"…something like the supervisor of an entire team of political agents…"
OK, OK. So I haven’t written a feature-length movie about returning to New Jersey. But I ask you this: has Hollywood bigshot Zach Braff ever written a song about Yu-Gi-Oh!? And more to the point, has he ever written one in both the faux-classical and faux punk-folk traditions? No? I didn’t think so. Now me, … Read more
Bonus MVRT episode this week — a few highlights from the third presidential debate set to drums n keys. It’s a little number we like to call “You Be the Judge (Oh Yeah)” — now playing….
Back in high school I was lucky enough to have two excellent friends who were also great musicians — Heroic Imp and SKP. They’d jam, and I’d make up some words — insta-tunes, written and recorded in one night. And that right there was my introduction to the idear that writing and recording music is … Read more
It’s Monkey Vortex Monday. In today’s installment, Croatian malcontent Rodney K. puts our longstanding feud aside for one minute and 45 seconds — just barely enough time to bust it Poet-Makes-a-House-Call style with: Welcome to the City of Wetumpka — another all-new, all-free, all-MP3 MVRT experience, brought to you by the good people at BackMan. … Read more
Reality catches up with the President. Get the skizoop, here.
In the next two weeks I’ll be making the (fairly freaky styling) leap to door-to-door political volunteering in my hometown and in a battleground state. If you’ve the itch your own self, and you’re curious how to look into that sort of thing, take a stroll over to edgewise, and read all about it.
Talking with her about her brother’s death years back now. And it’s the first time we talked. She just had a kid first kid last month my son’s almost four good guy big boy. Their house looks the same even the table even the carpet and I tell her that. The house even smells the … Read more
If it’s Monday, it must be Monkey Vortex Radio Theater — back with an all-new segment: The Sequence of Things. With script and music by yers truly and starring Bee Nisbet and M “‘n M” Smith. Plus: the MVRT debut of featured backup vocalist Shonny Vortex! And there’s funk too. Oh yes, there’s funk.
Some pithy debate shpiel, here. Quite literally. Packed with pith.