Cesky Lives

 https://ia601508.us.archive.org/26/items/CLEP257FuckMyPlans/CLEP257-Fuck%20My%20Plans.mp3 Hello listeners. It's been a while, I've been playing music out in the world a little more, being with good people, trying to exercise some, playing some Nintendo, raising children, making new and excellent friends and other good things. People who've listened for a while will know there's a ton of depressing shit on this blog, hell and high waters, all that stuff, usual life stuff usually, as well as unusual horrific stuff maybe...? depressing stuff anyways, I'm not depressed anymore, far from, life is good, but my brain nearly had me wrapped in burning hell and fear of everything that has eyes for a while there, which is what this song is about, fuck that shit right? Anyways, apologies for the swearyness if that's not your fish in a kettle. To any folks reading this who've helped me be infront of people doing music, and are keen on collaboration and helping me out there also, and just to the people in my existence who are good solid excellent people, so many many thanks. Cesky Lives! Anyways, this may be the last episode for a bit, even though it's been a while between this and the last, (months?), I'm trying to share the creative load some, we'll see, but many many thanks also, to all the people, for your beautiful ears, (I'm sure they are....?), and time.  Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:   PLUG: https://www.facebook.com/RAZEproductionz/Open Mics, good times, check out the page and attend the things and meet the nice good people if you're a Rockingham-ite or nearby.  OTHER PLUG: https://cesky.bandcamp.com/free albums.

 https://ia601501.us.archive.org/2/items/CLEP256StepLadder/CLEP256-Step%20Ladder.MP3 Hello listeners. No more weekly songs I don't think, just when they come, or maybe a weekly something, but nothing huge, this I made tonight and I could be in bed by ten, so that's completely alright, the whole thing is for fun and sharing thoughts and such anyways. Facts are factual however and I realise that my obsessive work distracts me from people, among other things, so I'm toning down some, a little, still music is my favourite thing though, pretty much, as far as things to do go. Anyways, this thing sounds sad, even the title is sad, I'm not sure where I sit with sad songs these days, but they don't seem like a terrible idea sometimes, so long as they feel nice to be played that makes them a distraction I think, there's joy to be had in it. Anyways, hopefully this thing, when listened to by you, doesn't bring down, that's not the aim really. Cheers for your time and ears, here's a video to go with the tune:  

 https://ia601507.us.archive.org/27/items/CeskyLivesEpisode255-doorMatBoy/Clep255-doorMatBoy.mp3 Hello listeners,this weeks tune is a collaboration I did with Elliot Careswell of The Milkmen, (excellent band, check 'em out: https://www.facebook.com/TheMilkmen01/). Did it a long while ago but never put it up anywhere because I thought it was maybe a little mean spirited, the mean spirit in it has since died and also the lyrics are fairly trippy things anyways so I'm just putting it out there anyways, as a back up tune for some time off while I'm moving house/packing up things and such and also because Elliot's tune for this song is alot of fun I think. Hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening, this week I did a colour drawing, took a while, but I had fun doing it, here it is taking shape with the tune over the top. Have an excellent NYE, and also entire next year as best you can. 

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/11/items/CeskyLivesEpisode254-goldenStill/Clep254-goldenStill.mp3 Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a kind of a free thought experiment as far as the words go I guess, I can link bits of it to real life things but they don't piece together particularly well. Anyways, there's a positive feeling in it that comes from someplace so hopefully that translates. This is the kinda tune I'd like to fill up with layers of stuff and make sound lovely but for this thing, it's just a rough first recording, for slightly more polished stuff, (mostly), go to cesky.bandcamp.com, if you want to, free albums, totally free, downloadable and the like. Anyways, hope this is a nice listen, thanks for your time and ears.     

