2023.11.21
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dennis harvey: drums
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dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
2022.09.01
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extra performance:jason harvey: bass guitar | keyboards
dennis harvey: drums
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2022.01.31
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2021.11.06
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2021.08.31
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These initial exercises are all derived from simple proven methods to help us better gather whether you suck at your job
Please agree so we can monitor you closely
In each exercise, place an asterisk where your soul has been sucked out
(See aggressions we eat, they're like a crowbar to the jaw)
In the cage on the stage are the places where the hands fall together
In the lines on the page are the places where the hands fall together
(Why don't you stay and fuck up everything)
When you know it don't matter
If you will or you won't
Endure or cower
There's no sinking the boat
We think that nobody's home
We can assume that someone like you is alone
Didn't you abandon everyone and still expect to be treated like a superstar
The golden behaviors are all derived from number one: be successful
It is placed first because it's something you'll never be
So pay attention
Listen closely
In each exercise, place an asterisk on what might have been
When you know it don't matter
If you sink or you float
Punch a hole in the hull, smash the mast with your skull
There's no sinking the boat
When you know it don't matter
If you win or you choke
Take it out for a ride, tear it up from inside
There's no sinking the boat
When you know it don't matter
If you quit or you cope
Tell yourself it's a trap, make a mess of the map
There's no sinking the boat
When you know it don't matter
If you will or you won't
Kiss the captain goodbye, throw him over the side
There's no sinking the boatperformance:dennis harvey: all instruments | voice
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2021.06.16
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2020.12.29
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2020.12.04
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2020.11.29
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performance:jason harvey: bass guitar
michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar | voice
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises | voice
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paul ambro: composition
jason harvey: composition
dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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performance:jason harvey: bass guitar | voice
michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises | voice
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paul ambro: composition
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dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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Look at the compu-radar readout
Approaching the azimuth vector 32
Exploding volcanic follicles beneath me
Lurch in my g-couch as we impact the goo
Encased in a leaky balloon of alien sebum
The approaching sea of yellow eruptions
Spaceship descending in a gravitational squeeze
Gushing into the planetary sneeze
We come in peace to Planet Pus
Take me to your lesion
Negative feedback from the teeming sticky sea
Infected intelligence pussibly be
When wisdom would transmission ooze
Perhaps with slimy pus cores they snooze
What language they speak and pop
Sticky snot beams splatter and plop
Pus clogging engines, we descend to the boil
I walk out onto the alien sticky soilperformance:jason harvey: bass guitar
michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises | voice
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paul ambro: composition | lyrics
jason harvey: composition | lyrics
dennis harvey: composition | lyrics | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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performance:jason harvey: bass guitar | voice
michael ambro: guitar | voice
paul ambro: guitar | voice
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises | voice
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paul ambro: composition
jason harvey: composition
dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises | voice
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dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises | voice
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paul ambro: composition
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michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises
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...tooth-like projections that hang from the undersurface of the fruit bodies with thick, smooth inner walls and warts. The fruit bodies typically have a funnel-shaped cap with a white edge. The flesh is a pale pinkish brown. The lower part is hairy. Moist fruit bodies can "bleed" bright red guttation droplets. The fungus is known by several names, "strawberries and cream", the "red-juice tooth", the "bleeding tooth fungus", and the "devil's tooth". It is usually densely covered with "hairs". Fresh fruit bodies exude a striking, thick red fluid when they are moist.
[from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnellum_peckii]performance:composition/production:paul ambro: composition
jason harvey: composition
dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises
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It's time for you to pop
Hills of flesh I adore
The pus you'll have to mop
When it plops onto the floor
Deep within there lies a cyst
With a slimy core inside
It pulsates with evil intent
A crusty crater nothing will hide
Vicious polyp
Perpetual pimple of death
Gargantuan pustule upon my face
An eternal, lumpy, red race
(Soon the blood squeezed through the lumen
Of the migrating purply lesion on my face
And it dripped on my chin
It just wouldn't stop)
It will have no mercy as it creeps up your cheek
Drain your soul and make you weak
As you try to squeeze but to no avail
Over your nose it will slowly scale
It dwells in the oilfield tissue
The pustule rises, oh how you flail
It plunges into your brainperformance:jason harvey: bass guitar
michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises
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paul ambro: composition | lyrics
jason harvey: composition | lyrics
dennis harvey: composition | lyrics | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises | voice
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paul ambro: composition
jason harvey: composition
dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises
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dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises
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dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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performance:jason harvey: bass guitar | voice
michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: drums | keyboards | noises | voice
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paul ambro: composition
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dennis harvey: keyboards | noises
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dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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dennis harvey: keyboards | noises | voice
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paul ambro: composition
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paul ambro: voice
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dennis harvey: keyboards | noises | voice
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performance:jason harvey: bass guitar | voice
michael ambro: guitar | voice
paul ambro: guitar | voice
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises | voice
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paul ambro: composition
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performance:jason harvey: bass guitar | voice
michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises
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paul ambro: composition
jason harvey: composition
dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
2020.04.26
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notes:Featuring a fragment from Shakespeare's Sonnet 33 read in Simon Russell Beale's tremendous voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fWvIrejfFc.
2020.04.24
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2020.04.18
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2020.03.05
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performance:paul ambro: guitar
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dennis harvey: drums
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2019.03.03
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I CAN'T BITE
ARREST FEVER
Attack.
