December 2006 Archives
December 17, 2006 Julekage
I hope everybody is having a great yule. Did you know that it was once a custom in the north of England to cry out "Yule!" in the streets or in church after the sermon? Do you not wish we observed this custom generally, and loudly, throughout the month of December?
Moved by the remembered spirit of frozen Mancunians in stovepipe hats crying "Yule!" at one another with increasing fury, we offer this site's second annual present of an unreleased song. Last year it was two, but both of them were old. This one I wrote just last night. If you're a person who'll be bummed out by finding a song you already knew on the next album, then you might wanna leave this one alone, 'cause it's nearly a sure thing that it'll get the studio treatment at some point. There will be a lyric change in the chorus when that happens, but I liked the energy of this just-wrote-it version, so I'm leaving it as-is.
The title refers not to the trance DJ but to this dude, though it's an elliptical reference so if you wanna argue that the song's actually about a negative epiphany arrived at through the glory of progressive trance, please feel free! This song is part of a series that as yet has no title and, as of this writing, only a vague thematic thread. More on this news as it develops. Meanwhile, here's a new song in your choice of compressed formats. Yule!
Michael Myers Resplendent (192 kpbs AAC)
Michael Myers Resplendent (192 kbps MP3)
December 9, 2006 Bedecked With Bays And Rosemary
One more domestic show before we set sail for Tasmania: it's Christmas at the Cradle on Monday, December 18th. Approximately 10,000 bands are playing 3 Christmas songs apiece and I'm one of 'em. I am so over-pleased with my own super-secret selections and can't wait to play them. C'mon out and celebrate just how ridiculously blessed we all are around here: Bowerbirds? Billy Sugarfix? Bellafea? All on the same night? And that's just the "B"s? For real.
In other news, we thought a little while about late winter in the U.S. and then we said to ourselves: to hell with it, let's go to Sweden. And other points north. Mark your calendars, bring your mittens, lace up your dancing shoes! We are stoked.
A huge thanks to everybody who came along to the quasi-secret show at Pitzer and made it such a special night for me. See you-all next year!
