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Seen/Saw PodcastThe EndSo, we’re done here. 50 songs, 1 year. That’s pretty shocking, but I learned a lot.
2018-12-3000 min2018-12-2500 minSeen/Saw PodcastAn Upbeat AfterlifeThis song happened twice. It was posted as week 21 – “A Happy Afterlife” – but I never loved it. Here’s another, totally different version that feels less smaltzy.
2018-12-1800 minSeen/Saw PodcastReal People JobsSo, I’ve spent a lot of my time this year writing about work. Working too much, finding too little time for myself; all sorts of navel-gazing shit and it’s not cute. It can be cute if done well, but that’s rare.
2018-12-1200 minSeen/Saw PodcastFanfare to a Perfect SetNo such thing as a perfect sound, don’t worry yourself too much.
2018-12-0500 minSeen/Saw PodcastConservatively DressedThis was recorded on the top level of the Treasure Island parking garage. It’s my secret place (I guess not anymore) that I can go and yell at any time because the ambient noise is pretty high on the strip anyway and a guy yelling isn’t the weirdest thing happening....
2018-11-2800 minSeen/Saw PodcastThat One Where Seen/Saw Realizes that Absolutely Nothing MattersI decided to finger paint instead of use a brush. Sometimes, I don’t want to clean my workstation, so let’s just make it messier.
2018-11-2100 minSeen/Saw PodcastOne of the Lucky OnesA friend of mine did a bad thing. A very bad thing. This song is me, I think, trying to sort out how I feel about it. Enjoy.
2018-11-1300 minSeen/Saw PodcastDear Camera, I Wish to be Tall“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.”
2018-11-0400 min2018-10-2600 minSeen/Saw PodcastOh, Susanna!40 weeks in? There are 40 songs on this website? What kind of crazy horseshit is that?
2018-10-1700 minSeen/Saw PodcastLucy RoseThis song is for a person I haven’t met yet and for the two wonderful people who will give that mystery person a home. Too opaque? Rachel and Bryan are having a baby and it’s amazing. They’re going to be great and imperfect and just what the doctor ordered. I...
2018-10-0900 minSeen/Saw PodcastThis is NPRWhen I write music, I forget about everything else. There are very few things that do this to me; not even meditation most of the time (Sorry, Goenkaji). It’s a miracle in my life that I’m able to do this without trying too hard. Some would say that means I...
2018-10-0100 minSeen/Saw PodcastThe Compassionate Bug Catcher“Faith is not superficial or sentimental. It doesn’t say everything will turn out all right, according to our wishes. Life is not likely to deliver only pleasant events. Faith entails the understanding that we don’t know how things will turn out. Faith allows us to claim the possibility that a...
2018-09-2300 min2018-09-1600 minSeen/Saw PodcastGrow Your Hair OutNot much to say except this track has a surprise midway. So, make sure to listen the whole way. Enjoy.
2018-09-0900 minSeen/Saw PodcastCute Girl, Dead SquirrelMornin’ everyone. Hope you had a good labor day, I sure did. Here’s song #34, which is still wild that I’m saying I’ve written 34 songs this year.
2018-09-0400 minSeen/Saw PodcastFirst Person ViewI went on the retreat. It was difficult and wonderful and I need more of it in my life, but for now I need to sleep.
2018-08-2600 minSeen/Saw PodcastJonBenet, John Stamos, John 3:16Another week, another song. I’m losing gusto, y’all. Not just with songs, but with everything in general. I’m working a lot, running a lot, recording a lot and generally just doing a lot. That’s a good thing, normally, but I’ve been really prone to burnout this year. This is my...
2018-08-1900 min2018-08-1100 minSeen/Saw PodcastLosing YouThis week’s been weird. I’m working a lot and running a lot, but all I want to do is write music. Music didn’t feel that way last year; it felt like a thing I did for fun. Now it feels like it runs my life – possibly in a good way....
2018-08-0400 minSeen/Saw PodcastTrue CompassThis track is going up late because I went on a roadtrip with some friends this week. We’ve known each other since we were kids; we went to shows; broke hearts; and somehow ended up together still. Each of us have changed in a bunch of ways and stayed exactly...
