Immersion Composition Society

[Nicholas Dobson]

write songs!

i am a little out of it with the back. laid up for a while, but now i got a cane! canes are sexy with the ladies. get one

if i forget about this thread and you are hanging out on it, email me here

hypnophobe@gmailcom

ok, say hi!
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Nicholas Dobson
Supreme Tiger of Origin Lodge, Oakland, CA, USA
(and co-author of THAT BOOK)

[Robert]

*ribbit*

Howdy.

For lack of a better knowledge of what virus is occupying my body, I will default to the trendiest disease of the day: swine flu. I am swining.

Nonetheless, I eked out 3 tunes of pestilence. They're disgustingly humorous, optimistic, and pleasant which I chalk up to my enjoyment of irony. Do not be fooled: any time the mic wasn't on, I was expectorating the mucus from my lungs with great enthusiasm. Anyway, I hope you fearless viewers/readers/listeners find some enjoyment in the session as well. Voila:

Situwashin'
Bad pun. I needed to take a shower and empty my face and change my clothes and wash my dishes... and I still do... and so I'm in a situwashin'. I'm ill! Give me a break!

Out of Sight, Out of Mind / In Sight, Fucking Everywhere
Another bad pun. Kinda. Insight? Iunno. I'm ill! Give me a break! This is an example of a new genre of music ICS has driven me to: sporadicore. I hit record, I play a single sporadic idea until I need to cough/blow my nose/get tired of playing said single sporadic idea. Rinse and repeat until brain hurts. It's kind of my attempt to improvise with myself. Kind of.

Expectorate is to Mucus as Getting Kicked Out of the Club is to You
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... I honestly don't remember if the name or the idea to pull out the MicroKorg came first. I envisioned a techno breakdown, and then I hit 40 seconds and got hungry. I'm ill! Give me a break!

Please enjoy and I encourage you to unleash your relentless commentary upon my fragile state of health.

P.S. I sampled several coughs and sneezes before getting sick of hearing myself cough and sneeze thusly deciding that making an ode to illness will have to wait until my next day of diseased recording.
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Robert Cheifetz
Founder of the Beast Lodge
(East Bay in Pig Latin for all you scholars out there)

[Nicholas Dobson]

we loved and applauded your efforts, swine boy. loved loved. roomates were listening in interest.
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Nicholas Dobson
Supreme Tiger of Origin Lodge, Oakland, CA, USA
(and co-author of THAT BOOK)

[guymontag]

Bravo, o mucoid marauder! much better than anything I could have expectorated!

My so-far unofficial "lodge" buddies and I have been working on some H1N1-themed songs, and hope to post something in the way of video, one of these days.

Before one of our weekly meetings, I proposed an "assignment", inspired somewhat by the concept of ICS. We each came to the meeting with a song title without a song, and the challenge was for each of us to write two songs by the next meeting--using the song titles brought by the other members... if that makes sense. So... the member named Doug gave us the title "The H1N1 Piggy-Swine On-the-line Systemic Pandemic Blues". I usually really hate using " ----- Blues" in song titles, but tried to make the most of it. And I think I came up with a really rockin', ok tune. That said, I don't have recording of it yet to post... hopefully soon!

[Nicholas Dobson]

title swap! we love those over here too. fun to combine with hat lotteries and stuff.

Michael and i were trading and sharing titles a lot for this one year somewhere back there. great year for titles, with such gems as:

"cuddled by skeletons"
"ammonia ice cave metropolis"
"there is no god"
"the phantom puncher"
"the secret life of owls"
"visited by reptiles"

hee hee

im feeling a little under the weather as we speak. oink? no, probably not. but it would be exciting to be part of the club!
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Nicholas Dobson
Supreme Tiger of Origin Lodge, Oakland, CA, USA
(and co-author of THAT BOOK)