Matt Sev(rens)

The flyer was done by my friend Billy Hong. He has a comic called My Broskies which is really funny.

A collab, my idea for a comic and he drew it up, made it awesome.

Some others:

So I was at a show and I went into the bathroom to wipe my armpits because I was really sweaty and smelt bad, and just as I was grabbing the paper towels, a guy came in and this conversation transpired:

Guy: You’re really hot!

Me: …Thanks?

Guy: Are you gay or straight?

Me: Uh straight

Guy: Are you sure?

Me: Yeah, I actually came here with my girlfriend

Guy: Oh because you look kind of gay, are you like.. 99% sure or 150%?

Me: Uh, 150%

Guy: Are you sure?

Me: Yes

Guy: So like you’ve never gotten head from guy?

Me: Uh…. no?

Guy: Oh ok.

On the one hand it was kind of a nice compliment, on the other hand I’m not sure why he felt like he needed to ask if I’ve ever gotten head from a guy after the rest of the bulk of the conversation.  So that kind of amused me.

Anyways, My band (Osabear) is playing a show at Sophia’s Thai Kitchen in Davis April 19th at 8:00pm with Lacey Macri and Olive Drive. We’ll be playing a lot of Matt Sevrens songs you know (Renegade, Song For this Story, Dog Days and Your Racy Reactions, Running High) plus new material (Miles Davis, Statues, Dear 911) etc.  So be sure to check it out. We’ll do our best to entertain you.

Holy shit you’re gonna get a LOT content this blog! A video, AND four new songs, AND my insightful commentary. WIN!

Anyways, not many of you know this, but I went through an electronic phase. Basically I got my hands on fruity loops and I just started making stuff. But I never had a good mic so most of these are just instrumental electronic tracks (except the last one) 

The first track that I actually succeeded in making sound good was called Painting Bells in Amsterdam. It was actually the first electronic song I did and it kind of sounds like the title.

I also tried making an acoustic song into an electronic song. Kind of came out cute. It’s called Legosaurus (get it… like stegosaurus) Granted there are actually vocals to this song, so the music is kind of repetitive, but I never got around to recording the vocals well.

Then I got a little poppier with a song called Gay in the 50s which I also kind of think sounds like the title. This isn’t actually the final version. I lost a lot of my project files and thus lost a lot of songs, so I only have an early version of this. Still worth listening I think.

Finally, my efforts culminated in me attempting to bring together my acoustic music with my electronic stuff. I actually think it came together rather well, and I like this song a lot. I basically just played the track over my speakers and played guitar/ sang to it to record it. Really lo-fi. I lost the project file to this song so this is all I have left. The songs called Rufio and the Boys. I’ve been trying to re make the project file but it doesn’t quite sound the same. So this may be as far as this song gets.

And FINALLY here is the new video. Its a cover of When Stars Go Blue by Ryan Adams. There’s a link to a free MP3 of the track at the actual youtube page (double click the video)

I just realized I haven’t done a real full blog since March 11th.  You know what that makes me? A dick. By the way, anyone who said “A Dick” before I actually said it is in fact, a dick. Though I don’t know why you would be saying aloud your responses to each sentence I write. 

Anyways (sentence fragment). Recently I just really want to play shows. I think it’s ridiculous how hard it is for me to still get a show. I know that’s cocky, but why should it be cocky to think I’ve paid my dues. I’ve been doing this music thing for a long time, I’ve played a LOT of shows (10 is a lot right? JK lolz). When I start a new band should I really have to beg and plead and try to convince people to let me have a show? I don’t know. It’s this weird circle. To get a show, you have to have a fan base, to get a fan base you have to play shows. It’s like that with a  lot of things in music. 

Understand though, that the music I’ve been kicking around with Jason (drummer) and Patrick (bass/ other vocals) sounds really good. That too… sounds cocky. And this blog is full of references to dicks and cockiness… If only every person in the world could just come and sit in our jam space. For a long time in my life, my music sounded like shit, now that it’s good shouldn’t it be easier to get shows? Not necessarily (I only type that last bit as a preemptive strike to literalists who don‘t understand rhetorical questions and feel the need to answer that question). 

It would be nice to have a manager, to be taken care of and have them do all the booking. I just… I just want to be jasmine on the flying carpet being shown…  a whole new world (of music), except… Aladdin is a hot chick, STUFFED with nachos and chocolate (best manager ever!). You might think… then why not just be Aladin (my own manager?), DUH, too much work I want to be pampered. Anyone who knows me KNOWS I’m just like paris hilton. 

This is getting off track. Aren’t my metaphors great?

Awesome. Note the hella goodness of it, and how it was crafted with mad skills.