Billy has set up a “Surreal Lyrics” contest. You come up with the most off the wall lyrics and get them to him (billy at customserenade.com). A panel of big-name judges will select the cream of the surreal crop and Billy and I will set them to music. Full deets on billy’s surreal blog.

The Paris of the Piedmont givin’ a shout-out to all the francophiles in the house! (Some liberties taken for rhyme.)

C’est Carrboro

Traduit par: Shuwen et Marc Jeuland

C’est un endroit ou hippies et cools se rencontrent
Aller bouffer sur la rue Weaver au centre
Hoola-hoopers au pieds nus devants
Joueurs de bongo avec rythmes differents

Je fais mes courses au Weave – le total est vingt
Il n’retire pas un Jacque-son, tu sais qu’il depense bien
Au Marche, j’achete mes epinards
Pour president j’veux Jean Edward

Wootini a beaucoup de jouets super
Si tu n’me respectes pas, emmene tes freres
Tu ne dois pas mettre desordre dans mes affaires
Allez Carrboro, faisons du bruit d’enfer !

Localement possedé: c’est Carrboro !
Organiquement poussé : c’est Carrboro !
Ton coeur va s’rechauffer : c’est Carrboro !
Ce charme villageois : c’est Carrboro !

Raleigh et Durham et Fayetteville
Si c’n’est pas Carrboro, on dirait qu’ce’st Lille
Je n’vais meme pas à Chapel Hill
Refroidir ta tarte, comme font les filles

Vis a l’art de video c’est ca ah bon
Blockbuster, Canal plus, Netflix: NON!
Filmes etrangers de la ville de Cannes
Choix special apres vingt et un

C’est dimanche soir ; je ne suis pas sot
OCSC ! la biere Yuengling un euro
J’me gare au coin de Bim et Fidelity
Allez Carrboro, chantons DO-RE-MI

Files de velo larges : c’est Carrboro !
Le pain complet : c’est Carrboro !
Pleins d’imbeciles : c’est Carrboro !
Ou vas tu comme ca : c’est Carrboro !

Tylers, Acme et le chien à pois
Tous a cote, suffit de marcher tout droit
Le salon Beehive a gauche de Maple View
Chercher mon encre au salon de tattoo

Chaque automne la fete de musique
C’est le Paris du Piedmont, tellement chic
Il a reuissit l’examen, emmene le fric
Comme Ron Jeremy, Carrboro c’est magique

La musique tellement bonne que Cat’s Cradle danse
Meme mon maitre fait une reverence
Des ecoles publiques avec un tel sense
Allez Carrboro crions en avance !

Les nanas de Padgett : c’est Carrboro !
Les statues metalliques : c’est Carrboro !
Boutiques d’occasions : c’est Carrboro !
Un DSI encore : c’est Carrboro !

Cafe des Yeux Ouverts : c’est Carrboro !
C’est cool d’etre homo : c’est Carrboro !
Le dunk que tu marques : c’est Carrboro !
Notre inspiration : c’est Carrboro !

There is a special treat for those going to the Evil Wiener Roast this Tuesday, July 4th @ the Cave: I will join the band to perform “It’s Carrboro”.

Armed with a guitar, a pocket full of change, and a fake beard, Billy and I walked from Carrboro to Chapel Hill one morning. This video’s almost 10 minutes long, so don’t try to watch it during a Lost commercial break.

This is the interview of Billy and Me by Ashley Perryman of Carolina Week. It aired 5/31/06 @ around 8PM. I didn’t get a chance to see it on the tele, but thankfully Ashley was able to provide an elec-tronic version I could put on the internet for everybody to enjoy! Thanks, Ashley!

So here’s the dilly, yo: Billy and I were interviewed by Carolina Week so we’re going to be on the tele-vision machine! In Carrboro/Chapel Hill the channel is 24. It will be on this next Wednesday (5/31) at 8PM. It will be mildly entertaining.

I’m very proud of my sister, Julia, and my life-long friend, Lance for seeing it through. This song is for you.

Welcome to Reality

I think it’s obvious I spent quite a deal of time on this.

It is here! The It’s Carrboro video is yours for the viewing! Watch it on this website or at YouTube. (If you go to the YouTube site, feel free to rank it 5 stars. I’m sure higher ranked videos get watched more.)

If you want to get it for your iPod, you can download it here. Fresh.

Having problems with the iPod download? Yeah, some browsers don’t yet know what a “.m4v” is and so they try to display it as text. What you want to do is download it to your disk and then try to open the file you just downloaded.

Here’s what you do: If you have a mouse with more than one button, Right-click on the link to get a menu and select “save to disk” (or something along those lines). If your mouse has only one button - Mac users, I’m looking at you - click on the link and hold down the mouse until the menu pops up. Let the file download to your computer. Then try to open the file you just downloaded with Quicktime.

…More like after the Flicker Film Festival, because the video is digital and Flicker only takes “real” film submissions.  Still, Nicole and crew have agreed to show it at the end of the show so it isn’t technically during Flicker.  Jason and I have been hard at work editing this piece and we are still on schedule to get it done in time.

So mark your calendars for Flicker Film Festival at the Cat’s Cradle, May 8th.  Doors open at 8PM and admission is $3.

My phone is not cool enough for this, but if your phone has Bluetooth you can download this tone to your phone and be blowin’ up C-bro style!  Leave comments if you do this or have any tips on how to easily get it to one’s phone.
Carrbro Ringtone