This was better played live - glad you got to hear it that one time at Chop Suey. Love you, Judy.

judy yoon

The band broke up before we finished recording this. 😬

take off your pants and dance! (w/ michael mckinney + matt lester)

I really like this song. It’s unfortunate that I greatly dislike the individual/ex-friend I wrote it for. I’d like to extricate her from it and do a re-record some day over revamped instrumental tracks. The looped kiddie piano doesn’t do it justice and I’m no longer afraid of my voice— it could be something special now.

fancy

blood sports

failure

spiders

waves (instrumental)

This was super fun to lay down. I’d like to give credit where credit’s due here, but in order to keep the song up, we’ll just say that it’s implied.

never…(instrumental)

funeral bells (instrumental version)

dimestore mime (instrumental version)

I’m so glad I didn’t continue in this direction…

dimestore mime (forgotten first draft)

I laid down over 90 separate instrument tracks to create the song; I remember sitting there on my basement carpet counting them all in Reason. My only regret is not using a less annoying/high pitched instrument in the chorus - it’s more than grating. Oh well.

chromatics of a clock radio (instrumental version)

bearanoid

I’ve reclaimed the passive disaster name and have uploaded a bunch of super old songs, some of which are terrible and/or embarrassing. But, I feel that these songs belong here just as much as the songs that I recorded that are less terrible and/or embarrassing. 

Saltwater was the first song I ever recorded, using the mic on a gamer headset and Audacity. After setting that poor, abused guitar on fire, I moved on to little kid instruments I bought off of Craigslist or at garage sales to record murder, failure, spiders, arson, bearanoid, fancy, the roughy draft of dimestore mine and blood sports. 

Then I bought Reason (again, from a weird dude off of Craigslist) and I hate parades came next followed by cat fight. 

I finally borrowed a real synthesizer from my buddy Russ and the rest is history. Kind of. I broke that keyboard and Russ never got it back. Sorry, Russ. And, sorry to all of the synthesizers, glockenspiels and to the electric organ, now laying wasted and mangled in my basement instrument graveyard. 

I’ve started to go through and write little backgrounds for each song. And, will finish eventually. Maybe I’ll even add some new songs one day! 🖤🖤

the passive disaster

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