Song Fight!

Looking to the future...

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A song about feeling disaffected. more...

Maybe you should have listened to the principal. Then you could have won at Song Fight! too. more...

A song about love and monsters. more...

a mathematical experiment

A song about hypnagogic hallucinations. more...

An experiment in minimalism. more...

A silly collaboration with <3. It is an allegory about technology (I specifically had cellphones in mind).

A live recording of the first time I'd ever even tried playing my song "All Tan" at the livefight at Song Fight! High and Dry in Santa Cruz. I kind of made up the chords as I went along and I lost track of my lyrics towards the end but recovered, sorta. Someday I'll probably re-record a studio version, in the style of Birds Of Our Own (+5).

Abstract expressionistic music about a cat. Based roughly on my parents' cat Axel. more...

Maddog on vocals, me on backup vocals, guitar, bass, keyboard, and drums, Seattle's 5th Avenue on ambient sounds. Lyrics were written by Aaron "Stubs" Ondek and edited by Barry "Benny" Brinkman with contributions by Ray C. "Spud" Freeman III. more...

I totally improvised this one on the spot. It's about how people will whore themselves out just to be on TV.

This was my first entry as part of Octothorpe. I made the chord progression, played acoustic guitar (mixed way down just to add a little "shininess" to the sound) and keyboards and did some backing vocals, and did all the recording/editing/production. And it won!

This song also features Marcus Kellis as guest performer on guitar and vocals, and as usual Spud on bass and backup vocals and Mad Dog on vocals.

The lyrics (written by Stubs and Mad Dog) are based on something that happened to MC Frontalot.

Another spoken-word improv entry, from the perspective of a folk-singing attention-deficit acolyte of Satan who occasionally hangs out with God and just happens to be wandering around Antarctica.

Before I left for my parents' house for my winter vacation, I recorded a song, and while en route I remixed it three times based on my surroundings. (Yay laptops!)

Waiting for a plane to take me away. Recorded on the barren floor of my new studio apartment in New York.

Glenn, Ken and I found out we all had the same birthday (which was also the due date for this entry), so we collaborated on a song. We won.

(My verse is the one about Elvis Stojko.)

A song about being on the other side of unrequited love. more...

Some spoken-word improvisation.

I took on the guest role of producer for The Frontalittle Squad. I also was the voice of Godzilla, as well as all the random badly-dubbed Japanese people in the background.

We won.

I did a shot each of whiskey and Jägermeister before recording the vocals for authenticity. I learned to play slide guitar two days previously.

An attempt at emulating the Violent Femmes. more...

Existential meanderings, written while doped up on Robitussin.

(I was pretty sick at the time.)

A song about a girl in a piece of children's literature, 15 years later.

artwank entered as entropic pincushion

(I did it by chaining both the audio and MIDI on an electric drumset through a SIDstation.)

It felt like the world was out to get me at the time. So much so that i didn't realize the title was actually supposed to be "Sunny Again."

An ode to caffeine.

My first entry after taking a few months' sabbatical from Song Fight. It kind of summed up my feelings about it and why I'd left for a while.

Just a song about dreaming about being a dog. I reworked it somewhat for an album which I never got around to finishing. The melody came to me in a dream the night before titles went up.

Just some lazy-Sunday lo-fi jazz improv.

Patrick Clayton and I decided to do a collaboration. It was submitted just fine but the copy Narbotic put up was broken so nobody could hear it. Oh well.

Some instrumental electronic heart repair.

This isn't all of the music I've written for Song Fight — just the stuff I've bothered to post. Granted, if it's not posted here, it's probably because it's crap, but I have several entries under the names fluffy porcupine, fluffy, and Pringle Can.