SEEKING
Band to Join, Bass Guitar, Drums.ABOUT
Singer songwriter based in Queens. I feel I've reached a certain experience level to be more specific about the type of situation I am looking for:
I want to work with an ace guitarist, bass player, and drummer to form a band. I want to be specific about what I can offer: I'm a songwriter. I'll come into this situation with more than fifty songs ready to be arranged into a full band context. In addition, I'll be able to write songs from collaborating on chords and melodies with my bandmates. I've noticed when I've gotten together with other musicians over the years, there's been confusion over what we're doing: there aren't any defined roles heading into the situation. It has kinda resulted in disappointing jam sessions that lack chemistry. I'm a songwriter. I'm not a great guitar player, I'm not going to be able to translate notes from keys to guitar, or basically be able to communicate effectively solely as an instrumentalist. That's not my skill-set. If you are a skilled guitarist looking to work with a writer to put something together from a band standpoint, then we could be a match. Things can be put together from there. All this being said: I'm not opposed to working with another songwriter in the group. Plenty of great bands have multiple writers and singers. I just want to be clear about what I'm capable of doing. I want expectations to be understood before we get together. I'm uploading more of my original songs onto here after writing this. This will give you an idea about my writing style and my voice. If you don't dig it, then no problem! We won't work together. I want to work with people I am on the same page with. Who know (and like) what I'm bringing to the table as a songwriter. Thanks for reading.
- Screen name:
- Matt28Waters
- Member since:
- Dec 03 2011
- Active over 1 month ago
- Level of commitment:
- Committed
- Years playing music:
- 10
- Gigs played:
- 10 to 50
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 4-5 nights a week
- Most available:
- Nights
Influences
Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Modest Mouse, Conor Oberst, Mike Scott (Waterboys) Michael Stipe, Jimi Hendrix, Smashing Pumpkins, Patti Smith.
EQUIPMENT
acoustic guitar
Electric guitar
MUSIC
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The Truth About New York
The Truth About New York Year: 2017 Genre: Rock
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Orpheus Under Moonbeams
Orpheus Under Moonbeams Year: 2015 Genre: Rock
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Aurora
Aurora Year: 2015 Genre: Rock
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Tangled Up In Blue _ cover of a song by Bob Dylan_
Tangled Up In Blue _ cover of a song by Bob Dylan_Matt Waters: Vocals Takeshi Ohtani: Keys Early one mornin' the sun was shinin' I was layin' in bed Wondrin' if she'd changed at all If her hair was still red Her folks they said our lives together Sure was gonna be rough They never did like Mama's homemade dress Papa's bank book wasn't big enough And I was standin' on the side of the road Rain fallin' on my shoes Heading out for the east coast Lord knows I've paid some dues Gettin' through Tangled up in blue She was married when we first met Soon to be divorced I helped her out of a jam I guess But I used a little too much force We drove that car as far as we could Abandoned it out west Split up on a dark sad night Both agreeing it was best She turned around to look at me One more time as I was walkin' away Saying over her shoulder Boy, we're bound meet again some day On the avenue Tangled up in blue I remember staying in the great north woods Living in a vagabond hotel One day during the pouring rain I can feel how the axe just fell So I drifted down to New Orleans Where I was lucky not to be destroyed I almost died in the boiling flat Two miles outside of Delacroix But all the while I was alone The past was close behind I seen a lot of women But she never escaped my mind And I just grew Tangled up in blue She was dancing in the flamingo club And I stopped in for a beer I just kept lookin' at the side of her face In the spotlight so clear And later on when the crowd thinned out I was just about to do the same She was standing there, right behind my chair Touching me, said, “it ain’t no accident you came,” I muttered something under my breath She studied the lines on my face I must admit I felt a little uneasy When she bent down to tie the laces Of my shoe Tangled up in blue She lit a burner on the stove Wearing a dress made out of stars and stripes I thought you'd never say hello, she said You look like the silent type Then she opened up a book of poems And started quoting them to me Written by a French child From the eighteenth century And everyone of them words rang true