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Bushwick Book Club
I’ve been playing in a group that meets on the first Tuesday of every month called The Bushwick Book Club. The creator, Susan Hwang, picks a book for everyone to read for the month and each member writes a song or two about the book. She released an album with some of those songs. It’s called The Bushwick Book Club, Volume 1, January-November 2009. Here’s a link to the website and the myspace site.
Here’s a link to listen to the song I did which is based on the book The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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Video Flyer for Palace of Wonders
Palace of Wonder in Washington, DC – Thursday, May 20
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Video Flyer for Highline
Here’s a video for the .357 LOVER show on May 30.
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Corn Mo in DC
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Video Flyer for Saturday
Here’s a flyer for an upcoming .357 Lover show:
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Friday Night Intimate Show
I love the idea of playing in a room with no microphones. That’s a true intimate show. When Jonathan Wood Vincent told me he acquired a place with a piano for a parlor show, I immediately told him I’d love to be involved.
This Friday I will be playing a set in this parlor room. Jonathan will play as well as Lily Maase. Oh, and they’ll have a potluck dinner.
Friday, April 23
NYC
Papacookie Pinewood Timber Mill
201 W. 86th St. #806
8pm
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Schubert’s Rast
This is number ten in Schubert’s Winterreise. David Fairchild is on piano. I’m still trying to master these songs.
Link to song: Rast
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“Ghost” from Alice Wakeman
This is a song from our rock opera called Alice Wakeman. This song is from the scene where Alice realizes that no one comes to see him play but the ghosts in his castle. We performed it on a show called Fearless. To ghosts.
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Parkside Show on Friday, April 16
My friend, Geoff Berner, told me he was coming to town. So, I set up this show in order to show him off to my friends. We toured together as part of the Monsters of Accordion Tour. He is an amazing performer. One of my best friends, Magic Brian, has just returned from Australia. He will perform the prestidigitation feats that he is known for.
Friday, April 16
Corn Mo and Friends
NYC
Parkside Lounge
317 E Houston (at Attorney)
w/ Magic Brian, Geoff Berner
$5
doors – 7:45pm
show – 8pm
Corn Mo plays at 8
Corn Mo is finished @ 8:45.
Corn Mo gets two beers.
Corn Mo watches Magic Brian around 8:50
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Bizarre Magazine
Here’s a piece I wrote for Bizarre Magazine. Check out these bands when you get a chance.
Click this thumbnail a few times until you’re able to read it:
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John Titor and Eloi Cole Fan Fiction
Some background information: John Titor is the Paul Bunyan of time travel. Eloi Cole is either the James Frey of time travel or the Billy the Kid of time travel.
John Titor and Eloi Cole are sitting at a bar. John is drinking beer and Eloi is drinking 12-year-old single malt. Both are getting to the point of talking too much.
At one point, John says, “Eloi, what year did you say you came from again?”
Eloi responds, “That depends, John. What year did you come from?”
The Price-is-Right strategy comes into play at this moment. If Eloi says 2016, then John will say 2017. John can say whatever he wants about the year 2017 because Eloi doesn’t know what has happened in 2017. Furthermore, John can ask Eloi who won the World Series in 2016. In addition, John can always use the future civil war to combat the World Series question. Yet, there are too many chess moves for both of them so it’s best that the subject changes.
Eloi says, “What’s the best joke of the day from whence you came?”
John says, “Two eagles walk into a bar full of snakes. The bartender says, ‘Hi, what can I get you?’’”?
Eloi says, “And then what?”
John says, “That’s the joke. When the civil war comes, nothing is funny. Uplifting stories are preferred.”
Eloi can’t think of a move and says, “Bartender, I’ll have another Mountain Dew Code Red.”
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Franz Schubert’s “Im Dorfe”
Before going to bed, check out my version of “Im Dorfe” from Schubert’s Winterreise. It’s not quite a lullaby, not quite a party song. David Fairchild is on the piano. I’m still trying to master this.
