Lesser lights are laid out like luminaries on the way along a road that’s paved What’s it’s like to face all these two-bit trials, Lord I can’t say if my bright ideas flicker and fade when they’re put on the page Lesser lights are always a rage I won’t be ashamed Lesser lights will play [...]
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Author Archives: Peter Beyer
A Song A Month
Here on the Subanimal Sounds blog you will witness the brave and limitless wrestling match with the abyss, as two songwriters bash it out each month, stabbing vainly in the dark, trying to write songs. Catbirdman is one player; Mr. Crozier is another. The challenge has gone out: to write one song each month. For [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20
New post: "In the Wake" ep http://tinyurl.com/y9nowcd # Powered by Twitter Tools
Dream Lives of Ordinary People
On this Tuesday night, on the back of my weekly call with the Catbirds’ business manager, I’m pondering the overlap between business and dreams. “If you build it they will come” isn’t always a sound marketing strategy, but it’s the only one worth leaning on when you’re laying the foundation. This track by Voxtrot looks [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13
isn't cool, which is why he is cool. # has a new EP available; please buy it dear friends: http://www.catbirdman.com/ # New post: About http://tinyurl.com/yalaz8e # Powered by Twitter Tools
New Catbirds EP
My first EP is now available for purchase. Below is a free sample. Hope you enjoy it! The Catbirds: In The Wake
Baby Teeth
I’ve been sitting on an interview with Baby Teeth from August 6 of this past summer. Eventually I’ll post it here on Subanimal Sounds. Baby Teeth are an earnest but scary group of guys from Chicago, and when you get to know them they’re not so scary. Abraham Levitan is the leader, a cool-mannered, if [...]
Baltimore Loves You
Once or twice a week, I pass through the “Miracle on 34th Street” – the boundless bombast of garish lights that floods the one block between my house and my favorite watering hole, Rocket to Venus. They sell hot sausages there, three for $5. There are Christmas trees made of hubcaps, and one made of [...]
Feelin’
Woke up with a feelin’ last Tuesday, and there I was lyin’ on the floor. Bears in hibernation, cats on the prowl, moles scurrying for their lives… the whole scene opened up before my eyes. I wrote it down. It became “Kitty’s First Words, Part 2.” I wrote a rock opera, basically. But I am [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-06
just finished writing an honest-to-God rock opera. # Powered by Twitter Tools.