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Permalink | Posted on Monday, April 29 at 5:06pm
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ducklittlebrotherduck | (viaducklittlebrotherduck)Hey! Pre Order for our 7” No Spitting On Cats During Plague Time, is up. Go grab it. 10 of the first 50 orders will get a shirt.
http://www.friendsforliferecords.com/products/514300-duck-little-brother-duck-no-spitting-on-cats-during-plague-time-7-preorderyou can pre-order the new duck 7” now! i helped out a little bit recording this thing and (unrelated to that) it ended up sounding seriously solid. get hype. get the hype. go get it. -mat
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society"The Poison (by Pedro The Lion)"Other People's Songs (Volume One)Plays: 34
The Sarcastic Dharma Society
The Poison (by Pedro The Lion)
Other People’s Songs (Volume One)stream/download: here.
my old man always swore that hell would have no flame, just a front row seat to watch your true love pack her things
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society Answered:thank you! very nice to meet you.
love,
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society
Tonight Was A Disaster (by Casiotone For The Painfully Alone)
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society Answered:
thanks, man, i’m listening to your blanket ghost songs at http://bl00d0rphan.tumblr.com/ and they sound great—look forward to more.
love,
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Permalink | Posted on Tuesday, April 23 at 10:21amCouchella - A Music Festival Just For You, Internet
oh hay, this is happening right now. they’re calling it an internet music festival, but it’s probably more of a live youtube mixtape, at any rate they’re going to play a bunch of music that they like and also one of my songs at some point in the next couple hours. could be cool—watch it.
-mat
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Permalink | Posted on Saturday, April 20 at 12:26pm
the creative notion of her practice is so crucial.
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this week is a mess and it needs to go away now. ugh.
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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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Permalink | Posted on Monday, April 15 at 6:20pm
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: 172
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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Permalink | Posted on Saturday, April 13 at 11:30am
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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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.
