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#Tweetcore Radio Hour, Episode 10
Here’s the all-instrumental episode of the #Tweetcore Radio Hour from a week or so ago! Featuring music by Won’t Say Rabbit, Saves the Witch, Timothy Simmons, Simmons and Schuster, Android Invasion, Ambienteer, The Ministry of Plausible Rumours, the Paul Sanwald Quartet, Art Block, Table for 26, Kamancello, Brian Lambert, Megzillion, and the LaLaLettes!
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On The Darkest Corner of the Heart
A comment on how Booktwt, Booklr, and Booktok media reactivity has lost the plot
Or, I think y'all need to log off and touch some grass and think about your actions for a hot minute. Note: This rant is a tad long, because I'm fucking pissed.
Disclaimer 1: I don't personally know the author of this book or anyone screenshotted in the drama. We aren't friends. I have no reason to either defend nor criticize these people, except for the fact that I've been a primary reader of self-pub and indie books for almost a decade now, and yes, including romances that some people don't consider worthy of civility. I'm also a queer healthcare worker.
Disclaimer 2: I don't want anyone mentioned/screenshotted here to be spammed with hate. Please do NOT contact them, including any authors mentioned. I included the primary actors for the current drama primarily so people don't claim I'm talking out of my ass.
Book blurb:
Forbidden. That's what they are to each other. Maddie Stevens has never felt good enough. Not good enough to keep her parents’ love. Not good enough to be independent and stop being her brother’s problem. Not good enough to build the future she wants. When she injures her ankle before a ballet audition that could change her career forever, she’s convinced her life is over at twenty-one. What’s the point of having dreams when they can go down the drain at any moment? And because the universe has a cruel sense of humor, her physical therapist turns out to be a tank-shaped grouch who doesn’t even seem to like her that much. It’s totally unfair that, for six weeks, she’s forced to look at that handsome beard and listen to that deep voice that makes her head all dizzy. Top that with the fact that he’s ten years her senior, and falling for James Simmons is a recipe for disaster. But when their forced proximity makes the lines start blurring, the forbidden temptation becomes impossible to resist.
The Timeline:
Events preceding 2023: Lisina Coney, author of The Darkest Corner of the Heart, was born in 1999 in northern Spain. She worked as a translator prior to publishing books.
Initially I thought these books were only self-published, but in fact are published under the formerly indie publisher Page & Vine, founded by romance novelist Meredith Wild.
January 27th, 2023: The Brightest Light of Sunshine is published by nearly 24-year-old Lisina Coney. On Goodreads, it currently sits at 3.87 stars as of today, February 10th, 2024, with 27,727 ratings and 3,592 reviews. Note: For a small-time author, especially for a debut novel, these numbers are huge.
May 2023, Page & Vine announced that Big 5 publisher Simon & Schuster would distribute their books as an imprint beginning in summer 2023.
In mid-to-late 2023, Lisina's website and socials announced The Darkest Corner of the Heart, her second novel to be published with Page & Vine on February 20th, 2024. Note: This means the events below occurred BEFORE the book's publication.
February 5th, 2024: anaborbareads on Twitter/X posts the cover and other art of Darkest Corner with the text, "a forbidden romance between ballerina and physical therapist???? pls i need this book now 🥺✨💗🫶🏻"
February 6th, 2024: h0mmelette on Twitter/X responds to anaborareads with "the booktok genre of forbidden romance is hilarious. theyre straight… whats forbidden"
February 6th, 2024: a tumblr user reposts the twitter thread from above to tumblr. Other tumblr users reblog and add on, and it quickly goes viral.
February 7th, 2024: From what I can tell via reverse image searching, the first iteration of the fake ARC page that's going around appears to be from Twitter/X user queef1ng. About 4 hours later, the same fake ARC page was reposted on the tumblr post mentioned above. And from here, this story takes a turn from people wanting to feel like they're above a romance novel writer to potential legal territory.
Of the 122 ratings on Goodreads for Darkest Corner to date, 9 appear to be 1-star reviews and from what I can tell, most/all of them were only published since the events began on 06Feb2024. 71 are 5-stars and while some of those are ARC readers, many newer ones appear to be trying to counteract the review bombing from the fake ARC page.
