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Please Remain Calm

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Member Since: 11/02/2007
Band Members: Brian Clark
Influences: Josh Ritter, Rumi, and the first fifteen minutes of Takk (Sigur Ros' album)
Sounds Like: Silence, in music form
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

I know what the internet needs ...

... another 'Best of' post from some no-name who happens to have a broadband connection.What an asshole ...The Top 100 albums of the decade:100. Sparks  Hello Young Lovers [2006]99. The Album Leaf  ...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:31:00 GMT

The 25 best movies of the decade

I like making lists ...Honorable mention: Apocalypto, Elephant, Slumdog Millionaire, Waking Life, There Will Be Blood, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind25) Donnie Darko (2001)24) W. (2008)23) Acro...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:37:00 GMT

Straw Man

It's gettin' funky up in this bitch:Man of strawMan of strawHe ain't got no friends at allStraw man upStraw man downHe'll take your job & take your landMan of strawMan of strawHe'll steal your money &...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:58:00 GMT

Juliet (Surfer in the Fog)

Juliet if you make me laughI will drive straight up to the coast and backJuliet if you make me sweatI will sink my teeth into your neckYou never told me you're a mysticbut you showed me all of your sk...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:05:00 GMT

The Professor

Hey look everybody, it's another ten minute epic that nobody's going to listen to! Woo-hoo! Actually, I'm kind of excited about this one as it's the first song I've recorded with other actual, living,...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:46:00 GMT

Traveling Song (for a long lost blonde)

I'm posting a highly personal song I wrote on the road last summer and recorded sometime in the winter which I've resisted putting up here previously - for a variety of reasons - even though it's prob...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:21:00 GMT

The Generation O Anthem

A few weeks back, This American Life aired a segment from their vault where these dudes polled a bunch of people on their most and least favorite musical elements, then recorded a pair of songs based ...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:10:00 GMT

A Self Portrait in Verse

Into the New Year slowly (a self-portrait in verse)   Greasy hair stubble beard I glance into the bathroom mirror. A shade of dark, a glimpse of fear see ego in the curtain clear.   The f...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:47:00 GMT

Waiting for the Rapture

I've referred to this song alternately as 'Sports Fan', 'I've Been Listening to a Lot of Snow Patrol Lately' and 'Fuck You, Man, I Wouldn't Sleep With You Even If I Were Gay.' I still haven't decided ...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:36:00 GMT

this poem brought to you by the letter u

i am head strong and neck weary i am weary of necks of a woman's thigh her touch. i am a touch weary.   but sixteen strong backs and half a functioning cerebellum. an i and a q a y and a u and in...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:28:00 GMT