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He Touched Me – Matt Marks

Ha-whu? That’s right. Me. This is a cover of the Bill Gaither tune, adapted for the purposes of my upcoming musical, The Little Death. In the musical/album version this will be sung by the main female character, played/sung by Mellissa Hughes, but I wanted to release an pre-alternate version featuring myself because honestly, it was too much fun NOT to record. Enjoy.

Heartbeats Accelerating – by Kate and Anne McGarrigle

A classic from the Canadian princess of folk, the McGarrigles. I’ve sampled this tune for numerous live performances and it goes with everything. Give it a chance.

Ok, I actually still Like That Color. But I think it is finally time to retire the cute little nom de plum in favor of people actually knowing who I am. So I like that color is no more, well he is with us in spirit, and Matt Marks is reborn. Yeah, I know. Maybe it’s kind of boring. But! Check this out! Read it as a sentence: Matt marks. Hmmmm. Makes ya think, huh? No? Well, whatever. That’s how it goes.

I am releasing Part One of my musical The Little Death very soon. Keep an eye out for a couple new songs on my Myspace in the coming days.

My new Myspace URL is:

http://www.myspace.com/mattmarksmusic

Feel it. Love it.

The Age of Not Believing – from Bednobs and Broomsticks

That’s right. Old School Disney in the house.

Hip Hop Drunkies – Tha Alkaholics feat. ODB

Listen to this. Try not to crave a 40oz. Try… but you will fail.

Poison Control Center

And for our Spanish-speaking friends:

Poison Control Center (Spanish)

You get a bonus mp3 today! Enjoy!

Libertarians are distancing themselves from Ron Paul, post the New Republic exposé on the unbelievably bigoted points of view in Paul’s past newsletters. Paul claims ignorance, that he didn’t write them, but it is hard to defend that he would be unaware of so many crazy-ass racist, homophobic, and xenophobic viewpoints in his own newsletters.

Here’s a selection, written after the L.A. Riots:

“Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. … What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.”

Yikes! Backpedal libertarians, backpedal! It is smart that many of them are admitting their shame at supporting Paul previously. I, for one, feel kind of stupid for getting seduced by some of Paul’s supporter’s enthusiasm. I never supported him for president, nor believed he had a shred of a chance, but it was nice to see issues like the futility of the drug war take center stage at the Republican (!) debates. Libertarians need to cut their losses and publicly withdraw support. The eminently reasonable folks at Reason are starting to do so, but the, sadly immense, nut job core of Ron Paul supporters will likely hold firm.

Yay! It’s raining hard in Brooklyn: thunder, lightning, I love it! I’ve been praying for rain for days now. I’m inside recording all day, it’s nice to pull of the headphones and hear the rain falling in the courtyard outside my window. Let’s hope the thunder doesn’t interfere with my recording!

Ground-breaking new study. Now get to work on Parkinson’s!

I hate to say it but puns like this make me lose my shit.