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Tumblr really needs to fix how it handles multiple blogs on the same email.

I am thinking of starting over with a new tumblr for this one because it is a pain in the ass to promote it when interactions with other tumblrs shows up as my other blog. ugh

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So, I have decided to make a little post about each of the songs on my new EP, Undusted Still every day, detailing how the song came to be and what it means. 

First up is "Person I Am." In the past couple of months I have been interested in the concept of "world-weariness," I even posted a poem about that last night. This song starts out describing that resigned feeling and the lies about not caring and that it will be easy to start over tomorrow. 

I feel like I have all of this terrible, ugly momentum pushing me along and that I can't break free from it to act now that my desires have changed. Figuring this out doesn't fix it. But, I need to change. Surely I'll reach the end of this inertia before I reach the end of myself. Right? 

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Undusted Still

So, over the summer I wrote a 6-song acoustic pop-punk EP that I am now calling Undusted Still. I decided that I didn't want to conflate it with the Cypriots folky-stuff, so I started uploading it to a soundcloud under the name Archivist. Recently, I rerecorded some vocal tracks and decided that I am pretty much done with trying to fix these songs, though I could probably do so forever. So, I've decided to put them on bandcamp. You can download the whole set for $5, or just get the earlier versions from my soundcloud. 

Consume!

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Model of the Universe

TUESDAY: read a novel about “world-weariness” How is this character’s ennui born out of internal and external factors? I find it hard to focus, my thoughts pressed against the edge of a sphere and expanding so I can never reach the center, model of the universe. That internal no longer exists. He cries intermittently and I want to admire that. Common modern folk music trope: I must leave now or I am trapped, I am a self-exile. Come to my hometown for me to sing along.

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Wrote this instead of paying attention today. Thought it was serviceable. 

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Pop-punk EP Incoming

Setting up that bandcamp, hustlin dat paypuh

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I wrote this song walking back home from class one day this week. It's simple, traditional, happy. Bah!

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optimistic like you never fail like you never fail to be and I’m just trying to hold where I am to hold fast where I am to me and it’s raining but the sun’s out and I know that you remember how shitty it feels to be cynical and you should never wish it on yourself but sometimes it doesn’t need help so oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh I apologize if I seem weighted down with insecurity I just want to ditch these bad ideas that I string along with me and I could bury them in tall grass or in the holes I leave when I start but never finish digging at what it means to me and you’re singing but I’m still asleep And I hope that you remember how how shitty it feels to wake up alone and I always did that to myself and I never thought I needed help ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

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cypriots is officially a TMBG cover band

get with it yall

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I've been sort of obsessed with drawing circles in photoshop recently. I was working on a title card for a juggling video I'm making and messing with it resulted in this. Possibly Polyanimal album cover?

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Archivist

Undusted Still EP

1. Person I Am

2. Homes

3. Ten Years From Now

4. Synonyms

5. Parting

6. Alright Where I Was

7. Dry Lightning

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Hey man, gonna be honest totally stoked on the new cypriots material from the ep,prob a long shot but if you're into acoustic pop punk check out all for amends a new project from the UK you probably wont like.

Thanks! The new EP is actually going to be released under the name Archivist, as I don't feel that they fit within the Cypriots set of songs. It basically a set of rougher, angstier songs that wouldn't fit on Polyanimal. I would really like to get it done very soon. I am recording one more song for it, so hopefully it will be done in a couple of weeks and I'll throw it up on bandcamp.  

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Another new track off of that Archivist EP I’m working on, Undusted Still. This track is called “Synonyms.”

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I wish that it was cold again so I could blame these loose ends on the weather for a little while until I have it figured out I’ve been counting all  my footprints appreciating permanence and one day I know they’ll be washed away side by side we were Self-assured I just wanted to say: please believe I’ve been finding the point between the truth that I wanted and the baited breath I pinned it on and I know that you can’t be surprised with the choices I made with the choices I used to shatter my life Trying to find what’s best for me approximate uncertainty and fixate on anxieties I never had before My only guess is based on examining my skeleton and even that is hidden underneath my skin Hard to think that I was so naive I just wanted to say please believe I’ve been finding the point between the truth that I wanted and the baited breath I pinned it on and I know that you can’t be surprised with the choices I made with the choices I used to shatter my life You could try to keep me warm but I never did the same for you With heavy stock in synonyms for things that I forgot to do please believe I’ve been finding the point between the truth that I wanted and the baited breath I pinned it on and I know that you can’t be surprised with the choices I made with the choices I used to shatter my life

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If you post more to your tumblr, more people will see it in related tags and follow you and then your band can finally make it and you can drop the pretenses of wanting to be where you are and actually go somewhere.

Thomas Jefferson

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Here's a song I wrote for a pop punk EP that I'm still working on called Undusted Still. The song is called "Person I Am."

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a silly thought from 4am

I hold my breath long enough to hear my heart beat once. It isn’t anything strange, but it resounds in my chest and I feel like a sounding board, a tuning fork, a diaphragm. I don’t miss it while it’s gone, but I appreciate its repetition; advancing guardedly, exhaling forward.

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Nick Laffey! What a video! Thanks for your work and thanks to Carl G Martin for the filming and editing. Hot shots! 

lots of really nice moments in the video like the the full revers flips into swinging wrist traps and the fat on fat balance lifts mixed with the rolls. My favorite trick was at 1:15 with 2 clubs rolling of each side of the head pattern. Super good looking and fresh! 

The music, filming, and juggling really gave me a lift and inspiration to make more! Thanks for making the video guys and congratulations on the MSN post! 

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This is pretty much the greatest thing in the world.