Episode 203-The Great Leper Bride

 

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/16/items/CeskyLivesEpisode203-theTheGreatLeperBride/Clep203-theGreatLeperBride.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a sort of low/depressing banjolele thing about I don't even know what, just dark stuff that seemed to fit with the music. Hopefully it's an interesting listen anyways. Thanks for your time & ears, and I hope you've all had great X-mas's and the like.

Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX2uQXX5ynI&feature=youtu.be

Episode 202-Saint Sebastian

https://ia601504.us.archive.org/25/items/CeskyLivesEpisode202-saintSebastian/Clep202-saintSebastian.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is about/for a good friend of mine named Craig, whose birthday is this week, hence a song for that occasion. It's not straight forward 'happy birthday, you're so great' type stuff, but maybe bits of it are...? Anyways, hopefully you dig it Craig and also have an excellent birthday, and hopefully all the other folks out there listening dig it too. It's a kind of super calm wavey type thing with lyrics detailing little pieces of time and the like. As always, thanks for your time and ears and here's a drawing/video to go with the tune:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVX_Xne2prA&feature=youtu.be

Episode 201-Speak

https://ia601504.us.archive.org/17/items/CeskyLivesEpisode201-speak/CLEP201-Speak.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune was written feeling positive and came out sounding like a rusty robot crawling through mud, I'm not sure if it's positive or not so much now, my brain tends to switch things around like that. Anyways, I hope it's a good listen, I plugged a fair amount of hours into messing with weird sounds and volume faders and the like for this one, because I was having fun and time vanished. Thanks as always for your time and ears, here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CzQ-BPPrVI&feature=youtu.be

Episode 200-Julie Andrews

 

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/17/items/CeskyLivesEpisode200-julieAndrews/Clep200-julieAndrews.mp3

Hello listeners, 200 songs, that seems kinda significant I guess, right? This one has Julie Andrews in it, sitting at a type writer, copying out lines from Hamlet, for why? I'm not sure, I just let the words for this one be whatever they wanted to be. I think this song might be partly about saying and not saying things, and how either can be both wise and/or unwise at the same time, depending on the thing. It's about unspoken things also, although in the right company I tend to just speak, hence why I write songs, I've got shit to say, not necessarily sensible or meaningful stuff, but lots of stuff. Anyways, thanks to all the people who've been listening for ages, and the people who've listened at all over the last 200 weeks, much appreciated, (always always), and there will be more, always more.

 

Here's a video/drawing to go with this weeks song anyways:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHIBps3CNls&feature=youtu.be

Many thanks for your ears, eyes and time.

Episode 199-(Peek-a-boo with) Baby Jesus

 

https://ia801508.us.archive.org/6/items/CeskyLivesEpisode199-peek-a-booWithBabyJesus/Clep199-playingPeek-a-booWithBabyJesus.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is an automatic writing weird mix of words about toast and squids and jam jars and Iranian people. I could explain it all but I think it's probably OK to let the gaps be unfilled, nothing super serious going on anyways, fairly positive stuff. Hope it's a fun listen and thanks for your time. Here's a video/drawing to go with it:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLmjF8rsZlA&feature=youtu.be

 

 

Episode 198-Speak Your Mind

https://ia601500.us.archive.org/20/items/CeskyLivesEpisode198-speakYourMind/Clep198-speakYourMind.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune I wrote containing the exact amount of energy needed to go to sleep, so it's slow, kinda sporadicy sounding and pretty simple, (I would've waited till I woke up some, but the song was coming anyways so I let it). It's about honesty I guess, not sure whether speaking your mind is actually a great idea, definitely sometimes it isn't, but I'm singing about it here because I recently was in a young persons situation, at a club/place with a DJ, alcohol and lots of hipster types, and there was a definite level of total fake about the situation, and also nobody could really hear anybody else speak anyways. Met some good folks still, but not really the place for me, live music, always, somebody playing records, not so much. Anyways I hope it's a fun listen, it's not super serious. Here's a video/drawing to go with it:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-8Qqkmw8OE&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for your time and ears, and the positive feedback I get from some of you folks, always hugely appreciated.

Episode 197-Awkward Stories

https://ia601507.us.archive.org/24/items/CeskyLivesEpisode197-awkwardStories/Clep197-awkwardStories.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune came out kind of automatic writing-ish in a couple of sittings so I can't really say that I know what it's about, seems maybe like it lines up with my current feelings and experiences of communication, the mess that it makes and is, the joy and confusion of it both being basically the same thing. Also, more stuff about the past is in there, just generally, everybody's past, the way you accumulate things that have happened and wear them around the place.

