EXISTENTIAL HERO

sounds like an unnatural disaster on 16mm.

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I simultaneously regret and don’t regret doing more with this song. Written on the eve of my study abroad adventures in New Zealand circa late 2007/early 2008, I recorded this demo on a consumer canon powershot and then I filled out the rest with a MicroKORG synth, my signature reverb’d harmonica thing,  and some stock airplane sound effect. 

The song got lost in the shuffle, but I might be my favorite song I’ve ever written. It’s just plainspoken and honest without trying to gussy it up too much. I like the performance a lot. Everything about it still feels so immediate to this day. 

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This is the closing credits of a film I wrote and directed called The Premiere. This “dance floor version” was an update to a song I wrote a few years earlier. I called this film (made in 2010 a year after graduating from college) my In The Mood For Love because in trying to understand a failed relationship by making the film, I ended up falling in love with the person all over again. Don’t try this at home folks.

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I still really like this song. The summer of 2008 after I had returned home from studying abroad in New Zealand I spent most of my time in Santa Barbara taking a writing class, playing shows and hanging out with friends. Jon Crocker is a wonderful dude and he steps out of his normal ramblin' gamblin' music mode to crush it here. 

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An alternate version of a song off Has Potential (2009), I definitely feel a heavier nostalgia looking back at this time where I honestly had no idea what I was going to do after just graduating from UC Santa Barbara. This version encapsulates more of the trepidation while still remaining hopeful.

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Did this website type out lyrics to my songs? If so that's nuts!

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Tri Lingual & Friends Vol. 3, by Tri Lingual Records

28 track album

I had the honor of including "Why I Deserve To Be Chased..." Off Life & Lies on this compilation of lovely and wonderful artists.

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buttons. circa 2008.

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this sweet young man covered one of my tunes. Just discovered this even though it's a few years old. Really fantastic.

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a beautiful noise cover of Donna Lewis’s “I Love You Always Forever” by SFIAS w/ The Anchorites.

it’s like drowning in pixels.

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Hey I released the last existential hero record a year ago today. I wrote all the songs when I was living in London. A lot of awesome people play and sing on it.

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Seriously there are some amazing people on it. Looking back, it feels overly fussy and a little all over the place stylistically, but I am proud of it.

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Update

My last record, The Life & Lies of Steven Ray Morris is leaving iTunes, Spotfy, emusic, etc. soon, but it will still available on bandcamp.

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Existential Hero FINAL TALLY

2005-2012

232 songs:

11 albums

5 EPs

1 split (w/ The Top Grossing Films of 1984)

various compilations, covers and tribute appearances.

> 50 shows including a West Coast tour and shows in Japan and New Zealand

Download the entire Existential Hero discography as one massive zip file here.

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The Life & Lies of Steven Ray Morris, the eleventh and final record of mine under the Existential Hero moniker, was released in March this year.

It is appropriate that it is the last record as Existential Hero because it was made during a very transitional period, from London grad school...

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my "retirement" announcement and musings on my stint as Existential Hero on today's six-month anniversary of The Life & Lies of Steven Ray Morris.

Thanks everyone, it's been unreal.

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DJBJ over at Sunny Beats on 88.9FM KUCI @ UCI played "Why I Deserve to be Chased into the Streets by the Millions of the Broken-Hearted," on her radio show Thursday. 

She always plays great tunes. You can check her out online too.

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new record on Spotify

where all the cool kids stream!

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Stars

top records: Set Yourself On Fire, The Five Ghosts, Sad Robots EP

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Rilo Kiley

top records: More Adventurous, Take Offs & Landings, Execution Of All Things