playing in New Paltz is fun

when there is free beer and the bar saves the things you leave behind. Also when Cameron does a video comp for it.

Flying Rat Party

Here is a brand spanking new tune. I wanted to try something more in depth as far as demos go, and while trying to show that through video, I may have gone a bit over the top. Still, please listen to the song.








Keep on coming back
to sick new organs of this body
wasted on bad blood
and antibodies
eating everything

Someday I will grow my teeth
and suck this city dry

Escape through open wounds
spit on the scab
dissolve the walls
doors on every corner
it will cost you just to leave

You don't owe me anything

Burn down
every block
Between the sidewalk cracks
a healing colored green

Blusher

A new tune I wrote today. I feel a little bad about it though. I missed seeing Sex God (Baron Shame) and No One and the Sombodies play at wespac. I drank beers with them instead and played my first ever game of guitarmageddon.

Until the evening ends
the fish said to the oyster in the bay
We'll dance and laugh and kiss
and both feel blessed that we are still alive
When the fishermen wake up
The skittish nature of our scaly friend
will make those hours crouch to minutes
and the waiting game begins
dare to leave the cave
stay by your bride
nets will descend to catch them both, but on their own
then bite the line

A menace maybe, more than likely
dreams are waking to walk about
put them back to bed and crawl ashore
Only a dream, only in dreams
Blushing, puffer fish.

Growing all the time
glowing like a star inside the brine
'I will swallow you'
The last thing she heard before she died

The cookpot bubbled over
the people couldn't watch
the fish had lept from ocean
to occupy their plates and thoughts
The oyster cooked to flame
and when they all were full
a phoenix rose, and took her flight with all his bones

Only a dream, only in dreams
Blushing, puffer fish.

Absolutely

A new song I wrote last night. I had to add the video effects because it sounded better with some reverb, but was really disconcerting to look at that way.

Outside the frame of sight, who can
See what's in the frame of mind, instinct
Here we are, aligned and close enough to bread and butter
The fat I've sucked has left me too slick for a lover
Hugged around my throat
A necklace made of fabric, beads and metal things
A token of my open heart, with all my blood and feelings
Pouring out, there will be rain
There will be drought

All my friends and enemies want to
Be rid of me, don't you
think that we should spend some time before we spend some time together
get to know each other better
I know I do, maybe I'm a fool
Depreciating every second leaves me neck deep
in a pool of insulation
all my flaws are bricks in walls
The doorway keystones are the baddest of them all

Back to where I have been, changed since
We were last in bed it seems living
Paved the way for calmer days, or maybe just less tension to break

I will take you in
To paint my favorite parts
When you're not in season anymore

Ostrich Feathers

I really like this video/song.



Guess what's on my mind
Ostrich feathers just like most of the time
excluding when I'm hopeful-
Read the news
Is it there to keep my feet firm to the sand
Or only so that I have somewhere soft to hide my head
It's hard to tell
I keep thinking for myself

Foxes in the yard
Like fire in the chicken coop, that's what they are
We could try to shoot them with our guns,
but that would take away from the spirit of the hunt

Lovers in a bed
Soaked in sweat and tears-
They've only just met
It seemed a scene at first until it clicked
now it seems they're siamese
Attached at the lips


Also, I'm really psyched for new Wilco and new Isis albums. I've been trying to get my hands on a leak, but I should just break down and order them. Oh to be not broke again, that would be great.

Psychedelic Toothache Tour '09

Check out this possibility for the end of the summer

Http://psychedelictoothache.blogspot.com



Going out with hopefully Trails, We Are Not Bears and Whiskey Education.

Many adventures - backlogs.

Hi everybody.
I have been lazy.
Sort of.
I have been busy.

I am the new Student Center Coordinator.
That is awesome.
Aaron Parsekian and I have some rad ideas for how to change the stood. So rad that I will make a new Stood blog tonight which you should check out often. I need a camera. And a video camera.

