Wednesday, September 02, 2009

141 > Let's Panic Later

01 Let's Panic Later 
02 Sopa Nine 
03 All Lined Up 
04 Madem 
05 On Off
06 Lung
07 Bo Diddley's Necktie Noose
08 Bune
09 Blue Guru 
10 Shortened Long

Thursday, May 14, 2009

140 > Ahhhh, The Beautiful


1 One Close Call
2 Ahhhh, The Beautiful
3 I Carry Myself In My Pocket
4 We're Talkin' About...
5 Angels On The Head Of A Pin
6 Aimed At Disorder
7 21st Century History
8 Other Things
Words by Charlie Newman > All else by Zan Hoffman

Thursday, April 30, 2009

139 > Guiltless Pretext

01 Pass Through Flame
02 Darkness Or Fraud
03 Carrion Birds
04 Do You Know That/What I Mean?
05 Ash Locust
06 Now That Everything Has Changed
07 Here Comes Nobody
08 Speed And Tiny Panics
09 Peace Tock
10 Shoot Him And/Or Her
Words by Charlie Newman > All else by Zan Hoffman

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

138> Lost In Sound


1 Shrink
2 Radio Free Hospital
3 Mist
4 Remembering Numbers
5 Somewhere
6 Big Stone City
7 Can You Hear Me
8 #1 Word Hustler
Words by Charlie Newman > All else by Zan Hoffman

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

137 > P.O.W.

(Pump Organ Wave)

01 I Fucked Up My Karma
02 Always The Same
03 Nobody Cares About Junkies (Except For Junkies)
04 Love Romances Hammered Inertia
05 Trench Confessions
06 Obsession
07 I'm Running Out
08 And Kiss Kiss
09 So We Can Feel
10 Inconsistant Adverbs
Words by Charlie Newman > All else by Zan Hoffman

Sunday, November 02, 2008

136 > P.O.D.


01 Ike 1
02 SMS
03 Ike 2
04 Nipping
05 Ike 3
06 Zarandea
07 Ike 4
08 Tona Medly
09 Ike 5
10 Junkies
11 Ike 7
12 We(')ll

Odd number pieces were recorded during the week I was with power after the winds of
Hurricane Ike battered the cities trees and powerlines. Lyrics by Charlie Newman (4, 6, 10, 12), keys + voice + mix by Wilson Tsang (8), lyrics + voice + guitar by Tina Gil (2). Zan Hoffman composed songs, sang and played the 130 year old pump organ in the basement which old man Woldford gave him for free. Thus these pump organ dreams...

Monday, October 15, 2007

135 > Attack!

1. Brip
2. Get a Grip, Make it Hurt
3. Every Soul = Every Other Soul
4. For CN (Thank You)
5. Attack!
6. Ism
7. Polishing + In With
8. This May Take Some Time

Words by Charlie Newman (3, 5-7) and musical help by Amy Edelen (5) and Mike Foster (7a) > All else by Zan Hoffman

Thursday, December 14, 2006

134 > Attic Hours

An instrumental number for long winter hours.

Friday, December 01, 2006

133 > Ratsoniq

1 Wondering If
2 We Celebrate Eachother
3 Anti-Sex Man Dance
4 Dreamsville
5 Falling Prey To
6 How Many
7 And You Thought
Words by Charlie Newman > All else by Zan Hoffman

Thursday, October 19, 2006

132 > And More...

1 instead of
2 why not
3 haunt me
4 necessary pain
5 makes me
6 and more
7 your him
8 short blocks
9 love is

Words by Charlie "I like! Sounds about the way it felt which would be the point." Newman > all else by Zan Hoffman

Saturday, August 12, 2006

131 > Eyes (I Shut Mine)

1. A Juicy Tabloid Headline
2. Kill Yourself Dead
3. Making Seeing A Who Cares Thing
4. Skinned to the Bone
5. Mingling In Flesh
6. Heir To Undershirted Smile
7. Sunken Treasure and Shrunken Truth
8. My Stone Are Thrown
9. Eyes (I Shut Mine)

