December 28, 2011
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morning, all. wrote a new tune. hope you like. 

We Might Not Have To Die - Gobloots

We are that heart
we are that porch
that crushes all our burdens
and lightens our load.
where we poured out our demons
then they drank with us some
you sang one about your ex-wife while
I still sing about my mom.

the kitchen light is still shining on
and it’s still shining with a purpose
we can never fear
cos in the end
we’ve got the air all around us as a witness
there lies all that peace that we were promised.

it began
we ate from that tree
 its heaven and hell together 
its the way i think things were always meant.

just as we were born
so, the earth, above, below
you flow with a river
that was turned into road.

the kitchen light is still shining on
and it’s still shining with a purpose
we can never fear
cos in the end
i’ve got a bottlecap in my pocket as a witness
there lies all that peace that we were promised.

god or not
call it what you want
but it gave you a voice
it lets you do what you love
it might get you laid once or twice
it might find you true love
it could get you signed
its in that porch
its in that kitchen
with that sky turning morning.

the kitchen light is still shining on
and it’s still shining with a purpose
we can never fear
cos in the end
we’ve got our dirty fingernails here as a witness

somewhere lies all that peace that we were promised.
we’re singing you have to believe this
we might not have to die to hear it.

December 6, 2011
Gobloots - The Mix Tape

http://hi54lofirecords.bandcamp.com/album/gobloots-the-hi54lofi-records-mix-tape

Go ‘n’ check her out. If you like. Just sayin.’  :)

December 6, 2011
thedailywhat:

Plastic Surgeon’s Warning of the Day: Dr. Anthony Youn, a plastic surgeon who operates out of Metro Detroit, warns readers in a post on CNN’s health blog The Chart that smoking “can make your nipples fall off.”
He recounts a story he first told in his memoir, In Stitches, about a patient of his who was undergoing a breast lift, when her nipples suddenly turned purple. “Purple is the precursor to black,” he writes. “Black is the precursor to falling off.”
Dr. Youn explains that the nicotine in cigarettes, combined with the carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke, diminish blood flow, acting together “as a virtual tourniquet.”
To combat this effect, the surgery staff was forced to go “medieval,” and reach for their jar of leeches.
As a result of the aforementioned side-effects of smoking, insufficient blood supply causes veins to fail, leading to a “backup of old (venous) blood” around the affected body part. “We use leeches,” he says, “to literally suck out the excess venous blood from the body part, acting as an attachable vein.”
So if you’re a smoker and you’re going in for a breast lift or reduction, what do? “quit smoking at least one month before surgery and…stay off cigarettes for at least a month afterward.”
Or, you know, forever. 
[cnnhealth.]

Ew.

thedailywhat:

Plastic Surgeon’s Warning of the Day: Dr. Anthony Youn, a plastic surgeon who operates out of Metro Detroit, warns readers in a post on CNN’s health blog The Chart that smoking “can make your nipples fall off.”

He recounts a story he first told in his memoir, In Stitches, about a patient of his who was undergoing a breast lift, when her nipples suddenly turned purple. “Purple is the precursor to black,” he writes. “Black is the precursor to falling off.”

Dr. Youn explains that the nicotine in cigarettes, combined with the carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke, diminish blood flow, acting together “as a virtual tourniquet.”

To combat this effect, the surgery staff was forced to go “medieval,” and reach for their jar of leeches.

As a result of the aforementioned side-effects of smoking, insufficient blood supply causes veins to fail, leading to a “backup of old (venous) blood” around the affected body part. “We use leeches,” he says, “to literally suck out the excess venous blood from the body part, acting as an attachable vein.”

So if you’re a smoker and you’re going in for a breast lift or reduction, what do? “quit smoking at least one month before surgery and…stay off cigarettes for at least a month afterward.”

Or, you know, forever. 

[cnnhealth.]

Ew.

December 6, 2011
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My good friend Jeremy did a fine job creating a Gobloots mixtape for his blog, hi 5 4 lo fi records.  Included is a mixtape, a Q&A featuring yours truly, and just the kindest words from Jeremy. Enjoy.

hi54lofi:

Gobloots is one of the finest songwriters I have ever come across, and like a lot of the great songwriters, he’s also not known as well as he should be. Whether it be heartbreaking tales about a coach’s inappropriate relationship with his students, a poignant lesbian love song, or just capturing what it feels like to get shit faced and lost, in a world that seems filled with the shit faced and lost, Gobloots does it better than most. Each song of his is a slice of pie more American than that apple kind.

