Initially inspired by over-analyzing a Carly Rae Jepsen lyric, this piece presents a metaphor for the way many of us live under a capitalistic system. Or something. For the vocals I double tracked my voice and pitched one of the tracks down…

Walking up the hill to my house, I could hear someone else walking behind me. This isn’t too unusual, though it’s somewhat late at night and I live a bit far from the main part of town. Suddenly, I realize that this other person is now in fact…

Originally my idea was to improvise half a conversation, then also improvise the other half as a different character - I ended up deciding just having half the conversation was funnier. Kinda unintentionally inspired by "Pollo Asado" by Ween.

Well, it's true.

Watchout4snakes has a "sentence generator" that I find a fascinating source of nonsense - for these "lyrics" I just refreshed it several times, then organized the sentences into questions and answers.

Some of these are actually useful facts about microwaves, and some are not.

I asked some facebook friends for some of their favorite words, added my own, and made a song. If I remember correctly, my own contributions were "puppy", "Saskatchewan", "necronomicon", and "lumbago".

A while ago, I made a short little ambient loop I didn't really know what to do with. Eventually, I decided it sounded like hold music and this spoken word-ish piece resulted. Maybe it will function as a skit on my next album.

I use this phrase so much in my daily life in customer service, it may as well be a song.

Dan Deacon has a piece called "Drinking Out Of Cups" where he put a TV on mute and reacted to everything he saw as though he were a tough guy from New Jersey. I thought I'd do something similar, then use it as a sample source.