As an ’80s boomer, I missed out on the Pokémon craze, although I am tangentially aware of it, and like most normie folk, I can name at least a dozen or so pocket-monsters from the primary series. I don’t really know how to pronounce the word “Pokémon.” I say “pokey,” like an American philistine. Jigglypuff […]
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Happy Christmas
We made a Christmas album, unironically. Our last release from two years ago was a Christmas song. We’re basically an indie Christmas band at this point. We don’t have much else going on. I like Christmas music with its bells, glocks, and idiophones galore. It sounds like Bruce Springstein’s E Street band has taken over […]
Nard Dog Melody
I’ve watched The Office a dozen or so times. I’m so old, I watched it when Netflix used to limit how many hours you could stream. (I only larp as an eccentric during the day. At night, I go full normie scumbag and watch TV.) At the time, I thought The Office was the […]
Braying Melodies
While reviewing this blog and the animal music chronicled within its webpages, I discovered a glaring omission: I had yet to notate a donkey! How could I be so foolish to overlook one of the most iconic musical cries in the animal kingdom, the humble “hee-haw”? Donkeys are a cartoonish kind of horse. They are […]
Red-Tailed Hawk Call
A screaming “kee-eeeee-arr” comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. The red-tailed hawk makes a cliché call as it soars. You’ve heard it in movies in a million mountainside scenes, as a leitmotif for Natives, and a non-diegetic joke. It’s basically the Wilhelm scream for […]
Jug-O-Rum
The bullfrog is so named for his bullish mating call, the “jug-o-rum.” Here’s how the bullfrog got his name: Long ago, some dandy fop was cycling his velocipede around a Northern pond, lost in transcendentalist musings, when he heard what sounded like a bull bellowing from the shallow end. The dandy fop shined his lantern […]
Green Frog Gunk
The green frog sounds like he’s mocking you. He calls out “GUNK! Gunk! Gunk!,” which is oft compared to a banjo twang, but he may as well be saying “Uh doy!” This should really be notated in bass clef but I don’t want to confuse anyone anymore than usual. And I certainly don’t want any […]
