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The Sarcastic Dharma Society"Simeon's Dilemma (by WHY?)"Other People's Songs (Volume One)Plays: 765
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Simeon’s Dillema (by WHY?)
Other People’s Songs (Volume One)stream/download for free: here.
you’re the only proper noun i need
This is how you cover a fucking Why? song….
wow.
ooohhhhh myyy ggooodddddd what the fuck this cover!!! i want to listen to it forever and ever. i can’t even bring myself to reblog this because it means i have to stop pressing play every time the audio file stops. install this in my ears for always.
reblogging myself on behalf of more tumblr notes/plays than i’ve ever seen on something that i made. thanks everybody for sharing stuff, it’s seriously the weirdest and most amazing feeling ever that i have no idea how to express with words. please keep doing that. also, how is it that WHY? is as amazing as they are? holy hell i love that band. (also also, i was 20 when i recorded this and now i’m 25 and what the fuck life.)
all of the love,
-mat(Source: my-baby-smokes)
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society"Life In Moments"Live At Winter Wasteland in Portland, OR (12.08.11)Plays: 110
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“Life In Moments”
Live at Winter Wasteland in Portland OR (12.08.11)download the mp3: here.
“I have lost all of the love I have been given, and so I’m more frightened than happy that you have arrived. Don’t take this the wrong way, but I want you to go away, ‘cuz I’ve never felt this way, but that’s what I always say. And just like a high school play, our words are so trite and lame, and though there is love on this page, our scene ends with loss and pain. You will not love my forever and I will not deserve that love ever. You know I ‘wanna try, but I know it isn’t wise, and you will regret me, so please just forget me.
Or, if you want, you can stay. And, if you want, we can get married. But, if you want to, then say, because I need to be carried. And I will mess up, like I always mess up, and you will regret me, so please just forget me. But, if you stay, I won’t go, and I’ll forget what I know of our hearts and our souls, how they change and we grow, and I’ll give my life to the love in my life, and I truly love you, but, truly, love will disappoint you.
I know that all things must pass, but I don’t think I care what happens last. I want you now. I want you. Now. Hold me while I’m here—a life in moments, and not years. I’ll hold you while you’re near—we won’t have long to love, I fear.”
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thegatsbysslewofchoices | (viathegatsbysslewofchoices)And I crawl into bed when I’m not even tired
and pretend it’s five hours from now
and you’re calling to say that you’re on your way.And I will be here when you walk through the door.
I will come running from out, from wherever I’m hiding to say
I know that you’ve had a long day.But, these are our lives and these are our good times
and I love my life.
I can’t believe that it’s mine.Hold my hand and feel my body.
Forget that I’m sorry.
Just know that I’m warm.Mat Vuksinich is seriously one of the most beautiful human beings on Earth. I honestly believe that.
(<3, thanks for listening. -mat)
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society"Moving On"Sannyasa Songs (of Love)Plays: 49
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your oh so tired eyes falling asleep on me. the movie on pause while i wait when you have to go pee. will i forget these things and be happy? i should have known something that great would eventually leave. telling you what you said in your sleep. listening to your stuffy nose breathe. the way you burnt yourself on every cup of tea. the moments apart when i knew you were thinking of me. will i forget these things and be happy? i guess i knew something that great would eventually leave.
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society - “This Fool”
everything that we will ever do
is everything that we have ever done
everything that i will ever say
i’ll say with this songthat what i wanted for you and me
and what happened to you and to me
are two very different things
and that difference is the reason every singer singsand where does that leave me?
hoping no one will ever see
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society - “3am”
i’m lying in the grass at 3am
i don’t know what i’m waiting for, or where i am
i’ve no direction direction, i have no plan
but i can’t think of a single reason that i should standso i’m watching these clouds blow by the moon
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society - “Surrender To You”
hold back—i can’t say what i wanna say
and i know that, but i rehearse it anyway
everyday, as i wake, when i shower, when i shave
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society - “Our Love”
when you left me, i died
but now the ghost of me
will tell everyone he meetsjust how perfectly we fit together
arms and elbows held each other
clavicles with brittle bones
our softest parts protect our heartsfrom the pain outside our basement door
with our whitest skin on our hardwood floor
and the lazy sunday that lasted till friday
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society - “Before You Know It”
i’ll never trust another person
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this is the first of a bunch of videos from a show i played at last month to celebrate my friend Maya’s birthday (good friends Zoogirl and Your Rival also played).
there’s a youtube playlist with all of my songs from the show: here.
i did a similar thing at her party last year, most of the same songs, so i wanted to try to do something a little different, little special, and was able to convince one of my most favorite people/musicians, the incredible Lane Barrington, who fronts the fucking incredible as shit in every way band The Ocean Floor, to do a little drumming with me for the night. we got together a couple of times that week to rehearse and work out the songs, and i had way way too much fun rocking out with him in Rocco’s very small, very loud basement, drinking quite a bit of wine, eating quite a few veggie bagel burgers, and getting my mind quite a bit blown in a sea of sweaty bodies by the awesomeness that was Zoogirl’s set.
mp3s of my set are: here.
much love,
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society"after all"Plays: 50
here’s a new instrumental song thing that i wrote/recorded last week, featuring the great Greg Vuksinich (also known as “my dad”) on mandolin. haven’t really decided on a title yet. much love, -mat
*update!* i’ve decided on a title, after receiving this email full of suggestions from my parents:
After all
After this
After all of this
Theme for a dream
Theme for some tears
Tears of love
Lost again
Lost alone
Ushuaia together
Ushuaia at last
After Ushuaia
Lost in Ushuaia
Dad asked me to tell you that all the lame ones were not his.
Love you
momi’m going with “After All”.
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society"This Fool"Live At Jurassic Park (04.01.12)Plays: 31
The Sarcastic Dharma Society - “This Fool”
another live recording from the jurassic park house the other night.
cheers,
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The Sarcastic Dharma Society"The Way I Feel Inside (by The Zombies)"Live At Jurassic Park (04.01.12)Plays: 70
The Sarcastic Dharma Society - “The Way I Feel Inside” (by The Zombies)
i recorded myself playing some songs at this house show the other night. this is one of them.
much love,
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this is a video of me on my porch a couple months ago playing a piece of a new song that i’ve been trying to write. i recorded it so that i could send it to a couple of critically minded friends, in the hopes that they would tell me what i was doing wrong, but, alas, even my critical friends are far too supportive and kind to be of any help—one of life’s bittersweet triumphs. love you, guys. -mat
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here are some recordings of some of the songs i played at the very rad (but very unbelievably cold) garage art showing/music thing that i played at last night with Like A Villain, Pardee Shorts, Mordici Mordici, and Glass Teeth. live music, live painting, live beer drinking, and later attic afterparty. it was quite a bit of awesome. much love, -mat
The Sarcastic Dharma Society
Live at Winter Wasteland in Portland, OR (12.08.11)
Zip file with these 5 mp3s is here.
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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.