And glowed like burnin' coal Pourin' off of every page Like it was written in my soul From me to you Tangled up in blue I lived with them on Montague Street In a basement down the stairs There was music in the cafes at night There was revolution in the air Then he started into dealing with slaves And something inside of her froze She had to sell everything she owned Even her jewelry and her clothes And when it all came crashing down I became withdrawn The only thing I knew how to do Was to keep on keepin' on Like a bird that flew Tangled up in blue So now I'm goin' on back again I got to get to her and be brave All the people we used to know At least the ones that ain’t in the grave Some are bricklayers, some are bank robbers Some are burglars, some are truck driver’s wives I don't know how it all got started I got no idea what they're doin' with their lives But me, I'm still on the road Headin' for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point A different point of view Tangled up in blue All Rights reserved to Special Rider
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Night Driving (1st demo)
Night Driving (1st demo)
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Show Do Tell Reading Series: Donald Kennedy, Prince A. McNally, Aaron Poochigian
Show Do Tell Reading Series: Donald Kennedy, Prince A. McNally, Aaron PoochigianAARON POOCHIGIAN earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His first book of poetry, The Cosmic Purr (Able Muse Press), was published in 2012, and his second book Manhattanite, which won the Able Muse Poetry Prize, came out in 2017. His third book, American Divine, won the Richard Wilbur Award and will come out in 2020. His thriller in verse, Mr. Either/Or, was released by Etruscan Press in the fall of 2017. His work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and POETRY. Prince A. McNally An emerging voice in American poetry as well as the International poetry scene, Prince A.McNally is a Brooklyn born poet, writer, philosopher and activist; who utilizes his voice as a platform to speak for the voiceless. Though quite eclectic, his poetry and prose focus mainly on the human condition, social injustice and the marginalization of people of color, the elderly; the poor and the homeless here in the U.S. and abroad. His verse is a constant appeal for society to awaken, to rethink and reshape its destiny. Prince's work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, blogs and anthologies throughout the U.S. and abroad. Such as: Dissident Voice, Tuck Magazine, GloMag(India), The World Poetry Open Mic-Poets Anthology, The National Beat Poets Anthologies: 'BEATATUDE' and 'We Are Beat' as well as the forthcoming, Italian Literary magazine 'American Poets and Others' where he receives a brief write-up, along with a translated version of his work. He is a member of The Academy of American Poets, The National Beat Poetry Foundation as well as The Brooklyn Poets. A student of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism, Prince prides himself on being... A Rebel with a Cause and Effect. His widely anticipated chapbook, 'Prelude To Serenity' is due out in the Spring of 2020. Donald Kennedy: Born Brooklyn NYU – Stern School of Business Wall St – 5 years. Short Term Securities Market. Last firm Lehman Bros. Left to become a photographer. Photographic career began assisting and studio managing a number of the top photographers in NYC. Bert Stern, Bill King, Pete Turner and Irving Penn amongst others, as well as a number of the photographers from the Magnum Photos group. He moved to Paris and worked there for a number of French, Italian, German and English fashion magazines before returning to the US. In NYC his work appeared editorially for several Hearst and Conde’ Nast magazines. Advertising clients included Saks Fifth Ave, Revlon and Lancome. Fine Arts Photography work began in Paris and has continued throughout his photographic career. Activist.
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Show Do Tell Reading Series: Sam Fischer, Shea Lowery & Nick Gross
Show Do Tell Reading Series: Sam Fischer, Shea Lowery & Nick GrossSam Fischer was born in Bala Cynwyd and spent four incredible years out west at Whitman College before moving back to Philadelphia to live and work. He has a forthcoming poetry chapbook and wants to start a band. Please email him at samuel.t.fischer@gmail.com to connect. Shea Lowery is a professional counselor who believes writing is necessary to understand and explore the human experience. Check out her projects at shealowerylpc.com and ar-tic.org She edits fiction for the Toho Journal. Nick Gross was born and raised in West Philly. He has been writing poetry and creating short stories since the age of 10. He is currently working on a novel with original poetry.
