Cubicle Songs Episode 1!
Tune in every Wednesday at 1pm for more guests, more tunes, and general office shenanigans.
Keywords for next week:
- flagpole
- shipping department
- fired
- rambling
- awesomeness
Terror, greed, betrayal, forgiveness and hope — in weekly doses
Check out my friend’s blog. He’s a really talented writer and he’s serializing one of his novels on this Tumblr blog. Enjoy!
Set in New York City just before and after 9/11, “Stand Together, Fall Apart” tells the story of the ill-fated friendship between John Marion, a teenage drug dealer, and Horace “Ace” Mejeur, the Wall Street professional who believes he can reform John.
The book description above only mentions 9/11 in passing. That’s because this is not a 9/11 novel per se. Except that it is.
Cubicle Songs Episode 1!
Tune in every Wednesday at 1pm for more guests, more tunes, and general office shenanigans.
New Web TV Show!
Sorry for not writing to you for a little while. It’s been a busy bunch of weeks here, but full of good things. Writing new songs, booking gigs (Rockwood Music Hall on July 29th is up next) and planning a wedding. Yup. I’m getting married this fall! So, like I said, busy bunch of weeks…
And I am really pleased to announce the debut of one of the new projects I’ve been working on. It’s a Web TV show and the debut episode is TODAY:
Cubicle Songs
The World’s Smallest Office-Based Music Talk Show
When: Today at 1pm EDT
Where: http://www.cubiclesongs.com
Special Guest: Bucky Hayes
What?!: Cubicle Songs is your official lunch-break music talk show. Each week, I play a song and then invite a different singer/songwriter to share a song of theirs. We do a mini talk show style interview, play a cover song together, and then it’s time to get back to work. Best of all, we shoot the show live in an actual office space because, let’s face it, most office cubicles could use a little more creativity!
Our first guest is the one and only Bucky Hayes and, in addition to the musical highlights, you can learn more about the intimate relationship between Bob Dylan and cheese. Tune in at 1pm EDT at http://www.cubiclesongs.com to find out what the heck I’m talking about. The show airs every week at 1pm EDT on Wednesdays and we’ll archive the shows on Friday.
Tell your friends and give us your feedback. Guests you’d like to see? Songs you want to hear? Hit us up!
http://twitter.com/cubiclesongs
Love,
Matt Lenny / The Elm City Council
Check out this interesting article about lying vs. storytelling. I’d seen/heard the concept before, but interesting details about how “confabulating” works and how compulsive lying works. Might be an interesting way to approach songwriting…just start “lying”, as it were and pile on the details as if I were being interrogated and then work backward to construct the narrative story that this character has suddenly constructed.
This is awesome. I don’t know if any of you read Bob Lefsetz’s email newsletter, but he’s nothing if not opinionated. Sometimes reading it feels like a breath of fresh air, but sometimes it definitely feels like listening to the loud guy at the bar who’s had one too many and thinks he has the answer to everything. I think this article sums it up pretty well…
Beautiful song and video from a guy I’ve known since I was 5. Incredible talent and good guy! Check it out.
Featured in Skope mag. today, my video for Swung On A Swing -
- The video was recorded live in one take during a documentary shoot last October. Jonny and filmmaker Kevin Kelley of Shoot Shoot Studios were travelling along the Connecticut coast filming in abandoned greenhouses when they had to seek shelter from a storm in this coastal pergola. On a whim, before heading home, they decided to record this version of Jonny’s song “Swung on a Swing”… MORE
How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
It’s an obscure number… you probably never heard of it.
Awesome.
(Source: zenofawesome)
Some awesome photos from last night’s show courtesy of our dear friend and fabulous photographer, Adam Lerner.
