A MySpace Less Horrible

Posted on | December 20, 2009 | Comments Off on A MySpace Less Horrible

It took most of my Sunday, but I managed to build a MySpace page that isn’t brutal to look at without resorting to cheesy page builders that also look horrible. No offense to you wonderful CSS artists and engineers who so painstakingly crafted the MySpace stylesheets during the Bronze Age.

stetson myspace snapshot
STETSON on MySpace.

If anyone still uses MySpace, add me as a friend. It helps my rankings on other sites. And that is, of course, what music is all about — rankings on social media websites that launched this morning.

Category: Branding

Hey Vibration! — New Song Available

Posted on | December 19, 2009 | Comments Off on Hey Vibration! — New Song Available

Available here.

Spread it around:
Hey Vibration! on TheSixtyOne
Hey Vibration! on Reverb Nation
Hey Vibration! on iLike

And if you insist on MySpace, fine:
Hey Vibration! on MySpace

Category: New Songs

Playlist: Dropkick Murphys' The State of Massachusetts

Posted on | December 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Playlist: Dropkick Murphys' The State of Massachusetts

I was working on a Boston-themed song for shows in the area and I started thinking about “Shipping Up to Boston” by the Dropkick Murphys. Turns out they’ve actually written some other pretty catchy songs. Here’s my favorite of the batch:

The State of Massachusetts

Some bands yell for effect, but these guys actually yell sort of musically. Their vocal chords probably look like Picasso vocal chords.

Category: Playlist

More Jokes at Open Mics

Posted on | December 10, 2009 | Comments Off on More Jokes at Open Mics

bloc 11 flyer Once again, I tell a joke at an open mic and it just dies. That’s three this week. I’m pretty confident it was a good joke tonight, but people don’t expect a singer-songwriter to pull out a stuffed panda who talks to the crowd in the first place.

Whatever. They’ll just have to learn to like it.

Category: Jokes
Tags: bad jokes > open mics

Jokes and Open Mics

Posted on | December 6, 2009 | Comments Off on Jokes and Open Mics

Tonight I learned an important lesson the hard way:

People do not expect jokes at an open mic. The audience expects to hear “Jolene” by Ray Lamontagne a dozen times, but not anyone trying to be funny. So when I stood up there and asked for a show of hands for “Team Jacob” and “Team Edward” I think they just weren’t sure if I was serious or not.

Either that or it was just a room full of hipsters who don’t watch movies or television much.

Anyway, bombing sucks.

Category: Jokes
Tags: bad jokes > open mikes

Busking for SOWA Winter Lights

Posted on | December 5, 2009 | Comments Off on Busking for SOWA Winter Lights

Photo by Alexandra Horeanopoulos

Category: Photos
Tags: busking

Playlist: Placebo's Pure Morning

Posted on | December 5, 2009 | Comments Off on Playlist: Placebo's Pure Morning

Heard this in the movie “Chumscrubber”. Found it on LaLa and it knocked me over. And here I’d never even heard of this band. Where have I been?

Category: Playlist

Do babies count as vaginal discharge?

Posted on | December 3, 2009 | 1 Comment

…maybe just the really ugly ones

Category: Jokes
Tags: babies > vaginas

Guilty Pleasure: Kei$ha

Posted on | December 1, 2009 | Comments Off on Guilty Pleasure: Kei$ha

So many things to hate about this! Party lyrics, blatant overproduction, a dollar sign in her stage name, and my most hated instrument, the Auto-tune. But I’ll be damned if this girl isn’t a hell of a showman. And the tune is pretty catchy. I even like the line: