Let’s start at the beginning. For those of you who don’t know, I’m a huge fan of the TV show Lost. The guys from Tiger House can attest to this, when I refused to practice or play shows on the days of the premiere and finale of the recent season. Earlier this month, ABC started a contest where Lost fans could write and record a mock theme song for Lost and then the winner would be announced at Comic-Con (which was last weekend) and they’d get their song played and everything. It’s not a life-changingly huge thing, but it’s good exposure for the winner. So I entered. I wrote a short instrumental that I thought captured the feel of Lost pretty well, and I actually ended up very happy with the end product, which I didn’t expect to be.
Well, I didn’t win. And in a bizarre turning of the tables, the winning theme song was a goofy butt-rock song with lyrics, and mine was this serious attempt at a theme song. Usually it would be the other way around; I’d do the goofy thing and then the serious thing would win. But that is cool for the guys who made the winning song, they got thousands of people visiting their Myspace as a result! But then Alyssa suggested that I do a quick edit of my theme song to a Lost trailer and post it on YouTube in time to catch some of the Comic-Con frenzy. So I did! Watch:
It’s actually been getting lots of views, which is awesome. DarkUFO (one of the big Lost fan sites) posting about it sure doesn’t hurt either! So hey, thanks fellow Lost geeks!
I just made another musical motion picture for another song from my eventually forthcoming album, Public Domain Rainbow. It features a Led Zeppelin record, walruses, a cat and more green screen tomfoolery. The song is called “Painted Over.” Go claim it.
Peoples! Lovers! Dudes! Fiends! I just made a video for a new song called “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” Actually, it’s an old song; it was co-written with Mayhaw Hoons from The Shaky Hands back in 1999, who also put in some singing and clapping duties on this recording of it. After years lost in the wilderness, it finally finds a home on my forthcoming album Public Domain Rainbow, which is being released someday by somebody.
Hopefully more videos of new songs will be coming soon!
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The Library of Congress presentation featuring “Bomb Iran” is now online. The little segment about it is at 43:40, which is where this video should start playing. The whole video is really interesting though, you should watch it. It’s an hour long, but worth it.
Also, don’t forget that I’m going to be on KPSU tomorrow at 9 pm. You can stream it for free from kpsu.org. Listen with ears.
WIRED MAGAZINE is now using “Update Your Blog” for the theme song of their new video blog! It features the internet humorist Lore Sjoberg, who has some hilarious things to say about the Zelda games in this first installment. Absorb it:
In other news, I’m releasing a new EP! It’s called the Bomb Iran EP! I figured I should release the YouTube sub-sensation “Bomb Iran” because apparently people would like to have an actual non-YouTube-sounding recording of it. And it gives me an excuse to finish and release some of the outtakes and demos from Missing Briefcase that I really like but weren’t quite right for the album. Also, I re-recorded 2003’s “Soldier Down” specially for the EP, to kind of give a bit of thematic consistency. It should be out by mid-March. Here’s the tracklisting:
Bomb Iran
Soldier Down
Waiting While Sleeping (MB outtake)
Just Like That (MB outtake)
Choke (MB outtake)
Eternal Return (10/06 demo)
I’m In The Way (12/06 demo reworked)
Of course, I will let you all know the instant the EP is available on CD Baby, iTunes, and that whole routine. Until then…HIKE!
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