2018-07-2800 minSeen/Saw PodcastMagnolium by GIMPI can almost guarantee this song is not for you. This is a song for a cover album of the band GIMP that’s been delayed for literal years. It may never come out. Magnolium is, for sure, the worst song on the album, so I decided to do the the...
2018-07-1700 minSeen/Saw PodcastFree Knitting Class Pt 2.Pt. 2 of Free Knitting Class came sooner than I thought. These words have been in the back of my head for a while, but it took a good therapy session this week and a lot of shitty hands of fate to make them make sense. I’m halfway through this...
2018-07-1100 minSeen/Saw PodcastFree Knitting Class Pt 1.Happy Anniversary, America. Chill out with the illegal fireworks. Anyway, here’s Part 1 of “Free Knitting Class”.
2018-07-0400 minSeen/Saw PodcastA Healthy AppetiteI started seeing a therapist this week for the first time in a couple of years. He’s solid; just as good as my previous one, which are big shoes to fill. I was struck by how similar seeing a therapist is to agreeing to be eaten by a german cannibal....
2018-06-2700 minSeen/Saw PodcastWe Have ChoicesI read a book this week called “Girlfriend in a Coma” and I’m still reeling from finishing it. It kinda fucked my brain in ways I wasn’t expecting – despite it being written by my favorite author, Douglas Coupland.
2018-06-1900 minSeen/Saw PodcastDisappointing, but SexyHello! I really wanted to make a hardcore song this week, but all I could come up with was this sweet funk lick. Soooo, I used it anyway.
2018-06-1300 minSeen/Saw PodcastThe Wasatch MountainsI was on vacation this past week with my grandparents and it was wonderful and tiring and exactly what my heart needed. This is a song I wish I had written on a week where I had more time. More time to record; more time to edit; more time for...
2018-06-0800 minSeen/Saw PodcastA Happy AfterlifeIf there’s one thing I’ve learned in the process of doing this project, it’s that I’m learning to love my flaws. Or at least tolerate them. I’m not a natural born poet or a great singer. I’m not a trained anything; I’m a guy with an interest in getting better...
2018-05-2900 minSeen/Saw PodcastShania by Wisdom ToothThis is a song that I’ve had in mind to cover for a while. This is by a San Francisco based artist named “Wisdom Tooth” who I was addicted to one summer in 2013. I listened to their music non-stop and became the soundtrack of my senior year. This song...
2018-05-2500 minSeen/Saw PodcastDance Party!!!This song has been floating around in my life for a while, but it’s gotten new meaning since moving to Las Vegas. I’ve never been a partier; in college I never went to bars unless there was a show that night. In Las Vegas, I’ve been to the most incredible,...
2018-05-2300 minSeen/Saw PodcastDirty Uncle SalThe title is from Grey’s Anatomy; Meredith is scolding Izzie for ignoring Karev because he cheated on her (spoilers, sorry, but, like, Karev sucks). She says “He’s Dirty Uncle Sal. Who embarrasses everyone at family reunions, and who can’t be left alone with the teenage girls, but you invite him...
2018-05-1600 minSeen/Saw PodcastCrystal's Birthday PartyAnother week, another song and this week is no different; there’s a new song. A ukulele song to be specific.
2018-05-0900 minSeen/Saw PodcastAll Purpose MachineI was born with a stutter, so my parents put me in the church choir classes to learn how to breathe. I bet I wanted to as well, but they pushed me because the doctors said it would help. If I didn’t have a stutter, I would have never written...
2018-05-0200 minSeen/Saw PodcastGo West, Die YoungThis song was written last year after a friend died. They died suddenly, unexpectedly, and it was a shock when it happened. This week is the 1 year anniversary of their death and I’ve been kind of saving this song for this week.
2018-04-2500 minSeen/Saw PodcastFrankly, My DearReturn to form! Still kinda sick, but it’s getting better every day. This week, I decided to leave it all on the court and write my first, legit, noise rock song. I listen to a lot of noise rock; The Paper Chase, Dananananaykroyd, Dismemberment Plan, Future of the Left. These...
