livestock at large

hatwooooorld! Hey, I'm just gonna start linking so...

2007-07-28T21:58:00.000-07:00

hatwooooorld!
Hey, I'm just gonna start linking songs directly in these silly blog posts, OK? It's not like you can tell what's new on the music page. Is that cool? I hope that's cool. Today brings us some slight reorganization on the music page, in the form of a new album that I like to call "The Beautiful Sounds of Glorious Trainwrecks". Two new songs on that album -- The Spittunian Polka and Hatworld: World of Hats. (It sort of seems like inside jokes turned into music is my favourite kind of music, doesn't it?)

the alien zit (love theme from alien zit 2000) Hey...

2007-07-19T10:27:00.000-07:00

the alien zit (love theme from alien zit 2000)
Hey, a new song! Or, two, actually, now that I think of it. Finally! One is from the soundtrack to a videogame I'm writing, which is a remake of a terrible QBasic game that I wrote when I was eleven years old. The other is from the soundtrack to a musical I'm writing, which is an adaptation of the movie Twister. They're both pretty awesome.

t-rex in: the shady history of ww2 shooters So tod...

2006-01-13T18:39:00.000-08:00

t-rex in: the shady history of ww2 shooters
So today I realized that I recorded a song about rapping dinosaurs a year and a half ago and never posted it! Say what?

guinness record? Four new microsongs today, most n...

2005-03-05T18:14:00.000-08:00

guinness record?
Four new microsongs today, most notably a little ditty called "Fuck", which, in a 10 second interval, manages to contain 65 seperate utterances of that particular word. (Counting harmonizing, which I think is totally legitimate.) That one violated my foreign phrase generator rule, but I think the ends justify the means.

inspiration strikes So, I wrote another six songs...

2005-01-08T15:59:00.000-08:00

inspiration strikes
So, I wrote another six songs today, and am dumping them into a new concept album called "Microsongs". The rules are simple:

No instruments except for my voice.
Once I decide a take is OK, I am not allowed to move it around or delete it.
All song titles (except for the first, since it was written for Songfight) are taken from this random foreign phrase generator.

It takes me around 10 to 15 minutes to record a new one, and they range anywhere from 15 seconds to over a minute long. Experience the magic!

I haven't even gotten dressed yet woah So, I wrot...

2005-01-08T10:00:00.000-08:00

I haven't even gotten dressed yet woah
So, I wrote a song for Songfight. In half an hour. Vote for it when it shows up, because it will rock your existence to its very foundations.

Not "bad" in the 80s sense of the word I've tosse...

2004-02-03T18:42:00.000-08:00

Not "bad" in the 80s sense of the word
I've tossed up some more new music on the music page. Among it: "3-String Guitar Blues", which is both the worst thing and most popular thing I've ever done. I've also put up some pretty instrumentals slated to go on my new album, "Her" and "Rain", as well as the original version of "Locked Out". Rounding off the set is a snippet of copyright-violatey goodness entitled "These Eyes" which really must be heard to be believed.

So, how are the kids? The first song from my firs...

2003-11-22T19:31:00.000-08:00

So, how are the kids?
The first song from my first ever concept album, The Dave Thomas The Cowboy EP, has just been released. This EP will commemorate the many hats that Dave Thomas has worn in his advertising career -- from being a cowboy, to a sea captain, to a middle-aged man in a Hawaiian shirt. Dave, I salute you.

Tom Waits drinks his own urine There's a new song...

2003-10-23T16:53:00.000-07:00

Tom Waits drinks his own urine
There's a new song about a leprechaun on the music page. It's entitled, "Leprechaun." I didn't write it, but I did hone my music production and a capella skills for an hour or two making it. Check it!

Long overdue MP3s Finally, after months of waitin...

2003-08-01T09:52:00.000-07:00

Long overdue MP3s
Finally, after months of waiting, I finally got a copy of the final mixed songs that I recorded in that studio. So, I've MP3-ized them and tossed them up on the music page. Enjoy, if you dare.

13 megs of love If you haven't been paying attent...

2003-06-11T08:56:00.000-07:00

13 megs of love
If you haven't been paying attention, I've been uploading a song or two that I find lying around my hard drive pretty much every day for the past few days. So you might want to check that out. Lots of weird, previously unreleased stuff.

Mediocre performance recorded with decent micropho...

2003-06-09T08:26:00.000-07:00

Mediocre performance recorded with decent microphones
Over the weekend, I spent a substantial amount of time at a real live recording studio, helping a friend of mine with a school project. He needed something to record, and so I gave him something, alright. It's an exciting development for Livestock at Large, as it's the first time a recording of me won't hiss. Not only that, but I played as many weird instruments as I possibly could on each track. They happily obliged me, attempting to get a stereo sound out of a plastic tub that formerly housed 250 Rocket Pops, and listening to me bellow "CHI-nese NINja WAR-iorrrrrr" over and over.

MP3s to come soon.

Site Launched Because mp3.com sucks and will only...

2003-06-02T16:59:00.000-07:00

Site Launched
Because mp3.com sucks and will only host three of my songs, not to mention their flagrant regard for copyright laws, I have created the official Livestock at Large website. Featuring never-before-heard awful material as well as the old previously-heard awful material, this website will stand as a great monument to mediocrity.

So stick around, or don't. Chances are this site will be so sporadically updated that it will change servers before the next newspost.