I taught myself guitar at age 16 with a Mel Bay book and immediately started writing songs. I haven’t stopped (for better or worse). i love the act of writing and recording.
NO IDENTIFIERS (album 2023) - common themes: death, destruction liminality, and various stripes of egomania
1. We Are Out of Time 2. That Sinking Feeling 3. Catastrophe Season 4. Low Light 5. Pure Failure 6. So It Goes 7. Sinkhole 8. How Was the Film? 9. I'm Never Ever Going Back 10. Wish We Still Were Friends 11. I'm Finally Free
OBLIVION - 18 songs from 2021 and 2022. these are all orphans and/or abandoned b/c I just couldn’t get them right
1. I Don’t Know 2. You’re The One 3. Wildfire Pinot 4. Sign Here and Here 5. Once We Crawled Now We Fly 6. Go 7. I Can Finally Sleep 8. Rivers of Blood 9. I Forget Just How We Met 10. Taunted & Haunted 11. Damage Assessor 12. Was it me? Was I There? 13. Song from the Floor 14. I’ve Been Waiting So Long For You 15. The White Witch 16. Until There’s No More Blue in the Sky 17. Coming for the Kill 18. Meet Me in the Field Under the Tree Where We Once Lay
50 SONGS - written during quarantine, March/April/May of 2020, the first months of Covid-19 isolation. My goal was to do a song a day but some days got away from me and it took longer. Many of these are loose as hell, written on the spot or near the spot. I had no agenda content wise, just following what held my attention that day. common themes: unrequited affection, aging, social media, idiocy, cats.
song titles are quarantine #1 - quarantine #50
PLAYLIST OF 14 DIFFERENT SETS AND ALBUMS - ranging from 2011-1993. Click on the playlist button below
1) I’M SO SCARED (4 SONGS, 2011)
2) SOMETHING SMALL (12 SONGS, 1999)
3) SIX LAME SONGS (1998)
4) UNDERGROUND (5 SONGS, 1997)
5) GREENLIGHTS (10 SONGS, 1997)
6) BP MIX TAPE (14 SONGS, 1997)
7) ALL ELSE BUT YOU (14 SONGS, 1997)
8) THE GLASS GARDEN (13 SONGS, 1996)
9) THE TWILIGHT STARS HELD ME DOWN AND CHOKED ME (8 SONGS, 1995-1996)
10) BEVERLY HOUSE SONGS (8 SONGS, 1994)
11) SIX SONGS (1994)
12) BLAPPIE SESSIONS (7 SONGS, 1994)
13) BP HITS (5 SONGS, 1994)
14) BP SOLO (16 SONGS, 1993)
THE TAFFY MCKITTRICK SONGBOOK - Circa 2009 I thought it would be funny (though I was advised it wasn’t) to create a character named Taffy McKittrick, a self-consumed singer/songwriter who generated endless rivers of dubious content but was also very high on his own supply. I ended this project after Margaret (my artistic steward) noted that all the energy I was using toward Taffy was detracting/excusing me from directing my own scripts. She was right (although looking back the possibility that she was looking for any way to stop having to listen to these songs may have been a contributor to her counsel here.) Two different playlists below. common themes: ?
PLAYLIST ONE (24 SONGS): 1. Get in my Van! 2. Sad, Sad, Sad 3. Swine Flu Blues 4. It’s Friday M*therfucker! 5 Good Mornin’ Lady! 6. Sunburstin’ Love 7. I Don’t Want to Go To Work 8. Why Don’t You Like Me? 9. Hips on Hips 10. Wasteland: A Fevered Lovedream 11. Cuddle Me Ferocious 12. Step off Sara Roth 13. It’s a Two Flush Kind of Morning 14. Awful Falafel 15. Lesbian Christmas 16. See You Next Tuesday 17. 2 Chocolate Hearts 18. Sarah Palin: Au Revoir Angel & Bon Jour Heartache! 19. Here Come’s Taffy McKittrick! 20. Don’t Put That In Your Mouth (Toxic Popsicle) 21. My Bad A-Dog 22. Improvisation Song 1 23. I Ain’t Even Playing 24. Dark Monsters in the Complex.
PLAYLIST TWO (8 SONGS): 1. I Go Fruitcake 2. Beautiful Non-Aggressive Love 3. Pretty Please 4. Light in My Loafers 5. It’s the Pits 6. Baby What Do You Want? 7: The Unicorn Stampede. 8. Morning with the She-Yeti