Words by Charlie Newman
all else by Zan Hoffman

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

130 > The World Is On Fire

1 The World Is On Fire
2 Like Every Other Night
3 1-4
4 I Might See You Taking Off
5 You Flicker
6 I Think Not, I Hope Not
7 Exactly Like You (but better)
8 Mumbling Muscatel Odes

Words 2-8 by Charlie Newman > All else by Zan Hoffman

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

129 > I Can't Say It Enough

1 I Can't Say It Enough
2 Reducing Elegance to Industry
3 I Am Who I Always Was Before
4 See You Thinking of Ways to Take Me Off
5 Skinned to the Rhythmic Bone
6 Doing Great Things in Their Own Heads
7 Morning She's Gone
8 Nervous Baggage
Words on 2-8 by Charlie Newman
All else by Zan Hoffman

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

128 > Once Functionable

1. The World Doesn't End
2. With A Shrug
3. Swirling Around Eachother
4. Neglecting the Fine Points mp3
5. Out Manouvering
6. Phone Number Circled in Fear mp3
7. Relentlessly Beautiful People
8. Awkward Enough
9. Gain A Lover Lose A Friend
Words of Charlie Newman
All else by Zan Hoffman in the attic.

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

127> Offer No Excuses

1 Bliss Awakened
2 Floor of Heaven
3 I Will Feel Your Eyes mp3
4 Irrelevant Flotsam
5 One of My Favorite Things (Death)
6 Sticky Heart
7 Offer No Excuses
8 It Was What It Will Be
9 When You Know the Name mp3

Charlie Newman words > all else by Zan Hoffman
(oh Miro!)

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

126 > Epics & Treatments

1 As If My Habits Could Save Me
2 Completed but not Involentarily
3 Empty and Aware
4 Everyone Leafs Though Night Sweats
5 Mirror Clear
6 Quiet Space Between Love and Hate
7 With My Stickfigure Flesh
8 You Arrive In Style and Leave Me
Words of Charlie Newman > All else by Zan Hoffman

Thursday, April 27, 2006

125 > Some Long-Forgotten Part of the Ritual

1. On the Road to Casketown Control
2. Conspirators Do These Things
3. Some Long-Forgotten Part of the Ritual
4. Bring the Family Up They Said
5. It Is Easy
6. I Take What's Mine
7. Sweat the Night & Curse the Day
8. Eyes Locked Mouth Loaded I Wait
9. Restless Caressless
Words of Charlie Newman
all else by Zan Hoffman

Friday, April 21, 2006

124 > Back to the Man

1 Nothing Up My Sleeve
2 One Moment Too Late
3 Options Dissapear at a Dizzing Pace
4 Red White and Blue Light
5 No Blue Sky Bye-Bye
6 Sweetness is Sweetness
7 Eyes Closed Tight
8 As If
Words of the Man Charlie Newman all else by the Man Zan Hoffman

Saturday, April 15, 2006

123 > Seasons of Memory

1 Sound Soothing Pearl
2 Alert to Please
3 Imprescriptable Zenith
4 Microscope of Potency
5 The Poverty of Dirt
6 Season of Memory
7 Mistress of an Idea
8 Mud Master
Words of Wallace Stevens
All else by Zan Hoffman

Friday, April 14, 2006

122 > Overlapping Islands Revolving

Sounds & Music by
Patrick Parent [be]
J. Dippold [mo]
Zan Hoffman [ky]

Thursday, March 30, 2006

121 > Not A Hair

1 Stone Bouquet
2 Powerful Mirror
3 Jar in Tennessee
4 One Chemical Afternoon
5 My Titillations Have No Footnotes
6 Savagest Hollow of Winter Sound
7 Speak of the Dazzling Wings
8 And Cry And Cry for Help


words of Wallace Stevens > All else by Zan Hoffman

Friday, March 17, 2006

120 > Songs of the Great Space of Your Age

1 Eccentric Propositions
2 Nothing Survives Except What Was
3 Azury Centre of Time
4 Impinged
5 Pierces the Physical Fix of Things
6 Evening Rain
7 Shrivellings of Your Time and Space
8 Song of the Great Space of Your Age
9 The Obscure Moon