Hope it's a fun listen, was fun to make. Thanks as always for your time and ears and here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsiyNecgiHA&feature=youtu.be

 

Also, a plug: free downloadable albums of Cesky songs available here

https://cesky.bandcamp.com/

just put zero dollars in the 'pay what you like' box,

(or send me a couple bucks if you're feeling generous).

 

 

Episode 196-Bandaid

 

https://ia601508.us.archive.org/12/items/CeskyLivesEpisode196-bandaid/CLEP196-Bandaid.mp3

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a slow-ish banjolele thing, took up an entire Sunday to put together, mostly writing, and then scrapping, and writing again, and so on, got there eventually. It's about I guess the past effecting how you/I see things, how that's unavoidable and universal and painful etc, but doesn't have to own you, doesn't at all, not really. Anyways, under all that jargon it's also just a song, and hopefully a nice listen, many thanks for your time and ears as always and here's a drawing/video to go with it:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR-62hhIXtU&feature=youtu.be

 

 

Episode 195-Semi Automatic

 

 

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/23/items/CeskyLivesEpisode195-semi-automatic/CLEP195-Semi-Automatic.mp3

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a crunchy Banjo thing about talking too much. I spent a very large portion of my life not really saying much at all, and to some extent I still do that, I find it hard to be understood sometimes, like everything I say has a million little notches of explainy thing that could sail along with it and even still maybe it wouldn't make sense. Maybe this is common...? Anyways, as a reaction against all that quiet and also when I find people with similar views on things I tend to talk WAY to much, and this song is about that, I guess. Anyways, hopefully it's a fun listen, it involves a Bass pedal purchased with birthday money, many thanks to my work buddies for that. 

Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3c65mEVXlM&feature=youtu.be

Thanks for your time and ears.

Episode 195-Semi Automatic

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/23/items/CeskyLivesEpisode195-semi-automatic/CLEP195-Semi-Automatic.mp3

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a crunchy Banjo thing about talking too much. I spent a very large portion of my life not really saying much at all, and to some extent I still do that, I find it hard to be understood sometimes, like everything I say has a million little notches of explainy thing that could sail along with it and even still maybe it wouldn't make sense. Maybe this is common...? Anyways, as a reaction against all that quiet and also when I find people with similar views on things I tend to talk WAY to much, and this song is about that, I guess. Anyways, hopefully it's a fun listen, it involves a Bass pedal purchased with birthday money, many thanks to my work buddies for that. 

Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3c65mEVXlM&feature=youtu.be

Thanks for your time and ears.

Episode 195-Semi Automatic

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/23/items/CeskyLivesEpisode195-semi-automatic/CLEP195-Semi-Automatic.mp3

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a crunchy Banjo thing about talking too much. I spent a very large portion of my life not really saying much at all, and to some extent I still do that, I find it hard to be understood sometimes, like everything I say has a million little notches of explainy thing that could sail along with it and even still maybe it wouldn't make sense. Maybe this is common...? Anyways, as a reaction against all that quiet and also when I find people with similar views on things I tend to talk WAY to much, and this song is about that, I guess. Anyways, hopefully it's a fun listen, it involves a Bass pedal purchased with birthday money, many thanks to my work buddies for that. 

Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3c65mEVXlM&feature=youtu.be

Thanks for your time and ears.

Episode 194-It's A Cage

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/7/items/CeskyLivesEpisode194-itsACage/Clep194-itsACage.mp3

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is about social anxiety, I went to a party recently, of a great dude, good song writer, (this guy; https://daverobertson.bandcamp.com/), I spoke to a bunch of really nice people but on the inside was pushing against a massive urge to just go lie down someplace quiet and pretend I didn't exist. This song is I guess like an imagined cynical inner demon speaking about that situation, it's supposed to be a little jokey. Anyways, hope you enjoy and thanks for listening.

Here's a video/drawing to go with it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBlEPTpN03I&feature=youtu.be

Episode 193-Dewey's Beard

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/26/items/CeskyLivesEpisode193-deweysBeard/Clep193-deweysBeard.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks song is a distorted Ukulele messy thing about cake and the Dewey Decimal system. Also it's about the best piece of advice I ever got and always find really hard to take, "there are no short cuts", something an Uncle of mine said to me when I was not very old, and he was, and still is right. Also a buddy of mine Craig Griffen has been advising me in a similar manner, on not skipping chapters, slowing down some, not something I'm good at, but I agree with the idea entirely. Anyways, it's not a super serious song, hope it's a good listen.

