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Mozart Meets Bigfoot

July 12th, 2012 · Comments Off on Mozart Meets Bigfoot

I delivered something like the following at an event called “Bigfoot Night,” curated by Kevin Maher and Meg Sweeney Lawless, at the Sci Fi Screening Room in NYC, November 17, 2008.

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Lullabilious

July 10th, 2012 · Comments Off on Lullabilious

A bilious lullaby, for viola and piano.  It becomes more chromatic in the following pages.

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Don’t Despair

July 9th, 2012 · Comments Off on Don’t Despair

White Knuckle Sandwich used to sing this uplifting number; nowadays, I perform it alone.  Here’s part of it:

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A Hoffman Sketch

July 5th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Robin Hoffman drew this sketch of me, in performance at the Jalopy Theater.  You can find out more about her at www.robinhoffman.com.

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Bugs Not Drugs

July 4th, 2012 · Comments Off on Bugs Not Drugs

White Knuckle Sandwich (Jennifer Duffy, Anne Shapiro, and I) recorded this song of mine on our eponymous album.  I also made a semi-animated paper cutout cartoon of it for the old “internet TV station,” pseudo.com, back in 1999.  Anney Bonney was at the camera.  It’s up on YouTube now, and you can watch it if you click here.

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A Campaign Speech

July 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off on A Campaign Speech

I wrote and performed “A Campaign Speech” for “The General Election Rally Vote Ballot,” an event curated by Mel Brimfield for the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2007.  I appeared via DVD, videoed by Anthony Matt.

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Your Parents

July 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off on Your Parents

A short song about the family.  I performed this in a show recently; Angela Alverson posted a video of it here.

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Strum Within this Area

June 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Advice from an old ukulele manual, here made into pinbacks for more general application.

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When Life Gives You Lemons, You Save a Dollar

June 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment

A melancholy tune for tuba and piano, performed with Ralph Hamperian at the Jalopy Theater, June 23, 2012.

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Philosophy: The Last Phase

June 25th, 2012 · Comments Off on Philosophy: The Last Phase

A round, on a piquant excerpt from Benjamin De Casseres.

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