And that is why I put together a mix tape featuring some of his finest work (including this beauty of a track). It is being released as two 20+ minutes sides of unlimited digital vinyl, over on HI54LOFI RECORDS. For free. In the hopes that we can turn a few more people on to the overlooked gem that Alex is. 

And besides you copping that mix tape for free (which comes with PDF liner notes), I also highly suggest you check out the Q&A I did with Alex. It is a good one, this being just a small sample of his answer to the ‘thoughts on America’ question:

America can be something of a social network soap opera donkey variety show. Everyone’s watching. Someone’s getting fucked and someone is doing the fucking. There’s some music during and in between. People are drinking and making jokes. People are losing, as well as benefitting or profiting. Everyone’s enraged and titillated and entertained and intrigued and scarred and let down. They’re throwing bibles at it, throwing money at it, while others demand their money back.

Read the full Q&A here. Listen / Download the full mix tape here. Go ‘Like’ Gobloots on Facebook here.

November 7, 2011

November 3, 2011
snipes dream.

snipes dream.

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October 29, 2011
erinmargaret:

“You make me come out of my shell, shelly,you give me strength where there was only fear.I ate at a burger king today, shelly, and stood up to a boy who called me queer.When you pushed me off the diving board I fell.And you make the world a nicer place, shelly,so i can come out of my shell.”

Larry’s song for Shelly could be a Daniel Johnston song. 

erinmargaret:

“You make me come out of my shell, shelly,
you give me strength where there was only fear.
I ate at a burger king today, shelly, and stood up to a boy who called me queer.
When you pushed me off the diving board I fell.
And you make the world a nicer place, shelly,
so i can come out of my shell.”

Larry’s song for Shelly could be a Daniel Johnston song. 

October 27, 2011
hoganhere:

Hank Aaron, gunning for the Babe’s record — this here olde Atlanta photo is for themightyflynn.  Thanks to my hot single mom dating a sheet-metal contractor with dug-out level season tickets, my brother and I got to go to almost all the Braves games leading up to the 744th home run.  It was a fever time in ATL.  
I was 7 or 8, and my brother was a year younger and yeah we liked Braves baseball for sure and we LOVED Hank Aaron, but I won’t lie — our attention spans were pretty thin at the time, and our favorite thing to do was run around Atlanta Stadium in a circle and then sneak through the entrance to the bleachers by Chief Knockahoma’s tee-pee and try to catch a glimpse of him in his “lair…”  We swear we saw him smoking cigarettes and watching t.v. in there.

“Thanks to my hot single mom…”

hoganhere:

Hank Aaron, gunning for the Babe’s record — this here olde Atlanta photo is for themightyflynn.  Thanks to my hot single mom dating a sheet-metal contractor with dug-out level season tickets, my brother and I got to go to almost all the Braves games leading up to the 744th home run.  It was a fever time in ATL.  

I was 7 or 8, and my brother was a year younger and yeah we liked Braves baseball for sure and we LOVED Hank Aaron, but I won’t lie — our attention spans were pretty thin at the time, and our favorite thing to do was run around Atlanta Stadium in a circle and then sneak through the entrance to the bleachers by Chief Knockahoma’s tee-pee and try to catch a glimpse of him in his “lair…”  We swear we saw him smoking cigarettes and watching t.v. in there.

“Thanks to my hot single mom…”

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October 25, 2011
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apresmoicyka:

Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines

 he wrote a poem

and he called it “chops”

because that was the name of his dog

and thats what it was all about

his teacher gave him an A

and a gold star

and his mother hung it on the kitchen door

and read it to his aunts.

That was the year Father Tracy

took all the kids to the zoo

and he let them sing on the bus

and his little sister was born

with tiny nails and no hair

and his mother and father kissed alot

and the girl around the corner sent him a

Valentine signed with a row of X’s

and he had to ask his father what the X’s meant

and his father always tucked him in bed at night

and was always there to do it.

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Seems like Tom Waits could have read Charlie’s poem from Perks Of Being A Wallflower, over some sad and/or creepy background arrangement, and released it on Orphans. 

October 24, 2011

Anonymous asked: Thumb and fingers flexing madly

…Straining to keep aloft the leaden realities of life. Ignorance, death and madness. Thus we create for ourselves the illusion that we have power, that we are in control. That we are loved.” - B.F. Pierce

October 23, 2011
This is how I spent the first part of my Rapture. Hungover on the radio. It went over well. Mr. James Mills on the fiddle.

