Music: Peter and the Wolf
Posted on | September 7, 2008 | No Comments
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Whiskey and Apples (record label)
My first Peter and the Wolf CD was found at a vinyl shop in Williamsburg, waiting for me on the used CD rack. Something rang a bell… maybe I dimly remembered getting a track off largeheartedboy… The CD was “Lightness” and it blew me away.
Right now you can hear “The Ivy Remix” and “Ghost Sandals” on their MySpace page, but you’ve got to hear more to hear the depth. When you order the physical CDs from the label, Whiskey and Apples, you get hand-drawn CD covers and CDs, which may take a few extra days, but is worth the wait.
Austinite Red Hunter is a singer/songwriter who gathers his friends about him to make music that is resonant with sincerity, caring and ties that bind. Pitchfork gave him some love on the debut, and he deserves it. more after the jump
Facebook advertising is growing up, but needs to keep growing
Posted on | September 7, 2008 | No Comments
I posted this on my Facebook wall:
I am laughing at the ads Facebook chooses to serve me. I mean seriously. Just because I’m single, straight and male, it’s appropriate to show me pictures of “hotties” and wedding rings? Grow up, advertising! And grow up advertisers!
Contextual advertising has a looooooong way to go! At least you can vote for ads, teaching Facebook what you may want to have served to you. I guess it’s a two-way situation. The more you “tell” Facebook about your interests, the more they have on which to base serving ads.
One of my friends replied with this link from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090202956.html
At my day job, I am an advertiser and marketer, but I am also a human. I’ve decided to hold off on advertising in Facebook because of things like this. It’s great for us to be able to target people who are more likely to be receptive to ads, but by the looks of it most people are still using the shotgun approach to marketing while in the midst of contextual ad service. Stupid. You know something about them, so why are you still using the fear method to get their attention? more after the jump
Music from the Vault: Leslie Song
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Above photos are from Rosemont, IL when we discovered the Hala Kahiki, one of the oldest existing, non-renovated Tiki Bars in America. Reminds me that I have audio of those sessions with DJ, Dre and I… Hmmm. This was right after I got my Voigtlander Bessa-R and 35mm f/1.7. Love that lens and camera.
For this song, Dre was in contact with this gal whom he’d met teaching a seminar (or something… I forget the exact details). Anyway, we borrowed the opening lines from her blog and wrote the choruses ourselves.
He sent the song to her, and received silence in return. LOL.
I was standin’ ouside
The five and dime
hummin’ the lines
from Nine to FiveFelt so good
To be alive
Sportin’ Cavaricci’s
And throwin’ down rhymes!Press on (and she wore)
… She wore Lee Press on
NailsPress on (and she wore)
… She wore Lee Press on
Nails
I am so pround of this chorus. Wow.
Music from the Vault: Bloodbutta
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Nonsense. Nonsense! HIlarity!
This started as great music with nonsense lyrics for melody (which stuck) and and strong, ridiculous chorus with (real) falsetto harmonies. Which, BTW, is explicit, NSFW and potentially offensive.
But I must say it was fun, and Dre and I were rolling around, laughing. Imagine hair bands.
Me on guitars, Dre on lead vocals. Both of us harmonizing for the uplifting chorus.
Music from the Vault: Emotionally Retarded
Posted on | September 6, 2008 | No Comments
This one is a raw slice of life.
If you’re uncomfortable hearing about someone else’s potent past experience, don’t listen. If you are comfortable with your place in life and perhaps don’t bear other’s problems as your own, listen and read on.
As mentioned before, this is raw. The song is a potent glimpse into a moment in my own life that is behind me. It is, in my opinion, quite beautiful in its honesty and passion.
In my life, I often choose to combat adversity with art. It lets me explore by beliefs, feelings and moments in a productive manner. My cut paper art is another example of this. I started it during a very confusing and low period in my life. It may have been instinct, or logic… The result was putting all that negative energy into making something instead of wallowing or destroying. Well, I didn’t entirely escape the wallowing 
But this helped immensely. Same with the music. It’s a wonderful way to express the urgent challenges in life. It may not end up in an answer, but in this case, it’s an accurate snapshot of that moment.
On a final note, when Dre and I make music we name the song before writing lyrics or music. So, the title, “Emotionally Retarded” was kismet (of a sort, LOL). It isn’t directed at anyone addressed in the song but it certainly could apply to everyone… including who I was at the time.
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