11/22/11

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

11/21/11

SAT 003: 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.

9/22/11

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.

EDIT: Download it here.

7/23/11

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

7/20/11

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.

7/14/11

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.

2/27/11

Two Poems I Read Recently and Liked Quite a Lot

"Greta Gerwig cried onscreen and it seemed real"
by Stephen Tully Dierks

"Bone Woman"
by Carrie Lorig

I'm blogging these poems here because I've noticed people on Tumblr don't really "give an eff" when I post poems or about poetry.

2/14/11

Blagentine's Day


Every year for Valentine's Day, I put together a mix of songs that are about the opposite of Valentine's Day in order to help people keep perspective.
Here it is.
Tracklist:
"Sorry" by The-Dream (intro)
"Whatever Happened to Us" by Loudon Wainwright III
"When You Were Mine" by Dump
"I Never Learnt to Share" by James Blake (segue)
"Don't Fall in Love" by Still Corners
"To Love Somebody" by Nina Simone
"What Can I Say" by NRBQ
"My Marriage" by Woody Allen (segue)
"Wishing He Was Dead" by The Like
"Guest House" by Ghostface Killah featuring Fabolous
"You Lie You Cheat" by Spiritualized
"The Mermaid Parade" by Phosphorescent
"Girl Don't Come" by Sandie Shaw
"Femme Fatale" by Aloe Blacc
"You're Breaking My Heart" by Harry Nilsson (segue)
"Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad" by Prince
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart" by St. Etienne
"I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" by Giorgio Moroder (segue)
"What Goes Around Comes Around" by Tony! Tony! Toné!
"Thousand Dollar Wedding" by Gram Parsons
"Can't You See" by J. Dilla
"Non Non Non" by Les Sultans

1/5/11

Destroyer's Kaputt Video

I have heard three albums that have been/will be released in 2011. There's G-Side's amazing The One...Cohesive, James Blake's hype-fullfilling self titled debut, and Destroyer's Kaputt. It's an ambient-space-jazz-funk dream of an album, my favorite of the three. It takes a whole bunch of sounds previously thought to be too cheesy for "proper" art rock (sax solos, flutes, jazz-funk fusion) and integrates them flawlessly into Destroyer's palette.
Here's the video for the title track.

1/4/11

I am on

Twitter
Tumblr
Bandcamp
Facebook (You've got to be a person I hated in high school to find this.)
Real Life
"Where You've Been Hiding" by Architecture In Helsinki
"That's Where It's At" by Sam Cooke
"You Will Find Me" by Micah P. Hinson