Saturday 30 December 2017
Episode 255-Door Mat Boy
Tuesday 19 December 2017
Episode 254-Golden Still
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a kind of a free thought experiment as far as the words go I guess, I can link bits of it to real life things but they don't piece together particularly well. Anyways, there's a positive feeling in it that comes from someplace so hopefully that translates. This is the kinda tune I'd like to fill up with layers of stuff and make sound lovely but for this thing, it's just a rough first recording, for slightly more polished stuff, (mostly), go to cesky.bandcamp.com, if you want to, free albums, totally free, downloadable and the like. Anyways, hope this is a nice listen, thanks for your time and ears.
Tuesday 12 December 2017
Episode 253-H
Hello listeners, this weeks tune is an ad-libbed baritone uke finger picky thing about somebody I knew a while back who died, don't really wanna say who, not that anybody probably reads this, or knows me if they do, but if they do it's kinda maybe personal....? I dunno, if you know me and pick it I don't care so much I guess. Anyways, hope it's a nice listen, it was very freeing to just sit and do whatever and let it be.
Thanks for your time and ears, here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
Sunday 3 December 2017
Episode 252-English Trees
Not sure what really to write about this one, so here's the lyrics, to speak for themselves I guess...:
ENGLISH TREES
So tired
so tired like the yellowed cutting blades of grass
our city council grows right by the ocean
so there’s soft fall for the kids
climbing up these English trees all knotted skin
watching over the families
with eskies full of sadness and anger
cigarettes and love disaster
all the people breathing
and out
so still
so focussed fully on my paper plate
my eyes
are wide and white like maybe I am ill
my knife and fork
sunk in my face
a pale white plastic moon
that cannot look
on you
nor shine down any kind of light on
the families with
their eskies full
of endless anger and sadness
She dangles softly in the sky
long sleeves in gripping fingers
indicating she has understood the night
a pale white plastic moon
a pale white plastic moon is crashing down
I hope you’re well
I hope you last a little longer than
the feeling
than the feeling
than the feeling
of breathing in and out
Thanks for listening, here's a video/drawing that goes with the tune:
Sunday 26 November 2017
Episode 251-Probably You Still Do
Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a real low end recording Dictaphone thing, a uke song but with book ends of a bit of a song my 9 year old son made up about the progression of man, kind of, I think..., seemed like that's what he was telling me anyways. Hope it's a nice listen, my words are about trying not to say negative things about anyone because it's maybe extremely unhelpful, and also about reconciling past things and not being cyclically complain-headed I guess, which we can all be, but I definitely can, somewhat.
Anyways, here's a video/drawing to go with it. Cheers for your ears.
Tuesday 21 November 2017
Episode 250-Angry Angel
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is about self hatred, religious people and bad experiences, it's not all negative though, I think it's actually fairly positive underneath, like a pointing out the ridiculousness of self hatred kinda thing, there's also a reference to The Omen in there, and the video for this week is a mashed up horror film thing with the scene referenced in it, if you can pick it in the layers and such, probably you can. Anyways, cheers to you for listening, indeed.
Here's the video:
Monday 13 November 2017
Episode 249-Fridge
Hello listeners,this weeks tune I wrote really venting about horrible things and I think it turned out kind of a little more hopeful than I thought, which is good. Anyways, hopefully it's a fun listen, cheers for your ears and time.
Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
Tuesday 7 November 2017
Episode 248-Kind Of Alright
https://ia801502.us.archive.org/5/items/CeskyLivesEpisode248-kindOfAlright/Clep248-kindOfAlright.mp3
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is another Baritone Ukulele dictaphone recording, it's about people, trusting some of them, feeling shit but not giving in entirely to feeling shit, things like this. Maybe it'll make some kind of sense to you? Anyways, many thanks for your time & ears. Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
Monday 30 October 2017
Episode 247-Comfortable
Hello listeners, this new recording method I'm using, acoustic and Dictaphone, seems OK really...? If anybody listening or reading has an opinion on the matter I'd be interested to hear, clo5dimly@hotmail.com.. Anyways, the song this week is about living inside of instead of outside of yourself, and being stuck with that, which inevitably, everyone always is in a way, you can't be your absolute honest self, you'd be a mean mean person. Joking kind of there but you get what I mean I imagine, anyways, sometimes you'd also be a great person who honestly compliments people about things that are actually admirable, point is, were all a little insane I imagine, not knowing really what anybody else is actually actually thinking...... ... . . . . . ...... ---- . . .. . .?
