Showing posts with label npr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label npr. Show all posts

Sunday, January 17, 2016

"This Wheel" my entry to the 2016 Tiny Desk Concert Contest!

Hey, guess what!




I entered last year with what I think is one of my best songs! They put it on the official tumblr and said some nice things about it.

This year's song isn't as good.





From the youtube description:

"This is my submission to NPR's 2016 Tiny Desk Concert Contest!


Lyrics:

This wheel is a-turning
through snow and sleet and hail
this wheel is a-turning
over broken glass and nails.

This wheel is a-turning
'cuz that's what wheels do.
This wheel is a-turning, baby
but not back to you!

This fire is a-burning
with a flame so bright.
The wind and rain won't snuff it out
it flickers through the night.

This fire is a-burning
with a flame so pure and true
this fire is a-burning, honey
in spite of you!

This heart is a-yearning
for a love so deep and sweet
a love to set it racing
and make it skip a beat.

This heart is a-yearning
but I guess that's nothing new.
This heart is a-yearning, sweetheart
but it won't break over you.

This wheel is a-turning, baby
watch it roll away from you!




This song started out as an attempt to write a song with the rhythmic feeling of "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash, but as I started writing lyrics it just became a pile of song cliches. It felt right.

I hope you all love it, and it helps you learn to love again!"



I know I won't win, but I figure it doesn't hurt to try!

Plus I had the new song written.

And it was fun last year.

And it might get my other videos a few more views.









Sunday, March 22, 2015

Day 81 - Carl Castle (Grayskull) - 3/21/2015




BY THE POWER OF PUBLIC RADIO!

I HAVE THE POWER!


Today's Thing-a-Day Thing is Carl Castle (Grayskull)!

It's part 4 in a 3-part NPR bad Photoshop series!






Thursday, March 19, 2015

Day 79 - Yuki No Gucci - 3/19/2015





Today's Thing-a-Day Thing is Yuki No Gucci.

She is part 3 in the (so far) 3 part series of poorly Photoshopped pictures of  NPR Personalities.








Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Day 78 - Robert Seagull - 3/18/2015




Today's Thing-a-Day Thing is Robert Seagull.

It's part 2 of a multi-part series of poorly Photoshopped pictures of NPR personalities.






Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Day 77 - Oddly Cornish - 3/17/2015

Today is the first of a series of poorly Photoshopped images inspired by the names of NPR personalities.



This is Oddly Cornish.


More another time!





Saturday, January 3, 2015

Day 3 - Garrison Keilor - January 3, 2015





I bought a 2015 calendar today. It had a piece of cardboard on it. So I drew a picture of Garrison Keilor on it.




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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Clutter: Stickers All Over the Dressers!

I don't remember exactly when it started but at some point in my childhood I developed a love of sticker-covered things. It might've been a friend's older-sibling's bedroom door, it might've been one of my cousin's skateboards, it might've been some person on TV's dresser. I don't remember what inspired me, but I decided to cover my dresser with stickers.



Here is the front of my once-upon-a-time completely sticker-covered dresser. When I got older and was in my "putting away childish things" phase (before my "let's get those childish things back out" phase that I am currently in... in which I currently am... my phase which currently I am in an will continue... inhabiting.) I decided to take the stickers off. It didn't go so well, so many of them are still on there! Let's see go through them, shall we?



Many, many Roger Rabbit stickers from the trading card series. I was and still am in love with all things Roger Rabbit. So I put a lot of Roger Rabbit stickers on it.



On the right side you can see lots of little music note stickers. I got these from piano lessons. Collections that add up quickly are addictive.





On one side of the dresser you see lots of Super Mario Bros. and Punch Out stickers. I wish I had more of these for other sticker-cluttering projects.



Here we see some TMNT stickers from their trading card packs. I see a the Rocketeer sticker, too. I don't know where I got that one.




Here we see more Super Mario stickers, some "great job!" style stickers from school, some Dole fruit stickers (I think they were from oranges, but it might have been bananas), and my name from a label maker! Like every other kid, I loved seeing my name on stuff. I had scratched my name on the front of my dresser for some reason. I don't know, dumb kid reasons. And not only had I scratched it, I'd scratched each letter backwards. Not just "HTES", but each letter was backwards as well (the E and S facing the other way). Kids are weird. It's still covered with stickers, though, so you can't see my pre-Auto Correct text mistake.


I wonder what kind of stickers those white paper remnants were.



This other side is kind of hard to see. I couldn't get enough light on it to get a good picture, and it's full of fabric (from my mom's sewing collection) so I was too lazy to try to move it to get a better picture.

I can see a Prairie Public Radio bumper sticker (ND), some Colgate and pro-teeth brushing stickers, a bunch of "Buckle Up" and "Don't Drink and Drive" stickers, and a "Say No to Drugs" sticker. My parents gave me the NPR one, but I think the rest were from something at school.


My dresser was sticker-covered because I was copying someone I looked up to. My brother Kyle covered his dresser with stickers as well. He might've looked up to me, too, but it is equally as likely that I told him to do it, too so there was another place to sticker clutter.


Most of his stickers were taken off, but I still see some of the same Super Mario Stickers, a Ron Jon Surf Shop sticker (I'm jealous), a Link sticker, a Punch Out sticker, a dinosaur sticker, a Christmas tree sticker, and puffy butterfly sticker with googly eyes!



There's a Mr. Man or Smurfs or something like that sticker. I think it's a guy holding a flower. I'm not sure what it is.



I think that's another Punch Out sticker and some TMNT sticker remnants.





And that's it! I'll do more Clutter Culture posts as I find more things from my past that are cluttered or if I do any more cluttering.

Do you have anything that you've sticker-cluttered? I'd love to hear about it! Leave a comment or send me a link.




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