show: 15
Book clubs: 2-3
C.K., Louis: 16
California: 2
Caps lock: 17
Clouds: 21
Coins: 17, 19
Costello, Elvis: 16
Crying Game, The: 15
CVS: 7-8
Deliverance: 7
Deltona: 7
Dogwood trees: 20
Draper, Don: 16
Dreadlocks: 8
Drunken fathers: 2
Eiffel Tower: 20
Fish: 3, 14
Flip-flops: 8
Florida: 20
Gardens: 5, 10-11, 12, 15, 18, 20
GIFs: 3
Green tea: 8
"Goodbye Horses": 15
Handball: 15
I-4: 7
Menstruation paraphernalia: 8
Moons: 14, 19
Musicians: 1, 5, 11
Netflix: 14
Oswalt, Patton: 6
Plastic Surgery: 2
Pollution: 14
Potentially fatal radio contest: 2
Pills, prescription: 2, 14
R. Kelly albums: 3
Romantic competition: 13
Romantic problems between living things: 9, 15, 17
Romantic problems between non-living things: 18
Salutations: 1, 4, 19
Shift key: 17
Sour cream and onion potato chips: 17
Speech emanating from things normally incapable of speech: 3, 9, 14, 18, 21
Statuary: 4, 18
Summer: 14
Swearing: 3
Tennis: 15
Thyme: 20
Tropicalia: 16
Typos, hand corrected: 2-3, 7-9, 16
Typos, uncorrected: 7-9
University of Central Florida: 7
Velvet Underground: 16
Warren, Robert Penn: 19
Water moccasins: 19
Winter: 19
Wizards, capricious: 17

zine

ephemera hatch is a zine of prose/poetry/artwork/comics that I made.
There is a flash fiction piece about a budding sociopath, an essay about CVS, and a section of poems entitled "THIS IS POEMS!!!"

There are forty-five copies and if you want one leave me a message here, on Tumblr, or on Twitter.

Eight Brief Tales of Lovers

Listen to and read about an EP I posted late last night that Streets Ahead will put out sometime in the near-ish future.

part one here

part two here

I hope you enjoy it.

So Sad Right Now

Click on the picture to download a mix I put together of songs I listen to when "totally bummed out."

The mix is under my alter-ego "DJ So Sad Right Now." DJ So Sad Right Now's mixes aren't always sad, but this one is.

Track List:

1. "Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping" by Grouper

2. "In Metal" by Low

3. "Endless Summer" by Still Corners

4. "Keen on Boys" by the Radio Dept.

5. "Where in the World Are You" by Great Lake Swimmers

6. "Blue Moon (Big Star Cover)" by Kendal Johansson

7. "Too Young (Tough Alliance Remix)" by Taken By Trees

8. "Gypsy (Fleetwood Mac Demo)" by Stevie Nicks

9. "Big White Cloud" by John Cale

news concerning my twitter gimmick

I have created a new version of my Twitter gimmick theme song/sexting anthem.

You can listen to and download it here. It's a bit different than the last version and contains an eighties style voice synthesizer tone and maybe higher production value.

Also, Robert Svetlik has become the first person to record a cover of the song, which can be heard here.

If you would like to record your own cover, the chords are on my Twitter.

The last chord is not an A# as noted in the tweet, but a G#. However, Robert uses the A# and it sounds nice. If you do happen to record a cover, post it in the comments. I would love to hear it.

Twitter and Songs About Sexting

As a Twitter gimmick, I tweeted the above tweet. So far it has only been retweeted once.

There are zero shirtless pictures of myself on the internet and I feel like that isn't fair to the approximately 2 billion people with shirtless pictures on the internet.

To support/advertise this Twitter gimmick, I wrote and recorded a song last night. It is something of a theme song for taking a topless picture of yourself.

You can download it here.