On the Thursday after Culture Shock, my master class had a showcase. Laurie-anne Creus, Matt Levy, Kelly Izzo and Joe Izzo


Thanks Jess Lehrman - http://glowinthedust.blogspot.com/

Hometown cab was kind of lame in a lot of ways, but it was also awesome. I never got to leave the mainstage for more than long enough to see Weston Minisalli's set at the co-op. I actually only saw the end of his last piece. It was music set to Bukowski. Pretty cool. Synth, voice, drums and one more instrument. I think originally it was for Crotales.

I played with the Disaster Piece for our first show. Thursday at 9, after Soul Voices on Mainstage. Beautiful birth.
Three songs, exhausting, awesome.
Disaster Piece is a slipknot song title I think. I don't know quite how I feel about that.
Only time will tell.
We also are recording a demo of the three songs. Vocals are the only thing left to go on.
It will be cool and I will talk all about it when the time comes.


Thanks Milo Rayo - http://funtimeusa.wordpress.com/

Elemeno played on Saturday at 11 at Hometown Cab, on the mainstage again.
Matt Gaffney, Weston, Cameron Wisch, Zach DeSorbo, Andrew Brown and myself played music.
Alliah Sophia Mousad projected video portraits. This is her Youtube, but the newest movies on there seem like the predecessors to what she projected. Here is her blog which is only maybe hers.
We also had dancers. 8 of them I think. Leah Katz helped so much by gathering all of these people into one place. Leah, Gilbert Small, Hayley Swinburn, Nina Hudson, Nicole Restani, Chess Lopez, Austin Jarred and Sarah Stanley.
Watch this



This is only more of the progression of what I hope this project will become. I wish that I had bothered to arrange for a recording of this, but it only keeps getting better.
The next monday we opened for Tera Melos at Whitson's. It has some awesome pictures. We played with Spencer Murphy on Bass instaed of Andrew and Booker Stardrum was back.


Thanks Jess Lehrman - http://glowinthedust.blogspot.com/

Zombie Prom, Data Dog, Kyle's recital

Been a few days.

Friday
Zombie Prom was great. It was a litttle rough on my sanity at times, but I never have to work sound for it again.
Donner Party Picnic plays their first show of the weekend. Probably my favorite act at Zombie Prom, but Skeleton Breath was pretty badass as well.
The 999 Eyes Freak Show did their thing.

999 EYES FREAKSHOW PROMO from laurent martin on Vimeo.

Saturday
Data Dog album release. This is so awesome, go to their site and buy it. 13 tracks of awesome. http://datadogmusic.com/
Twin Sister played a really great set. This band plays really nice music. I have their four song, you should get that at a show if you can.
Donner Party Picnic plays their second show.

Sunday
Kyle Pollard's junior recital. Studio Comp recital = throw an awesome show.
Kyle started playing solo on an acoustic guitar. Then he broke a string and distortefied the firebird. Good seqway
I played a solo set with the guitar and the effects and it was really fun. I like playing my acoustic songs with more texture. I should start playing like this with a band. Elemeno is awesome.
Now that is on the internet and I will self plug myself into fame.
Donner Party Picnic plays their third show.
We Are Not Bears played last. This is Kyles band, ex-koala, no audio on line to be found. They are finishing up their EP/demo right now. I like these guys. It's James and Will from Disaster Piece playing bass and drums. Kyle guitar/vocals.
When they put sopmething up, I'll let you know.

After all that, I hit the studio with Dan Stringer to start on the acoustic ep. We finished acoustic guitar and vox for the song Home. Check out the demo version on myspace
Tonight is cello, female vocals and percussion. Electric guitar is coming.

Fluxus

Fluxus saturday was sweet. Long and sweet. The highlight was definitely Emily Rosen's installation. The floor had a speaker in it that was playing some ambient music Zebulon Idunnohislastname made and the floor had a nice black fabric over it.
No shoes in the womb.

