And, a chance for me to reminisce by posting a very old recording of Amy’s story:

Amy’s Story (ogg) | Amy’s Story (mp3)

Amy's Story

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It was a tough decision, but I ended up deciding to go with the booklet option, so here it is…. Lots of mellow drama….

Perhaps this is a precursor for some other things (like a big book with all my old stories, poems, and drawings combined) but I’m not in a position to make any promises at the moment. I guess it all depends on how much procrastinating about straightening-up of the house I need to do.

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Well, your wait is over since I found another song that I hadn’t included on NAFSKTMP. I couldn’t figure out what to call it, so I simply called it “The Song that Didn’t Make it.”

Download:

• OGG | MP3 – The Song that Didn’t Make it (crusty)
• OGG | MP3 - The Song that Didn’t Make it (clean)

To add to the findings, I also found my original cover ideas for this album which, by the way, are dated 2004 (just to give you an idea of exactly how lazy I’ve become in my old age).

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New and found songs keep the music playing, but not nearly frequently enough. Being away from my artsy friends and living in a place where I doubt people would pay much attention to what I’m doing tends to take away some of the inspiration for writing songs. That’s not to say that I’ve lost interest, but that it takes a little bit more effort to get around to actually picking up my guitar and trying to come up with something new.

But here you have something new, and this new thing is a composite of some extremely old songs I’ve “discovered” on my backup CDs as well as some more recently recorded songs. Without a doubt, this is the most disjointed DWAB release to date, and this is in large part because of how scattered the recording dates are. Nevertheless, I felt it best to go ahead and stick them together, and get them out there. . . .

The songs were recorded over the span of about 10 years, some in Santa Barbara, some in Madurai, and one in Boston. They were named in totally logical illogical ways such as being based on an addition to my house, the country that one of my instruments came from, the way one of my students said a particular word, or a surgery I had.

This is also the first DWAB release that includes “cover songs” of sorts. For example, “One Sunday Afternoon” is actually a Stephen Hero song that never got recorded (and even if it were to get recorded, it would sound nothing like what I’ve recorded here). Similarly, “De Colores” is a traditional song that I recorded for my Spanish class as a special project. And “Paul ’s Space Bar”? Well. I’ ll let you figure out what the original song was. Ben and I butchered it so badly that. . . well, it has become something totally new.

Listen online, or download the songs in your choice of FLAC, MP3, or OGG while you browse the gallery of associated artwork….

Pick your format:

• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Starting Early
• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Kudil Song
• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Ho-Ros-Ko-Poe
• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Hi Drociele, crowin’ under the coconut trees….
• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Plugs (mellow)
• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – One Sunday Afternoon
• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Phonecall to Bolivia
• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Paul’s Space Bar (quick mix)
• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – The long road to nowhere in particular always seems to get us right back to where we started
• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – De Colores
• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Plugs
• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – Silence
• FLAC | MP3 | OGG – The long road to nowhere in particular leads us to the sewers

Here’s the booklet:

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Excerpts from the 1990s

I don’t know what much I can say about David Hanna. As I mentioned on the page I created for him at So, sue me already, he would be one person I would love to have in a DWAB live band if there ever were one….

I remember David had moved away after recording the songs for One Final Episode in Our Attempts at Persistence 10″ and during the time he was gone, he took a course in music recording. When he came back to Santa Barbara for a short visit, he also lent me a tape with some of the stuff he had been doing.

It’s a pretty cool collection of random “songs” (they’re not really songs–they’re quite often more like “snippets” or samples that you could imagine layering to create some actual songs). I didn’t get any titles from him (I doubt he had any), so it’s somewhat tough to tell you my favorite songs, but be sure to scan through all of them and find the advertisement for “Liqui Socks”–it’s pretty damn cool….

01
02 | 03
04 | 05 | 06
07 | 08 | 09 | 10
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20
21 | 22 | 23 | 24
25 |26 | 27
28 | 29
30

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This was recorded at the same time as the songs in the previous post, but I didn’t get to play around with it before I had to go in for a surgery. Well, the surgery is over, and now I’m at home relaxing, and I decided to fiddle around with the recording a bit. So, here you have it! Another new DWAB song!

