Jamey Clayberg Music

KC baby-punk fashion and Tasty Meat

2008-08-29T11:01:00.000-07:00

I'm just back from Kansas City, grabbed a few Iphone pics. Hallmark trained us on intensive, lengthy and mind-numbingly technical stuff, but we had fun times at night with the chilled-out group that went. We ate good food (Boca di Bepo (see pic below,) La Bodega (the tasty tasty meat) and The Melting Pot.)

I saw a killer graf piece by ATT/DF crew and got kicked out of the bowels of Union Station (there was a service elevator unlocked so of course we had to explore.) We also got sent off the grounds of the giant Lord of the Rings-ish World War II memorial, and toyed with trying to get kicked out of Skies at the Hyatt to make it an even 3. Shamefully the most rebellious thing we did was check out the historical information of these public facilities.

And of course there was the unforgettable (?) fashion show we saw as part of Hallmark's "Color Week" involving babies-on-crack avant garde cotton-candy-headed ladies and mention of a 35 square foot store. Good times!

There are things about my personality

2008-08-22T11:49:00.000-07:00

that get old, one of which is the constant need to start things up, and the other is the need to quit when it's 90% done. SO here's another...

Melissa Moss' amazing art

2008-08-14T12:47:00.001-07:00

Not one usually to blog about illustrators but Melissa Moss' fabulous style caught my eye on a recent post at design*sponge. The mid-century infuence reminds me of Tim Biskup with less black paint and more toadstools.

Cafe Momi and the Motley Waitstaff

2008-08-12T10:59:00.000-07:00

Some may have seen this on my wife's blog but this is a shot she took of me and my boys playing at being waiters for her birthday supper we made a bit ago. We put signs up saying "Cafe Momi" and had candles and music. Ha ha. She got a kick out of it. I made homemade spaghetti and meatballs which turned out decent (not quite Iron Chef quality.)

ComicCon 08 pics

2008-07-30T13:51:00.001-07:00

Had a great time in San Diego, ComicCon was fun and the weather was amazing. Saw some old friends, met some new ones, ate fish tacos on the beach and had my mind blasted by many a comic/pop culture sight. Took a few pics on the Iphone and posted them here on Flickr (Thanks to Kirk D for the Foot wobbler pic.)

Herva - Betting Man (alt mix) free track

2008-07-18T12:28:00.000-07:00

Here's a free download of an alternate mix of "Betting Man" from my Herva "The Phantom Power" album (album available for free here.)

"Betting Man (alt mix)" download

Guess The Artist:

2008-07-17T07:36:00.001-07:00

Who sketched these radiCOOL characters? (Hints: It's not me and they were done in the late 70's-early 80's.)

My studio, circa 2006

2008-07-15T08:06:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I found this old "panoramic" shot I took of my studio room in 2006, since I'm about to re-do my studio (and large portions of my house) I thought I would tag this pic with some info about the things in the room, for archival purposes (cue "Memories.")
Click the picture to see a larger version.

Foot: Phantom of The Forest at ComiCon 2008

2008-07-07T08:20:00.000-07:00

Mystery revealed! (see previous post.) The short animated film I did the soundtrack for is official, "Foot: Phantom of the Forest" is done and is playing at the ComicCon film festival in San Diego (July 24th.)

Not only is it playing at the "Con" but Funko is making a Bigfoot Wacky Wobbler bobble-head figure based on the Bigfoot in the film, which should be available (with the DVD) at ComicCon as well. W00t!

I did all of the music for the film (except two short bits) and a lot of the sound design, Mike Becker and Kirk Demarais wrote and directed and Vance Reeser did the animation.

Put your bricks to use, man...

2008-06-25T15:04:00.000-07:00

Ok this is very random, philosophical even. But this idea came to me today and it hits the nail on the head, if the nail is where I'm at in my life. I've accepted I can't stop making "bricks;" designing, making music, writing, etc. These things are part of who I am. What I have to stop doing is throwing these bricks on the lawn in random, half-formed useless piles. I need (fairly desperately) to start forming these bricks into something purposeful, a house, a path, a wall, a flower-bed for Pete's sake, SOMETHING.

