the dirty projectors

just home from the best show i've seen all year. the dirty projectors hail from new york city and are composed mostly of mad scientist musical geniuses. numbering among them are four (4) great vocalists.

here is the song 'fluorescent half dome' from the newest album, bitte orca.

Fluorescent Half Dome - Dirty ...

When I've had enough, when I've heard enough from police and pretenders
When I'm ready for my whole world to open up and surrender
I'll look for you, I will be searching the garden and the street
I will look into the eyes of everyone I meet
And when I finally find you, will I know?

Far beyond here, far removed from the sneering of the crowd
My eternal love sits smiling, sphinx-like and proud
Cross that disguise, I am glancing with needles in my eyes
Birds of infinity glisten, shimmering for the rest of my life
And I conceived them, not what they mean

adventures in musicianship

stephanie and i are booked to play a country western show this friday. i don't know too many country songs, so this puts me in an unusual position, singing in a faulty southern accent while adding lyrics about horses to songs that aren't even about horses.

the catch? we'll be playing with a professional drummer. that's enough to get me excited and maybe, just maybe, i will follow my instinct and buy a fake rattlesnake to put in my cowboy hat/belt loops.

early winter

october has only just arrived, but you wouldn't know it from the deluge of christmas music that has manifested itself on my ipod playlists, early. this is part of an annual, more monumental course of change, during which i prepare myself mentally and physically for the idea of winter.

the season (which began, as it does every year, at first sight of a jacket) encompasses a broad spectrum of emotions for an individual like myself. in a hot climate, it carries a semblance of the weather i grew up with. commercially, it ensures the presence of pumpkin spice lattes, seasonal lights of varying quality, and of course, overwrought holiday jingles.

this year finds me recording my own versions of some of these jingles as a means of exercising my home production skills and growing creatively. it's too early to share them, but expect a wintery demo come november.

looking forward to the cold season!