As of today, February 10th, 2024, it looks like the book will still be published on February 20th as planned, but we'll see.
Wait, so how do you know the page is fake?
I can't believe people have been so gullible but fine, here's my analysis:
Lisina's real ARC readers have stated that it isn't from the book (not gonna document all of them in the screenshots but you can easily go to the book's GR page and see the ARC reviews there).
As other folks pointed out on the tumblr repost, no real ARC page does a weird review watermark like that. Speaking from my own experience in reviewing ARCs or beta-reading, I agree.
The font tipped me off because it looked like it had literally been written on a Fanfiction.Net page. Not that Verdana, font size 10, is unique to FFN, but it looks like fanfiction typed font. Which brings me to:
Literally how could you believe this author writes like this? You can read her website or preview her first book or just have the bare minimum common sense to understand what satire looks like. If you don't believe me (because I know framing a post like this will put a lot of people on the defensive), I've also included screenshots below. The prose and dialogue are COMPLETELY different from the alleged screenshot. The only thing that is similar is that both characters are ballerinas.
But wait, all of this doesn't explain why YOU, Cinnia, are so pissed about this?
You're completely right! It really doesn't. All of the above is mostly documentation so the naysayers can't say I'm just some silly fangirl of the author.
The initial premise of the drama is that you can't have "forbidden love" in an m/f relationship. First of all, William Shakespeare would like to have a word with you regarding Romeo and Juliet. Second of all, yes you fucking can. See also: Religious and cultural differences and human history for a starting point. I know it may be hard to touch grass and look at media that is not tumblr queer media-centric and understand that people who are NOT you might enjoy it very much. Note that I'm a queer person saying this and I do read or watch m/f media at times because I don't like limiting myself. Go watch Bajirao Mastani and enjoy one of the most beautiful movies about forbidden love ever produced.
The book itself falls into the medical romance subgenre. For those not familiar, these are romances (usually m/f) that often involve a healthcare worker and their patient. In the real world, where people touch grass, a healthcare worker like me having a relationship with their patient is such a huge ethical violation that it will get you fired. In Darkest Corner, James is Maddie's physical therapist because she's a ballerina with a sports injury and he is treating her. Ergo, it is forbidden for them to get together and the initial premise for mocking this book is on very shaky ground.
In fact, I'd go as far as to say that the folks mocking it seem to very likely not be familiar with romance novels and their subgenres at all, or else they'd be well aware of the concept of straight romances marketed as a "forbidden romance" because they're fucking everywhere on any place that sells romance books. I have a personal collection of over 14,500 kindle ebooks. While not all of those are romances, a good chunk of them are, so I think I can count myself as a bit of a source here, you know?
The fake screenshot and social media drama has spread to at least Twitter, Tumblr, and BookTok, which all have huge reader hobbyists. For a small-time author barely past her debut novel's publication, allegations of this sort tied to your author name and book titles can last on the internet and in web searches for a long, long time, hurting an author's career. Maybe you're like "boohoo, who cares about their careers, I pirate all my fiction books anyway" and well, a post like this was probably never going to convince you of anything. I'm talking to the folks who might still have a sense of shame and self-reflection. Authors, even authors tied to a Big 5's imprint, earn peanuts. This sort of manufactured "scandal" is not ideal when the book is weeks away from being published. In fact, if the book has fewer sales than the first book in the series, Simon & Schuster may have legal grounds to go after the person who made the fake screenshot. A smarter person would have kept that to the groupchat or posted it as a clearly marked fanfic on AO3.
As a reader, this also sucks because when shit like this happens, the reviews of a book are permanently biased by both the bombers and the fans of the author, no matter how good or bad the book ends up being. Do I know if this book will be a 1-star or 5-star now, based on the reviews? Nope. Will I read it? No, because I don't read medical romances as it's a squick for me. But I may read her first book, which has mercifully escaped most of the social media nonsense.