I don't want to downplay inspiration or exploration as these are crucial to creative work, but right now I would give pints of blood to see my bricks start forming something other than a scattered mess. Now the hard part, setting out to do something about it... :)

New design site up

2008-06-23T09:11:00.000-07:00

My creative services company (freelance) "Loveseat Creative" just got a new look and layout, I'm still adding samples of my work but I have a small sampling up there now. Check it out and if you need design, music or any type of creative give me a shout.

Link to Loveseat Creative site

"As Good As It Gets" Featured on Podcast

2008-06-12T09:10:00.000-07:00

My song "As Good As It Gets" from my latest album "The Short Happy Life of Jamey Clayberg" was featured on DJ Jademan's podcast! Coolness. Thanks Jademan!

"As Good As It Gets" download

Update: My song "Breathe" will be featured on the podcast June 21st. Coolness!

Old School (meaning JBU) pics

2008-06-02T14:26:00.000-07:00

My friend and frequent collaborator Kirk Demarais posted these pics he had from our college days of RAWK in the 90's at John Brown University. Good times man... Kirk has some web stuff up his sleeve with his archive of band fun, stay tuned!

Not sure who took these pics but:

1) is a bunch of us on a painted up car we hauled gear around with.

2) is Green Jello on Thursday (aka Tuesday Weld) practicing in Dean's house.

3) is Swivel Cherry rocking Theta Tau in Fayetteville, and

4) is Swivel Cherry in 80's costumes on the Life On The Edge cable access show JBU put on for awhile.

Last.fm, and some beautiful music

2008-06-02T13:29:00.000-07:00

If you love music and you've never tried Last.fm you should, it's a music site that tracks what it's users are listening to on their Itunes and Ipod, and using that data provides amazing musical discoveries. To me, this is Web 2.0 at it's finest, taking masses of data and with it giving their users back a gift. Below I've embedded a "channel" that is based on similar artists to Sufjan Stevens, one of my favorites. Click to play it, realizing that the tracks it plays are considered similar to Sufjan based on the tracks other Last.fm users are playing. I find their recommendations to be super accurate, and I've discovered at least 15 bands using different channels. Of course Sufjan may not be your cup of tea, and that's great, you can listen to a "Music like Yanni" or "Music like The Pixies" channel too. Viva la Internet!

Poetic Prophet, Website Coding Rap... amazing

2008-05-30T10:49:00.000-07:00

Design nerds, lend me your ears, homie has his SEO and code validation chops DOWN... Love it...

Herva T-Shirt for sale

2008-05-21T09:24:00.001-07:00

Silly me, what am I doing? I'm making a shirt available for sale on Spreadshirt. You see tanned H-Wood types wearing this style all the time, so I decided to make a design tutorial and t-shirt all in one!! I'm an idiot! I'm working on more shirt ideas and will do other sizes and shirts for the ladeez as well, but this is all you get right now, yo. Buy HERE for $18.40.

Copy says: "Olde English Font ...and some clip art makes for a weirdly edgy design that is actually antique in style."

My show vs. Radiohead

2008-05-19T13:59:00.000-07:00

Oh hai, I can play on trailer? Ha ha, I may not have the three-story "room of light strings" but we still had fun. Dave Murray sat in and added some nice texture, and we had toddlers dancing in the parking lot. Photo of me and Dave by Shannon C., photo of Radiohead (in St. Louis) by Brian Hill.

The Machine (free download)

2008-05-07T12:30:00.000-07:00

So I found this message on an old answering machine cassette my wife saved from college. It was pretty predictable, her Mom calling, a friend inviting her to come over and then John comes on. At first his message was as predictable as the rest, a guy (with a little crush) calling to see what she's up to. She's not home, oh well. But then he pulls a Jon Favreau in Swingers and calls back and the message quickly launches into strangeness, the machine cuts him off, he calls right back and keeps going and once he's committed to the silliness you (and every guy who's ever had an awkward exchange with a girl) can feel the unhinged nuttiness, and the "wow I should not have done this but I can't turn back" just burning in his veins. So of course I had to set it to music and post it on the web! Sorry John. For the record, I made ZERO edits to the audio, his messages appear in the song in the exact timing and order they were on the tape. Enjoy.