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In a Stranger's Music (1st demo)
In a Stranger's Music (1st demo)The beat of my heart In tune with my steps My motion is writing A mystery text Across the sidewalks of the city The horses they trot Up open space on 10th We graze by hours Time has only lent In the verses of our ditty You can never be sure if You’re in the middle of the End of it when you Didn’t originate it And not re-inventing it Am I experiencing it? One moment after another moment Then another, moment But I can capture it Photograph the infinity of it I heard a picture of you In a stranger’s music The vagrants whisper Like voices in my head I want a record contract They want a bed So how could I sing for pity? The melody in my blood Isn’t worth a crumb of bread But I tune to the frequency Opposed to unplugging instead For songs make good company And you can never know if You’re in the building or Falling apart of it through the Stitching of the sweetness And sadness of it upon The above and below of it The appearance of magic in it This second is now that second In one passing minute Rose petals aflame In the free will of it Singeing my lips And I don’t want to stop it I felt the spirit of you In your favorite music
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Show Do Tell: David Puretz, Taylor Hibma & Amy Veach
Show Do Tell: David Puretz, Taylor Hibma & Amy VeachDavid Puretz is the Editorial Director at Global City, an independent press that publishes the literary and cultural journal Global City Review, and a growing list of other books and anthologies, including his own. As Editorial Director, he oversaw the relaunch of the journal and the publication of the newest online and print journal issue, Legacies. He is also the creator and founder of burly bird zine. Puretz teaches writing at Yeshiva University in New York City, where he currently resides. His debut novel, The Escapist, releases in January. Taylor Hibma grew up in the Midwest and works as a digital media copywriter. His past creative pursuits include writing/directing two short films, including one that premiered at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City. He graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing and is working on a novel series based on his graduate thesis. Amy Veach received her M.F.A. from the City College of New York where she won the Doris Lippman Prize in Creative Writing. When not writing, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two-year old son.
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Rapunzel
RapunzelThe Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan PoeThe Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Camila
CamilaThe Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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For Some Reason
For Some ReasonThe Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Nothing More to Say
Nothing More to SayThe Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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The Sum of Our Dreams (1972)
The Sum of Our Dreams (1972)The Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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2/7/17 (5th Ave.
2/7/17 (5th Ave.The Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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At the Mercy of a Melody
At the Mercy of a MelodyThe Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Blue Dove
Blue DoveThe Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Novel by Arthur Rimbaud (translated by Wyatt Mason)
Novel by Arthur Rimbaud (translated by Wyatt Mason)The Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Needing You
Needing YouThe Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Moment 2 Moment
Moment 2 MomentThe Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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In Previous Observations of the Rain
In Previous Observations of the RainThe Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Ms. Night
Ms. NightThe Less Gone is an album about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Rapunzel
RapunzelThe Less Gone is about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan PoeThe Less Gone is about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Camila
CamilaThe Less Gone is about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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For Some Reason
For Some ReasonThe Less Gone is about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Nothing More To Say
Nothing More To SayThe Less Gone is about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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the sum of our dreams (1972)
the sum of our dreams (1972)The Less Gone is about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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gray afternoon on 5th Avenue
gray afternoon on 5th AvenueThe Less Gone is about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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At the Mercy of a Melody
At the Mercy of a MelodyThe Less Gone is about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Blue Dove
Blue DoveThe Less Gone is about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Novel by Arthur Rimbaud (translated by Wyatt Mason)
Novel by Arthur Rimbaud (translated by Wyatt Mason)The Less Gone is about the contradiction of experiencing freedom through desire and deciphering identity within memory.
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Show Do Tell: Judith Lee Herbert, Claire Zajdel & Daniel Braum
Show Do Tell: Judith Lee Herbert, Claire Zajdel & Daniel BraumJudith Lee Herbert’s chapbook Songbird, published by Kelsay Books, was a finalist in the Blue Light 2017 Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared in Bards Annual, Before the Dawn, NCPLS Review, LIQ, These Fragile Lilacs, First Literary Review East, Mothering in the Middle, and The Ekphrastic Review. Her poems placed 2nd in the Mid-Island Y 2018 Contest and Honorable Mention in the NCPLS 2018 Contest. DANIEL BRAUM is the New York based author of the short story collections The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales (Cemetery Dance), The Wish Mechanics: Stories of the Strange and Fantastic (Independent Legions 2017) and the chapbook Yeti Tiger Dragon (Dim Shores 2016). His third collection, Underworld Dreams is forthcoming from Lethe Press. The Serpent’s Shadow, is his first novel. He is the editor of the Spirits Unwrapped anthology from Lethe Press (October 2019) and the host and founder of the Night Time Logic reading series in New York City. Claire Zajdel is a writer originally from the Chicago area. She is mostly a playwright. Her plays have been produced or developed at 59E59, Dixon Place, Theater for a New City, The Hudson Theatre Guild, and more. Her writing has also been in Breadcrumbs Magazine, Fringebiscuit Magazine and more. She is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts' Dramatic Writing program.
