From an email in 2007 to undisclosed recipients:

Hey all,

I have finished my album in a month. Should I have been a musician, I would be concerned about the fact that the songs need bass and drums and sometimes lyrics and sometimes melodies. Since I am not, I’m pretty pleased to break the 35 minute mark. I feel that the album starts and finishes well but gets lost in the middle tracks. If you hit a track that sounds like noise, don’t feel bad about skipping it.

If you never listen to the album at all, also don’t feel bad.

If you only want to listen to one or two songs, I’m most partial to 1, 3 13, and 14. But those songs sound the most alike, so they may not be enjoyable listening right in a row.

I hope you are all well. Something to consider: George Bernard Shaw once said, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him. The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Jeff

Download the songs here (they won’t be in order).

Album Title: An Collection of Ideas that Awkwardly Seem to Interrelate But Never Entirely Come Together (with apologies to Randy Newman)

Track order and titles:

1. stolen advice for people who arent young anymore but also cant grow up
2. a song for being stuck in traffic on a dreary day in a city where no one speaks the same language as you do and you really have to go to the bathroom
3. I do (adieu)
4. Let me introduce you to my friend. He just wants to be single right now but he’s very flattered.
5. right here
6. mountain top
7. stolen for me
8. never counting on you again blues
9. crunch of ice 2 2
10. dog
11. playing with something expensive that belongs to my dad
12. tomfoolery banjo
13. cursed (live)
14. stolen for yourselves