This isn't the first time booktwt/booktok/booklr has engaged in a similar mob mentality towards books they don't like and I doubt it'll be the last. See Blood Heir by Amélie Wen Zhao and the allegations that turned out to be false then, too. However, I would like to ask y'all to please check your sources and not blindly accept what someone says on social media as truth. Get used to doing the research because manufactured misinformation is everywhere, and it's not gonna get better. (And for fuck's sake, not everyone is gonna like the same books and fandoms you like! It's not illegal to enjoy reading different things!)
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#lisina coney#booklr#booktok#booktwt#book rants#cinnia says stuff#long post#very long post#screenshot included at the bottom of the post#darkest corner of the heart#the darkest corner of the heart#misinformation#edited to fix title
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“The Texas Observer’s 2023 Must-Read Lone Star Books” by Senior Editor Lise Olsen, with help from Susan Post of Austin's Bookwoman:
Despite a disturbing rise in book bans, Texas is, against all odds, becoming more and more of a literary hub with authors winning accolades, indie bookstores popping up from Galveston Island to El Paso, and ban-busting librarians and other book-lovers throwing festivals. So as you ponder gifts this holiday season or consider what to read by the fire or by the pool (who can say in December?), pick some Lone Star lit.
Here’s a list of #MustRead 2023 books by Texans or about Texas compiled by the Observer staff with help from Susan Post of Austin’s independent Bookwoman. (Several talented Texans also made best book lists in Slate magazine, The New Yorker, and NPR’s Books We Love.)
NONFICTION
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Dallas journalist Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is a dramatic takedown of the Texas foster care and family court system. It’s both a compelling narrative and an investigative tour de force.
The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine (Simon & Schuster) by Ricardo Nuila, a Houston physician and author, is an eye-opening and surprisingly optimistic read. Nuila delves deeply into what’s wrong with modern medicine by painting rich portraits of the patients he’s treated (and befriended) while working at Harris County’s Ben Taub Hospital, which offers free or low-cost—yet high-quality—care against all odds. Each of them had been forced into impossible positions and suffered additional trauma from obstacles and gaps in insurance, corporate medicine, and Big Pharma.
Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians and a Legacy of Rage (Simon & Schuster) by Fort Worth journalist Jeff Guinn is one of two books that mark the 30th anniversary of the standoff between the Branch Davidians and federal agents that ended with 86 deaths. (The other is Waco Rising by Kevin Cook.) Both authors recount how the 1993 tragedy shaped other extremist leaders in America—and still influences separatist movements today.
Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (University of Texas Press) by Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay has been described as the quintessential Steely Dan book. As part of the project, LeMay, a native Houstonian, created 109 whimsical portraits of characters that sprang from the musicians’ lyrics and legends. In a review, fellow artist Melissa Messer wrote: “Looking at Joan’s oeuvre makes me feel tipsy, or like I’ve drunk Wonka’s Fizzy Lifting Drink and I’m swimming through the air after her, searching for the same vision.”
Memoir
Black Cameleon: Memory, Womanhood and Myth(Macmillan) by Debra D.E.E.P. Mouton, the former Houston poet Laureate, shares lyrical memories of her own life mixed with ample asides on Black culture and family lore. Her storylines sink deeply into a dream world, and yet readers emerge without forgetting her deeper messages.
Leg: The Story of a Limb and a Boy Who Grew from It (Abrams Books) by Greg Marshall of Austin has been described as “a hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy.” NPR’s Scott Simon, who interviewed Marshall, described the memoir as “intimate, and I mean that in all ways—insightful and often laugh-out-loud funny.”
Up Home: One Girl’s Journey (Penguin Random House) by Ruth J. Simmonsis a powerful memoir from the Grapeland native who became the president of Brown University and thus, the first Black president of an Ivy League institution. Simmons begins by sharing stories about her parents, who were sharecroppers, and about her life as one of 12 children growing up in a tiny Texas town during the Jim Crow era. For her, the classroom became “a place of brilliant light unlike any our homes afforded.” (Simmons’s other academic credentials include being the former president of Smith College; president of Prairie View A&M University, Texas’s oldest HBCU; and the former vice provost of Princeton.)
Novels and Short Stories
An Autobiography of Skin(Penguin Random House) by Lakiesha Carr weaves together three powerful narratives all featuring Black women from Texas. Carr, a journalist originally from East Texas, plumbs the depths of each character’s struggles, sharing tales of gambling, lost love, abuse, and the power of women to overcome.