Whittled shrumpish laivery ronks eluze boundchop.
Raze stomp siphon...
Maneege corn rapturous owl leg.
Alert stands railfort.
As hatradish will crop?
Admittish stiltedly, you have a fever.
Agrest mawkish subsutoon laivery.
Uh? Wawtoon, amaze you lav a fever, sticking to stops.
Eradish mom hasterry caddish…
Erase, afever, restilt…
Among badcarinth attuned attacks.
Maradical dizonch mah cravick. Gawon? Elish?
Marayall fever saunce in croon.
Around a. Stopstoon minch con gravity, since.
Dutturn? Wail hashcrop mince fever. You once, mishook a fever.
In stanch a radiate? Amance attack.
Astack recrowd in hancefort.
Ray bask in conrescent owlfit. Ray stackint dunce, aworsh retch mozzin.
Acray most stadderunts? Ashield may hollence. Sunce. Fever?
Mawkish railasense.performance:dennis harvey: all instruments | voice
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extra performance:jason harvey: bass guitar
2019.03.01
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Have you got a light
I've seen this door a hundred times
Touched this railing like a hundred hands
Seen these faces rage and fade
And crumble into lonely age
I know what it's like to be a liar
When everyone around you is a fire
I think you know it too, don't you
Let's have a drink or two
We're not rebels, we're not heroes
We're just here, we're just queer
The fuzz can smell our fear
The cameras are rolling when they pull us apart
We didn't know this was how it would start
Break down, silent sister
Look out the bars for the one you lost
All we have are shadows and shame
What's your name
Will you stay
Before they take us away
We saw them throw stones
We buffered our bones
The whip cracked
The jail cell full of queens of all sizes and colors
You weren't there
They dragged you by your hair
This beautiful boy
Taken away in rags
Taken away in bags
The cops went home to their wives and their steak knives
And we screamed for years
We felt the sting privilege had pried from us
We were the faraway boot-crushed boys
We want it us over them
We take the bullets and grin
We saw our faces in films and photographs
We were the martyrs for progress
What was your name againperformance:dennis harvey: all instruments | voice
composition/production:dennis harvey: composition | lyrics | mastering | mixing | production | recording
notes:Samples from "United in Anger: A History of ACT UP" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrAzU79PBVM), Sylvia Rivera's "Y'all better quiet down" monologue (https://videoactivism.net/en/yall-better-quiet/), footage from the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_9OJnRnZjU), Advise and Consent (clip from The Celluloid Closet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL_vrb4-6_0), Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsbrRAgv1b4).
2019.02.02
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You stopped and locked your doors when the cop car passed
You said you weren't into it
You said there were people who paid good money to see this
It was a stepping stone
It was a teenage horoscope, a hundred for the last month's bills
I snuck out the fire escape
And now your mother's crushing out another bottle of her pills
You say you can't handle it, incessantly
On again off again
Too simple
Start the car to park the car to start the car to park the car
Stop showing me your scar
Cram the internet into the back of your car
Drive it to the laundromat
And set it on fire
Pretty soon there won't be anyone visible
You're cutting out your eyes
Is it any wonder people like the medicine when the medicine's a knife
I started running away as soon as you looked at me like a conspirator
Severed
Of course
You said things had been bad for a while
So stop shitting on me
I've got 5 minutes to change your mindperformance:dennis harvey: all instruments | voice
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notes:Written and recorded January 13-14, 2019.
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We went away
There were no voice messages
There was no trail
Only a pile of ashes
Don't go consume
The stain of lashes on a stump
He retried it
It only squeaked a reply
Indigenous fruit
Blackened in the sun
I traded selfies for a face
It acted like you
What will I wear
When tender cronies break the door down
They shared a knife
They pushed the hand back in the pot
You tender leaflet
The bowl tells for you
A sycophant
A treasure chest of dirt
Tear apart the house
And separate the silverware
You said I'll take the heart attack
Stoned on doubloon tristesse among accountants
Erasing
Lance the money clip
Drain it till it's dry
Call the cops
Tender your resignation
Take off your tie
And set it on fire
We will never die
The hand of the sick
We will never die
The hand of the sickperformance:dennis harvey: all instruments | voice
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notes:Written and recorded January 17-23, 2019.
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Eat lemonade
You should eat it
Eat lemonade it's good for you
It's lemonade
Caught in a mountaneer's stare
Go bald with a renewed vigor
Cuz no one understands you
See?
Eat lemonade
It's essential
And this whole box is
And this whole box is
Drop
Eat
Shake your shark
It's a misfit
All along along along
I'll bring lava
You bring beer
Ok?
Mother goose she know she wrong
Die you sufferbeast
And there's salt in my tissue
Pick it up
EEEEEE
You're so residential
Residential
Resdiential
Aw, be stuck inside a mindfuck?
As he shouts
In this mudperformance:dennis harvey: all instruments | voice
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notes:Written and recorded January 23-24, 2019.
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notes:Written and recorded January 24-25, 2019.
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Straight
Less
It
For
Be
Cause
Sir
She said
It won't
Forget
Two nights
Sparrow
Lamplit
Scarecrow
In the
Wrong box
Cremate
Fiction
Erase
Forget
She said
It won't
Forget
Two nights
Sparrow
Lamplit
Scarecrow
Wait wait wait what what what why why whyperformance:dennis harvey: all instruments | voice
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notes:Written and recorded January 25-27, 2019.