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in previous observations of the rain (demo)
in previous observations of the rain (demo)new song demo. lyrics: In Previous Observations of the Rain In previous observations of the rain You were staring out the schoolhouse window One drop amid the millions of Children learning what puddles know But you could make yourself a weapon And pretend it never happened Your clenched white fist squeezing Secrets of the metropolis The divinity of an altar boy life Sold out under that street-light One more of the mutilated In a Judas kiss In previous observations of the rain It was dripping down your windshield Disconnected pieces in the puzzle of ice Sink to join a melting family You wanted to be more responsible Adult and exploitable Your bleeding eyes scanning A blackened notepad page Thirty-one and adolescent Bargaining with the man in his obsolescence A complaint from offstage Where you barely break minimum wage In previous observations of the rain It pounded upon the stained glass Your head was bowed against the pew Pondering proper repentance for the past You wanted to think for yourself Pull the narrative from the priest’s mouth For your tongue no longer tastes The body of Christ Playoff Sunday and home-field advantage Family, loyalty and brain damage Long middle-class nights when Silence was God’s advice
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Show Do Tell: Brendan Lorber, Aida Zilelian, Matthew Thorburn
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The Dead _ excerpt from James Joyce's novella _
The Dead _ excerpt from James Joyce's novella _I recorded this many years ago. Dubliners had an enormous impact on my life.
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Iceman _ cover of a song by Bruce Springsteen _
Iceman _ cover of a song by Bruce Springsteen _I am the Iceman.
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For Some Reason (special early album single)
For Some Reason (special early album single)The Less Gone: The second album from Matt Waters. November 27th, 2019.
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Show Do Tell: Christine Kandic Torres, Stephanie Laterza & Kay Gram
Show Do Tell: Christine Kandic Torres, Stephanie Laterza & Kay GramThe August edition of the Show Do Tell Reading Series! Featuring: Kay Gram is a writer and editor based in NYC. Her work has been named a 2017 Best of the Net finalist and as a semifinalist for both the Fourth Annual TAR Chapbook Series and the Gazing Grain Press 2018 All-Genre Chapbook Contest. She is currently at work on a memoir about mental and physical illness, family, and the balance between holding on and letting go. For fun, she also writes fiction. Find her online at http://kaygram.com. Stephanie Laterza is a writer and attorney from Brooklyn, NY. Stephanie is the author of poetry chapbook, The Psyche Trials, (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and a 2018 SU-CASA award recipient from the Brooklyn Arts Council. She holds a B.A. in English from Fordham College at Lincoln Center and a J.D. from New England Law School in Boston. Stephanie’s work has appeared in L'Éphémère Review, First Literary Review-East, Ovunque Siamo, Literary Mama, Akashic Books, A Gathering of the Tribes, Newtown Literary, The Nottingham Review, Obra/Artifact, Latina Outsiders: Remaking Latina Identity (Routledge, 2019), Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing, Raising Mothers, and elsewhere. Follow Stephanie on Instagram @stef3rd. Christine Kandic Torres is a writer from Queens, New York. Her Pushcart Prize-nominated fiction has appeared in Kweli, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Newtown Literary. Her non-fiction can be found online at Ravishly, On She Goes, Fierce by mitú, and in the print anthology States of the Union, for which her piece, “The Devil We Know,” won the Editor’s Choice Award. Her work has received support from the Jerome Foundation and Hedgebrook. She is online at ChristineKTorres.com and Twitter @christinemk.