Holler, Child (Penguin Random House), a new short story collection from Latoya Watkins, was long-listed for the National Book Award. Her eleven tales press “at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance,” as the cover description promises, and introduce West Texas-inspired characters irrevocably shaped by place.
The Nursery (Pantheon Books) by Szilvia Molnar—a surprisingly honest, anatomically accurate (and unsettling) novel about new motherhood—begins: “I used to be a translator and now I am a milk bar.” It’s a riveting and original debut by Molnar, who is originally from Budapest, was raised in Sweden, and now lives in Austin.
Two legendary Austin writers weighed in with new novels on our tall stack of Texas goodreads: The Madstone (Little, Brown and Company) by Elizabeth Crook, the 2023 Texas Writer Award winner, and Mr. Texas, a fictional send-up of Texas politics by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright.
Poetry
Bookwoman’s Susan Post, who contributed titles to our list, also recommends filling your holiday shelves with poetry by and about Texans:
Dream Apartment (Copper Canyon Press) by Lisa Olstein;
Low (Gray Wolf Press) by Nick Flynn;
Freedom House by KB Brookins (published by Dallas’ Deep Vellum Bookstore & Publishing Co.)
Essays
Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry (University of Texas Press) edited by George Getchow, contains essays from a who’s who list of Texas writers about Larry McMurtry’s influence on Texas culture and their lives. It includes an array of reflections on history and the writing process as well as anecdotes about McMurtry’s off-beat and innovative life.
To Name the Bigger Lie (Simon & Schuster) by Sarah Viren, an ex-Texan who now teaches creative writing at Arizona State University, (excerpted in Lithub) includes reflections on Viren’s experiences (and misadventures) as an “out” academic and writer in states like Florida, Texas, and Arizona. As she dryly notes, “Critiques of the personal essay, and by extension memoir, are often gendered—not to mention classist and racist and homophobic.”
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Review: The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll
Title: The Favorite Sister Author: Jessica Knoll Series: N/A Release Date: May 2018 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Rating: 2 stars
Favourite character: Layla Least favourite character: Stephanie
Mini-Review: What. The. Actual. Crap. Okay so… I have a lot to say about this book but I'm going to try and condense it. First things first is that for a thriller it's not very… thrilling. For the first 3/4 of the book nothing happens and then all of a sudden so much happens you can hardly keep track of it. I didn't like the use of present tense for what were supposed to be flashbacks. And Brett and Stephanie's "voices" for their povs felt similar so I often forgot whose I was reading from if I stopped in the middle of a chapter. The characters were insufferable and honestly, this book is high school drama with money and reality tv but with adults. Would've been a one star but I gave it the extra star for shocking me at the end.
Fan Cast: Brett Courtney - Barbie Ferreira Kelly Courtney - Maiara Walsh Stephanie Simmons - Teyonah Parris Lauren Bunn - Halston Sage Jen Greenberg - Emma Dumont Vince DeMarco - Toby Leonard Moore Jesse Barnes - Debi Mazar Lisa - Kristin Chenoweth Arch - Ritu Arya Dr. Chugh - Archie Panjabi Yvette Greenberg - Parker Posey Satya - Ace Bhatti
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hello! I would love for you to rank all of the "audition" performances that the characters give for Les Mis, WSS, Funny Girl, NYADA, and anything else you can think of! Feel free to make decisions on what to include or not include I love seeing your opinions :)
HI Sim, thanks so much for this question. I went all out on my answer so it’s under the cut.
