New Recording!: "A Couple Of Beers With Igor"

wredfright · A Couple Of Beers With Igor

This song is fun to play, so it's a nice one to end the tracks from Noisy And Not So Noisy with.  The track order on the album will be different (feel free to put suggestions in the comments or by email, but I think I have a good track order in mind already), so this may not be the last song on the album, but it's a nice one to end the run of singles on.  You can read what I wrote about the song when I first wrote it, read the lyrics, and hear the demo version here.  For the rerecording, it's the usual voice, guitar, keyboard as bass, and drums.  I also had some fun with the keyboard here for this ode on planning to give up planning, and, of course, I had to use a couple of beer cans for part of the percussion.

Thanks to The Tinnitist for featuring "Bonehead" on a recent playlist!

For more Wred Fright music, listen to the Yeast? 7"!

New Recording!: "Bonehead"

wredfright · Bonehead

You know one, probably more than one.  Hey, you might even be one, sometimes at least.  Maybe the best thing if you have to be a bonehead is to be a bonehead and know you're a bonehead, so you can guard against it, unlike the rest of the population who think they're really smart but really are boneheads.  These days, it seems we're led by boneheads, which explains a lot.  You can hear the earlier demo version and read what I wrote about the song before here.  For the rerecording, it's the usual vocals, guitar, keyboard as bass, and drums.  I spiced it up by playing a little accordion in the break, and, like Spider Stacy in The Pogues, smashing a tea tray on my head for part of the percussion (good thing it's a short song, eh?).  

Thanks to The Tinnitist for featuring "Flea Market Intellectual" on a recent playlist!

For more Wred Fright music, listen to the Yeast? 7"!

New Recording!: "Flea Market Intellectual"

wredfright · Flea Market Intellectual

This song celebrates autodidacticism.  Formal education has its place, but it is great fun amassing one's own education as a choose your own adventure.  Of course, doing this on the cheap like the singer of the song means that you may be allowing randomness to play too large a role in your intellectual activity and may have some gaping holes in your education (of course, these days the products of the finest educations aren't too impressive, so you may not be any worse off than them, just in a different manner).  You can read what I wrote about this song and hear the demo here.  For the rerecording, it's the usual voice, guitar, keyboard as bass, and drums.  I also played keyboard as keyboard here, which I don't always do, but which seemed fitting since so many keyboards can be bought at flea markets, garage sales, and thrift stores.  

Thanks to The Tinnitist for featuring "Has Anyone Seen Mitchell?" on a recent playlist!

For more Wred Fright music, listen to the Yeast? 7"!

Comic: No More Politician Names On Welcome Road Signs

The latest comic is a letter I sent to my state representative and state senator in hopes that Ohio can do away with wasting tax money sticking the governor's and lieutenant governor's names on the welcome to Ohio highway signs (for background, read here).   Click on the picture to make it bigger:

It will be nice to drive into Ohio and just see a welcome to Ohio sign that didn't need to be updated every few years just to tell us who the governor is.  Especially with inflation lately, it's important to spend taxpayer money wisely and not waste it on useless, vanity stuff such as making and installing a bunch of metal signs that don't need to be made.  Since DeWine's name is up there already, it can be left up there until he leaves office, and then the signs can be replaced one last time (some may be overlays that we can simply take off and not replace--even better).  It would be nice if legislation were not needed to fix this issue, but the executive branch doesn't seem to be able to restrain itself here.  I mailed the letters on April 1st since the whole situation is comedic, but I hope they don't think it's just an April Fools' joke and actually do get rid of those dang signs.

For more cranky old man ranting, read the novel Fast Guy Slows Down!