Here's a drawing/video to go with it:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQEWSDPwSD4&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for your time and ears.

 

Episode 192-Goodbye To The Bargain Bin Life

https://ia801504.us.archive.org/22/items/CeskyLivesEpisode192-goodbyeToTheBargainBinLife/Clep192-goodbyeToTheBargainBinLife.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is about positive thinking I guess, it's a Mandolin/Bongo's/U-Bass tune, slightly less simple than last weeks minimalist thing but still fairly simple. I guess it's also about positive people, changing for the better, learning, growing up, all that stuff, not that I'm currently some kind of power of positivity rainbow coloured unicorn or anything, but I'm feelin OK, things have a whiff of looking up about them, if I allow them to. Hope it's s nice listen anyways.

 

Here's a video/drawing to go with it:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR524vGfAog&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for your time and ears.

 

Episode 191-Light The Moon

https://ia601507.us.archive.org/0/items/CeskyLivesEpisode191-lightTheMoon/Clep191-lightTheMoon.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a simple little lullaby-ish Banjo thing based on my memories of that Eric Carle book where the Dad goes to get the moon for his son on a huge long ladder. My son Sam, (10), played some subtle effectsy guitar over it for me and there's also some field recording, (holding a mic at my open door), of some rain and passing cars. The drawing for this weeks tune was done collectively by my son Sam and his brother Elliot, (link below if you wanna have a look). Thanks for your time and ears as always.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWgy5UPT5Cw&feature=youtu.be

 

Episode 190-Creatures

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/11/items/CeskyLivesEpisode190-creatures/CLEP190-Creatures.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune was going to be a thing I wrote yesterday, real minimal, kinda old style lullaby ish thing on the banjo, but I came home from work today and wrote this instead, because I just kinda felt like it. It's about fighting your demons and winning I guess, somewhat, maybe...? Anyways, hopefully you enjoy it, was fun to make. Cheers for your time and ears, here's a drawing/video to go with it if you wanna have look:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhy4GPUdFNg&feature=youtu.be

Episode 189-Aeroplanes

https://ia801504.us.archive.org/12/items/CeskyLivesEpisode189-aeroplanes/CLEP189-Aeroplanes.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune I'd say kind of fits into my usual 'sound' so to speak, like Elliot Smith said in interviews, not really sad so much, but kind of, but not really. Anyways, I am in no way comparing myself to that genius after which I named my progeny. This week's tune starts out with a verse thanking my friend Catherine Muller for some very necessary help she gave me a while back, she is the best, kept me alive, literally, and then from there it goes where ever it wanted to, dives into little life detail stories that make little sense, talks about aliens, the usual stuff. Hope it's a fun listen anyways, I super distorted the bass for the sake of making something that sounded way out of place, tune wise it's a mix of uke, banjolele, U-Bass highly distorted, bongos and some symbols and a crash I think it's called, I don't know, I'm not a drummer. Thanks for your time anyways, and for listening and for your encouragement, those who encourage me, it's always massively appreciated and heart warming, you're the best.

 

Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=681aDkNObuU&feature=youtu.be

Episode 188-Elasimp

https://ia601501.us.archive.org/21/items/CeskyLivesEpisode188-elasimp/CLEP188-Elasimp.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this song, plain and simple, is about watching my kids grow up and feeling really sad about them not still being tiny because of how great that was, and how I missed some of it being caught up in innumerable unimportant things as we all are. I did the best I could I think, and am very intentionally trying to do better now, but you can't go back.

Anyways, so obviously it's not a super joyful tune but hopefully you enjoy it anyways.

 

Here's a video to go with it, (no drawing this week):

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTwvhlGpAsI&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for your time and ears, and support and encouragement and the like, always much appreciated.

Episode 187-The Man Who Smells Of Burning Car

 

https://ia601506.us.archive.org/30/items/CeskyLivesEpisode187-theManWhoSmellsOfBurningCar/Clep187-theManWhoSmellsOfBurningCar.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is an electric guitar thing about being an outsider, which is how I have decidedly been feeling, kind of forever, and probably everyone is, but recently a little more heftily than usual. It's not a bad thing, it's just kind of a fact really, but it can get me a lil grumpy I guess. Instead of wallowing though I tried to feed the feeling into an upbeat-ish thing, hopefully you enjoy it, it's about resignation I guess, acceptance maybe...? 