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/14/items/CeskyLivesEpisode253-h/CLEP253-H.mp3 Hello listeners, this weeks tune is an ad-libbed baritone uke finger picky thing about somebody I knew a while back who died, don't really wanna say who, not that anybody probably reads this, or knows me if they do, but if they do it's kinda maybe personal....? I dunno, if you know me and pick it I don't care so much I guess. Anyways, hope it's a nice listen, it was very freeing to just sit and do whatever and let it be. Thanks for your time and ears, here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:  

 https://ia601502.us.archive.org/2/items/CeskyLivesEpisode252-englishTrees_597/Clep252-englishTrees.mp3 Not sure what really to write about this one, so here's the lyrics, to speak for themselves I guess...: ENGLISH TREESSo tiredso tired like the yellowed cutting blades of grassour city council grows right by the oceanso there’s soft fall for the kidsclimbing up these English trees all knotted skinwatching over the familieswith eskies full of sadness and angercigarettes and love disasterall the people breathingand outso stillso focussed fully on my paper platemy eyesare wide and white like maybe I am illmy knife and fork sunk in my facea pale white plastic moonthat cannot lookon younor shine down any kind of light onthe families withtheir eskies fullof endless anger and sadnessShe dangles softly in the skylong sleeves in gripping fingersindicating she has understood the nighta pale white plastic moona pale white plastic moon is crashing downI hope you’re wellI hope you last a little longer than the feelingthan the feelingthan the feelingof breathing in and outThanks for listening, here's a video/drawing that goes with the tune:   

 https://ia801507.us.archive.org/5/items/CeskyLivesEpisode251-probablyYouStillDo/Clep251-probablyYouStillDo.mp3 Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a real low end recording Dictaphone thing, a uke song but with book ends of a bit of a song my 9 year old son made up about the progression of man, kind of, I think..., seemed like that's what he was telling me anyways. Hope it's a nice listen, my words are about trying not to say negative things about anyone because it's maybe extremely unhelpful, and also about reconciling past things and not being cyclically complain-headed I guess, which we can all be, but I definitely can, somewhat.  Anyways, here's a video/drawing to go with it. Cheers for your ears.  

 https://ia601508.us.archive.org/19/items/CeskyLivesEpisode250-angryAngel/Clep250-angryAngel.mp3 Hello listeners. This weeks tune is about self hatred, religious people and bad experiences, it's not all negative though, I think it's actually fairly positive underneath, like a pointing out the ridiculousness of self hatred kinda thing, there's also a reference to The Omen in there, and the video for this week is a mashed up horror film thing with the scene referenced in it, if you can pick it in the layers and such, probably you can. Anyways, cheers to you for listening, indeed. Here's the video:    

 https://ia601504.us.archive.org/22/items/CeskyLivesEpisode249-fridge/CLEP249-Fridge.mp3 Hello listeners,this weeks tune I wrote really venting about horrible things and I think it turned out kind of a little more hopeful than I thought, which is good. Anyways, hopefully it's a fun listen, cheers for your ears and time.　Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:   https://cesky.bandcamp.com/  

 https://ia801502.us.archive.org/5/items/CeskyLivesEpisode248-kindOfAlright/Clep248-kindOfAlright.mp3 Hello listeners. This weeks tune is another Baritone Ukulele dictaphone recording, it's about people, trusting some of them, feeling shit but not giving in entirely to feeling shit, things like this. Maybe it'll make some kind of sense to you? Anyways, many thanks for your time & ears. Here's a video/drawing to go with the tune:  

https://ia801509.us.archive.org/30/items/CeskyLivesEpisode246-theSawedOffFingersOfYourWoman/Clep246-theSawedOffFingersOfYourWoman.mp3 Hello listeners. I live in Rockingham, Western Australia, it has a habit of being labelled as full of drug dealers and darkness, this tune is me making that into a cartoony retelling of a guy going to a pizza place to pick up his pizza and being confronted by some backwards awful shit. Anyways, it's in no way serious, I like Rockingham mostly, nice oceans, mostly decent folks that I've met and dealt with and such. Hope it's a fun listen anyways. Here's a video/drawing to go with it:  

