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the Ghostwrite

About Me

This project has already exceeded my grandest of expectations, and I can now say this with the utmost positivity, I am enthralled with my station in life. I mean, we can't help with much of anything if our own station is broken. So what if the ideas floating around in my head seem a little too foreign or wild for belief? Isn't the concept of asking one to accept the here and now as the end-all-be-all defying logic and reason?

My second LP "Self-Destructs" is now available for free download!

This album was recorded at Magpie Cage in Baltimore, MD. Brooks Harlan took care of recording, mixing and mastering this one. Erin Gouldin, once again, created the album artwork. Click below if you're interested in listening/downloading.

Reviews/Press for Self-Destructs

Review of Self-Destructs.

Cleveland Scene Article.

My first LP/EP "Anxiety//Fabled" is also available for free download at this site too, along with a few covers and a single or two.

Self-Destructs
the Ghostwrite Download Share

REVIEWS for "Anxiety // Fabled"
the Urban Artist Group.

SEN Baltimore.

Down with being a social internet network nerd like me?

My Twitter page.

You can also find me on Facebook. Search for Robby Lester. That should do the trick, I think. I don't know for sure though. Facebook is an odd one.

It'd would make my night to see you at a show singing along sometime soon. Honest. Double fist pump if you add some sort of stellar metronome-like rhythm section, or if you add background woos! or hell yeahs!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/03/2008
Band Website: theghostwrite.bandcamp.com/
Band Members: Robby Lester
Influences:

General influences include friends, family, a sober mind, an inebriated mind, touring and tour friends (Jon Creeden, New York Taxi).

Music that is currently inspiring me: Propagandhi (pretty much everything in their catalog), Endless Mike and the Beagle Club (Husky Tenor is in heavy rotation right now, We Are Still At War is getting a much deserved breather), Weezer (Pinkerton era), and Project Citizen ( Get Angry, Fight Uni)

Words that constantly inspire me: George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, William Blum, Noam Chomsky


Sounds Like: music you may (or may not) want to sing-a-long with in your basement.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Leave the Car at Home: Concluded!

My bus/train/plane/carpooling adventures have come to a close.Updated blog available at:  http://www.theghostwrite.org/Looking forward to the next go round.Looking forward to the new EP (fall 2009).  ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:54:00 GMT

Essay(rant) #5 & #6

I have had a mild case of inspiration from the rant essay muse the past two days.  Two new essay(rants) are up at the Ghostwrite . orgFin.
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:44:00 GMT

I have all these sites...

All ranting+raving, music news and other posts filled with banter and propaganda will be showing up over at http://www.theghostwrite.org from this point forward.   
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:07:00 GMT

Stock Markets Rebounding...

Point A.     Crude oil is, once again, on the rise, price-wise and consumption-wise.  $5 per gallon will be a reality (on the bankrupt coast.. err, I mean west coast) within the next six to twelve mon...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:33:00 GMT

LP, EP, LP, EP

Following a similar pattern of last year, a new EP is on the way.  I may record it live at one of the "Leave the Car at Home" shows in June and then post it over at the awesome Bandcamp.  If it doesn'...
Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 09:36:00 GMT

Please tell me how to think.

I am a fan of anyone who takes to a positive cause, which is subjective in its own right. However, when anyone takes to activism please keep in mind that it does not have to be spelled out. People s...
Posted by on Sun, 24 May 2009 12:13:00 GMT

Absolute Punk Free Music Friday Feature

Hey!Absolute Punk made mention of my free music downloads.You can check it out by clicking THIS LINK.Tour is fast approaching.  It has not sunk it just yet, but the travel/adventure itch is starting t...
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 16:05:00 GMT

Another Baltimore show added.

So I only played one show in Baltimore this year.  To show their total disgust with my laziness the rock n roll gods (similar to the those of Greek mythology) have decided to make the first week in Ju...
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 21:27:00 GMT

DIY Equals Organization

It really does.Oh, I'm kind of fried from "practice" (and not the normal fry that happens from the daily day-to-day).  p.s.  Practicing solo is not fun.  Playing shows solo equals fun.  I don't enjoy ...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 19:15:00 GMT

It's kind of like sci-fi, but the blood is real

There are an estimated one million Pakistanis already on the run in the northern and eastern parts of the country. They are threatened by fighting, hunger and all sorts of predators, including US d...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 07:37:00 GMT