POP QUIZ ASSHOLE - From "The Vaults" - Here's an, uh, 'audio tribute' I cut together after The Matrix came out. RUN DMC + German Porn music = Magic. (1:34 - June, 2001)

STANDING AT THE CROSSROADS - Another one from the pile of old cassette mixdowns... an 8-track (ADAT) song from the mid-nineties. I was wearing my influences on my sleeve for this one, for sure. Very wanna-be Nick Cave/Tom Waits. I used to really like this sort of genre-mimicking, then I was embarrassed by it, and now I accept it as being a fine exercise and not much else. The screaming at the end is pretty funny. (3:52 - 1996-ish)

RED CENT - A Tom-oldie that I like. It's a rather flawed demo that I recorded quietly in my bedroom one night, trying to not annoy my housemate sleeping on the other side of the wall. Which really gave it a weird low-key thing that I have grown fond of over years of listening to it. I am bound to re-record a 'proper' version of this song eventually, probably ruining it in some undefineable way, but that's all right by me. The lyrics are sort of crap. (3:40 - 1995)

BIG STINKYHEAD KID - Here's a very old song I wrote before I ever heard Beck. It is rather short and nonsensical and pitch-shiftastic. (:50 - 1992-1994?)

EASY FEELING GOOD TIME - An instrumental track from, oh, 1992-1995ish? 4-track recording, sloppy, unrehearsed. If you listen closely, you can hear crap that was on the cassette before I recorded over it. Is that a fretless bass? I didn't think I owned a fretless bass back then. Weird. Likely to be resurrected in an upcoming radio segment as background music. (2:19 - 1994?)

Labels: 1994, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2005, Audio, Music

Bughaus was a sort of crappy story I expended a lot of effort on and ultimately abandoned. It was a reworking of the original "Bughouse" story I started in MassArt's Don't Shoot It's Only Comics anthology. I built it around a new main character (his name was DICK) and wrote a bafflingly complicated and unfunny story arc. I was so desperate to simply produce something...anything... I cranked this little fucker out in mostly ballpoint pen. There are a handful of funny jokes in here, but it is mostly a fine example of... I dunno... lack of talent? Maybe someday I'll scan it and post the whole thing up here, just to embarrass myself and amuse a few 11-year old boys. For now, here's a 1-page taste. Peep that skill-level. ::cringe::

Labels: 1995, Comic Projects