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Kiss ‘N’ Ride, Chicago

Jason — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:49:16 +0000

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I wrote this song when I was a young man of 22, although it traveled under a different, more pretentious name at that time. Still love it.

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Kiss ‘n’ ride, Chicago!
You’re riding inside of me
And I’ll tear holes in your sweater I’m wearing
If I feel comfortable, I’m lazy! Yeah!
Our blood coagulates in its fusion

Repercussions are for suckers
Like irony and quarantine, you know
All these cities, you know
All these streetlamps, you know
I’m confused forever
So don’t go blaming me

Don’t go blaming me now
Don’t go blaming me now
Don’t go blaming me, yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah

GIMME SOME FEAR – New Song

Jason — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:09:20 +0000

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I could babble on about Babylon, put the truth into your ear

Oh, I could stand on the corner with a sign in my hand about how the end is near

We spend so much time telling others what they want, that they don’t even have to hear

Sure we’ll stand United as One – as long as there’s something to fear

VERMONT YANKEE – New song

Jason — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:57:33 +0000

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The kids were doing jumping jacks when they uncuffed his hands from behind his back. They had pegged him for another crime – a crime of high degree. Priest came over at Christmas time. Cops still question the alibi. Priest said do what’s right, do the time, rolling joints by the Christmas tree.

My brother the teacher burns the flag at half past noon. He’s drinking with the preacher who’ll be his sponsor in rehab soon. Just another son of concrete, burdened by abstract views. We used to have so much more real fun, droppin’ acid and sniffin’ glue.

Some kids they got some spraypaint. Swastikas under the bridge. Over the rainbow we cross for work, it’s where we played as kids. It made the local paper. Yeah, they made some dividends. Now they’re speeding down the highway out past where the yellow brick road ends.

The river’s up for sale. It’s where they store the nuclear waste. You can barely notice the difference in how the water tastes. Just wear this gasmask if you’re playing out in the sun. Don’t ask me why we’re paying for what it is they make us become.

DROPPING ACID AND SNIFFING GLUE, WE USED TO HAVE SO MUCH MORE REAL FUN!!!

The policeman’s on his rounds again busting fare-jumpers on the road to redemption. There’s a new prison up the road now, they got a killer tax exemption. There’s a new prison up the road now, they specialize in preemptive detention. One day we’ll get our settlement, we just may get our pension. Maybe if we just keep beggin’, we’ll see that settlement. If we ever reach our retirement, we’ll get our golden pension for a time that’s worth forgetting. You can’t win when you’re only guessing. What’s to learn when there is no lesson?

New Downloads Available

Jason — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:17:23 +0000

ZIPPED 320kbps MP3′s of my first demo as The Brake Lights, my only full-length album as The Brake Lights, and my most recent release, Real Games EP, are available as of yesterday.

New Millenium Demonstrations

Jason — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:33:59 +0000

I love it when the younger version of myself hooks up my current self. In this case, I made my friend Jason Croce a CD of my old songs in 2004 called NEW MILLENIUM DEMONSTRATIONS. This CD is a treasure trove of lost The Brake Lights material that includes a great 5-song demo I recorded at Clay Creek Studio with some old friends as well as demo recordings of songs that comprise the MUSICAL NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND & BEYOND!!! album.

I will post some audio as soon as I get a chance to convert the files into MP3′s. I will make the earlier demos available for download and the same can be said for MUSICAL NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND & BEYOND!!!

This is an extraordinarily busy time of the year for me but I am also working on some new drawings that I plan on posting very soon. Keep your eyes and ears peeled!

2010 – It looks good, it feels right!

Jason — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:51:32 +0000

Like most years ending in odd numbers, 2009 was a fun year to exist within the space-time continuum, but hardly represented the universal paradigm shift of human enlightenment so many of us are awaiting.

2010, with its aesthetically-sound round numbers and new decade-bringing ways, will be another difficult year financially, politically, and socially for all of us human critters circumnavigating our courses through the labyrinthine machinations of modern life. But I’m still excited, if nothing else, to just exist.

Less talk. More rock in 2010!

This year, I plan on:

Cutting down our own trees and chopping them into firewood
Traveling to Buenos Aires, Argentina to see my friends Jonah and Katrin
Purchasing some drum microphones to ease the recording process
Becoming financially solvent and responsible

Among other things. Time gets away from us and the next thing you know, it’s 2011. However this year marks a personal shift in which I’ve become more comfortable with my surroundings here in Vermont – more acclimated to the culture, my job, my friends – more in tune with the harmonies of this wonderful place. That said, I think I should take more pictures this year too.

Live from Vermont

Jason — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:41:57 +0000

The Brake Lights, 2007

I started The Brake Lights as a band of revolving friends in the New Jersey and Philadelphia area sometime in the autumn of 2007. I had sold my drum set and bought a Telecaster, and started writing songs between shifts at Whole Foods.

It was the summer of 2007 when I moved to Vermont. My girlfriend and I bought a nice little house and some land. We planted some little gardens and brought our pets with us. I became a husband; she became my wife. I am now planning the construction of a sustainable recording studio on our land. Anyway, here are some places you can listen to my recordings through the years:

Muxtape
Myspace
Facebook