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The Sarcastic Dharma Society Answered:thanks for listening/watching/saying nice things, hope your worlds are happy and good and stuff!
all the love,
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The Jon Brion Show - Featuring Elliott Smith
apparently paul thomas anderson put together three episodes of a prospective variety show thing hosted by jon brion that never got picked up by anyone, which is really too bad, because i would love to see more of this. this is the first episode, and as far as i can figure the only one released. it’s the best elliott smith video i’ve ever seen. you need to watch it. he plays 9 songs, with jon brion accompanying on piano/guitar/harmonium/vibes/mellotron. my personal favorite moment, an awesome version of “Everything Means Nothing To Me”, starts around 14 minutes in with some seriously cool usage of the mellotron’s violin samples, which i happen to have been messing around with a bunch while recording this week. so cool.
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Permalink | Posted on Monday, April 15 at 5:40pmpretty much.
(Source: archive.picturesforsadchildren.com)
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society"My War"Sannyasa Songs (of Love)Plays: 163
story time:
i recorded this song on the floor of our bedroom during one particularly rainy portland afternoon.
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oh hay, i wrote a song.
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short song for the fickle-hearted romantic.
you guys ever “fall” for someone and then “unfall” for them later? what’s up with that? i mean, seriously, wtf?. also i wrote a song about it. thoughts?
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benigma67 Asked:
"Not a question. I'm a mixer of metaphors even if the metaphors in question aren't. What I wanted to say was that as a former struggling songwriter (now a retired musician and active psychiatrist) you are currently in one of those epic periods where almost everything you write is in some way worthwhile. milk it while it lasts. Ask Conor Oberst about that. It only lasts as long as you keep writing. If you stop the psell gets broken. Love your shit. My 19 year old daughter turned me on to it. Peace"
The Sarcastic Dharma Society Answered:well now i’m terrified. i actually think about this a lot. whenever i’m between songs or between projects, i usually feel creatively bankrupt until i randomly (hopefully, eventually) happen upon something else that i am capable of doing. like, if i manage to have an interesting thought, i’m usually pretty sure that it will be the last interesting thought i ever have—which is really scary, and often times debilitating. it all sort of ties in to this overwhelming fear of death that i have. if i wasn’t going to be so dead so soon i would be a lot less worried about it.
thank you so much for writing, and for listening, and thank you to your daughter! i think that is terribly good advice, both for myself and for just about everyone else trying to do anything at all, and yeah, conor oberst is a fantastic (sad) example of what you’re talking about.
i’m going to try really hard to milk this epic period for everything it’s worth—here’s hoping it’s not already too late.
all the love,
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Like a Villain"My Dog Ate It"Plays: 60
song about school. are you in school? you should listen to this song. have you been in school? you should listen to this song.
“…know you’re worth more than what you know you’re worth more than what you know you’re worth more than what you know you’re worth more than what you know you’re worth more than what you know…”
saw Like A Villain open for Mount Eerie last night. this song was the standout moment for the whole show. it was amazing things. particularly when the bass note comes in at 3:40, my heart just explodes. please listen to this band. best of bands. <3, -mat
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i can’t believe this was three years ago. man, i’m really freaking out about time this week.
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(do you wanna know the truth of it?)
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TW Walsh"Real Bad Dreams"Plays: 139
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twwalsh | (viatwwalsh)NEW SONG FEAT. FOUBERT & BAZAN
damn cool sounding new song from TW Walsh (of pedro the lion fame). sort of sounds like it could have been a sparklehorse thing with the feel of the vocal/guitar. it’s really good. i dig the slow build.
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inadiaryofwood replied to your post: David Bazan/The Sarcastic Dharma Society - Tour 2013 This was mean :(
i know! i’m sorry. way not funny. my bad. i will be better in the future. anything i can do to make it up to you?