Words of Wallace Stevens
All else by Zan Hoffman

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

119 > The Pleasure of Plenty

1) Red Weather
2) Black Reds
3) Brightly Leafed
4) All Things in the Sun are Sun
5) Bug in the Grass
6) With One's Ideas
7) Chant of the Night
8) Fusky Alphabet
9) Corizon, Stout Dog
words of Wallace Stevens > all else by Zan Hoffman

Friday, February 24, 2006

118 > D2N

1 As These Peaches Do
2 Among Astronomers
3 It Is Posed
4 When Afternoons Return
5 Wind Threw Its Contorted Strength
6 Point the Tipping Tongue
7 Not Thing-A-Ma-Jigs
8 Fell to the Floor
Words of Wallace Stevens all else by Zan Hoffman

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

117> Songs of Robots in Outer Space & Humans in Inner Space

1 Raven
2 Cause I'm A Robot in Outer Space
3 Brute Sexxx
4 Nougats
5 I Said No To Everything
6 They Are Flying
7 en el desfile sideral
8 Jim IMCs Man
audio help of 1 Amy Edelyn 2 & 7 los robots del espacio [es]
words by 1 trad. 3 Charlie Newman 4-6 Wallace Stevens 8 Barbara Hoffman
All else by Zan Hoffman

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

116 > Joyous & Jubilant & Sure

Joyous & Jubilant & Sure
Where My Spirit Is I Am
Plunge On
Glisten with Motion
This Estatic Air
That Would Be Waving
Coiffeur of Halos
Vetch Turned Purple
Zithers & Tamborines

Words of Wallace Stevens
All else by Zan Hoffman

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

115 > The Difference Between What I See & What I Feel

And Elate
The Inner Dog
Dream at the Top of Your Lungs
Here We Go One More Time
The World Gives You Your Respect Back
Snaped It Up
Where You're Going
The World's Not Round
My Mind
In the Details is the Devil

Jamendo : Free musicMP3
Words & all else by Zan Hoffman

Sunday, January 22, 2006

114 > It's in the Details

Let's Sing a Song About Paris Burning
Memory of Silence
And How
It's in the Details
Your Shadow Left
Lick It Up
And Turn the Tide
Crustic Lot
I Am Done

Words and all else by Zan Hoffman

113 > I've Seen It

Crying for Release
Tick
Image of You
With Fear With Breath
I've Seen It
I Invoke
Sun Jig
Erasing
Why of the Act

Words by Charlie Newman
All else by Zan Hoffman

112 > The Groove

1943
Small things
Ginsburg
The Groove
Sits by the open door
1000/day
Kindred spirits rock
Dictionary of my heart
Only you indeed


Words by Charlie Newman
All else by Zan Hoffman

111 > Sing Out

Kenouac
Slamdancing for paper money
Our 5th
Sing out
She knew
Skinnier by the minute
His departure
Peanuts
What're you gonna do?
Sit
Burroughs
Your gift



Words by Charlie Newman
All else by Zan Hoffman

110 > Long Tall Cool One

Twitch Wait
Black Queen
Long Tall Cool One
Raving Lady
1247
Mad Dog
Water Rises
Never Will Be
Almost Reptilian

Words by Charlie Newman
All else by Zan Hoffman

109 > Reduce

1. 1-10
2. Plummet, Plunge and Plow
3. In the Clear
4. Reduce
5. Above and Below

Words on 2 by Charlie Newman
All else by Zan Hoffman

108 > Renovate

1. M. Waits
2. 79¢ and Me
3. Renovate
4. Manhole Cover Eyes
5. Jahmin' with CBC3
6. I Don't Need to Know
7. For Itself
8. Arms Folded
9. Whatever
10. No Way to Fortune

All words by Charlie Newman except 5 by Zan & 6 by I. Anderson
All else by Zan Hoffman

107> Suffering Dream Damage

Cooling Sweat
Dream Damage
Apologetic Always
Kosher C&W Gourmet Blues
Buried with Regrets
9 Supremes
Our Final Doom*
Slowly Twisting
Demonic Posession*
Red Eye

all words by Charlie Newman except * by Pentagram, by request (thanks/sorry)
All else by Zan.