 

Here's a drawing/video to go with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HsUgyN3dg8&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for your time and ears.

 

Episode 186-Feather Light

 

https://ia801505.us.archive.org/29/items/CeskyLivesEpisode186-featherLight/Clep186-featherLight.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a synthy/piano-ish, (synth piano played via midi guitar), song about considering possible future positives despite past negatives, heavy hits to your confidence and the like. Hopefully it's a nice listen, I sang it through a bunch of times and ended up using the least correct, most scratchy but hopefully also most honest take, I'm a little cold-having-ish anyways, and know next to nothing about the technicalities of singing.

Anyways, have a look the video/drawing that goes with it:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIZTVSoXEJI&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for your time and ears, much appreciated.

 

 

Episode 185-Atleast You're Not That Guy

 

https://ia601503.us.archive.org/8/items/CeskyLivesEpisode185-atleastYoureNotThatGuy/Clep185-atleastYoureNotThatGuy.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a grumpy bullet aimed square at womanisers, and how they equate to creepy sea monster things that live under jetty's and steal children. Hopefully it's a fun listen. As always always, thanks to those who listen every week, or even a little, or even who are just listening right now, for your time and ears.

Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ppwf8DLblg&feature=youtu.be

 

in other news, if you're into using iTunes for downloading podcasts, this one/this blog, (which was set up initially to connect to iTunes/be published there also, then stopped doing that, but is now and maybe has been for a while doing so again), is available there. If that's your thing, go for it.

Episode 184-You'll Never Fall In Love

https://ia601500.us.archive.org/29/items/CeskyLivesEpisode184-youllNeverFallInLove_700/Clep184-youllNeverFallInLove.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a banjolele, anti-religious song, I struggle to get the banjolele to make music that sounds musicy, so I've just gone with a weird little thing here. For the folks who know me, or have listened for a while, I dig Jesus, all over, but just like him, I really hate religion, therefore the sentiment you'll be hearing here. Hopefully it's a fun listen, I chucked in some bongo's 'n bass for good measure. Thanks as always for your time and ears.

 

Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lZGgcbDg4Y&feature=youtu.be

Episode 183-Short Story

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/35/items/CeskyLivesEpisode183-shortStory/Clep183-shortStory.mp3

Hello listeners, if you've been listening for a bit and caught this tune:

https://ia601504.us.archive.org/8/items/CeskyLivesEpisode179-graceful/CLEP179-Graceful.mp3

this weeks song is about how what I put out there in that song was probably very unwise, such is life, "people make a mess", as Mark Maron's Jewish Doctor would say. Anyways, as humans do, I psycho analyse my mistakes, unlike some humans I then post said psycho analysis on the internet in the form of songs. There's no misery in this though, it's been a few weeks of thinking and such, I'm just tryin to give my decisions and feelings a context, life is OK, I'm drinkin a glass of wine here, sitting at my computer, got to play a lovely guitar earlier, that I own. Anyways, also no hard feelings to all concerned, songs are songs, people are people. If anyone can pick where the above image is from they win a prize, get in touch, leave a comment or something, seriously, if you're nerd memory contains facts about the dude pictured above I will totally make sure you get some kinds of physical or at least digital object to celebrate said memory, if you tie the picture in with the lyrics of this weeks tune, triple prizes all round, (even I don't know exactly why I picked this picture, so just make something up, seriously, email me: clo5dimly@hotmail.com).

Anyway, cheers for your time and ears, here's a video/drawing to go with the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmLlTGXXC7E&feature=youtu.be





Episode 182-Bleed

https://ia801502.us.archive.org/19/items/CLEP182Bleed/CLEP182-Bleed.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a different kinda animal, it's a collaborative thing between myself and a friend of mine named Elliot Careswell, he came up with the super classy electronicy, piano-y tune, beat, flow of the thing, and I added the lyrics and singing, he also did some backing vocals and read out some spoken word stuff, which is something I've never put in a song before but I reckon he nailed it, it seemed like a good idea. The most likely not permanent name for our collaborative efforts is "Space Cheese". Hope you enjoy it anyways, it was good fun to make, specially coming in to just kinda ice a cake that's pretty much ready to go.

 

Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0CeOV3EW60&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for your time and ears, especially the folks who message positives at me every now and then, much appreciated.