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David Bazan/The Sarcastic Dharma Society - Tour 2013
sorry everyone! this was, in fact, a piece of april fool’s silliness. it’s not even really so much of a “joke” as it is a dream of a fantasy of the best thing i can imagine happening to me. also i spelled Denver wrong—sorry Denver. i don’t know david bazan at all, but i hold him in the highest of high regard, he’s a huge inspiration and i would be beyond excited if i some day got to play music with/for/in the same general vicinity as him. and the same goes for Mount Eerie, Advance Base, and Hop Along! the best music, guys. thank you all so much for being such good sports and for being excited by, rather than dismissive of, this totally amazing totally pretend tour. i promise to never again deceive you, and can’t wait to have real actual not fake news of a tour to share with you at some point in the future!
all of the love,
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Permalink | Posted on Monday, April 1 at 8:02pmi seriously cannot express to you how excited i am right now. holy shit. see you soon! <3, -mat
*update!*
sorry everyone! this was, in fact, a piece of april fool’s silliness. it’s not even really so much of a “joke” as it is a dream of a fantasy of the best thing i can imagine happening to me. also i spelled Denver wrong—sorry Denver. i don’t know david bazan at all, but i hold him in the highest of high regard, he’s a huge inspiration and i would be beyond excited if i some day got to play music with/for/in the same general vicinity as him. and the same goes for Mount Eerie, Advance Base, and Hop Along! the best music, guys. thank you all so much for being such good sports and for being excited by, rather than dismissive of, this totally amazing totally pretend tour. i promise to never again deceive you, and can’t wait to have real actual not fake news of a tour to share with you at some point in the future!all of the love,
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Permalink | Posted on Sunday, March 31 at 8:54pmi’m recording some musicy things this week. very excite. i’ll let you know what happens.
<3,
-mat
about:
Mat Vuksinich has been making music under the name The Sarcastic Dharma Society, both by himself and with the help of others, since 2003. They have released 5 albums, most recently "Sannyasa Songs (of Love)", a six song EP full of nostalgic minimalism and heartbreak, and "Other People's Songs (Volume One)", a collection of 10 covers, re-imagined versions of both well known and lesser known artists' songs. They can be found writing, recording, and regularly performing in the rainy city of Portland, Oregon.
"...some of the most delicate and honest songs you will ever hear"
"Vuksinich’s music, his wandering guitar pluckery, his emotionally-strained vocals, all a kind of raw honesty, an actual and accounted for integrity, that most modern music completely lacks."
"He makes his songs sound really good."
"Portland has become familiar with Vuksinich’s unabashedly frank, lovelorn lyrics and plucky guitar melodies that match his boyish exterior...the majority of songs appeal to the agonizing obsession of teenage love, but in a refreshingly candid and conversational way."
"It’s rare to find bands you would die to support, being ready to follow’em across the World for not particular reasons, if not for the love of their music and the vision of the World they fit in."
right now:
"Live (Volume Two: 2010-2012)"
01. What You Need
02. Empathy
03. 3am
04. Surrender To You
05. I'd Leave Me
06. Life In Moments
07. Never
08. Our Love
09. Crazy
10. This Fool
"Sannyasa Songs (of Love)"
a six song EP full of nostalgic minimalism and heartbreak. tiny songs for people of all sizes.
"Other People's Songs (Volume One)"
a collection of 10 covers, reimagined versions of both well known and lesser known artists' songs.
"This Is Me With A Piano And A Lot Of Love"
a small EP of previously released songs, rearranged for piano.
coming soon:
"Empathy"
10 songs about the love, regret, heartbreak, hope, and crushing sadness inside of us that we obsess over, while overlooking in others.
"Sannyasa Songs (of Death)"
following "Sannyasa Songs (of Love)", four song EP of orchestrated pop songs recorded between 2009 and 2012.
"Other People's Songs (Volume Two)"
followup to Volume One, second set of 10 cover songs.
"Duets With My Dad"
album of instrumental duets (guitar/mandolin) that i wrote/recorded with my dad.
