Remember when I was going to do a song every week of 2015? Whoops I only got through 14 so that didn’t happen… but this recording happened last week in Lake Tahoe! Crooked Teeth by Death Cab for Cutie – check it out!

I’m trying the New Year’s thing again (it’s already been a year?) this time with live performance. Kicking this year off with playing at my friend Caroline’s on the first Sunday of the year. Below is one of the songs I’ll play.

This is a song I pieced together after friend jam sessions in high school. For my first girlfriend’s birthday about how we first got together at an Amusement Park when I was too chicken shit to ride a rollercoaster.

Resurrected from the awkward angsty teenaged troves of my MySpace.

Dark and cold,
Could you tell this was the
Last place I wanted to be?
They even told me
That I’d love it so much still I refuse to believe.

I saw you standing solo
Under spotlight and ten tons of steel.
We had time, enough to kill.
My tongue was tied and that’s enough
To make a nervous boy feel like

I have no idea what to do,
Like I want to look real cool for you
And I’ll gladly stand by you.
I’ll gladly stand by you.

This park will close and
I can’t decide
I can’t decide
What do with my
Ten minutes of time staring out into night
Ten minutes of time in an empty line.

We have to leave this place and
Resolve uncertain ties
Over coaster rides.
But until then we’ll walk out the gate.
Give me your hand, you’re my new heartache.

I have no idea what to do,
Like I want to look real cool for you and
I’ll gladly stand by you.
I’ll gladly stand by you.

Check out the clouds slowly change in the background. Live acoustic version of Small Black’s Moon Killer, off the Moon Killer Mixtape released 11/11/11.

(For my New Year’s Resolution I am posting a new recording or photography to my site SixteenLetters.com every Thursday of 2015, which I started Thursday Jan. 1st, 2015. Subscribe to follow them as they come out.)

Video # 13 of 53 – Death Cab for Cutie – The Sound Of Settling. — 1st video recorded at the new apartment in Oakland.

(For my New Year’s Resolution I am posting a new recording to my site SixteenLetters.com every Thursday of 2015, which I started Thursday Jan. 1st, 2015. Subscribe to follow them all.)

Video #11 of 53. Recorded around the corner from the Longnow Foundation, San Francisco. Beautiful song by Chris Staples:

I want to tell you a story, the only way I can

I’m just replacing a man

Who came before me.

And one day the world will see

Another man replacing me

That’s just the way it’s got to be.

It’s always been that way.

On the Dark Side of the Moon.

 

I want to love you, I want to pass it on

I want to give, and give, until it’s all gone

I want to know you while we have the time,

Because it’s all I have to leave behind

On the Dark Side of the Moon.

Special thanks to Cat (who runs some intriguing projects at Longnow) for the hand with filming this week.

Enjoy “Dark Side of The Moon” by Chris Staples.

(For my New Year’s Resolution I am posting a new recording to my site SixteenLetters.com every Thursday of 2015, which I started Thursday Jan. 1st, 2015. Subscribe to follow them all.)

Another ultimate 80s jam favorite. Recorded with my new mini guitar, beautifully hand-crafted by a local artisan in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Recorded in Buriram. Special thanks to my cousins for pushing the record button and putting up with multiple takes (and a few English curse words). I say a few things in Thai at the end if you’re interested in what little Thai I’ve re-learned on the trip.

Week #8 of 53 for the New Year’s Resolution Thursdays videos on SixteenLetters.com.

Recorded on a swan paddle boat in the middle of the gorgeous Lumphini Park, Bangkok — “Norwegian Wood” by The Beatles.

Week #7 of 53 for the New Year’s Resolution Thursdays videos on SixteenLetters.com. — Enjoy my personal favorite Beatles tune.

Week #6 of 53 for the New Year’s Resolution Thursdays videos on SixteenLetters.com.

This week’s video is a seriously underrated 80s jam. Apparently they played the song at the Super Bowl? I must of been busy hanging around the guacamole.

Enjoy this different version of “Your Love”.

New Year’s Resolution 2015: Post a new video or photography to SixteenLetters.com every single Thursday of this year.

I’ve been doing this since Thursday January 1st, and today makes the 4th of 53 Thursdays.

Enjoy “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” – Death Cab for Cutie.

For my 2015 New Year’s Resolution, every week on Thursdays I’ll either be posting a new song to YouTube or publishing new photography to my site SixteenLetters.com through this year.

It’s the 3rd straight week of the 2015 New Year’s Resolution videos & photography: This week video is from a band that was had an mind-blowing first album, legit second, and questionable follow ups since. I still have a soft spot for this high school Coldplay classic (despite The 40 Year Old Virgin movie references)… enjoy and share!

For my 2015 New Year’s Resolution, every week on Thursdays I’ll either be posting a new song to YouTube or publishing new photography to my site SixteenLetters.com through this year.

Hope you liked last week’s video. This week’s is a cover of one of my favorite Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs — enjoy and share!