Episode 181-Tim Tams

 

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/27/items/CLEP181TimTams/CLEP181-Tim%20Tams.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune features Tim Tams, a life times supply, hence the image of Cate Blanchet as the girl in the Tim Tams add where she asks a genie for a life times supply of Tim Tams, she's come a long way huh. Anyways, hope you enjoy it. Thanks for your time and ears, and if you want to see a drawing/video to go along with the tune here is that:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjanYyJfJyA&feature=youtu.be

 

Episode 180-Jesus Maybe

 

https://ia601500.us.archive.org/23/items/CeskyLivesEpisode180-jesusMaybe/Clep180-jesusMaybe.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a playing with words for fun kinda thing. I have nothing against Jesus, I kinda like him, not a fan of religion though, and his name gets tacked onto that all the time, so therefore the negatives in the chorus towards folks believing they're all good to go in life when actually they're possibly being quite nasty. Anyways, there's also a verse about Pauline Hanson and the rest is about what ever your brain would like it to be. Hope it's a fun listen, thanks for your time and ears, and here's a video/drawing to go with it:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FYrKhy2ZfA&feature=youtu.be

Episode 179-Graceful

https://ia601504.us.archive.org/8/items/CeskyLivesEpisode179-graceful/CLEP179-Graceful.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a live recorded simple acoustic finger picky thing. As far as content I usually skirt around such things in this little blurby thing because I'm kind of a private person I guess...? Although not really, I do air my emotions on a weekly basis on the internet. Anyways, in the interest of honesty this song is about a person I've fallen for, maybe it's a lil full on writing songs about a person, but I'm just sayin how I feel, there's a million songs out there for millions of folks and hopefully what I've made here is personal/interesting/meaningful. Feels like putting myself out on a huge far reaching limb somewhat but at the end of the day at this point I'm just super enjoying getting to know a person, it's really nice, and I've been kinda fearless about it, for me anyways. Life so far has been lifey, bad shit's gone down and I've done many a dumb thing, have collected my share of fears in regards to connection, but right now seems like a good time to offer the results of all those happenings, i.e. 'me' to a person, not just any person obviously, the person this song is about, who I get on with really well and see a huge amount of good in, and see what happens. I'm putting myself WAAAY out there I guess, because I'm a good feller and worth some time and consideration I believe, but also trying to slow my self down some, be calm about it, be appreciative of laughs n hangin out. Risk nothing gain nothing huh, risk a lot, you could get yourself the whole goddamn world.

 

Anyways, hope it's a nice listen for you, calm n such. Thanks as always for your time and ears.

 

Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

https://youtu.be/vNBS-fUwOxk

Episode 178-Tiny Dinosaurs

https://ia601500.us.archive.org/6/items/CeskyLivesEpisode178-tinyDinosaurs/Clep178-tinyDinosaurs.mp3

Hello listeners, this weeks song is for a lovely friend of mine, super lovely. Kinda says what it says, probably needs no explanation. Hope you enjoy it anyways.

Here's a video/drawing to go with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTltCZ14g50&feature=youtu.be

Also, I have a new album of collected tunes involving synthesizers available here:

http://cesky.bandcamp.com/

it's called "Just Pretend That I'm Actually A Blue Rock", a title created by my son Elliot, who's on the cover, you can download it for free, do that, & as always, thanks for your time and ears, much appreciated.

Episode 177-FYI, I'm The Duck

 

https://ia601501.us.archive.org/28/items/CeskyLivesEpisode177-fyiImTheDuck/Clep177-fyiImTheDuck.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a mandolin thing about the people I appreciate and respect, the people I see as 'my people' I guess, folks who are open about their pain and bad times and such, and this song is to encourage them, "sing a little louder, be a little prouder", it's kind of about my own feelings towards these folks too. Painful crap happens to everyone, using it to be better, that's the way to be, and I feel for folks, I've been through some horrible nasty stuff myself, I get it, and I feel like I'm 'got' too I'd say. Anyways, that's that. Here's a drawing/video to go with it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Galc9GJAA8c&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for your time. Always appreciated.