This is how I spent the first part of my Rapture. Hungover on the radio. It went over well. Mr. James Mills on the fiddle.

October 21, 2011
ixnay on the ustream.

still webcasting from the radio site. kwva U of Oregon. bye.

October 21, 2011
Hey everyone, I’ll be performing on 88.1 KWVA today at 3pm with my good friend Mr. James Reese Mills…I’ll be doing a “HAPPY RAPTURE DAY” set featuring both Gobloots & The Harmed Brothers tunes, getting ready for tonight’s big show at The Campbell Club…Alder Street All Stars, Fruition, Willa Metty & The Greasy Strings, and The Harmed Brothers. Tune in. Thinking of streaming it on ustream.tv. Have fun!

The livestream can hopefully be caught on my tumblr.

IN event of rapture, pick a buddy and start fuckin.

October 20, 2011
The Colbert pose, brought out for a very important day.

The Colbert pose, brought out for a very important day.

October 14, 2011
uprightcitizens:

uprightcitizens:

Debate and Switch (2011) — Nick Apponetta (Bill Hader) is a politics geek of the highest rank. He’s also the runaway star of GlobeWeekly, a satirical political sketch show on which he’s best known for his wildly acclaimed impersonation of sleazy, motormouthed vice-presidential candidate Senator Wes Williams (Bill Hader), whom he just happens to look exactly like. But Nick has always dreamed of getting into politics for real — and while he sticks to the show’s claim that “we just make fun of the news, we don’t make it,” he still yearns for campaign buses, VFW fundraisers, and town hall debates. So when Senator Williams appears on GlobeWeekly for a sneaker-upper sketch and jokes backstage that he and Nick should just switch places for the rest of the campaign, Nick immediately jumps on board with the idea. The plan goes off without a hitch initially: Nick uses his surprisingly deep knowledge of current affairs to actually win the VP debate, while Senator Williams isn’t too lame a hand in the GlobeWeekly writers room. They manage to fool each others’ significant others (though Williams throws a hitch into the plan when he proposes to the girl Nick had planned to break up with), and even presidential candidate Governor Bob Beaumont (Paul Giamatti) believes their ruse. But two people aren’t buying the act — GlobeWeekly head writer Janet Campbell (Parker Posey) and Willams’ speechwriter, razor-sharp Harvard grad Zooey Fareedi (Nasim Pedrad). And when their scheme begins to unravel, thanks to a nosy New York Times reporter (Elijah Wood), there’s no telling what will happen…

I still wish this was a real movie, you guys.

Debate and switch. This shit would sell. In money and pure social comedy gold.

uprightcitizens:

uprightcitizens:

Debate and Switch (2011)Nick Apponetta (Bill Hader) is a politics geek of the highest rank. He’s also the runaway star of GlobeWeekly, a satirical political sketch show on which he’s best known for his wildly acclaimed impersonation of sleazy, motormouthed vice-presidential candidate Senator Wes Williams (Bill Hader), whom he just happens to look exactly like. But Nick has always dreamed of getting into politics for real — and while he sticks to the show’s claim that “we just make fun of the news, we don’t make it,” he still yearns for campaign buses, VFW fundraisers, and town hall debates. So when Senator Williams appears on GlobeWeekly for a sneaker-upper sketch and jokes backstage that he and Nick should just switch places for the rest of the campaign, Nick immediately jumps on board with the idea. The plan goes off without a hitch initially: Nick uses his surprisingly deep knowledge of current affairs to actually win the VP debate, while Senator Williams isn’t too lame a hand in the GlobeWeekly writers room. They manage to fool each others’ significant others (though Williams throws a hitch into the plan when he proposes to the girl Nick had planned to break up with), and even presidential candidate Governor Bob Beaumont (Paul Giamatti) believes their ruse. But two people aren’t buying the act — GlobeWeekly head writer Janet Campbell (Parker Posey) and Willams’ speechwriter, razor-sharp Harvard grad Zooey Fareedi (Nasim Pedrad). And when their scheme begins to unravel, thanks to a nosy New York Times reporter (Elijah Wood), there’s no telling what will happen…

I still wish this was a real movie, you guys.

Debate and switch. This shit would sell. In money and pure social comedy gold.

(Source: lizdexia, via lizdexia)

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