A Burning Ember to a Grove of Trees
Here we are, less than ten months after releasing our album Dust Among the Stars, with a surprise EP. It combines new recordings and previously released singles in one collection, most of which share a message of (cautious) optimism despite our current social calamities, and it was important to me to get this out before […]
In the End
[bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=1734092368 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small track=2536699433] The more of this noise that I perceive The harder it is for me to believe It’s too much with the hatred, it’s too much with the you-versus-me It’s too much of pretending the truth is too veiled to see It’s hard enough It’s hard […]
Score!
The independent superhero comedy Spaghettiman made its theatrical debut in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and is now available on VOD from all the places (iTunes, Amazon, etc). It’s about a self-centered, lazy, and generally repugnant slacker named Clark who gets the ability to shoot spaghetti out of his hands, then uses that ability to fleece […]
Film Scores, Inspiration, and Whatnot
I’ve had some conversations this week about inspiration, and finding yourself in unfamiliar artistic waters, and it reminded me of something I’d written earlier this year, but never got a chance to share. Infectious Magazine wanted me to write a guest piece about film scoring, and instead I gave them a shaggy dog story about […]
“Fields” Music Video
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy8fIbVTm2M] My folks were both raised in small, rural towns in Texas, but moved to Houston in the 1970s, where I was born. I spent my childhood, then, living in the suburbs and for holidays, summers, different events, shuttling back and forth out to farm and ranchland and towns too small for grocery stores. I […]
Upcoming Shows for May and June
We have three shows coming up as we head into summer. The first two are solo acoustic sets where I’ll be trying out some new things, and the full band performs at the Pig N Whistle in Hollywood again on Saturday, June 18th. Come on out to one of the shows, say hi, and help […]
All the References: Goodbye at the End of the World
We recently gave away a pair of autographed CDs over at the all-purpose geek-themed site Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together to people who correctly identified the most sci-fi and film references hidden in the animated video for our song Goodbye at the End of the World. But nobody was particularly close to getting all […]
The Couch Abides
A few weeks ago, Couch by Couchwest, the online music festival for everybody who couldn’t or didn’t want to go to South by Southwest, called it a day. They started in 2011, and they were recommended to me just before we released The Ghost of John Henry in 2012, so Sci-Fi Romance participated in every […]
“Goodbye at the End of the World” Process Blog
The music video for “Goodbye at the End of the World” was a pretty major undertaking for me. It is a four-plus minute, computer animated music video about an alien invasion and a couple whose relationship is on the rocks, but who try to save the world. It was written, designed, animated, and rendered by […]
If I Fell
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217706373″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] You took my hand, took me under your wing So smart, so funny, so perfect at everything All I thought I could never be Try to live up to what you see in me But sometimes the climb’s so steep The clouds shroud a peak out of reach […]