The Echo Sequence

This was a real treat. I've been working on this cover for a while now, pre-voice blow out. It was good to make this my return from the grave. I felt I was in really good voice the other night, so at Penny's Open Mic I whipped out my cover of Hallelujah the Hills' beautiful song "The Echo Sequence" off of their album Colonial Drones. It killed.



Next up are "Nurses 5 Float Past", "The Might Come Back Club", "Let it Wave" and "Sleeper Agent"

Effie's on the Other Side

First in a series of Hallelujah the Hills covers. Voice is not in the best shape here, perhaps it would have been better had I not smacked my head on the floor thirty seconds prior. (see previous video). This is from their awesome album "Collective Psychosis Begone"... visit their website: www.hallelujahthehills.com

fan page on facebook

Well, I guess it's a "like" page now, but if you go to my page on facebook you can connect to my reverbnation profile, keep updated on new songs, album info, etc. It's located here!

Grudge Match! Music vs. Comedy

**FREE SHOW**

Come witness the madness as Grudge Match returns to Marfa Music @ Lucky Cheng's! Comedians and musicians battle it out for your hearts! Winners go home with the trophy and the glory while the losers are taken out back and shamed, and somehow have to face themselves in the morning. also: **FREE CHIPS AND SALSA**

Music by
Joe Yoga
Stephanie Allen
Justin W. Hillman

Comedy by
John Murdock
Ali Wong
John Knefel

Hosted by Mo Diggs

Special appearance by Paulina Princess of Power

**FREE CHIPS AND SALSA**


Facebook invite for those who roll that way: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109441739089763

OK, so this is me falling down

The full, unedited video of me trying to recreate the opening to Back To the Future with my ukulele, for laughs, and then launching my self backward, falling, and smacking my head on the floor is stored safely on my computer. It may be released someday. But for now, I give you the money shot.



it's ok to laugh.

posted without comment

two guys on set of the "tech" portion of an Access Hollywood type show. Interviewing someone from Apple about the iPad. Interviewer asks "Well isn't it just a big iPhone?" and the Apple guy says "No, the apps go deeper". The apps go deeper??? I'm sorry, I like Apple and am a Mac guy in general, but that is just bullshit. What does that even mean, The apps go deeper??? I refuse to believe that that phrase means something. I'm not one of these prescriptivists either. Or is it descriptivists??

New Friends: Lanikai LU-6 Tenor Ukulele

my newest toy is the Lanikai LU-6 Uke. It has a high octave C (3rd string) and a low octave on the A (1st string). The unique setup combined with the mahogany woods gives it a rich, full, very bizarre sound. There are moments when it sounds like a low-endy mandolin (i want to say baritone mandolin but I don't know if that's musically correct). I've had it for a week and am getting a lot of cool chord progressions out of it. Not a lot of lyrics though. For example:



Lots of little half-songs or parts-of songs and melodies. But I've done pretty well adapting to the strange tuning (the E string, for example, is lower in pitch than the G string, even though it's higher on up the fretboard) and have been doing some subway and street jamming... and have already added it to two songs that I just finished up for Life Out East (my new album).

Tulsa

The last band I was in before I "went solo" (which stint included getting in TWO bands, but that's not important. The motivation is a nice before/after line for me) was a band called Noisebin, which featured myself on bass, the amazing Jenny Christmas on guitar, and "Hands" Danly on drums. We were a great band and had a nice little run, but tensions and visions were disparate and we split the band up before we started hating each other.
I kept a few of the songs though, and this one, based off of one of Jenny's chord progressions (C-F waltz) is one of my favorites. She started doing the C-F thing in practice, I followed her and started improvising some melodies on top of it. I had an idea for the chorus and the rest is history.



No, I've never been to Tulsa. I was writing a lot of stuff "in character" those days (read: making shit up) and these will always be some of my favorites lyrics. Filmed live at Grudge Match, March 17th 2010.