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Needing You
Needing You
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Show Do Tell Reading Series: Ivan Anderson, Linda Kleinbub & Hani Omar Khalil
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Nothing More to Say
Nothing More to SayNothing More To Say I start romantic And end up angry You know my favorite tricks Except when I pick up a pen It makes me myself I’m not in this game for kicks But I feel lost in time And my years don’t rhyme Under contract to my dreams Strumming an acoustic guitar While they talk at the bar Rewriting the same scenes And there’s nothing more to say But I love you Nothing more to do But touch your hair Nothing more to be Than tomorrow’s memory Of the stolen time We were able to share Reality is hitting And I feel partial to quitting This need like nicotine A one-minute snippet And courtesy-likes given The conveyer belt of morphine I wanted you to miss me But you goodbye kissed me When we met on the Brooklyn Bridge Outside our lady of good counsel You said he moonlights as a bouncer To afford music lessons for your kids And there’s nothing you can say But it’s over Nothing more to do But let go of my hand Nowhere else to be For any epiphany That’d provide the clarity Two dreamers need to understand God I wish I could leave this city But it’s where I happened to be born If only I knew How hard it’d be to stop loving you I never would have leaned on you When I was down And out
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Show Do Tell: Morgan Pile, Amy Barone & Anton Yakovlev
Show Do Tell: Morgan Pile, Amy Barone & Anton YakovlevThe June edition of the Show Do Tell Reading Series! Thanks for listening.
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Happens to the Heart -- cover of a song by Leonard Cohen
Happens to the Heart -- cover of a song by Leonard CohenHAPPENS TO THE HEART by Leonard Cohen I was always working steady But I never called it art I was funding my depression Meeting Jesus reading Marx Sure it failed my little fire But it's bright the dying spark Go tell the young messiah What happens to the heart There’s a mist of summer kisses Where I tried to double-park The rivalry was vicious And the women were in charge It was nothing, it was business But it left an ugly mark So I’ve come here to revisit What happens to the heart I was selling holy trinkets I was dressing kind of sharp Had a pussy in the kitchen And a panther in the yard In the prison of the gifted I was friendly with the guard So I never had to witness What happens to the heart I should have seen it coming You could say I wrote the chart Just to look at her was trouble It was trouble from the start Sure we played a stunning couple But I never liked the part It ain’t pretty, it ain’t subtle What happens to the heart Now the angel’s got a fiddle And the devil’s got a harp Every soul is like a minnow Every mind is like a shark I've opened every window But the house, the house is dark Just say Uncle, then it's simple What happens to the heart I was always working steady But I never called it art The slaves were there already The singers chained and charred Now the arc of justice bending And the injured soon to march I lost my job defending What happens to the heart I studied with this beggar He was filthy he was scarred By the claws of many women He had failed to disregard No fable here no lesson No singing meadow lark Just a filthy beggar blessing What happens to the heart I was always working steady But I never called it art I could lift, but nothing heavy Almost lost my union card I was handy with a rifle My father's 303 We fought for something final Not the right to disagree Sure it failed my little fire But it's bright the dying spark Go tell the young messiah What happens to the heart June 24, 2016
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Show Do Tell Reading Series: Laurie Stone, Gabriel Don, Rebekah Bergman
Show Do Tell Reading Series: Laurie Stone, Gabriel Don, Rebekah BergmanRebekah Bergman's fiction appears or is forthcoming in Joyland, Hobart, DIAGRAM, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Passages North, among other journals. She was a 2018 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference and a 2018 winner of The Masters Review Anthology Prize. She lives in Brooklyn and is at work on a novel. Read more at: rebekahbergman.com Gabriel Don is a multidisciplinary artist who works in a variety of mediums: a filmmaker, artist, photographer, musician and writer. She has been published in numerous online and print publications. She received her MFA in creative writing at The New School, where she worked as the Reading Series and Chapbook Competition Coordinator and currently teaches writing at BMCC. Her short stories are forthcoming in publications such as Gargoyle 70 and her poetry collection, Living Without Skin, was just released with A Gathering of The Tribes, Fly By Night Press. Born in Australia, raised in Singapore and Dubai, Don now resides in New York City. www.facebook.com/gabrieldoninnoparticularorder/ Laurie Stone is author most recently of My Life as an Animal, Stories. https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Animal-Stories-Triquarterly/dp/0810134284 She was a longtime writer for the Village Voice, theater critic for The Nation, and critic-at-large on Fresh Air. She won the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book Critics Circle and two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has published numerous stories in such publications as N + 1, Tin House, Evergreen Review, Fence, Open City, Anderbo, The Collagist, Your impossible Voice, New Letters, TriQuarterly, Threepenny Review, and Creative Nonfiction. In 2005, she participated in "Novel: An Installation," writing a book and living in a house designed by architects Salazar/Davis in the Flux Factory's gallery space. She is at work on Postcards from the Thing that is Happening, a collage of hybrid narratives. Her website is: lauriestonewriter.com.