in chronological order
Glee auditions:
For glee club:
Mercedes - Respect
Kurt - Mr Celophane
Tina - I Kissed a Girl
Artie - Pony
Rachel - On My Own
Quinn, Santana, Brittany - Say a little prayer
Finn - You’re the One That I Want
Sam - Billionaire
Sunshine - Listen
Sugar - Big spender
Marley - New York State of Mind
Jake - Never say never
Roderick - Mustang Sally
Jane - Tightrope
Mason and Madison - Home
Other Auditions on Glee:
Kurt for the role as kicker - Single Ladies
Rachel for Carabet - Taking Chances
Mercedes for a solo got season 1 sectionals - And I’m telling You I’m not Going
Kurt and Rachel for Defying gravity
Will Schuster and Bryan Ryan for Les Mis - Dream On
Kurt for a solo at Sectionals season 2- Don’t cry for me Argentina (duet with Rachel)
Kurt for solo at nationals season 2 - Some People
Santana for a solo at nationals season 2 - Back to Black
Rachel for a solo at nationals season 2 - My Man
Mercedes for a solo at Nationals season 2 - Try Little Tenderness
Kurt for WSS - I’m the Greatest Star
Blaine for WSS - Something’s coming
Rachel for WSS - Somewhere There’s a Place for Us
Mercedes for WSS - Spotlight
Rachel and Mercedes for WSS callbacks - Out here on my Own
Mike for WSS - Cool
Kurt for NYADA - Not the Boy Next Door
Rachel for NYADA - Don’t rain on my parade
Ryder for Grease - Jukebox Hero
Kitty and Jake for Grease - Everybody talks
Marely and Unique for Grease - (Blow me) One Last Kiss
Blaine for Grease - Hopelessly Devoted to You
Marley, Jake, Ryder and Kitty - Born to Hand Jive
Kurt for NYADA 2.0 - Being Alive
Rachel for Funny Girl - Don’t Stop Believing
Rachel funny girl callbacks - To Love You More
Santana for Funny girl understudy - Don’t Rain on my Parade
Kurt and Blaine for the coveted role of June Dalloway’s new prodegee- Story of my Life
Rachel for the movie role in LA - The Rose
Rachel for Richard Simmons musical season 6 - Promises, Promises
Now to rank them
Ranking New Directions Auditions:
1. Mustang Sally – Roderick Meeks
2. New York State of Mind – Marley Rose (and Rachel Berry)
3. Say a Little Prayer - Santana, Brittany and Quinn
4. Tightrope – Jane Hayward
5. Listen – Sunshine Corazon
6. I kissed a Girl – Tina Cohen Chang
7. Respect – Mercedes Jones
8. Home – Mason and Madison (with the ND oldies)
9. Mr Cellophane – Kurt Hummel
10. Pony – Artie Abrams
11. Never Say Never – Jake Puckerman
12. Billionaire – Sam Evans (with Artie and Puck)
13. On My Own – Rachel Berry
14. You’re the One That I Want – Finn Hudson (with Rachel)
15. Big Spender – Sugar Motta
(didn’t include Single Ladies which is kinda Puck, Matt and Mike’s audition to the Glee club or Stereo Hearts which is kinda Joe’s audition song).
Ranking the Other Auditions:
1. My Man – Rachel Berry
2. Not the Boy Next Door – Kurt Hummel
3. Being Alive – Kurt Hummel
4. And I’m telling you I’m not going – Mercedes Jones
5. Spotlight – Mercedes Jones
6. Blow Me (One Last Kiss) – Marley Rose and Unique Adams
7. Some People – Kurt Hummel
8. Back to Black – Santana Lopez
9. To Love You More – Rachel Berry
10. I’m the Greatest Star – Kurt Hummel
11. Hopelessly Devoted to You – Blaine Anderson
12. Out Here on My Own – Mercedes Jones and Rachel Berry
13. Try A Little Tenderness – Mercedes Jones
14. Story of my Life – Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson
15. Everybody Talks – Kitty Wilde and Jake Puckerman
16. Single Ladies – Kurt Hummel
17. Cool – Mike Chang
18. Somewhere There is a Place for Us – Rachel Berry (with Shelby)
19. Dream On – Will Schuster and Bryan Ryan
20. Don’t Stop Believin’ – Rachel Berry
21. Born to Hand Jive – Kitty Wilde, Ryder Lynn, Jake Puckerman and Marley Rose
22. The Rose – Rachel Berry
23. Promises, Promises – Rachel Berry
24. Taking Chances – Rachel Berry
25. Defying Gravity – Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel
26. Don’t Rain on My Parade – Santana Lopez
27. Don’t Cry for Me Argentina – Kurt Hummel (with Rachel Berry)
28. Jukebox Hero – Ryder Lynn
29. Somethings Coming – Blaine Anderson
30. Don’t Rain on my Parade – Rachel Berry (failed NYADA Audition)
Also this
Top 10 audition songs:
Mustang sally - OMG Roderick’s voice is amazing. He has a sound that no one else in Glee club before him has ever had. Perfect audition song for him. I love Hummelberry’s facial expressions and the Holy Trinity.