Episode 176-Lesson One

 

https://ia601506.us.archive.org/9/items/CeskyLivesEpisode176-lessonOne/Clep176-lessonOne.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune, I'll let it speak for itself, mostly because my keyboar int woring, (it really isn't, unless I type REAL SLOW). Any ways, enjoy, here's a video/drawing to go with it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LX18XGmmtI&feature=youtu.be

 

Episode 175-We're Gonna Live

 

https://ia801506.us.archive.org/9/items/CeskyLivesEpisode175-wereGonnaLive/Clep175-wereGonnaLive.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a positive one, acoustic guitar with a bit of crunchy synth. Ima' let it speak for itself, suffice it to say, I'm feeling pretty optimistic, hence the happy squid, also featured in the video below, (that goes with the song).

 

Cheers for you're time and ears.

 

The aforementioned video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9EyOj6gbWQ&feature=youtu.be

Episode 174-India Calling

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/13/items/CeskyLivesEpisode174-indiaCalling/Clep174-indiaCalling.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune has a Hansel and Gretel reference, a bit about about dodgy Indian call centres pretending to be Telstra tech support and a general sense of... grey I guess would be the best word, not sad grey, more like confused. There's the usual hidden meanings I could just tell you, but songs do their own things to their own people, so I won't, even though these are all positive things, a lot of it is really rough anyways, this one may receive a rewrite at some point.

 

Anyways, hope it's a nice listen, here's a video/drawing to go with it:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0kkBrRWz8U&feature=youtu.be

Episode 173-Lady Volcano

 

https://ia601508.us.archive.org/20/items/CeskyLivesEpisode173-ladyVolcano/Clep173-ladyVolcano.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is an upbeat Banjolele thing, it's about people, connection, stuff like that, havin' a good time, probably pretty straight forward....? Anyways, hopefully it's a fun listen and as always thanks for your ears and time.

 

Here's a drawing/video to go with the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RclIyS5iCaA&feature=youtu.be

 

 

Episode 172-All The Good Things

 

https://ia801505.us.archive.org/20/items/CeskyLivesEpisode172-allTheGoodThings/Clep172-allTheGoodThings.mp3

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is kind of a straight forward representation of one of my mental habits, which is to send my heart out on an imaginary piece of brave confession that never actually happens, at least not lately, bravery evades the many times cut down, also I'm doing absurdly well on my lonesome when I look at things in context and see how way down I've been before. Never the less, I still imagine, and write songs about it, probably loads of people do.

Anyways, it makes for a hopeful sounding little tune, hope you enjoy it. Thanks for your time.

Here's a video/drawing to go with it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prPWfz4GgfY&feature=youtu.be

Episode 171-This Imaginary Person

 

https://ia601506.us.archive.org/12/items/CeskyLivesEpisode171-thisImaginaryPerson/Clep171-thisImaginaryPerson.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks song was recorded crapily on my phone on Sunday night when I wrote it and had a bit of a lurgy coming on. At this point that lurgy has it's claws around my skull and is trying to push it out of my head through the front, (in less dramatic words I'm sick). I planned on re-recording this sounding better and with less mistakes but I don't have it in me this week, my body is useless and I've been in bed a lot, so this is the best I can do, I could've skipped a week, but I couldn't. Anyways, the tune is about being single and fairly ok with that, maybe even totally ok with that, and maybe about the haphazard thought processes that go into imagining being otherwise. Hope it's a nice listen for you despite the snot voice and fuzz. Thanks for your time and ears as always. Instead of a drawing this week I've just chucked a ton of old drawings in a slideshow over the song, again, the lurgy. Have a look:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FW2wo356LY&feature=youtu.be

Episode 170-Airplanes & Orphans

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/18/items/CeskyLivesEpisode170-airplanesOrphans_191/Clep170-airplanesOrphans.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is kinda abstract, I think I'll just leave off the explaining and let your own brain find a place for it. You're time and ears as always are hugely appreciated, and I hope you enjoy.

Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO19EIPXS_U&feature=youtu.be

Episode 169-Winter Astronaut

 

https://ia601506.us.archive.org/27/items/CeskyLivesEpisode169-winterAstronaut/Clep169-winterAstronaut.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is about reading science fiction in bed, in the daytime. Soon as it gets even a little cold that's what I immediately want to be doing. I wish I was doing it right now, in a few minutes, maybe I will. I also recently heard a Mercury Rev song about records and one of the verses was just the singer listing a bunch of bands he likes, so one of my verses, because I heard that song, is me listing some sci-fi authors I like, and a couple of super-super nerdy references to authors of a whole other kind that if you pick up make you as super-super nerdy as me, (which is great, if you can tell me what the last two folks on my author list wrote/write then chuck a comment below and I'll send you some kinda something, because that would impress me).

Hope you enjoy the tune anyways, thanks for your time and ears.