 https://ia601509.us.archive.org/33/items/CeskyLivesEpisode245-yourPaperbackGod/Clep245-yourPaperbackGod.mp3 Hello listeners, this weeks song is a baritone ukulele thing, dictaphone recorded and not fancied up at all, because I'm tired and maybe aiming at the real basics here and the adding of other instruments for albums and the like, (possibly, I might get addicted to messing with many an instrument weekly again, who knows). The song is about how I've been super tired and grumpy and dismal of late but aiming at choosing differently, aiming at loving my kids properly and cheering the fuck up some. Anyways, here's a drawing/video to go with it, hope it's a nice listen.  Thanks for your time.  

 https://ia601503.us.archive.org/9/items/CeskyLivesEpisode244-gloryBe/Clep244-gloryBe.mp3 Hello listeners. This weeks tune is another Baritone Uke song, (new toy, compelled to play it a lot), about history being something that makes you stronger if you let it, but at the time, when it was the present, it sucked alot, about survival I guess, and also there's an E.T reference in there for good measure. Nice simple tune anyways, hope it brings you calm vibes and the like. Here's the video thing to go with it, some layered elbalming videos and a little bit of Golden Axe, (Sega Mega Drive, great game).    

 https://ia601502.us.archive.org/11/items/CeskyLivesEpisode243-poseidonsDaughter_417/Clep243-poseidonsDaughter.mp3 Hello listeners. This weeks tune was sung with much boogers remaining in my head from having a cold, but nothing's perfect huh. The songs about remembering through rose coloured glasses, I think...? First tune written on a new baritone uke I now posses, happily.  Here's a video/drawing to with the tune:  Thanks for your time.

 https://ia601500.us.archive.org/23/items/CeskyLivesEpisode242-allTheTapes_472/Clep242-allTheTapes.mp3 Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a dictaphone recording of a song about lonely nerdism, specifically about folks who post long rants on the internet against pop-culture etc. I've recently gotten way back into some ridiculously nerdy things myself and I really don't see what there is to complain about, video games from when I was tiny are being basically remade over and over in progressively more visually amazing ways and life is pretty good when I'm sitting in-front of one of them. I guess maybe there's a line where addiction to such things can turn to self hatred and feeling disconnected and such and you become a ranting lunatic on the internet. May that never be me, (also take that with a grain of salt, I'm semi-joking, nerd rants are fine). Here's a mashed up layered video thing to go with the tune:  Thanks for listening.

 https://ia601508.us.archive.org/20/items/CeskyLivesEpisode241-cakeInTheBath/Clep241-cakeInTheBath.mp3 Hello listeners, this weeks tune is about me trying to relax by playing video games and having baths, and how it isn't really working. Hopefully it's a fun song, not at all serious. Many thanks to the supportive folks who listen. Here's a video/drawing/adlibbed comic strip, to go with the tune:  

 https://ia601501.us.archive.org/9/items/CeskyLivesEpisode240-goinDownE.b/Clep240-goinDownE.b.mp3 Hello listeners, this weeks song is a distorted Ukulele thing about consumerism, and how sometimes I kinda like it, even though I know I shouldn't. I like books, video games, movies, comics etc. these take a fair ammount of my money, when I have any, and that's kinda something I guess I'm OK with.....? Anyways, video games especially have been taking back the territory they lost in my brain for so many years, useless or not, I love 'em. The song's clearly a sarcastic dig at myself, and I guess all of us though, cause we really don't need all that shit.  Here's a video of people shopping to go with the tune.  

 https://ia601503.us.archive.org/2/items/CeskyLivesEpisode239-words/CLEP239-Words.mp3 Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a finger picky acoustic guitar thing about words, how they can hurt people and should be used carefully, maybe even sparingly, I guess, although I'm inherently an odd mix of sometimes quiet sometimes won't shut the hell up myself. Anyways, hopefully it's a nice listen, very succinct, not a lot of words, just the right amount hopefully. Here's a video to go with the tune: Thanks for listening. 

