I got together with Nick Webber (of Nick Casey), Crash (of Lowry) and we cut this song in a couple of hours the other day for this film. We love it. The film’s producers love it. It’s in the film (in a chase sequence), and is also slated to appear on the soundtrack (should such a thing wind up existing).

While we’re at it, I guess I never mentioned (in my seven month blogging hiatus) that they used a song off of Good Breeding (the Scotts Roger record I made about 150 years ago) in “Cult of Sincerity”. Supposedly it was the first feature-length movie to premiere directly through youtube, which I suppose is sort of vaguely interesting in a mundane internet-history sort of way, but that’s not the point. You can watch the whole movie if you’re feeling feisty, or you can check out the trailer–featuring the entire damn Scotts Roger song “Way To Go Me”–right here:

The problem, of course, is that now I feel like the first post has gotta be big, important, momentous. It doesn’t, and I know that, intellectually. It just needs to get me back on my feet. There’s a thing I like about reaching out to the world this way, through this medium. It just takes some time to get the wheels spinning again after a long hiatus.

Whine whine whine.

So, then. In the interest of a general update, here’re a few nuggets from the general interest department:

• February was a long time ago. Then again, I haven’t updated this damn blog since… holy shit, since last October. I suck. Let’s not make a thing out of it.Anyway, February… In February, my friend Pete Moses (of The Selfsame) got together to individually compose fourteen songs in one month. It didn’t work (I fell deathly ill with the flu around the ides of the month and couldn’t finish), but it was a fucking amazing experience while it lasted (the songwriting, not the flu).

  The upside of the process was manifold, but there’s also some long-term results that may come from it. For one, many of the songs Pete wrote will likely appear on his next Selfsame effort (produced by yours truly).Secondly, the songs I wrote will eventually comprise their own EGO PUPPETS record, tentatively titled Thirteen Songs About Hate). Don’t look for it anytime soon, but I’ll let you know.

• This past week, I worked with Nicholas Webber on a piece for a film score. They hated it. We love it. It’s here:
• John Cusack’s message regarding Senator John McCain is simple, and correct. Everyone should see it. I’ve been thoughtful enough to include it right here:

Ok, I think that’s enough for the day. Seriously, I’m back, I’m gonna do this more often. Really. I like it. I know nobody’s reading this shit anyway, but it makes me feel better.

Episode four, wherein I report casually on a strange lawsuit, meander aimlessly and with little purpose or message, and play an Ian Thomas song.

Now that I’m sending out audio into the world, blogging seems so pedestrian. I don’t know. Maybe I’ll write things again in words and characters which manifest visually. There’s still value in that. For right now, here’s another swampcast, featuring an unknown track by a little known artist.

So I’m still getting the hang of this podcasting thing. This one’s just a lot of random noise on a hungover Sunday afternoon. No, I’m not kidding. It just feels right.

I really hate calling it podcasting, though. It makes me feel kinda hip, but also kinda late to the party.

Cough.