“In which Sherwin is invited to dine aboard the Flying Yankee, which invitation includes a rather mysterious request. Music by: Sherwin Sleeves, The Ink Spots, The Eels, Johann Johannsson, British Sea Power, David Byrne, Mark Kozelek & Elizabeth Cotten” Sherwin wrote “The Dinner in the Dark” for Thanksgiving Day broadcast on New Hampshire Public Radio. …
Category: Sleeves
Ron helped get me ready for the asylum yesterday as he relentlessly played Penny Stock Chaser as Fez tried to do the live read. [audio: http://radioghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/PennyStockrf.mp3] And I felt sure I would be very happy never to hear it again. But then Moochcassidy made up this cool video and now I have found peace with …
I understand that WBEZ in Chicago played Sarro’s Balloon yesterday – some people wanted to buy it, but ha ha – it’s not sellable at the moment. I’m hoping to perform this story live in Peterborough in January at the release party for Redwing Blackbird’s new CD. Sam Amidon (I used 2 of his songs …
Sam wanted a snack outside on the porch, so I set the camera up and away we go: I sent my application in to Stonyfield today. 🙂
I don’t think my songs will ever top the charts. But I think they work in the context of other things – like radio shows or stories…or products maybe. I think I would have made a good jingle writer. So here’s a quick Stonyfield Jingle- a part of my continuing mad-and-minor quest to get a …
I’ll be doing three live performances of my new Christmas musical play Whisper, Pray, Make Room this December. Â It’s kind of like Charles Dickens “Christmas Carol” meets Eric Bogosian’s “Talk Radio” meets a crazy steamboat musical. My Scrooge is a virulent talk radio host named Steve “The Sledgehammer” King. He’s bitter, his audience hates …
I was eating lunch and listening to R&F and Ron started singing along as Fez did a live read for Penny Stock Chaser. I was trying to redo what Ron was doing, but after I sat down at the piano I couldn’t really remember. ha ha. Here it is anyway…[audio: http://radioghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/PennyStockChaser.mp3] Ron relentlessly playing it …
Lois isn’t feeling well so Sam & I took a drive to Campton Cupboard to get her some soup and orange juice. Along the way Sam asked some questions about growing up – specifically wondering why he can’t “feel” his body growing. [audio: http://radioghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bigfeet.mp3]
I thought this was just going to be a voice with piano song, but then it seemed a little lonely so I added some strings and other voices. I always worry about overproducing stuff or turning it into shiny glass cause it’s natural to want to keep throwin stuff in there, wall-of-sound-like cause who really …
Right before bed we heard this strange calling sound – like someone was singing or being attacked. We went outside and heard these two owls calling back and forth and more in the distance. [audio: http://radioghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Owls1.mp3] We got maybe 20 yards away from the one in the photo. He didn’t seem to mind us there. …
