Matt Marks Music

Jim Webb is doing the Lord’s work.
Torture is not torture when we are the torturers torturing. Get it?
Watch Mos Def slowly unravel with a few delicate jabs by Christopher Hitchens.
Tiny synth, MIDI controller, sequencer, sampler, onboard fx, built-in mic, motion sensor, and a freakin’ FM radio? I can’t wait for the price so I can cry myself to sleep…
I wanna be a baconographer.
Bushy eyebrows are back, finally…

(via RB)

For the record, I don’t smoke pot, but I have – like our last three presidents – in the past. I do, though, see it squarely as a civil rights issue. Obama’s glib dismissal of the will of the people really pissed me off. There is no reason for the law to be on the books, and there is a wonderful opportunity here to help ease the massive strain of the recession. Wake up man!

What’s going on America??

I just returned last night from Mell and my post-Little Death vacation to Portland, Maine. I’ll include some pics here from both the show and our trip, as well a link to the full album. Enjoy!

The Show:
(thanks for the action shots Marbot!!)

“Something… happened…”

“You’re like… God!!!”

“to… me…”

“And you know Jesus is my best friend!”

“Pe-ne-traaaa-tion!!”

The Hang:

After-show glow

Dinner at Sammy’s with the Folks:

Mystified by the seltzer

Mell in her Linda Richman shirt.

Steak it up Wil!!

We found ourselves in the midst of an impromptu bat mitzvah!

Trip to Maine:

You know you’re out of NYC when the truck stops have NASCAR romance fiction…

Lobster cages in Portland

At J’s, drinking an Amber

I look like I’m trapped in an ad for either beer, eyeglasses, or eyebrow tweezers…

Delicious oysters on the half-shell

More drinkin’. Yummy Bloody Marys!!

Melly, unsure of her first escargot endeavor

I’ma gonn eat you Pinchy!

This is how you pull the head off of a steamed clam.

Our adorable hotel.

Here’s the link to the full album or you could just view the slideshow:

Just a reminder to come check out my opera, The Little Death Vol.1 this Friday and Saturday night, 9:30 each night.

Here’s that info again:

The Little Death Vol.1
March 20th and 21st, 9:30PM
@ The *NEW* Tank – 354 West 45th Street (in between 8th and 9th Ave.)
Tix are $10

Check out songs from the show here

Just a reminder to come check out my opera, The Little Death Vol.1 this Friday and Saturday night, 9:30 each night.

Here’s that info again:

The Little Death Vol.1
March 20th and 21st, 9:30PM
@ The *NEW* Tank – 354 West 45th Street (in between 8th and 9th Ave.)
Tix are $10

Check out songs from the show here

This is fucking messed up:

Thank you Lord Google:

Google today finally announced its plans for GrandCentral, the telephony service it acquired in July 2007. GrandCentral will be reborn as Google Voice, a comprehensive suite of telephony services, including all of GrandCentral’s features. In addition, Google Voice will also include an automated voicemail transcription service, the ability to send and receive text messages, and integration with your Gmail contacts. Users can now also call any number in the the U.S. for free.

Great news. I used to have a voice-mail transcription service, but it sucked and cost money. This one sounds much, much better:

The automated voicemail transcription feature looks like it will be one of the most useful functions of Google Voice. Transcriptions are fully automated and Google will mark passages in the text where the algorithm was not very confident about the transcription. Transcriptions will automatically appear in your inbox, but Google Voice can also email them to you, or even send you an SMS with the text.

Huge.

Let’s hope that the phone companies are running scared like the swindling bastards they are. Exorbitant international calling rates? Paying for SMS and minutes? Hopefully that will all be a thing of the past.

Hey all, if you’re looking for something rockin to see this weekend, go check out loadbang at The Tank on Sunday. loadbang ensemble is a great new group consisting of musicians from the Manhattan School of Music’s new contemporary music program. It’s a kickass program and the cats from there really seem to be filling in the new crop on the New York new music scene. We’ve invited loadbang to play on The 1st Annual New Music Bake Sale, a show Ensemble de Sade is putting on with Newspeak (more on that soon!), so you can trust me that these guys can rock a concert.

Instrumentally they’re a rather unlikely quartet, but I think it works to their favor:

Jeffrey Gavett – Baritone Voice
Andy Kozar – Trumpet
Philip Everall – Bass Clarinet
William Lang – Trombone

How many new music ensembles have brass players in the majority? Awesome. Check them out, here’s the deets:

loadbang

Sun, 03/15/2009 – 9:30pm

$10

New York based loadbang will be playing music of American experimentalist John Cage; premiering brand new arrangements of music by the Velvet Underground, written for loadbang by Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang; and playing new pieces by young composers Christopher Jette and Daniel Highman.

For the record, this is the same Tank that my Little Death show is at next weekend. Plug plug!