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Show Do Tell Reading Series: Julia Lynn Rubin, Amanda Miller & Ron Kolm
Show Do Tell Reading Series: Julia Lynn Rubin, Amanda Miller & Ron KolmThe fourth edition of the Show Do Tell Reading Series featuring readings from Julia Lynn Rubin, Amanda Miller and Ron Kolm. Intermission entertainment: William Burroughs.
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Been Through
Been ThroughNew album-in-progress
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Around the Corner
Around the Corner
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Mad Dreams
Mad DreamsNew Song
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Show Do Tell Reading Series: Mary Newell, Michelle Sierra Laffitte, Lena Valencia
Show Do Tell Reading Series: Mary Newell, Michelle Sierra Laffitte, Lena ValenciaThe third meeting of a new literary series in which writers share and reflect upon their work. Michelle Sierra Laffitte is a Mexican-born writer, journalist and editor based in New York. Her fiction work has appeared in Joyland and Evergreen Review. Her non-fiction work has been published in magazines and outlets including Reuters.com, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, CNN, Expansión and MSNBC. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn. Lena Valencia's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in CRAFT, Joyland, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. She is the managing editor of One Story and has held positions at A Public Space and BOMB Magazine. From 2014 to 2017, she hosted the HiFi Reading Series in Manhattan. She has an MFA in fiction from The New School and is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant. Mary Newell lives in the lower Hudson Valley. Her chapbook, TILT/ HOVER/ VEER was recently published by Codhill Press in January 2019. Her poems were published in BlazeVox, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, Spoon River Poetry Review, Entropy, Hopper Literary Magazine, Earth’s Daughters, Written River, About Place, etc. She has also written reviews and essays, including “Shades of Melancholy: Darker Moods in Dickinson’s Poetry” in Melancholia: Hinge as Innominate Limina, by Will Alexander, Heller Levinson, and Mary Newell. Dr. Newell (MA Columbia, BA Berkeley) received a doctorate from Fordham University in American Literature and the Environment. She has taught literature and writing at Fordham University, West Point, and other colleges. She has a continuing interest in spiritual and ecological resonances.
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Show Do Tell Reading Series: Christina Connett Gonzalez, Jason Pfister, Bard Hovenga
Show Do Tell Reading Series: Christina Connett Gonzalez, Jason Pfister, Bard HovengaThe first edition of the Show Do Tell Reading Series at Otto's Shrunken Head in Alphabet City! The format is designed for writers to not only share their work -- but also their personal insight and philosophies into their fiction, poetry, or essays. Our first readers were Bard Hovenga, Jason Pfister, and Christiana Connett Gonzalez. The intermission programming for volume 1 is William Butler Yeats reading his poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,’ along with James Joyce reading from ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ in ‘Finnegans Wake,' one of the only surving pristine recordings of him reading his work. More about this recording from the Public Domain: "The recording was made in 1929 by C.K. Odgen in the studio of the Orthological Society in Cambridge. From account by Sylvia Beach: "How beautiful the "Anna Livia" recording is, and how amusing Joyce's rendering of an Irish washerwoman's brogue! This is a treasure we owe to C. K. Ogden and Basic English. Joyce, with his famous memory, must have known "Anna Livia" by heart. Nevertheless, he faltered at one place and, as in the Ulysses recording, they had to begin again. Ogden gave me both the first and second versions. Joyce gave me the immense sheets on which Ogden had had "Anna Livia" printed in huge type so that the author-his sight was growing dimmer-could read it without effort. I wondered where Mr. Ogden had got hold of such big type, until my friend Maurice Saillet, examining it, told me that the corresponding pages in the book had been photographed and much enlarged."
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Ruins _cover of a song by James Maddock_
Ruins _cover of a song by James Maddock_Piano and arrangement by Takeshi Ohtani.
