My wife took the kids out of the house for a few hours. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't have a 1- and 4-year-old demanding your constant attention!
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- Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:16 am
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: Gift of Music 2020/2021
- Replies: 100
- Views: 2189
Re: Gift of Music 2020/2021
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:00 pm
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: Gift of Music 2020/2021
- Replies: 100
- Views: 2189
Re: Gift of Music 2020/2021
My entry has been sent!
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:14 pm
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: Gift of Music 2020/2021
- Replies: 100
- Views: 2189
Re: Gift of Music 2020/2021
Was just thinking about Songfight stuff and then I was like "Wasn't there a Gift of Music going on? What happened to that?" And then I remembered that the deadline got extended to January 14 and I then I remembered that today was January 15 and then I remembered that I very much have not sent someth...
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 5:32 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: The Hellos
- Replies: 7
- Views: 199
Re: The Hellos
I find a lot of joy in writing my little songs. Mostly I just crank out chuggy or bouncy acoustic guitar stuff, but sometimes I write on ukulele, and more rarely, on accordion. In college, I wrote exclusively on accordion, but it’s been a decade since that time. SF may be a good chance to try it ou...
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 8:17 am
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: Gift of Music 2020/2021
- Replies: 100
- Views: 2189
Re: Gift of Music 2020/2021
Micah's picks:
Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter
The Rankin Family - Rise Again
John McCutcheon - The Great Storm Is Over
Stephen Foster - Hard Times Come Again No More
This has been recorded hundreds of times; here’s a good one:
Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter
The Rankin Family - Rise Again
John McCutcheon - The Great Storm Is Over
Stephen Foster - Hard Times Come Again No More
This has been recorded hundreds of times; here’s a good one:
- Thu Nov 26, 2020 9:01 am
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: hey listen to my new song (thread)
- Replies: 892
- Views: 195852
Re: hey listen to my new song (thread)
My church had an online Thanksgiving service yesterday. We did a virtual choir video for a song I wrote a while ago. Check it out if you're into that kind of thing:
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:01 am
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: Gift of Music 2020/2021
- Replies: 100
- Views: 2189
Re: Gift of Music 2020/2021
I will be in as soon as I finish making my selections. In the meantime, I've made a Spotify playlist with everyone's selections, like I did for the last Gift of Music back in March. I will add to it as more people sign up. The following songs are not on Spotify and thus are not on the playlist: The ...
- Sun Nov 22, 2020 5:31 pm
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: Original Flava Coverfight - Video Edition
- Replies: 159
- Views: 3192
Re: Original Flava Coverfight - Video Edition
Blown away by the quality in this fight, both music and videos.
Here's mine:
And here's the mp3, which I promise does not start with 28 seconds of silence:
Here's mine:
And here's the mp3, which I promise does not start with 28 seconds of silence:
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 1:01 pm
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: Original Flava Coverfight - Video Edition
- Replies: 159
- Views: 3192
Re: Original Flava Coverfight - Video Edition
Just exported an mp4. Not sure if this will be the final version, but I'm pretty happy with what I've got!
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 12:47 pm
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: Original Flava Coverfight - Video Edition
- Replies: 159
- Views: 3192
Re: Original Flava Coverfight - Video Edition
How should the videos be submitted? DropBox? Some other way?
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 7:59 am
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: Original Flava Coverfight - Video Edition
- Replies: 159
- Views: 3192
Re: Original Flava Coverfight - Video Edition
Okay, I'm in! In descending order of likelihood you'll find something worth covering: Micah Sommersmith Jerkatorium feat. Micah Sommersmith Levenhagen-Sommersmith Micah Sommer If sidefights are allowed, you can also peruse my Nur Ein archive , or my individual albums for SpinTunes 13 , 14 , 15 , or ...
- Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:10 pm
- Forum: Television
- Topic: Song Exploder on Netflix
- Replies: 7
- Views: 187
Re: Song Exploder on Netflix
I watched all 4 episodes in one sitting and really enjoyed them. It's an interesting contrast to the podcast, because on the podcast you don't hear from Hrishikesh except in his introduction, so the effect is that the musician is in complete control. Here, hearing Hrishikesh's questions and seeing t...
- Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:56 pm
- Forum: Song Fight! Live
- Topic: Song Fight! Live(Stream) - September 2020
- Replies: 239
- Views: 6696
- Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:41 pm
- Forum: Song Fight! Live
- Topic: Song Fight! Live(Stream) - September 2020
- Replies: 239
- Views: 6696
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:04 am
- Forum: Song Fight! Live
- Topic: Song Fight! Live(Stream) - September 2020
- Replies: 239
- Views: 6696
Re: Song Fight! Live(Stream) - September 2020
BTW a lot of cameras will only record for 10-20 minutes, both for weird tax reasons (Japan taxes the sale of video cameras differently than photo cameras, and being able to record video past a certain length of time makes it count as a video camera) and due to thermal designs that lead to overheati...
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 8:24 pm
- Forum: Song Fight! Live
- Topic: Song Fight! Live(Stream) - September 2020
- Replies: 239
- Views: 6696
Re: Song Fight! Live(Stream) - September 2020
Recorded a set this evening. Recorded audio and video separately. Audio turned out great. Video did not save. Wheeeeeeee. Going to try again tomorrow, hopefully.
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 4:20 pm
- Forum: Song Fight! Live
- Topic: Song Fight! Live(Stream) - September 2020
- Replies: 239
- Views: 6696
Re: Song Fight! Live(Stream) - September 2020
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?
Also, I just had my piano tuned in preparation for my set. Do I forward the invoice to Spud or JB?
- Thu Jul 30, 2020 11:20 am
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: Niv and the Exploration
- Replies: 145
- Views: 4796
Re: Niv and the Exploration
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...
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 9:32 pm
- Forum: Ye Olde Lyric Archive
- Topic: Circle of Titles IX
- Replies: 11
- Views: 342
Re: Circle of Titles VIII
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...
- Sun Jul 26, 2020 9:11 pm
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: Circle of Titles - The Return
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2071
Re: Circle of Titles - The Return
I thought it was going to happen tonight; it did not. Hopefully tomorrow night.
- Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:07 pm
- Forum: Nur Ein
- Topic: Nur Ein XV Final Round "Pistols At Dawn"
- Replies: 79
- Views: 3865
Re: Nur Ein XV Final Round "Pistols At Dawn"
As long as Martin Shkreli doesn't end up with it, sounds great!
- Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:40 pm
- Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
- Topic: Ye olde songfight?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1080
Re: Ye olde songfight?
Love it. I'm in.