Hello all. For anyone who does not have Autumn Rose, you can get it on Waffles now, if you are a member. Its there in its entirety. Come to A Khord on Wednesday. Cam and I are currently working on some open-ended shit. Gonna be finished Take it Slow soon, City is Dark will be on Waffles soon, and so will This Gun, within the next few weeks. Also Take it Slow will be available at Backstreet SJ this week. We are also working on a Novellas album, to be potentially titled A Million Statues. These are not empty promises, Im actually doing this.

Positive Updates

So, Cam came home today, and earlier in the week JD came home, and is living with us. So, today David R. Elliott & the Novellas played at Backstreet for some folk. There wasnt a huge audience, but the folks that did come out were all pretty rad. We are playing at A Khord opening for The United Steelworkers of Montreal, so I think details about that will be up soon on Giraffecycle. Might be playing in Hampton at a Kitchen Party, which seems kind of necessary while Im still here. Fair, I think. I think our set tonight was as follows:

1 Thats the Way Love Goes
2 Qoholet
3 Take it Slow
4 You Can Call Me Al
5 Your Blueeyed Boy
6 Drug$
8 End it in Smoke (JD fucked it up)
7 Blue Jeans Baby
8 Your Next Chance to Hurt Me (JD cover, I fucked it up.)
9 A Toast to Death & Xmas

Met some cool folk, gonna get a lot tighter for the show on Wednesday, and we have a few covers and a brand new song I wrote yesterday. Dont know if Ill reveal the covers. Im like that. Got like 4 finished albums on this computer...might put them up somewhere. Also making copies of them, and a new EP, and a Novellas EP, and hopefully we will have some of this stuff at the show, it is hard to say. Anyway, so today went pretty well in the general sense, and I appreciate that.

So, I know nobody has heard City is Dark except for JD, but I now have 5 new songs for a new album, or at very least an EP. So I don't really know what to say about the songs, their just love songs...torch songs. All kind of have a common thread, I think, but I also think I've achieved something I've been talking about for months, with the song I wrote this afternoon. My best writing time is immediately after being high with people, if I'm by myself. The title took really long, but it still isn't great; it's called Take it Slow. I like simple titles. Expect that for the title I decide on, I was considering 'Love Songs,' today. Don't worry that won't be it, but it will be simple. Hopefully one word.

01: Drums
02: White Flag
03: Stargazer Lily
04: Qoholet & Song of Songs
05: Paint Your Winter (Shades of Blue)
06: Take it Slow

City is Dark

I know nobody has heard it and I am sorry. I haven't got an internet connection, as a result of my computer losing it's mind with viruses. Thusly it may still be a month or so before I can regularly update my music shiz. So, here are the lyrics to the opening track, 'Blue Snowflakes Start Falling,' from City is Dark (Torch Songs & the Charred Remains):

A calm runs over us,
shimmering brilliant in a cold rush.
Flickering in headlights,
beaming into the park.
And girls with red scarves,
and red cheeks on white streets.
Girls with red scarves,
and red cheeks on white streets,
know that when blue snowflakes start falling on the cold streets,
that's where I'll be;
the city is dead 'til then.

The city is dead.
The city is dead 'til the winter comes.

A storm falls over us,
quivering silent in the cold slush.
Flickering in streetlights,
dark-yellow shining in the dark.
And girls with red scarves,
and cold feet on cold street.
Girls with red scarves,
and cold feet on cold streets,
know that when blue snowflakes start falling on the cold streets,
that's where I'll be;
the city is dead til then, anyway.
The city is dead.
The city is dead 'til the winter comes.

It was written in the fall obviously. Not a lot of exciting guitar parts, mostly vocal. Anyway I will post it when I can.

GIRLS ARE ALL THE SAME

Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood. Something in my veins, bloodier than blood.

Every little thing is gonna tear you apart.