106> Feint Praise

Plamp Keen Feeling
Election Season
No Big Deal
No One's Listening
Feint Praise
Receding Veil of Mystery
Faint Praise
Exit, Stage Left
Who Kisses Who

Words of Charlie Newman > All else by Zan Hoffman

105> Pleasants of Mind

So And So
He Is
Slashing Teeth
Fire Escape Window
Raise Your Hand
My Mornings
Get Go

Words of Charlie Newman > All else by Zan Hoffman

104> lose it all, slowly

a ghoul
suburbs
dances in her head
kills you
american mantra
gather what you love

Words of Charlie Newman > All else by Zan Hoffman

103> so called noble deeds

in the streets - dust
love stumbles
my so called noble deeds
stopped and fell
armenian genocide parade
nadeem
the book

Words of Charlie Newman [1-2-3-4-7] > All else by Zan Hoffman

102> chromatonally numbered

shards of men
repeat after me ... nothing
nitpicks
fading of your eyes
no control
chromatonally numbered
karma bank
fine point trembles
... of men

Words of Charlie Newman > All else by Zan Hoffman

101> I Shutter To Think

51-100
shutter two

> All by Zan Hoffman

100> To Deserve Your Smile

Ghost
You Always Smile
You Want
Ferlinghetti
Engines of Deciet
Conquest
1-50
Cool Carl
Where's Ken Clinger Now?

Words of Charlie Newman first 6 songs > All else by Zan Hoffman

99> Sunny Side

Sunny Side
Not Taken
Never Slept
Casual
Only Love
Steal All
Starving
Recommend

Haikus of Charlie Newman > All else by Zan Hoffman

98> One Honest Man

Not Caring
Sleeping Buddha Days
Blink of Her Eye
Familiar Green Eyes
One Honest Man
Go Along
Intentionally or Not
Todays 1000
Spread Legs

Words of Charlie Newman All else by Zan Hoffman

97 > While Supplies Last

Infomercial
The Night
Of Beauty
Against Herself
Dainty Dish
Erase
Double E
Leash
Cocoon

Words of Charlie Newman except Dainty Dish
by mother goose > All else by Zan Hoffman

96 > Crossing Boundries As Old As Rain

Bustin' My Ass
If Sign
Seperate Directions
Except Ourselves
No Bone
Sometimes
Our Next
Captive Audience
In the Flesh
The Moment
My Fathers Finger

Words of Charlie Newman
All else by Zan Hoffman

95 > Why I'm Here

Making Nothing
Black and Blue Notes
No Love Yearns in Obsurity
1001 Nipples
Impure
I Never Ask Why
Shower
All the Love I Can Give

Words of Charlie Newman
All else by Zan Hoffman

93 > Where Does it All End?

Where Does it All End?
Ready
Flicker
Oh Lovely Lovely Lovely
Noun
Verb
Active
Stain No One Can See

Words of Charlie Newman
Matt Davis acordian+ all else by Zan Hoffman

94 > Control Yourself

I Remember
I Try To Stay Under You
You Must Ask For What You Want
Surface Straw
Control Yourself!
Tongue and Groove Her
I Wish You Were Around
You Can Take Me
Carol Ayn Smiles

Words of Charlie Newman 1-2-3-5-6-8
keys on 2 Chad > All else by Zan Hoffman

92 > Molecule by Molecule

Breaking
My End Game
Coincidence Like a Pro
Ahead of Our Time?
Immaculate Misconception
Walk Quietly on the Air
Molecule by Molecule

Words of Charlie Newman
+ all else by Zan Hoffman