2018-04-1800 minSeen/Saw PodcastColder Than Your BalconySometimes, things conspire to make sure you’re not on your game. Work, travel, friends, sickness, or just lack of energy; any of those can knock you off your pedestal. It’s possible that I’ve experienced all of these roadblocks this week and I’m still here, albeit a little haggard.
2018-04-1100 minSeen/Saw PodcastTake RestWeek 13? Week 14? Hard to say because I missed last week for legitimately wonderful reasons. I took a 10 day silent meditation retreat via dhamma.org and I’d suggest it to basically anyone with an interest in meditation. It was difficult – incredibly difficult – but so wonderful and catalyzing....
2018-04-0400 minSeen/Saw PodcastDucksWeek 12! I will be missing next week due to a trip, I’ll think about how to handle that, but I think I want to do some kind of punishment. Maybe covering a terrible song.
2018-03-2000 minSeen/Saw PodcastBeating, Beating, BeatingThis track is really, really simple and I like it that way. I got bogged down this week on how to record songs well, with drums, bass and three part harmony and it drove me crazy before realizing I didn’t have to do any of that. Sometimes simple is good....
2018-03-1400 minSeen/Saw PodcastReal Men Hunt in PacksWeek 10! And it figures this is the first one that I’m a day late.
2018-03-0700 minSeen/Saw PodcastIn the Words of Delaney TarrI remember getting out of rehearsals for the Gershwin play “Crazy for You” when I got a text from my mom telling me there was a shooting at Virginia Tech. I was 16, a year from applying to college and getting shot was the last thing on my mind in...
2018-02-2700 minSeen/Saw PodcastMy BabyI used to write a lot of ukulele children’s music in college and played them before punk shows. I got a kind response, but I’m sure they had no idea what to do with me playing ukulele songs about alligators and dance parties.
2018-02-2100 minSeen/Saw PodcastMillennial Freelancer BluesHappy Valentines Day, everyone! And as a gift, I’ve provided a 35 second hardcore punk song with a lot more screaming than some of you will want. Enjoy!
2018-02-1400 minSeen/Saw PodcastWho Loves You?Hello! This is old shit turned new shit; there’s a bad version of this from 6 years ago on an old, abandoned soundcloud that was about something completely different, I changed words and structure and here we are.
2018-02-0700 minSeen/Saw PodcastRoseThis is an old song; a rare old-song gem that doesn’t completely embarrass me. I wrote it in Pittsburgh in 2014 at 2am, alone in my apartment, for a band that broke up a few weeks after learning how to play it. This one has some yelling over acoustic instruments...
2018-01-3100 minSeen/Saw PodcastHold Your BreathSometimes you make a song and you think it’s about one thing until you play it for a crowd. Earlier this week, I played this song at my weekly open mic and I got an emotional reaction from someone I admire greatly. Someone who treats art with the utmost respect...
2018-01-2300 minSeen/Saw PodcastShapeshifterThis is the first public week of Seen/Saw so thanks to all the listeners tuning in for the first time! This is a track I wrote and recorded in Detroit with Jon Marsh on Drums.
2018-01-1500 minSeen/Saw PodcastThanks (Cloud Cult cover)Woke up with a song in my head, gonna get it out. Cloud Cult got me out of a huge funk this year and I’ve become an evangelist for their music. It’s beautiful and corny and wonderful and everything I want out of a band.
2018-01-1400 minSeen/Saw PodcastHow Odd, How SuspectI’ve spent a lot of time this year volunteering with a hospice. It’s an odd gig. Sitting in with people who are dying in the next six months. They know their days are numbered and they have an opportunity to make peace with that. Some do, some don’t, some are...
2018-01-0700 minSeen/Saw PodcastLet Me InAhem. Is this thing on? Welcome to Week #1. This week’s song is called “Let Me In” and I’m trying to not be overly precious about it. I say “try” because I’m fighting an intense urge to go back and edit it right now or re-record vocals or scrap this...
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