Here's a video/drawing to go with the song:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxAEGUCFsk&feature=youtu.be

 

Episode 168-(You're A) Brand New Animal

 

https://ia801501.us.archive.org/1/items/CeskyLivesEpisode168-youreABrandNewAnimal/Clep168-youreABrandNewAnimal.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a synthy calm thing about appreciating exactly right now and not worrying about past garbagey things resurfacing. Just being calm, being present, all that stuff which is way harder than it should be. Anyways, hope you enjoy it, I dragged out all my synthy stuff on Sunday afternoon and played with it till late, and this song came outta that, it was fun, hopefully you can feel that.

 

Thanks for your ears and time, here's a video to go with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHq6PbV_oog&feature=youtu.be

Episode 167-Say You Wanted

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/25/items/CeskyLivesEpisode167-sayYouWanted/Clep167-sayYouWanted.mp3 

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a simple little Mandolin thing about I'm not entirely sure what. Possibly, most likely about childhood, that's definitely in there, and also about what last weeks tune was about, unsaid things between folks. Anyways, it's a calm one, hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for you time and ears, here's a video, (some layered footage of my kids when they were little being insanely cute), to go with the tune:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eih2QtKLYS0&feature=youtu.be

 

 

Episode 166-Candle Eyes In A Pumpkin Head

 

https://ia601506.us.archive.org/0/items/CeskyLivesEpisode166-candleEyesInAPumpkinHead/Clep166-candleEyesInAPumpkinHead.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a short acoustic finger-picky thing about not saying things, or things that aren't said, just in life in general, things that aren't secret or not secret, or obvious or not obvious, just floaty things that don't know what they are. Anyways, hope it's a nice listen. In other news been doing some work on an album, my brother is kindly and expertly adding bass and drums and keys and such and a couple of tracks have come back to me sounding awesome. Probably the finished thing is a ways off but if you're interested it'll end up here:

http://cesky.bandcamp.com/

Where the first cesky album is if you're interested in that also, it's totally free.

 

Thanks for your time and ears as always and here's this weeks video/drawing to go with the tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3qJxz2XOo&feature=youtu.be

 

 

Episode 165-Hash Browns

 

https://ia601507.us.archive.org/30/items/CeskyLivesEpisode165-hashBrowns/Clep165-hashBrowns.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks song is dedicated to a lady I worked with who passed away recently, it's a story of one of our interactions, her being super nice to me when I was in a bad way, lifting me a little, and also feeding me. I didn't really know her all that well but enough to know she was good, and her mum I know a little better, and she's one of the best people you could meet, without question. Anyways, that's about the long and short of it, hope you enjoy and thanks for listening.

 

Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvxdIK7SRsE&feature=youtu.be

 

Episode 164-Illustrations From The Big Book For Boys

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/15/items/CeskyLivesEpisode164-illustrationsFromTheBigBookForBoys/Clep164-illustrationsFromTheBigBookForBoys.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks song is real simple I guess, a couple folks I know have gotten together, seems like a good idea, this is a tune for them, by way of encouragement. It's also about me, about my perspective on the possibility of such a thing for myself, me trying to tell myself to own that I'm an ok guy and stop thinking about such stuff, start working on my own shit. Which I've been trying to do, got out and played in front of people on Sunday and cancelled a date with a random internet stranger to do so, because who wants a random internet stranger anyways. Energy, it's all about where your energy goes, maybe...?

 

Anyways, here's a drawing/video to go with the tune:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DS-28tmL6c&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for your time, hope you enjoy.

Episode 163-From Way Down Here

 

https://ia601508.us.archive.org/29/items/CeskyLivesEpisode163-fromWayDownHere/Clep163-fromWayDownHere.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is for people who are way too hard on themselves, I'd say I am sometimes, possibly we all are, I think it kinda speaks for itself so I won't type an essay here. Hope you enjoy it.

 

Here's a video/drawing to go with it:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRKeKYWobsk&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for your ears and your time, much appreciated.