Hope it's a fun listen anyways, I think it's a relatively hopeful little number.
Here's a drawing/video to go with it:
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Episode 246-The Sawed Off Fingers Of Your Woman
Hello listeners. I live in Rockingham, Western Australia, it has a habit of being labelled as full of drug dealers and darkness, this tune is me making that into a cartoony retelling of a guy going to a pizza place to pick up his pizza and being confronted by some backwards awful shit. Anyways, it's in no way serious, I like Rockingham mostly, nice oceans, mostly decent folks that I've met and dealt with and such. Hope it's a fun listen anyways.
Here's a video/drawing to go with it:
Wednesday 18 October 2017
Episode 245-Your Paperback God
Hello listeners, this weeks song is a baritone ukulele thing, dictaphone recorded and not fancied up at all, because I'm tired and maybe aiming at the real basics here and the adding of other instruments for albums and the like, (possibly, I might get addicted to messing with many an instrument weekly again, who knows). The song is about how I've been super tired and grumpy and dismal of late but aiming at choosing differently, aiming at loving my kids properly and cheering the fuck up some. Anyways, here's a drawing/video to go with it, hope it's a nice listen.
Thanks for your time.
Tuesday 10 October 2017
Episode 244-Glory Be
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is another Baritone Uke song, (new toy, compelled to play it a lot), about history being something that makes you stronger if you let it, but at the time, when it was the present, it sucked alot, about survival I guess, and also there's an E.T reference in there for good measure. Nice simple tune anyways, hope it brings you calm vibes and the like.
Here's the video thing to go with it, some layered elbalming videos and a little bit of Golden Axe, (Sega Mega Drive, great game).
Tuesday 3 October 2017
Episode 243-Poseidon's Daughter
Hello listeners. This weeks tune was sung with much boogers remaining in my head from having a cold, but nothing's perfect huh. The songs about remembering through rose coloured glasses, I think...? First tune written on a new baritone uke I now posses, happily.
Here's a video/drawing to with the tune:
Thanks for your time.
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Episode 242-All The Tapes
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a dictaphone recording of a song about lonely nerdism, specifically about folks who post long rants on the internet against pop-culture etc. I've recently gotten way back into some ridiculously nerdy things myself and I really don't see what there is to complain about, video games from when I was tiny are being basically remade over and over in progressively more visually amazing ways and life is pretty good when I'm sitting in-front of one of them. I guess maybe there's a line where addiction to such things can turn to self hatred and feeling disconnected and such and you become a ranting lunatic on the internet. May that never be me, (also take that with a grain of salt, I'm semi-joking, nerd rants are fine).
Here's a mashed up layered video thing to go with the tune:
Thanks for listening.
Tuesday 19 September 2017
Episode 241-Cake In The Bath
Tuesday 12 September 2017
Episode 240-Goin' Down E.B
Hello listeners, this weeks song is a distorted Ukulele thing about consumerism, and how sometimes I kinda like it, even though I know I shouldn't. I like books, video games, movies, comics etc. these take a fair ammount of my money, when I have any, and that's kinda something I guess I'm OK with.....? Anyways, video games especially have been taking back the territory they lost in my brain for so many years, useless or not, I love 'em. The song's clearly a sarcastic dig at myself, and I guess all of us though, cause we really don't need all that shit.
Here's a video of people shopping to go with the tune.
Tuesday 5 September 2017
Episode 239-Words
Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a finger picky acoustic guitar thing about words, how they can hurt people and should be used carefully, maybe even sparingly, I guess, although I'm inherently an odd mix of sometimes quiet sometimes won't shut the hell up myself. Anyways, hopefully it's a nice listen, very succinct, not a lot of words, just the right amount hopefully.
Here's a video to go with the tune:
Thanks for listening.
Tuesday 29 August 2017
Episode 238-Sherlock
Hello listeners, this weekend I decided to chill out some, very purposefully, and drag out every piece of musical anything at all that I had, hook them all up to a recording device and adlib a thing. This weeks song is that thing. I had a lot of fun making it, hopefully it's a fun listen, obviously it's a giant audio mess also, but that's kind of the point, once only made up on the spot kind of a thing.
