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Hi Everyone,
So I promised myself I would do this. I promised myself I would release the new “Fascist Cat Fancier” single tonight. But then I got distracted. I got a call. I had dinner. I watched Anderson Cooper. I fell asleep. Now, today, many days — at least a week — after having been recorded I’m finally releasing it. Here it is in all its glory. It’s called “Fake your own death.”
Here is a new song. It’s not quite done.
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Originally uploaded by little drawings
hi everyone,
i’m just posting to say i love this drawing. this could be artwork for the “the city”–a song I wrote a long time ago but never released. “the city” was supposed to be the basis for an entire album on which many of the songs i have released subsequently have been based. since i am in archive mode, i will probably did up “city” and post it here fairly shortly for your listening pleasure.
later,
rk thornwell
This isn’t a new, new song, but is, instead, a song from last spring. I will probably redo it when I get to Machine With Magnets.
MP3: R. K. Thornwell - Marshall Street (192kbps)
Love,
RK
MP3: R. K. Thornwell - Holiday (192kps)
Later,
RK
Eye In The Sky is this week’s little opus. It’s got a vaguely Peter Hammill-ish feel to it. The weather here was beautiful until it turned yesterday and started pouring and hasn’t stopped since. People have been writing me nice things through myspace. Thanks for that.
MP3: R. K. Thornwell - Eye In The Sky (192kbps)
Yours in rock,
RK Thornwell
Snow is coming down on the street. It’s a wonderful sight. Hard to believe it’s January 22nd and this is our first snow of the year. It’s just so calm outside. The snow is clean and powdery and it’s winter break so there aren’t too many kids hanging around. Everything’s going really well. Today, I had lunch with myself at Tazza and wrote down some ideas. Just like old times. Yesterday, I posted a new song called “On Trial.” I’m putting together artwork for it. I am going to be going back over the whole catalog and re-arranging songs, adding artwork where there is none, changing art that I don’t like, etc. A lot of my concerns have to do with titling–six months later do I like the font I chose? A handful are really great. I’m also going back over the songs for second passes. I’ll draw up a list of things to change, or I’ll realize that there’s something in the vaults that never really made it out to you guys, the listeners. There are a couple finished songs, things that I would really like to see in the podcast that for one reason or another just never made it. Bizarre. The are a bunch of songs from the early part of last year–from before the podcast–that never got a proper internet release. All this clerical stuff and still I’m writing new material. Some stuff got sent out under the name The Vanguard, my theoretical rock band with luminaries such as Eli Castle, Winchester (Jed) Philips, to name a few. Best to all, RK
This is a weird little number I came up with.
I am a junkie for lotsofnoise.com. They’ve got the listings that keep me going. I just woke up. At 11PM it’s 5AM in Paris. I just got back from a quick Europe tour. Zurich, Paris, Milan, London, Geneva. I’m bought lots of suits in Paris. I’m ordering supplies. I seem to not be getting any new friends. I’ll have to look into that. Some people don’t know, I’ve got a podcast at rkthornwell.podomatic.com.
Keep it,
RK
Hi,
What a thing to wake up to! It seems mp3.com has featured me on their front page. You can get the same tracks there that you can get here. (And you can vote.)
Get to the front page by going to http://www.mp3.com/ or you can go directly to my page here.
RK
