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 …
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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. …
Building the set. Whirligig desk. Hidden piano. Secret lights. Some steampunk elements hopefully built in. Rusty whatevers and strange gears. Hoping to encase the monitor in battered metals. Going to the dump tomorrow to look in the mountain of wretched iron. Lawnmowers, kickstands, boilers, car doors, bicycles, mufflers, huge ancient sheets of sunken ship. Hopefully …
There’s an open-mic night at my sis-in-law’s place, The Practice Room, and I’ll be setting up the piana and playing a few songs. If you live in NH and want to come and play or just watch, please do! If you need directions write me at sleeves@radioghost.com. 🙂 Last night I was just messing around …