• Hi Drocoele, crowin’ under the coconut trees….

Yes, the crows can really be that bad during the day (although I admit there was some looping involved). And no, that’s not exactly how the song was supposed to end, but I’m probably going to be lazy and never get around to recording it properly, so I guess this is better than nothing, right?

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The songs were recorded with my Cowon D2 media player and my new Samsung mobile phone. How’s that for lo-fi hi-fi?

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• The long road to nowhere in particular takes us to the pyramids
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• Sulu’s long road to nowhere in particular

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Anyway, thanks to Ryan for scanning the insert. There’s one page that was pretty illegible (not Ryan’s fault—just poor design skills) and that was Sam’s rant on why we should all throw away our TVs. So, to save you the strain of dealing with the text in the pdf, I’ve transcribed it below:

TV is Dumb

Am I overstating the obvious? Have you ever been at a party, everything’s going cool, everyone’s talking, eating, etc… Then someone turns on the TV and everything just stops? All the heads within looking distance whip around and all the eyes fixate on the glowing phosphorous tube. Everyone stops talking. They all become one with the TV. How many times have you sat down to watch TV, not to really watch anything in particular, just to what “whater is on”, and you just flip through our beautiful assortment of nothing. For hours sometimes… Maybe stop on Ricky Lake and laugh at other people’s problems… Maybe watch that fantastic Meatloaf video… If TV’s so interesting, why are you whipping around? Sometimes you’ll just realize “Wow, there’s really nothing on. This is boring.” And you’ll go have something to eat, read a book, start a band, whatever you can do when you’re not plugged into the music revolution or the real world of “Cops”. Do you ever feel used? You know the commercials are stupid… They’re so… commercial. But you still fall for them, don’t you? Sometimes you end up in the supermarket and you buy something but you don’t know why. Do you feel hypnotized by TV? Do you feel like the tube is probing straight into your head? A lot of people do, doesn’t this trigger any warning signals in your brain? Has TV and the media led you to mistrust your own observations. Do you really need a scientist to tell you that Mother’s-Milk is better than Brand-X Baby Formula? You knew that already, why didn’t you trust yourself. Do you ever wonder just why you wear deodorant when everyone else pretty much smells the same way you do? Do you feel like you’re just living in someone else’s reality? When was the last time you felt real mud between your toes? How close do you feel to nature? When was the last time you were somewhere and you didn’t see a human-created “reality”? Have you ever read something really important in a newspaper article and then when you watch TV, it’s nowhere to be seen? Can you read through a whole book and get the meaning? (I barely can anymore.) When was the last time you read a book, just for fun? Have you made it this far into my rant? If you have, you can be saved from this. If you want to know more about TV and its effects on society yourself and hear some very convincing arguments on why you should throw your TV away (if you haven’t already) read Four Arguments for the Elemination of Television by Jerry Mander. It’s 9 bucks, but your sanity is worth it. If you’re lucky, you’ll find it at the local library, but some punk probably stole it.

Ahhh…. Rambling incoherent idealistic youth….

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And that wasn’t the point of my writing today. No—the point of my post today was to share a nice hefty PDF file of “The Art of 2657 Productions” which you can also buy (in a different version—the printed version doesn’t include all the text) from Blurb. I know. Now I won’t get any sales on my book. But that’s OK. Y’all know that I like to give stuff away all the time…. Consider this my one-hundred-one-post gift.

Anyway, you can get the book from Issuu—so check it out….

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I decided to try Blurb out to see what their hardcover books were like, so back in April, I gathered all of my CD covers and put them together into the book “The Art of 2657 Productions…”. Axle sent the book to me and I just got it and I’m pretty happy with the output.

Now for the shameless promotion: You should all buy copies too! I figure I can use any money from it to pay for my web-hosting. Each book sold would be good enough for almost one month of hosting. (I can see you all whipping out your credit cards now….)

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