Super Famicom split with Toby Foster, Ben Laatsch, and Redbear.

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One of the first shows of my long tour with Redbear., we played a coffee shop in Fort Wayne, Indiana. That night, we stayed at our friends' Mary and Ben's house, with Ben Laatsch and Toby Foster, who also played the show. We were having a pretty fun, exciting time, and decided it would be fun to commemorate the party by recording some songs. Patrick (of Rebear.) didn't want to record his songs that night because he wanted to play them really well. My songs were written on the spot, while everyone was going to sleep. Our friend Anna did guest vocals on one of my tracks, and I'm pretty impressed that she was able to just jump in and sing over my parts. The lyrics were already in my notebook, but the singing was all in the moment.

Pat did the art for the cd, and while I love his art, I'm really not into the use of band/musician caricatures. He also made himself a way more handsome than Toby and I, whom I consider both really good looking guys! There were no song titles listed with this release. What good were song titles if we weren't trying to push our smash hits onto people? This was cvlt before I knew what (I hoped) cvlt was, and this was what I wanted to do with PJ Records. Give artists an excuse to make something extra weird (and often) extra cool, while giving listeners something more intimate and genuine than whatever us songwriters were trying to commercialize for the sake of our brands and egos.

That being said, I'm not sharing for download or stream, any work done by my partners in splitting. I don't want to put them on the spot about it, after all these years. And if you want their tracks, you're on your own.

Super Famicom split with Real Live Tigers

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Upon first listen, I was a fan of Tony Presley's Real Live Tigers. I liked what he was going for, and we became fast friends, and did this split cd. Among twenty or so songs written and recorded in the same way in the same place, I hoped these few had the coolest vibes, representing more of what I was really going for. Ohio's famed Tract Records was putting out a cd-r of this, after all. And I also wanted Tony to think my songs were cool. I had to get the art for this from discogs, and I got to do the inside stuff (which you can find at discogs), which was a half-assed painting and a random photo of a tiger. I guess I kind of phoned it in, so I should probably remember that everytime I think of others going limp on me. But from here on out, I'm going to put maximum effort into every pixel of album art. Mark my words.

Super Famicom split with LA Beard Club

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The LA Beard Club was a musical project of a guy named Daniel Mueller, from California, probably LA. He was a total stranger who asked me if I, with Super Famicom, would do a split with him. I said that would be cool. It was 2007, and I was interested in doing what I could to help beginners get 'out there', the way I was 'out there'. My songs were all quickly recorded in my parents' basement, around the time that I did Emily Songs 2. There was a back room at the Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant in Champaign, IL. That was where I did most of the singing and playing that went into the writing of these songs. I think there was someone who worked up stairs who didn't like that I did that. At the time I was really into writing lyrics at diners, and my songs were kind of goofy, and I used a very cool fake accent. The cd covers on hand-colored copy paper, wrapped in laminate, so I wouldn't say they're all of equal quality.

Emily Songs 2 by Super Famicom

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The spring of 2007 was a time of some severe ups and downs. There was something in the insert of this cd about how Emily and I had broken up before I finished this album. That's the truth. At the time, I really believed in seeing things through, and I was a little sore about having ruined my life for the sake of a relationship that wasn't worth it. Sometimes I chalk it up to my issues with self-worth. These songs were recorded in my parents' basement while they were probably sleeping. I didn't have a sleep schedule.

Super Famicom "Bells" split with Milly Geronimo

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Upon deciding not to limit my number number of planned releases, I planned a ton of split cds. Emily and I decided to do a split, and record songs with an assigned restriction, for instrumentation were to only use bell sounds from a keyboard. She was more of a piano player than a guitarist, so it made sense to me. My tracks were recorded in my parents' basement while I still didn't have a room. I think some of them are pretty good, and I think it's silly that I haven't recorded more Just Keyboard songs. You might be wondering why I didn't include the beautiful art from the other side of the split. The truth is Emily and I don't talk, and I didn't get her permission to share anything of hers on here.

Emily Songs by Super Famicom

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Life was pretty good in the early summer of 2006. I rented a very cheap room in a very cheap house in Decatur, IL. I'd gotten fired during my first tour (during which I played many songs from this upcoming album), and I sold plasma to pay the bills. For the summer, Emily had gone home to the burbs, and I had a lot of time to read books and write songs. With such vibes, I made this little cd and decided to put no limits on the number of albums I release as Super Famicom.

The Inside Voices by Super Famicom

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When I was 19, I played guitar in a metalcore band called Lori Ann. It was cool and we played big shows for scenesters, and made money playing those shows. I thought I would do that for a while, and as our fans grew up, I would focus more on playing acoustic guitar music for grown-ups who were not scenesters. Later on, I got re-addicted to playing loud music to rowdy kids, and forgot about that plan I'd had. Back to 2006, The Inside Voices was my first attempt at writing music for grown-up non-scenesters. It is an epic story in song, about a fictional journey to the bottom of my self. I experimented a lot, and my vocals were somewhat mumbled. I was really into The Microphones. For the recording of this cd, I locked myself in my room for about 4 days, and I did nothing but write and record this album. It was a cool time.