Archive for September, 2007

Fresh Bread

Bakery in Morocco

bakery.jpg

The black specs on the bread are flies

Flies on Bread

Developments

Howdy kids. Put a couple more songs up tonight, be sure to give those a listen. In less staggeringly obvious news, I’ve a couple of things to inform you of. First, if you direct your attention (read: browser) to the music page, you will see that the music player is now functional. Note however that it will take a couple days for newly posted songs to show up there. Secondly, the freestyle stuff has been taken down from the site due to concerns about “content” “suitability” “target audience” and whatever other terms you wanna use to hint at “smuttiness”. For the few you who care (i.e., those present at those sessions), send me an email or something if you’re desperate to hear those takes. Otherwise, enjoy the other music.

One more thing. If anyone has any really good yet viable ideas for band names, drop me an email or leave a comment. I’m in need. I’ll give you… free shows for life, or something equally worthless. Later.

White Noise

This one’s just me. Not counting the timpani samples I dug up and pitch shifted. Speaking of which, try to listen to it on something with good bass response, those timpani are where the real magic is.

 
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Last Tattoo

So this one is a polka cover of a song by a band called Rehab. Go listen to the original, it’ll make you appreciate this one that much more. Also, all these lyrics are really from the song. Yes, even “Bone the dawn feels wrong” and “Little bitty guilties crawling all over my soul”.

Primarily me and Larry, with some backup vocals by John Cardinal.

 
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Andalusia

This picture was taken by Seth over at www.entreprenuts.com.

Andalusia

Champagne

Champagne

Photoshop: Brightness, Contrast, Selective Color

Man vs. Iron

So another purpose of this site will be a photoblog. If you would like to share some of your photos please let us know.

I took this photo while I was in Morocco last summer.

Man and Iron

Photoshop: contrast and brightness only.

Happiest Song In The World

Needs no real introduction. The little bit of freshman year magic that’s mostly Mike’s doing, also features Brian on those gorgeous chorus vocals. And if you haven’t seen Emlen’s video, check that out as well.

 
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Do You Remember Me?

Disco song featuring Sam Perren and Larry Cardinal. In case you can’t figure it out for yourself, the premise for the song is (I think) a crazy fat black lady who has Daniel Radcliffe’s baby… I would also like to go on record saying that I did not write any of the filthy lyrics.

 
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Bomb In The Dining Hall

Techno track with some compelling vocals by Rebecca Hale. And some rather disquieting ones from myself

 
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Welcome to the Dolce

Dolce is actually an adjective I think…

Anyway. Hi I’m Mark. Odds are you know me, else why the hell would you be here? This is a website for various arts and other creative endeavours, a sort of cultural cornucopia of collaborative creativity conducive to collecting the crafts of the community, from calligraphy to ceramics. Supposedly. As far as I know it doesn’t actually do anything yet except host a few songs of mine (many of them made with the assistance of some of my oh so talented buds). But in time, I’m sure it will blossom into an artistic Mecca.

Anyway. I’m going to upload some songs. You might find them amusing. You should listen to them. Over and over. Get them nice and stuck in your head so that you have to keep coming back and listening to them, creating an inescapable cycle of web-traffic for the site. Tell your friends. Why shouldn’t they be exploited the same way you are? Check back often. I’ll probably keep posting things frequentlyish as I come up with them or remember their existence.

Anyway. Soon there will be a little jukebox and other such fancy wonders of the modern world. I hope you’ll enjoy. So on. Let me go find some songs to put up.

P.S. Next week, some freestyles. Do stay tuned.

P.P.S. Anyway