My man - Ok so I don’t like Rachel’s voice a lot of the time but whenever she goes to her roots and sings broadway it’s always amazing. She blows it out of the park and deserves all the praise. She is definitely a great Fanny Brice.
Not the boy next door - ICONIC. Those pants, the range in his voice. Really great song for Kurt. He is also someone who should sing broadway more often (he’s destined for it no matter how hard it may be for him to get gigs). The whole NYADA storyline for him was a slap in the face but this audition stands as one of his best solos.
Being alive - ok you don’t often see Kurt do a park and bark (the other one off the top of my head is I have nothing.) He really really delivers with this song and idk how Chris finds the emotion to pull this stuff off. Rachel’s a emotional performer but it always leans towards fake but this just seems so real and raw. He pulled all his emotions from being in New York and loosing Blaine and loosing the supportive family environment of the Hudson-Hummels into this song.
And I’m telling you I’m not going - ok, so a fully live performance. Spine chilling. Mercedes has superior belting power and vocals.
Spotlight - a softer side to Mercedes. She starts taking no shit in season 3. I am here for her not taking a backseat to Rachel no more.
Blow me (one last kiss) - I love me a Marely and Unique duet. Their friendship is great and it’s just starting with this duet. It murders!
Home - the creepy incest twins have great voices. I love the set out of this song and how it tells a narrative story at the same time.
New York state of mind - introduction to Marely, introduction to Brochel. They both slap and Marely definitely gives the best audition song (one time I agree with Schue)
Some people - ok, love Kurt’s outfit. Bringing back the Gypsy musical. He has fun with the choreography. The song has a weird beat but it does work for Kurt.
#porcelain-nightbird#my opinions#glee auditions#this was fun#im glad that i'd already done most of the wokr#work#<3
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This #MotorMonday, we’re sharing a catalog from a Gulf + Western Industries’ catalog announcing its electric car, which it unveiled on June 5, 1980.
The vehicle was powered powered by a zinc chloride battery that was advertised as being capable of powering the car for 200 miles on a single charge. By December of 1980, however, it had become apparent that the battery was much less powerful than anticipated and could only be recharged by highly trained personnel.
Shortly afterwards, in 1983, Charles Bluhdorn, Gulf + Western’s head executive (once dubbed “The Mad Austrian of Wall Street" and eulogized as “The Last Business Eccentric”) died of a heart attack on his private jet. The company’s new leadership moved to restructure the company and divest it of Bluhdorn’s many interests, which included not only automobile manufacturing but also subsidiaries like Paramount Pictures, New Jersey Zinc, South Porto Rico Sugar Company, a financial services company, Consolidated Cigars, Stax Records, Sega Enterprises, Simon & Schuster, the New York Rangers and New York Knicks, and Simmons Bedding Company.
This catalog is part of the Hagley Library’s Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera (Accession 20100108.ZTV). To view more material from this collection, including more from Gulf + Western Industries, click here to visit its page in our Digital Archive.
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Free Music!
Just a quick post to share three albums that are currently available as free downloads through GetMusic.fm. Factory Seconds This is my most recent EP. I was going for a raw rock sound. “All the Hairy Boys” is on this one. It’s a fun tune reminiscent of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” Simmons and Schuster: Dos I recorded this one with my friend Tim Simmons (pictured above). It’s a…
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Kids: The Joy of Collaboration!
Kids: The Joy of Collaboration!
New song! I’be been a fan of Brian Lambert for a while now, so I was especially excited when he asked me if I thought his latest song needed anything. He suggested that it might need a synthesizer part, so I added one and also added some backing vocals. And just for fun, I made the nifty poster you can see in the video below… I really enjoy collaborating with other musicians. For example, last…
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