Anyways, here's a video to go with it:
Tuesday 22 August 2017
Episode 237-Religious Rants on Sick Day
Friday 18 August 2017
Episode 236-Needles
Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a fictional picture story kinda thing about a woman brutally murdering her boyfriend with a shoe, hope you like it. Here's a video to go with the tune:
Tuesday 8 August 2017
Episode 235-Fifth Edition
Hello listeners, this weeks song is a comedy kinda thing about an imaginary Dungeons & Dragons playing nerd girlfriend, part of me is a huge nerd, probably more of the culture hound kind, but still, that makes it worse, I think about how Mario & Luigi are brothers and which one carries the heaviest burden, clearly Luigi, but anyways, nerd stuff excites me, so I've written about it. Hopefully the tune is a fun one to listen to, here's a mash up of old 80's D&D adds and cartoons to go with it:
Tuesday 1 August 2017
Episode 234-Some Friendly Buffalo
Hello listeners, this weeks tune is another looooose distorted uke thing about a couple getting off a train and a kids with deformed fingers being sold to a freak show by his dad. It's just a random mesh simple stream of consciousness thing, I was trying not to think when I wrote it, I've been thinking too much of late. Anyways, hope you dig it/enjoy it and here's a video to go with it, more layered random things, also some Nintendo, if you know it you'll spot it.
As always, thanks for your time and ears.
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Episode 233-Puddle
Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a distorted ukulele thing about I have no idea what, maybe walking around with hefty secrets I guess, something like that, it's abstract and was written basically on automatic anyways, cause I'm REEEEALLLLY tired and my brain and life can only handle so much of the kind of thing I wrote last week, which is super serious mental madness stuff. Anyways, hopefully this is a nice listen, it's slow-ish, fuzzy, the words are not super good at making sense.
Thanks to all the folks who listen, it's hugely appreciated. As always here's a video to go with the tune, no drawing this week, just a couple of layered Nintendo videos and some art animation stuff by me all skewed and the like, because I wanted to change it up a bit.
Monday 17 July 2017
Episode 232-Get Some
Hello listeners. This weeks song will not be explained in anyway as it is extreeeeeeeemmmmmmllllyyyy PERSONAL! But you can read into it what you want, hopefully it does some kind of a thing that doesn't refer to me in anyway, at least not by name. It's acoustic and finger picky and kinda quietish, a little angry, bit sad, see what you think.
Thanks for your time and ears, here's a video/drawing to go with the song:
Tuesday 11 July 2017
Episode 231-Calico Sack
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a messy kind of not really finished idea, distorted thing about a guy dragging a body around and saying that he's been watching the end of the world on his telly. It kind of harks back to things I maybe would've written when I was 15, 16, so, silly over the top darkish silliness. Anyways, that's all I had the energy for this week, next week I'll attempt to bring you some finger picky guitar and lyrics that are not so miserable. Thanks for your time and ears. Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
Tuesday 4 July 2017
Episode 230-Angry Old F**k
Hello listeners. This weeks song wasn't written this week, wrote it a couple weeks ago when I was having quite the shit time, times change, I'm not so bad now, moving forward etc. Anyways, so this is like whiney angry silly music I guess, on purpose, definitely supposed to be over the top, but also a little about how aging makes younger people seem a little ridiculous at times, there's a place I've been to a couple times, a late night bar with DJ's who play mostly terrible music and occasionally something good, this song I'd say came from that place, I really don't like that place all that much, or at least not the young crowd in there, because I'm getting older and would rather read a good book than watch young people trying to find someone to have sex with in a public place where alcohol's being sold aplenty. See, I'm grumpy and old. Anyways, hope it's a fun listen, take none of it seriously and thanks for your time and ears.
Here's a video/drawing to go with it:
Tuesday 27 June 2017
Episode 229-She Gave You Wine & Cigarettes
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a real simple Banjo & Uke thing, (I wish I had a xylophone, that's be in there too if I did), it's about friends looking out for me and me not seeing it, in the past, accepting that people can have good intentions towards you and the like, all mental health things I guess, self worth issues and the like and aiming at beating them. Anyways, universal stuff I imagine. Hope it's a nice listen and thanks for your time and ears. If you want to include your eyes watch the video below:
Tuesday 20 June 2017
Episode 228-Devil's Child
Hello listeners. This week's tune is a long winded patience testing odd thing based on a doco I saw called 'Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music', it's droney and messy, and repetitive, it's since had it's entire middle cut out and been sped up but here's the original idea anyways, I think it's probly not too bad....? It's about kids at Christian music festivals in the US being led into 'feeling' something, and the horrific pressure that these kids put on themselves to do that and to be something I think nobody can be, which is perfect, holy etc. I dig Jesus, but I don't dig him being misrepresented and used as a tool for press ganging people into 'right' thinking.