"The Machine (Blow Things Up)" download

Making a list...

2008-04-30T15:11:00.000-07:00

More info soon.

Radiohead "All I Need" Video

2008-04-30T13:39:00.000-07:00

Very moving video from Radiohead's In Rainbows album, simple and beautifully executed. Regardless of what you think of them as a band this video says a lot about the cost our modern culture and the sufferings of people in the 3rd world.

Old-school Jamey album (1995)

2008-04-30T08:19:00.001-07:00

Several of my college compadres have been bugging me to put this album up, so of course I oblige, it's my first official album, recorded in 1995 on a 4-track in my parents garage. Rough, unique, some bad singing (hey I was still learning) but a creative and interesting album nonetheless. The source has aged a little (it was on cassette after all) but the magic of digital brings it back to life. Grab it at the bottom of my MUSIC PAGE.

Check out this sample track, inspired by seeing a Greenpeace sticker on my friend Andrew West Griffin's fumes-belching station wagon.

"Eco People"

Crazy synth instrument

2008-04-28T07:33:00.000-07:00

CHARLES COHEN AT THE BUCHLA MUSIC EASEL from ALEX on Vimeo.

I dabble in electronic music at times, but this thing is nuts! I could never play something on this level but the "toy box" way it's put together looks fun.

"Barnacle Boy" Novel excerpt:

2008-04-25T08:53:00.000-07:00

So because I have a disorder called "I can't stop trying to make things in various creative genres" I'm working on a novel, the working title is "Barnacle Boy" but I think that may change. It's set in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea sometime before the local volcano erupted and buried the town in ash (I lived in PNG for five years as a kid.) The story explores the place where faith and pain and money meet, and is told from the perspective of a young MK who spends seven years drifting around the island after his father is killed. It's still rough, I finished the first draft but it's too short and needs quite a bit of work. I may try publishing it myself on Lulu when I get it done.

Check out a short sample here.
BarnacleBoy-excerpt.pdf

Photo by Mangiwau.

Featured song "Amazing"

2008-04-24T08:25:00.000-07:00

"Amazing"

The most recent song I've written, "Amazing" started as one verse, then months later clarified and became a complete song as I worked on a project for an orphanage in Africa. "Amazing" is featured on my recent EP "Joyfull Noise" and can be downloaded for free on my MUSIC PAGE.

Amazing
by Jamey Clayberg
Copyright © 2008 Loveseat Creative

Please open up my eyes, I can not devise
The mystery inside this life
So many hurting souls out there in the cold
Calling for a hand to hold

Every little one, cry to the sky above
And it all comes down to Amazing Love
When the shadow falls may they find Light somehow
And it all comes down to Amazing Love

In my wildest dream, I cannot perceive
A world outside of me, this life
So many hurting hearts and people torn apart
Waiting for a spark to light

Every little one, cry to the sky above
And it all comes down to Amazing Love
When the shadow falls may they find Light somehow
And it all comes down to Amazing Love

I looked up and I saw you,
Shining like the Sun

FLiP: A Short Film

2008-04-23T07:32:00.000-07:00

(This is old news to some but new to my blog) In 04 a bunch of friends and I made a short film called FLiP, we shot it in our hometown with a very limited budget but a lot of effort and fun. I operated the camera, edited the public domain music and was a general "joe" on the set.
Remember those ads in the backs of comic books promising "X-Ray Specs" and "Giant floating monsters 6 feet tall?" FLiP is the story of a boys imagination about what those wonderful toys might be like, and the reality of what he actually gets in the mail (6 to 8 weeks later.)

You can watch the trailer here and buy the DVD here. The DVD has tons of extras, commentary tracks, photos from the set, lots of great design by the writer/director Kirk Demarais and a "making of" feature that I directed and edited.

UPDATE: The writer and co-creator Kirk Demarais posted a nice-quality version of the film to Vimeo, so you can watch it right now (3 cheers for the web.)

Flip: a short film from Kirk Demarais on Vimeo.