 

Episode 162-Cecil

 

https://ia601501.us.archive.org/20/items/CeskyLivesEpisode162-cecil/CLEP162-Cecil.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune was written quietly on a uke, but recorded loudly with distortion and drums and bass and the like. Lyrics wise it's another abstract thing, kind of about mental illness, feeling a little crazy. Anyways, I'm not sure how I feel about it but it was definitely fun to make, so I hope it's a fun listen. Thanks for your time and ears, if you wanna see a video/drawing that goes with the tune, that'd be here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia3y6efHvEE&feature=youtu.be

Episode 161-Just Be Less Of A Dick, (& You'll Be Happier)

https://ia601507.us.archive.org/13/items/CeskyLivesEpisode161-justBeLessOfADickYoullBeHappier/Clep161-justBeLessOfADickYoullBeHappier.mp3

 

Hello listeners. Facebook told me this is International Women's Day 2016. So here's a song about how men who sleaze onto women suck and are unreachable and behave like tantrum-y children when rejected, (I've seen it, it's hilarious but can also be frightening because they're big and often like to hit things or other big children, or just whoever's in their way). It's judgemental for sure but the bridge is me confessing that I thought maybe this worked for a while there, that manly-man-ness was achieved this way. It isn't. I never tried it either, I'm incapable, doesn't make me any better than anyone, it's just nature and nurture and all that stuff.

Anyways, hopefully it's a fun listen, not supposed to be taken too seriously.

Happy International Women's Day, Women are awesome, treat them with respect and dignity, (just like I'm sure you treat everyone anyways).

 

Thanks for listening, here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rybmHF9DqqU&feature=youtu.be

Episode 160-Oxford Street

https://ia601508.us.archive.org/2/items/CeskyLivesEpisode160-oxfordStreet/Clep160-oxfordStreet.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a hyperbolised spun dark telling of meeting an old buddy recently, which was great, but can be spun darkly via too much thinking on purpose in order to make a song. It's a short, banjolele/synthy thing, low energy, because I am, but soon I'll be sleepin so that's OK. Here's a video for it:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4GZbxgKNGY&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for listening.

Episode 159-Don't You Wish You Had A Daughter Like Peggy Ray?

 

https://ia801508.us.archive.org/13/items/CeskyLivesEpisode159-dontYouWishYouHadADaughterLikePeggyRay/Clep159-dontYouWishYouHadADaughterLikePeggyRay.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is about Margaret Mary Ray, (nicknamed Peggy), who suffered from schizophrenia, stalked David Letterman for a long while and then an astronaut named Story Musgrave, and died by suicide, kneeling down with her head on a railway track. Tragic, horrible story, I read, (and can see), that the pain of mental illness isn't entirely wrapped up in the illness itself but is heightened in lucid moments, when you see no way out, when you can see the damage that you're doing, or the state that you're in more clearly. That's what got me about this story, that her suicide was all about clarity, so horrible, so bloody sad. Anyways, definitely worth a song, mental health is a serious thing.

 

Here's a video to go with the tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SCWlmufxFU&feature=youtu.be

Episode 158-Joseph Smith

 

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/3/items/CeskyLivesEpisode158-josephSmith_242/Clep158-josephSmith.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This week's tune is about how I've been hangin out with some Mormon missionaries, (if you listen all the time you've heard about 'em before), and talking about Jesus and the like. I went to a Mormon church today and was kinda slightly disturbed by a lot of it, uneasy like, this is a song about how when I'm speaking with the missionaries at home about Jesus related things it seems pretty OK, fairly helpful, but that formulaic rule driven mini societies created from off shoots of some of Jesus words are probably not for me.

Here's a video with a drawing of Joseph Smith, (founding father or Mormonism), and Jesus as anthropologists think he would've looked like, to go with the tune.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Sx1YMlzaY&feature=youtu.be

 

Hope you enjoy, and thanks for your time.

 

 

 

Episode 157-Kickin The Cat

 

https://ia601503.us.archive.org/23/items/CeskyLivesEpisode157-kickinTheCat/Clep157-kickinTheCat.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a fairly straight forward thing about me being a little paranoid, anxious and also super grumpy at a pub. I'll let it speak for itself I think.

Hope you enjoy, and thanks for your time. Here's a video of me drawing a cat-squid to go with the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9koRKUA2Q_A&feature=youtu.be

 

Episode 156-Scratches

https://ia601500.us.archive.org/20/items/CeskyLivesEpisode156-scratches/CLEP156-Scratches.mp3

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a dark one, about dark things that happened to me a long while ago, and just kind of dark in and of it's own right in a 'what the hell do any of these words actually mean?' kind of a way. I watched Black Swan recently, great film, hence the title, and also the feel of the thing probably.

Hope you enjoy it anyways, and thanks for your time.

 

Here's a video to go with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOOpCCNC7I4&feature=youtu.be