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RAEIN IN PORTLAND OREGON. FULL SET.

FILMED BY: TONY WEST, CLARA RIDABOCK

EDITED BY: TONY WEST, REID STUBBLEFIELD

AUDIO BY: MAT VUKSINICH

After a slight malfunction yesterday, this video is finally online. 

hey, i did some mixing/mastering stuff for this video of Raein playing in portland last month, if you’re into that crazy hardcore stuff, it’s their whole set, you should check it out. good friends (for life) reid and tony put a whole bunch of work into it and it’s finally up today—i’m pretty excited to work on more stuff with these guys. <3, -mat

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 song

that 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 sings

and where does that leave me?
hoping no one will ever see
how worthless i am

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 stand

so i’m watching these clouds blow by the moon
and i’m trying or trying not to think of you

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
i rewrite, i rephrase, i rethink what i’d say

The Sarcastic Dharma Society - “Our Love”

when you left me, i died

but now the ghost of me
will tell everyone he meets

just how perfectly we fit together
arms and elbows held each other
clavicles with brittle bones
our softest parts protect our hearts

from the pain outside our basement door
with our whitest skin on our hardwood floor
and the lazy sunday that lasted till friday
would have still lasted today, if i had had my way

The Sarcastic Dharma Society - “Before You Know It”

i’ll never trust another person
i’ll watch my world begin to worsen

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,
-mat