dino and bride

it is finished, as they say...

please click the album cover for some lovely sounds.

if you enjoy this, please send it to others, blog about it, etc.

i'm proud of this one.

Uncle Impy: the lost recordings

My first real foray into song-writing was Uncle Impy, my high school rock band. I have had this one recording of our music, 4 songs recorded on one of those little hand-held tape recorders. I finally got around to making a digital recording of this. It's slightly cringe-worthy, in its obvious attempt to be Nirvana. But its a lot of fun for me to listen to. I had so much fun writing and playing music with these guys in our small little town in Alabama. For what we were, we were pretty good. We played strictly original songs. And everyone was genuinely talented. Our drummer especially was great.

Our music was genuinely weird. And much screamier than these recordings suggest. We had 3 total gigs, each of them memorable. Once at the "Jean Lake Festival" craft fair, one of Troy, Alabama's most well-renowned annual events (we followed a mandolin player); Once at a lock-in at the First Methodist Church (there's video of that somewhere!); And once at a Troy State University frat party, the only one that was a total disaster (they payed us $100 and got pissed when we didn't know how to play "When I Come Around," by Green Day). We spent hours and hours playing music in our drummer's parents rec. room, to small audiences. Those are some of my very best memories.

So, without further ado, please enjoy these mp3's of Uncle Impy, recorded probably 1994 or 1995. Jim Smith on the bass. Jonathan Solvason on the drums. And me on guitar and vocals.

in this day and age

the way things are

i know its incidental

sweet suburbia

The City Too Busy To Hate: Megamix 2008

I hope you will enjoy what will probably be my last big musical release for a little while, while I focus on my legal practice. It's called "The City Too Busy To Hate Megamix 2008," an mp3 mixtape comprised primarily of my own material, with a couple of other artists' sounds thrown in. The "City Too Busy" name is something I adopted for my future instrumental releases. Enjoy! And please share.

Tracklist:

1. (Intro) Ghislain Poirier - Close the News
2. The City Too Busy To Hate - Home Alone
3. The City Too Busy To Hate - A Big Decision
4. Yo Yo Ma - Suite for Solo Cello No. 5 in C Minor
5. Tigarah - Girlfight (Jamie Radford remix)
6. Elite Ellison - Tie Your Shoes (written and produced by Jamie Radford)
7. Burial - Archangel
8. The City Too Busy to Hate - Big Bass Lacc
9. The City Too Busy to Hate - Before You Get All Mad

Sendspace link (192 kbps): http://www.sendspace.com/file/1b8az2

Right-click to download from Fileden (192 kbps): http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/8/4/2034246/too-busy-megamix.mp3

Listen and download at last.fm (128 kbps): LINK

I'll leave it up to you to uncover where the various audio interludes come from. Some are more obvious than others!

Video: That Strange Contraption

Here's a little video I put together for a song called "That Strange Contraption," which is found on the album, The Freedom to be Reckless.
Check out this video: That strange contraption



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Decatur Blog

Just stumbled up this great blog covering news and events for Decatur. I'm glad someone is doing this, and its a resource I will check often. DecaturMetro.com

Can't wait: Soderbergh's take on Che Guevara

I eagerly anticipate the commercial release of Steven Soderbergh's 4.5 hour Guevara biopic. Based on the description in this article, which characterizes the work as a non-narrative series of "impressionistic glimpses" of Guevara throughout his career, I'm hoping for something that looks like Soderbergh's work on Unscripted and K Street, in which we see stories unfold through montages of the characters in their everyday life. In my mind, each of those series was highly underrated (neither lasted past one season). However, I found them both truly compelling and have a feeling that they reflect SS's artistic direction. I'm hoping I'm right here.

One of my favorite things about Soderbergh is the fact that, despite his works' artistic riskiness and integrity, he has been able to achieve (and has embraced) commercial success, which has given him great access to the type of resources needed to do something like an epic biopic of this nature. Here's hoping it will be as artistically huge as it is substantively.

A heart-wrenching television moment