 https://ia601501.us.archive.org/12/items/CeskyLivesEpisode238-sherlock/CLEP238-Sherlock.mp3 Hello listeners, this weekend I decided to chill out some, very purposefully, and drag out every piece of musical anything at all that I had, hook them all up to a recording device and adlib a thing. This weeks song is that thing. I had a lot of fun making it, hopefully it's a fun listen, obviously it's a giant audio mess also, but that's kind of the point, once only made up on the spot kind of a thing. Anyways, here's a video to go with it:    

 https://ia601503.us.archive.org/10/items/CeskyLivesEpisode237-religiousRantsOnSickDayNumber3/Clep237-religiousRantsOnSickDayNumber3.mp3 Hello listeners, this weeks tune is one of now 2 all electronically conceived tunes that this podcast has contained, the last being because I was sick and had no time or energy for anything else,(this one: http://ceskylives.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/episode-131-i-wanna-remember-it-just.html), and this one for the exact same reason. I made this song in my bed, with an ipad and some midi stuff, when you're sick, you can still get shit done. Here's a video to go with it; It's layers of anti religious ranting you-tubers, I typed in 'religious rant', expecting to have videos of preaching or something similar and all I got was a ton of anti religious stuff, which seemed all very aimless and negative and sad. I'm not a fan of religion myself but to wallow in complaining about it on the internet on a regular basis seems like a waste of energy, anyways, the audio from these videos suited the song as samples so that's why I used them.   

https://ia601501.us.archive.org/0/items/CeskyLivesEpisode236-needles/CLEP236-Needles.mp3 Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a fictional picture story kinda thing about a woman brutally murdering her boyfriend with a shoe, hope you like it. Here's a video to go with the tune:    

 https://ia801502.us.archive.org/32/items/CeskyLivesEpisode235-fifthEdition/Clep235-fifthEdition.mp3 Hello listeners, this weeks song is a comedy kinda thing about an imaginary Dungeons & Dragons playing nerd girlfriend, part of me is a huge nerd, probably more of the culture hound kind, but still, that makes it worse, I think about how Mario & Luigi are brothers and which one carries the heaviest burden, clearly Luigi, but anyways, nerd stuff excites me, so I've written about it. Hopefully the tune is a fun one to listen to, here's a mash up of old 80's D&D adds and cartoons to go with it:  

 https://ia601504.us.archive.org/14/items/CeskyLivesEpisode234-someFriendlyBuffalo/Clep234-someFriendlyBuffalo.mp3 Hello listeners, this weeks tune is another looooose distorted uke thing about a couple getting off a train and a kids with deformed fingers being sold to a freak show by his dad. It's just a random mesh simple stream of consciousness thing, I was trying not to think when I wrote it, I've been thinking too much of late. Anyways, hope you dig it/enjoy it and here's a video to go with it, more layered random things, also some Nintendo, if you know it you'll spot it.  As always, thanks for your time and ears. 

 https://ia601500.us.archive.org/25/items/CeskyLivesEpisode233-puddle/CLEP233-Puddle.mp3 Hello listeners, this weeks tune is a distorted ukulele thing about I have no idea what, maybe walking around with hefty secrets I guess, something like that, it's abstract and was written basically on automatic anyways, cause I'm REEEEALLLLY tired and my brain and life can only handle so much of the kind of thing I wrote last week, which is super serious mental madness stuff. Anyways, hopefully this is a nice listen, it's slow-ish, fuzzy, the words are not super good at making sense. Thanks to all the folks who listen, it's hugely appreciated. As always here's a video to go with the tune, no drawing this week, just a couple of layered Nintendo videos and some art animation stuff by me all skewed and the like, because I wanted to change it up a bit.