The walls and ceiling were decorated with scarves and fabric hanging over christmas lights. I imagine if I were a baby and someone held lots of LEDs to mom's stomach, it would be sort of like that.

The Sellar is definitely awesome now too. Neil Fridd cleaned out everything inside save for black lights and 3 bands played there. Cameron Wisch, Landlords and Ghost Mall. I had to miss Ghost Mall so that I could tear down my equipment in Whitsons, but Cameron was awesome. Usually he brings his own black lights and gets crazy with flourescent paint. He got crazy with the paint (which smells like a fish market) but the whole room was illuminated in black lights. Landlords chose to use a single green bulb in place of black lights (I think they were bugged out by all the hepatitis yellow eyes). Instead everyone looked a little dead unnder the green. Very cool band, very loud band. Pat Lamonthe (Landlords drummer) had contact mics attatched to his kick and snare and a piece of sheet metal hanging from his crash. It gave it a very industrial vibe, but also allowed the band to really crank it.

Now for Elemeno - I had so much fun playing. Eric Drasin was doing some cool filtering of live footage of us playing, as we were playing? does that make sense? He disguised it well with all the filters and colors. It was a little loose overall, but lots of fun and a good experience for those around. I ended up with a new flag on my guitar when the tuners caught it off my mic stand. Now I get to be a standard bearer and play guitar at the same time - Just what I've always wished for.
We might be able to do some track with Dan Stringer next weekend, but first I need to make things more solid. It's fine live to jam out on psychadaelic minimalism (though it's not so minimal anymore, nor ever) but if all you have is the audio, it needs to hold interest or have more emotional impact, or at least be less long winded.

Everyone's a critic.

I also got to catch the end of Moving Mountains set and talk to Dave from Damiera for a bit. Good day overall.

I wrote this in the dining hall yesterday morning. I think it's funny

Collected at the center of a room, a human nucleus
The cell swells and fades when our time is up
Voices stir and bubble, shake the boiling pot
Stewing in our company
Came out tasting all the same

Heat away our blessing and our cures
heat away our health and sense of self
Heat away until our lives are blurred
The walking dead
The egg is cracked and dripping, yolk smooth into white
The shell is all I eat to keep my body at its peak

Eat away our blessing and our cures
Eat away our health and sense of self
Eat away until our our bodies break
and leave us fucking dead

At second thought, a second helping
Paves me towards the day
Where life would strive and struggle, I am unified by taste
A third or fourth or more
Until we clean our plates
I am not a human, I'm a vacuum.

New song - Driftwood

Hey everybody, I wrote this new song yesterday and I like it. It's about people.



For a day, to see, to hear, to feel alive at the same time
Two lives at the same time
Pull away
Eat the fruit from this tree,
triplets meander into three
Pull away

Keep connected, stretch to keep the tension
Fall back to sleep
Landscape or a picture frame
Graceful in its length
Landscape or a picture frame
Distracting, calling my attention
Pull away

I will drift, drift, drift onto your body
I will drift, drift, drift away

Woah! it's a new year

OK so lot's of updates. First off, I recorded an album with Dan Stringer. Andrew James Brown played bass and Sam Weissman played drums.
It's cool because we recorded to 24 track tape (which is oldschool)
For free (which is not)

There are lots of videos of elemeno up on youtube, live with Andrew and Sam. Ryan Mallen plays on a few songs too
Here is my youtube channel

This is my favorite song from that night.

In other news, Elemeno is going through some big changes. I have doubled the size of the band. I'll wait to give you all of their names and jobs until we have a)practiced together and b) have some sort of video or recording for you.
Be ready though, Elemeno just got like 10,0000,000,00000x3 better. Songs about ostrich feathers, foreign girls and my cat are on the horizon.

Also! I just got Anathallo's new album "Canopy Glow"
It is beautiful. Buy it from the band.