"ATE" Now Available Online!

Swimmers,

After many months collecting dust on the shelf, "ATE" is finally available on iTunes and various other digital outlets for your downloading pleasure. Recorded in the Summer/Fall of 2008, "ATE" is my 8th (see what I did there? BAM!) Lifeguard Nights home-recorded album. It's a little weird, I'm not going to lie to you. After the more polished (relatively) and deliberately constructed (sorta) "Following The Hollowing" album, I wanted to do something different, something a little more raw and off-the-cuff. Most of the songs on "ATE" were written and recorded in the same day, without too much hemming and hawing over the lyrics and instrumentation and whatnot. I just banged 'em out.

Musically, there is some pretty catchy stuff on here, but there's also some more far-out stuff as well, like "Smoke Signals" featuring a distorted vocal solo over a hypnotic banjo melody and castanets. "Right At Home" features slide guitar and some good ol' fashioned knee-slapping, and "The Loser Parade" features me on Charlie Brown sad (bad) trumpet. It's a pretty wild ride.

Lyrically, the album is pretty bitter and antagonistic, but hey, that's what I was feeling at the time and I felt I should "keep it real," as the kids say. Writing music is the only way I know how to get my frustration out. Cheaper than a shrink, and more fun, I imagine.

I sketched out the cover one day at the office:



Then one night after sucking down a Rotisserie chicken and a few baked potatoes, I had Eve take this photo of my gut, and Dave Biskup photoshopped the beautiful cover:



VOILA! A masterpiece was born...or a minorpiece....depends on your perspective I guess. It's a piece of some kind, I assure you. "of shit?" you ask. Why I oughta....don't make me come over there, buddy! I'll do it.

"ATE" Track Listing:

1. Let's Start Over
2. Good Riddance
3. Geeks On Dates
4. Hidden Torture
5. Imbecile Reign
6. Smoke Signals
7. Bloody City
8. Right At Home
9. Joy Boy Army
10. The Voice of Treason
11. Walking Through A Bad Dream
12. Thanks For Not Coming
13. The Loser Parade

In This Light

After getting hitched back in September, Eve and I took off for Vegas to lounge around in the dry heat and piss our money away. That got old fast and so we decided to head to La Jolla, CA for a couple days. While there, we stopped by my favorite place in the world, the Torrey Pines cliffs. I started writing a song and Eve helped out and "In This Light" was born. We decided to compile the footage from that day and make a little video out of it. Here it is:




The rest of the honeymoon video will be available soon on various adult websites. Kidding, ma, kidding.

Hangin' On E Street with Lifeguard Nights

Inspired by the recent "Hangin' Out On E Street" series on The Boss's website(www.brucespringsteen.net/new/hanginout.html), I decided to shoot my own video detailing how the Boss has influenced my life, musically and otherwise. Enjoy!

Note: This video was not commissioned by The Boss or his people, I just have a lot of free time on my hands. I hope The Boss and his people don't mind that I did this.