Anyways, like I said, patience tester, if you dig it, much appreciated, if not, well that's OK, this weekly thing is for all comers, every song I write, bad or good.
cesky.bandcamp.com/
is where you get the ones that have been picked out of the huge mess and strung together for proper reasons and the like.
Anyways, thanks for your time and ears, here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
Tuesday 13 June 2017
Episode 227-Fictional Juliet
Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a simple acoustic guitar thing about my tragically optimistic views on potential romance in a world that doesn't seem particularly interested in such things. Being above the age of five I realise that popular media sells us 'romance' as an answer to life from the get go, I don't buy into that, but I do fall for people frequently, or at least have in the past in what I would say is a fits the bill kind of emotion heavy kind of way. This maybe isn't a good thing, but it's made some songs that sound kinda calm 'n nice happen, and this is one of them, not directed at a specific person at all, just at the general idea.
Hope it's a nice listen anyways. Thanks for your time & ears, here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
Tuesday 6 June 2017
Episode 226-Billie
Hello listeners, this weeks tune is about one of my most favourite singers in the history of singing, namely Billie Holiday. She had a really shitty life, but made beauty for other folks out of it and that's just plain amazing to me. Anyways, this one's about her early life, forced into prostitution by her own mum fairly early in life. The song's a messy grunting distorted thing more about men than it is about her, but also about her rising above that even then with/through music. Anyways, hope it's an interesting listen and thanks for your time and ears, here's a video/drawing to go with it:
Tuesday 30 May 2017
Episode 225-Spiderman
Hello listeners. Like a bunch of other tunes I've written this weeks song is about mental illness, or lack of mental health at least, which I think everyone feels/deals with in some way. Anyways, this is specifically harking back to social anxiety experiences I've had and my up and down connection with spirituality and the church and such, how the church in the past has not been particularly good with mental health issues, (but I'd say it's getting better maybe...?)
Anyways, under all that it's also just a song, and fictional hyperbole and pictures and the like. Hope you enjoy it anyways. Here's a video/drawing to go with it.
Thanks for your time & ears.
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Episode 224-JB HiFi
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a hyperbolised fiction about a girl I think is a lil cute at my local JB HiFi, I don't get nervous like the song says, or even go there to see said girl, I go there to buy shit loads of music and become a poor person, but it make a nice picture I hope and also I think everybody has a crush of some kind on somebody who works at shop they go to a lot, (probably?) Hope you enjoy anyways.
Here's a drawing/video to got with the tune:
Thanks for your time & ears.
P.S, have a couple of albums streaming here:
& here:
that you can also download from bandcamp here:
for free.
Tuesday 16 May 2017
Episode 223-You Got A Milky Way
Hello listeners. This week tune is an upbeat-ish, (for me anyways), Banjo thing for folks who lack confidence, or feel small in a big world when what's inside them is way shinier than they could probably ever realise. There's a lot of people like this in the world, even just in my own personal very little world that hasn't got a hell of a lot of people in it. Hope it's a nice listen for you anyways and maybe is encouraging in some way. Thanks for your time & ears, here's a drawing/video to go with the tune:
and also, if you're interested I have some free albums available here:
(just put zero dollars in the name your price box, or send me a couple bucks if you're feeling generous).
Tuesday 9 May 2017
Episode 222-Sad Boy House
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is about a guy I saw in a documentary series called "Turned On" who was internet dating multiple women and vanishing on them when something that had to be worked through in even the slightest way came up. To his credit he saw that what he was doing was dumb when someone confronted him about it and mended his ways and such but the point of the thing was that internet dating is a place where people get away with shallow behaviour, or at least indulge in it ALOT and maybe don't really get away with it not hurting people, but they feel like they are. Fascinating, crazy arse terrible stuff anyways. Hope the tune is a good listen for you, thanks for your time & ears, here's a video/drawing to go with it:
Tuesday 2 May 2017
Episode 221-Sale Of The Century
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is about a fictional unemployed person who doesn't do a hell of a lot and watches old VHS tapes of Sale Of The Century instead of cleaning his house. Sale Of The Century brings back warm memories of my grandparents super massive tube TV and bear rug, I loved that show. Anyways, I hope this is a fun listen and thanks for your time & ears.
Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
Tuesday 25 April 2017
Episode 220-Black Shoes, Big Eyes
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a droney banjolele thing about feeling mentally ill, exhausted and disconnected and the like while out seeing some live music a couple weeks ago. It's exaggerated somewhat but to some extent the lyrics sum up what my brain can be like on a bad day. Anyways, there's also some jokey stuff in there, over the top misery stuff. Hope it's a good listen and thanks for your ears and time. Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
Tuesday 18 April 2017
Episode 219-Fish Luv
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a distorted Ukulele song about how attraction to a person is not necessarily something that equates with the pursuit of that person being a good idea. The title comes from a Jewish proverb about a guy who says he loves a fish he's eating, and a rabbi lays into him about how if he actually loved the fish he'd not be eating it, it'd be in the ocean free and alive. Anyways, there's a lot of words in this one, and they're far from serious, hopefully it's a good listen. Thanks for your time and ears, here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
Tuesday 11 April 2017
Episode 218-Lady King
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a simple, fast ukulele thing in honour of all the ladies in the world who have survived and thrived and excelled despite abuse from empty nasty men in their lives, idiot partners, terrible dads, random nasty people etc. I've met, as has everyone I guess, a whole lot of people who are thriving when they would have had every right to just shut down straight up at some point in their lives, it's encouraging, and excellent, and these people deserve some praise and kudos and the like. Hopefully it's a good listen for you anyways. Thanks for your time & ear.
Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
Tuesday 4 April 2017
Episode 217-Talk To Me
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a slow depressing mandolin thing about using life's mess as an excuse to make more mess, which I know I spent a large amount of time doing in the past few years and so anything sounding like a dis in this song is aimed squarely at myself, in retrospect however, I'm not a huge downer on my own self at all times, but in a song sometimes you get into that kinda thing. Anyways, a huge thankyou to all the folks who put up with me during the miss adventures I created and here's to intentional adventures in the future, that are positive.
Thanks for your time & ears, here's a drawing/video to go with the tune:
Tuesday 28 March 2017
Episode 216-Lions Head
https://ia601501.us.archive.org/10/items/CeskyLivesEpisode216-lionsHead/Clep216-lionsHead.mp3
Hello listeners. This weeks tune comes from some old dark places so I won't tell you what it's about so much, except to say that it's positive underneath, despite probably sounding not at all that way. Hopefully it's a nice listen for you anyways. Thanks for your time and ears. Below is a link to a drawing/video to go with the song:
Monday 20 March 2017
Episode 215-F*knugget
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a bit of reminiscence on the effects that way too much drinking can have on me, and how not doing that is good. It's also about self deprecation I guess, but not in a bad way, more aimed at past things than things happening today. There's some stuff about Jesus in there too, losing to win and the like, the conundrum that is seemingly awful behaviour being rewarded with success and gain and such, but maybe that gain is empty and attempting to do better in a human sense is more important. I hope so anyways. Hope it's a fun listen anyways, bit of swearing in there if that's not your thing. Thanks for your time and ears, and support.
Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
Tuesday 14 March 2017
Episode 214-The Leper, The Cripple & The Light Of The World
Hello listeners. I've been listening to a whole lot of 'The Innocence Mission' a band who sings songs about Jesus, (and a ton of other things), because they believe in the man, but not in a preachy way, in a really personal lovely, excellent way, I recommend you listen to them if you dig calming kinda sounds. Anyways that and my reconnection of late with the whole Jesus thing led to the writing of this song, which is not as calm as Innocence Mission, but is written like I would write a thing rather than just using words out of the Bible like 'worship' and 'hallelujah' and the like, (although hallelujah is a pretty good word). As always I'm not preaching at you, these are just things happening in my head, acceptance and the like from a higher power being not such a terrible idea to latch on to it seems. Hope it's a nice listen anyways, the idea is to find a way to sing about this stuff without alienating or excluding anyone, because it's a part of my experience and I write songs to share my experience. Thanks for your time and ears, here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:
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