I'd like to formally join the angry horde demanding a Lichen Throat set.

Also, I just had my piano tuned in preparation for my set. Do I forward the invoice to Spud or JB?

Songs per year.png I couldn't resist making a graph of songs per year. Obviously we're nowhere near the peak anymore, but if 2020 continues apace (I multiplied the current 2020 number by 12/7 to get a projection of 555 songs by the end of the year), it will make three straight years of growth and t...

Long Term Strategy by Micah Sommersmith title by fluffy * These lyrics are heavily inspired by the book of Ecclesiastes (from the Hebrew Tanakh / Christian Old Testament), which is highly recommended reading if you are mired in existential despair and are looking for some ancient wisdom to validate...

I thought it was going to happen tonight; it did not. Hopefully tomorrow night.

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Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:35 pm

All the recordings will be placed on a single flash drive, locked in golden case and hidden in the floor boards of a house whose location can only be figured out through a DaVinci code style puzzle built into the cover art.

As long as Martin Shkreli doesn't end up with it, sounds great!

Love it. I'm in.

I would participate!

I like what we've done recently which is to come up with two titles and let the other participant pick which one to use - and then unused titles are up for grabs after. But I'll participate regardless!

I am definitely interested in participating. I've been meaning to figure out some music livestreaming stuff and this would give me the needed motivation. I do think that livestreaming would be preferable to having people pre-record video, both to get closer to a concert feel and because if I had the...

Just finished listening to the New Ugly episode. Great fun, good thoughts about the songs from everyone, and nice to hear about Cybronica's musical history and peek into the Mandibles song machine. I hope you continue inviting guests to join you, even if it is an editing nightmare. (Silver lining: t...

Thanks grumpymike and crumpart for the compliments, and thanks judges for your reviews and rankings, and all the time you put in listening. I for one am not at all dumbfounded that I was eliminated - I had fun with my song and am happy with how it turned out, but this was a tough round with a very s...

I saw Knives Out in the theaters around Christmas (I think) and loved it. Just rewatched it on DVD this week. Still loved it. It was fun to pick up all the little details, knowing what they add up to.

Writing these lyrics, I gave myself a constraint that hopefully no one will notice unless you're looking for it: After various comments about the prominent /s/ sounds in some of my songs, and my variously successful or unsuccessful attempts to get them under control, I decided for this round to avoi...

Rear Window Micah Sommersmith with guest vocalist Hilary Kathryn I remember that summer, I was nine years old / I remember that summer, I had just turned ten Mom and dad said, let’s hit the road / When my mama that said we had to move again Their jobs weren’t paying them enough to live / Johnny’d b...

My song is in Spanish. In the lyrics thread I have included an English translation along with the lyrics. My hope is that each judge, as much as they consider lyrics, will consider both the meaning as indicated by the translation (if they don't speak Spanish), and the sound/form/structure (rhyme sch...

Chupacabra Micah Sommersmith Lyrics in Spanish - English translations in italics every two lines Me gritaste anoche con palabras de enojo Hoy solito en el coche, pienso en nosotros You shouted at me last night with words of anger Today, alone in the car, I think about us En las noticias, el cuerpo ...

Today's (5/21/2020) Google Doodle is really cool. It's an interactive doodle celebrating the mbira, and includes a mbira playing game like a low-stakes Guitar Hero or DDR. Don't skip the animated cutscenes.

https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-mbira

Best advice I can offer is something I picked up in broadcast school that might sound confusing at first. Hopefully this will make sense: Sing or talk with your mouth pointed slightly away from the microphone. Thanks for taking the time to respond, and thanks for this advice. Makes a lot of sense t...

Micah Sommersmith ... Your vocals sound super crispy in the mix when you're hitting S sounds, and not in a good way. Thanks for the review! I struggled a lot trying to tame the S sounds in my vocals on this entry - sometimes it's an issue when I'm recording, sometimes it's not, so I'm not sure how ...

The Handbook Micah Sommersmith I know it’s hard to live in a world surrounded by other people This would all be so much easier on your own If you think this way, you’re forgiven But it’s just not the world that we live in So I’ve compiled this resource to let you know Whenever you need, just stop a...

BTW - Micah - as a linguist, let me express how much I hate that guy Chomsky. Not as a person, not for his political views, but for how he totally ruined my interest in everything syntax-related (I'm more of a semantics guy, and I love historical linguistics) with his bullshit theories I had to rea...

Micah Sommersmith ... the bridge crosses a line into "you will only get anything out of this if you read all of these citations", which I'm not doing because I don't think a song should really need that much additional info to stand up (plus I have 42 other songs to get through). I had a ...

This Is Fine Micah Sommersmith They told me to be sensible, they told me to be smart They told me not to waste my time with music or with art They said to pick a discipline to make my wallet fat And diagramming sentences is where the money’s at The subject is determined syntactically The agent is d...