Raj played Drums
Ryan played non Drums
Both did computer stuff

Joel Robinow played piano on "Kyle Thinks a lot of Very Cool Thoughts"
Rosie Steffy sang on "Rhododendrons and Daisies (Tyler Wagner Wrote This Song)"
Roy Ruth said stuff throughout

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We went back in “the lab” in May and made another one of these things. And by “the lab,” I mean a soundproofed room in Jack London Square with halogen office lights, industrial carpet, and a box of SCSI cables to a mid 90’s Zip Drive that I remain hopeful to find one day. 

I have stupid little thoughts about stupid little things that deserve stupid little songs to be written about them. 

I read something about people buying lottery tickets for the dopamine rush and sense of hope it gives you, knowing damn well they aren’t going to win. Ok. 

I don’t smoke pot, but one time I did and scared myself into thinking I lived in a computer. It seemed like a privilege. I don’t think children digging up precious metals for Tamagotchi motherboards think the monotony and cruelty in their lives is a computer program. Sure. 

Everybody should be free and never hide who they are. Don’t let people make you live under their thumb. The world will always need more freaks. Wether it’s Toussaint Louverture or Dennis Eckersley. Yes, you get a song as well. 

I covered a Tyler Wagner song because I love Tyler Wagner songs. Tell him to hit me up if you see him around town. Same goes for Lee Marvin. 

Ok. Great. Thank you. Goodbye.

Other Lives of Magic and Wonder and Whatever

Raj played Drums
Ryan played non Drums
Both did computer stuff

Joel Robinow played piano on "Kyle Thinks a lot of Very Cool Thoughts"
Rosie Steffy sang on "Rhododendrons and Daisies (Tyler Wagner Wrote This Song"
Roy Ruth said stuff throughout

Wand'rin' Star

Rhododendrons and Daisies (Tyler Wagner Wrote This Song)

Kyle Thinks a lot of Very Cool Thoughts

I Bought a Lottery Ticket

I Bought A Lottery Ticket (Radio Edit)

Don't Ever Hide Your Face

B. Hamilton is songwriter Ryan Christopher Parks and drummer Raj Kumar Ojha (Once and Future Band). They cut their teeth in the warehouse days of Oakland around 2010 and recorded ramshackle records in flophouse attics, former army barracks turned Mills College noise musician housing, and their rehearsal space in Jack London Square that looks like an early 80’s accounting office, and a set from one of the “Saw” movies. 
 
Existing before and after tech created complete chaos in Oakland is the subject of a number of their songs. Other songs are about other things. Like cancer, John Wayne, and buying lottery tickets after church.
 
2024’s “The Freest Speech Ever Attempted Without Disintegrating” is about Elon Musk, kind of. 
 
“I tried to write a bunch of stuff about him, but ended up writing about the same loneliness and lack of connection that everyone has experienced at some point in their lives,” said Parks. “It’s the same loneliness that humanity might be leaning into as we go toward whatever the future is.”
 
I wrote this entire bio like you can't tell it's me writing it. I even referred to myself as "Parks," in the last paragraph like I'm a Naval whistleblower on "60 Minutes." Writing these things is the goddamn worst. Alright, have a good day.