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Time Travel News
Move over John Titor, Eloi Cole has traveled from the future to save the earth: http://ow.ly/1uHKk
A reposting of Time Cop is in order:
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Corn Mo Accompanies Game Play
Slip’s game play montage/homage:
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Big Fan Fiction in the style of Old Josh’s Fan Fiction of Young Josh as Old Josh
Old Josh and Regular Susan had just come back from the Museum of Natural History. Regular Susan had just taken off her shoes and was hoping to take off more.
“So, what do you want to do now?”
“I have the Monster Manual under my bed.”
“And?”
“We can look through it. Together.”
“That sounds fascinating.”
“You have to be naked to look at it.”
“Well, then. Let me take my clothes off.”At that point, Old Josh realized that Stormbringer was the only weapon he could use at this point. Yet, although he was all chaotic evil on the outside he was still neutral good on the inside. So, he feigned sickness and told regular Susan she should probably leave on account of his contagion.
“So, yeah, you should probably go.”
“Okay. I get it.”So, Susan left; and because of a good night’s sleep, she gave an excellent presentation the next day. Meanwhile, Old Josh played video games while thinking about Susan. That’s when he got the idea for a pause button on coin-op video games. His plan would be to wait until Young Josh caught up to the age of Real Time Old Josh before engineering the idea since an Real Time Old Josh would have the proper education for making it happen. However, by that time, Real Time Old Josh realized that not only was it a bad idea but also that no one played coin-ops anymore.
Sadness enveloped Real Time Old Josh, for no one would believe his story in the World of Warcraft.
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Give it Up Video
Live video of .357 Lover from Fearless:
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April Fool’s To Do List
I’m gonna April Fool myself by bringing up a painful memory, trick myself into thinking it never happened and then say “April Fools”.
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Evelyn Evelyn’s “My Space” Available for Download
“My Space” is a wonderful song from a project created by Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley. A host of gang vocals include Francis Bean Cobain, Andrew WK, Weird Al Yankovic and Neil Gaiman. My gang-vocal track was recorded here in my kitchen.
Free Download at Stereo Gum: http://stereogum.com/322561/evelyn-evelyn-my-space-feat-amanda-palmer-jason-webley-frances-bean-cobain-weird-al-yankovic-andrew-w-k-neil-gaiman-et-al/mp3s/ -
Paul Harvey/007 Fan Fiction
There was a regent who ate po boys every day. He was really proud of his lunches – so much so that daily he told everyone what kind of po boy he was having.
“Guess what kind of po boy I’m having today?”
“Do I know you?”
“Oyster!”
Sometimes he would strike up a conversation about his lunch with other po boy aficionados. One of those conversations was with a guy who jumped trains. He had to constantly remind others that he was not the definition of a hobo. He liked to eat smoked oysters on hot dog buns.
That conversation lasted a long time and wasn’t repeated since the train jumper disappeared the following day.
A few weeks later, the regent regaled a story to a stranger about the time he had a regular shrimp sandwich instead of a po boy.
The stranger remarked, “Well, you are what you eat.”
The stranger was being a bit distant because he badly wanted out of the conversation and didn’t give much thought to the anecdote. The regent, however, did give it much thought and began eating rich foods.
The diet he switched to was considered rich food in some circles – cheeseburgers, meatloaf sandwiches, $7 sausages. Because of this diet, his health declined and he succumbed to gout. Because of the gout, his self-esteem grew since it was once considered to be a rich man’s disease and because his self-esteem grew, he no longer ate the rich foods. His gout went away and he looked much better.
His looks changed so much that he quit his regent job and became an actor.
His name was Mark but you know him as Daniel Craig.
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Ben Franklin Werewolf Occurs Again
I will be reviving the role of Benjamin Franklin this evening.STRAIGHT UP VAMPIRE
Friday, March 26th
NYC
Joe’s Pub
11:30pm
$15
It’s 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia.
Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young Quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright’s son.
Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves.
Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony.
Master Commodore Skat Kat and Benjamin Franklin vie for power in the Assembly.
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