Something to remember
Walking is a kind of dance. Dancing is the only way to move. (this from my 6-year-old back when she was a 4-or-5-year-old.)
x-post: Meet the Brando
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and the late-great Marlon Brando all are hanging out over at Monkey Vortex Radio Theater. You know, just kinda…kickin’ it. Shouldn’t you? Listen in on their private conversation in the latest MVRT episode, appropriately enough entitled John, Paul, and Brando. Plus: John, Paul, and Brando, “Tangy Brie” Remix!
Double Agent of Love, instrumental
Here’s an instrumental thang that I’ve been noodling around with for the last week or so. It goes kinda like this: da da da da, da da da — blinnngggg, da da da. Oh, ya know, it’s a wee thing. Hardly even a meg. Why not just download the tune fer yourself and hear this … Read more
Highway Five
I walk into the restroom and there are these two guys in there and it already stinks and they look at me like I did something wrong and I’m thinking hey — I just got here and then one of them leaves and then the other one leaves so now I’m all alone for like … Read more
Second Hand Rose
As a follow up to our smash hit “Bye Bye, Blackbird, here’s the second in a continuing series of occasional piano/vocal jazz standards plucked from bygone days. This time, we’re headed all the way back to 1921 for “Second Hand Rose,” written by Grant Clarke and James F. “the F stands for foot pedal, sonny, … Read more
Bedtime
She slept in the bed while he slept on the couch so he could hear their sick daughter and her three-day-old cough. And in the morning while she moved around the kitchen and the kids watched too-loud TV and coughed a little more, he crept back into the bed, curled up in the body warmth … Read more
x-post: and the bar and the clowney of it all
A new episode is now available for easy-downloading good times, over at MVRT. Clowney marks a bit of a milestone in two ways: It’s our 10th segment, so to all those doubters who said “they’ll never have 10 segments,” I say: hah! look! 10 segments! It’s also our shortest piece yet, clocking in at just … Read more
Here’s one from the heart
Yes. Yes I am on a cell phone. You’re right about that. And I’m driving. Yes I am. I’m driving at the same time. I’m on a cell phone right now. And I’m driving. Yes. At the same time. Yes. And screw you too.
The Web’s Leading Authority on “Exotic Bird Parks” in “Utah”
Scanning the site’s traffic log tonight I learned two incredible facts: (1) Because of a pair of lines in a pair of poems… if you search “exotic bird parks” and “Utah” in Google, not only is cecilvortex.com the first choice you get, cecilvortex.com is the only choice you get. Amazing! (2) Somebody — some actual … Read more
x-post: MVRT – and the marriage and the sketchbook of it all
New episode up on today’s MVRT Marriage is part of a continuing series from writer, illustrator, publisher, and dimensional contortionist Tony Jonick. Take yourself a two-minute 29 second journey to the icy border between East and West here.