Count Dracula's overgrown cheese wheel.
May 5, 2008 at 1:35 a.m.
Well, I may have lost out on the pdxpopnow compilation, but i was informed today that "The Zaps" will be included on KINK's forthcoming local music sampler. So, if I put you in a cage with a cougar and made you vote for me a couple months back, then you can rest easy knowing it worked!! So that's a big FANKS to all who did vote for me. Y'all rule.
I'm not sure about how to get it once it's out, but I'm sure I'll have the details when they come.
Hourly,
Alex
Looks like you have three beaks, crow!
May 5, 2008 at 1:35 a.m.
I decided to compile a free "digital album" of all the Missing Briefcase demos. Click here to download it as a ZIP file. I arranged the running order chronologically in the order that they were recorded, so you can get a different perspective on the album. In fact, some of the songs sound very different from the album versions. Some are super rough, some are more produced. If you know the MB songs at all, it should be a fun listen!
I've started recording the next album. I've done a lot of work on it the past several days. I find it is like unloading a grocery bag full of various Mesopotamian artifacts. You know what I mean. It's going to be an excellent album--very tightly focused and arranged. There should be some cool experiments on it too. Good ones though. Not crappy indulgent ones.
Rigidly,
Alex
A squid eating dough in a polyethelene bag.
April 20, 2008 at 8:52 p.m.
"Bomb Iran" one year later: from April 20, 2007 to April 20, 2008 there have been 85,730 views, 934 comments, and it was favorited 469 times. It was even shown on CNN! Sure, it's no "Chocolate Rain," but I'm pretty surprised at well it's done considering it took me about 3 hours total to record and videotape the song and video. Maybe I needed to sing really weird or be a prairie dog? One of these days, the secrets of how to become a YouTube celebrity will be deciphered and I will finally know.
Also, check out this page on the Banana Stand website about my session from last weekend. There are some photos, and the show (mixed by myself) will be posted there very soon as well. Thanks to those guys for having a totally cool place to play/record AND a totally rad webpage! AND they have a great house photographer--Jott Robertson--as well! What a package. Now if only they had Legos...
Promptly,
Alex
Dreadful crows.
April 14, 2008 at 3:28 p.m.
It took a little longer than expected, but Make Me Dinner is finally up on iTunes! My new digital-only release Make Me Dinner gathers Missing Briefcase "b-sides," demos and a couple new songs recorded just for the occasion. Click here to check it out.
Lizardly,
Alex
Download the Make Me Dinner EP from iTunes
Unreliable timestamp.
April 9, 2008 at 2:24 p.m.
I'm playing at the Banana Stand this Saturday. It's going to be an intimate affair, as it is kind of a studio/venue hybrid, and they'll be broadcasting the show in podcast form as well. It's also free. Just gotta email bananastandmedia@gmail.com to let them know you wanna go and you're in!
And the address is:
1517 SE Division
Portland, Oregon 97202
You can also check out their Myspace to get a better feel for what they're about: http://www.myspace.com/bananastandmedia
It will be lots of fun. I have foreseen it.
--Alex
Devious and darling.
April 5, 2008 at 6:39 p.m.
Vote for and listen to my Radiohead remix!! If that thing above doesn't work for you--Firefox seems to have problems with it--then just go here:
http://www.radioheadremix.com/remix/?id=788
As for Make Me Dinner, I'm not sure what's taking CD Baby/iTunes so long to get it up, but you'll know as soon as it is.
-_Alex_-
But you gots to know the facts.
March 26, 2008 at 10:06 p.m.
I was informed via a couple comments on my "Bomb Iran" video that CNN showed a clip of it recently. I don't really know anything else other than that, but that's pretty cool! Thanks, Wolf!
Also, KINK will again be playing "The Zaps" on their Local Music Spotlight on April 1 at 9:20 pm. No, this is not an AFJ. It is for realz.
Make Me Dinner is not yet available on iTunes, but it should be up soon. Hopefully. I really don't have any control over the actual time it takes to get it up there. But it should be soon. Maybe Wolf Blitzer can pull some strings, if you ask him curtly.
--------------Alex
No space for face-melting.
March 16, 2008 at 4:23 p.m.
I added Make Me Dinner to the discography section! Since it is a digital-only release, that's the only place you're going to be able to get the "liner notes." Also, all the lyrics are posted too. Commence poring.
--Alex
You know how it is when you're hanging by a string.
March 6, 2008 at 6:55 p.m.
Here is the final tracklisting of the Make Me Dinner EP:
1. Soldier Down
2. Waiting While Sleeping
3. Palm Trees
4. Just Like That
5. Surgeon 2008
6. Choke
7. Eternal Return (demo)
8. I'm In The Way
It is a DIGITAL-ONLY release, meaning you will only be able to procure it on iTunes, Amazon, Napster and other digital download stores. But who buys CDs anymore, right?! Only people from THE NINTIES would do that! Those crazy clueless bastards!
I sent it off to CD Baby today, which means that it should be up on iTunes within a week or two. There is still a slight wait before you get to plunder this musical booty!
--The Albatross
I came back as a bag of groceries.
March 3, 2008 at 5:22 p.m.
Small change of plans regarding the EP: it will no longer contain the song "Bomb Iran," because I don't even really like it that much and I don't wanna deal with any potential legal issues with a song I can't get behind. Instead, it will be called Make Me Dinner and will be a digital-only release. I just wanna get the songs out. I might add another song or two to the EP as well, and the final track listing will be announced as soon as I lock it down with indestructible chains and a force field.
If you want "Bomb Iran" then just freaking download it for free!
Busted,
Alex
Clay is my pottery.
February 27, 2008 at 9:28 p.m.
WIRED MAGAZINE is now using "Update Your Blog" for the theme song of their new video blog! It features the internet humorist Lore Sjoberg, who has some hilarious things to say about the Zelda games in this first installment. Absorb it:
In other news, I'm releasing a new EP! It's called the Bomb Iran EP! I figured I should release the YouTube sub-sensation "Bomb Iran" because apparently people would like to have an actual non-YouTube-sounding recording of it. And it gives me an excuse to finish and release some of the outtakes and demos from Missing Briefcase that I really like but weren't quite right for the album. Also, I re-recorded 2003's "Soldier Down" specially for the EP, to kind of give a bit of thematic consistency. It should be out by mid-March. Here's the tracklisting:
1. Bomb Iran
2. Soldier Down
3. Waiting While Sleeping (MB outtake)
4. Just Like That (MB outtake)
5. Choke (MB outtake)
6. Eternal Return (10/06 demo)
7. I'm In The Way (12/06 demo reworked)
Of course, I will let you all know the instant the EP is available on CD Baby, iTunes, and that whole routine. Until then...HIKE!
The Ayatollah's cool with me.
February 17, 2008 at 7:44 p.m.
This afternoon I wrote a new song and recorded a demo. It's called "Not Salman Rushdie." Of course, I HAD to videotape myself playing it, so:
In other news, I made some kickass meat loaf last night, which resulted in kickass leftovers tonight.
Bono-like,
Alex
Welcome to my game closet.
January 24, 2008 at 7:48 p.m.
You may have heard that KINK played my song "The Zaps" on their local music segment last night. Welllll you can now vote for my song to be included on their local music compilation! You DO have to register on their site real quick, but it's pretty painless.
Please go and vote for "The Zaps"!
You can vote for three bands total, but you only have to enter one. That's what I did, since I wasn't immediately familiar with any of the other bands' songs.
Please do this! YOU can help!
Love you for this,
Alex
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