My Music by Me by Steve Fitch

A Curse in Reverse Album - Soon

2012-02-14T13:05:00.000-06:00

My new album, A Curse in Reverse, thanks to the Elephant-Man, should be available soon. I am really happy with this album, as its material, while not entirely different from what I've done before, is definitely a step forward, and the recordings are a step up in quality. The track list for the CD is: 01-These Beings 02-Non posso più 03-Maybe She Maybe Not 04-Aïa 05-Entschuldigen Sie 06-

Happy Valentine's Day

2012-02-14T08:04:00.001-06:00

[I just had to have Prince embed.]

R.I.P., Whitney Houston

2012-02-12T16:15:00.004-06:00

C'est du cinéma.

2012-01-29T10:36:00.001-06:00

Since acquiring the cheap-but-playable guitar about six months ago, I've found myself strumming and picking it idly while watching movies at home. This seems to provide ventilation for thought or a conduit for ideas, although what I play has no aesthetic correlation with the subject or tone of the movie I'm watching. Playing guitar while watching a movie somehow enables me to concentrate on

Big Score of the Week

2012-01-27T09:07:00.001-06:00

Finally found a copy of the CD album Prick by Pig Pen, from 1992. Not only was the price agreeable, but it was sealed; never-played. I can't, however, find words to "review" or sum-up the album, except to say that the band's playing was really tight and the lyrics to the songs are straight-from-life perversity. Take, for example, the song "Sundress," in which the narrator explains that it was

Google Streetview of Memory Lane

2012-01-19T13:43:00.000-06:00

1972, or 2012? Killing time while waiting for my computer to do something "for" me, I poked-around on Google Streetview, suddenly overtaken by the urge to look-up childhood residences as they appear in recent times. Sure saves on airfare, hotel and taxis. The grainy, low-res images reveal scenes shockingly similar to how they had appeared so long ago – at least, similar to how I had been

Why Get Paid for What You Do?

2012-01-17T11:21:00.002-06:00

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Well, this made my week!

2012-01-16T22:00:00.000-06:00

E-mail I received this evening: I was babysitting Dad for months. Horrendous tongue C-word. Hard to understand his words. Passed peacefully as he could at home with me and cat. He was so angry, I tried to make him laugh all the time like I did my whole life and how he made me laugh all my life. He never had fun but wait: one day towards the end I played your Beatles [cover] song "I Wanna

Two Compilations and One Song by Me on iTunes

2012-01-05T14:56:00.000-06:00

Painlessly, I announce that Compilation No. 2, my new compilation of my music by me, joins 20 Songs from 13 Albums and "Sweet Little Self-Shooter" on iTunes - HERE. These all are also on Spotify, and Compilation No. 2 has sought adventure on Zune, as well. My entire catalog, otherwise, is available as MP3 download and/or CD, in the

2011: Year-End Warp-Up

2011-12-31T10:03:00.000-06:00

There are now music players embedded in the page for Kleinabermein (above). Machen sie Spass. Also: there is no more MySpace page for Kleinabermein, as it had been another thing for which I don't have sufficient time. I have, however, been able to make time to add the artwork for the latter Kleinabermein CD to the Flickr gallery – here I can sense that my creative condition has turned a

Listen to and purchase the new Kleinabermein CD.

2011-12-11T07:52:00.001-06:00

I am pleased to announce the new CD-only release by Kleinabermein, my fake-German-art-band project. The title of this CD is Entschärften Intellektuelle, and you can buy it here These new recordings are not as "extreme" as the previous, but are just as intense and engaging (or alienating), overall. The pieces are entitled "Eins (Schlafen)" and "Zwei (Tanzen)," either 30 minutes in duration.

Three Decades of Lyrics Book by Me - NOW AVAILABLE

2011-11-29T18:23:00.001-06:00

In compiling Three Decades of Lyrics, I started with the earliest dated lyric-poem that I considered to belong to the epoch of "my music (by me)." I had written song-poems prior to that point, but there was a moment in my life when something "clicked" in my mind, whereby I became aware that I was embarking upon a journey of forming something, at first out of primordial slime, with the aspiration

NOw, 5-Song CD E.P., Available NOw

2011-11-15T17:48:00.001-06:00

My new CD E.P., entitled NOw, is available NOw. Five songs @ 15 minutes, in accordance with the Chimpunk Rules of Execution: 01: Instrumentation limited to exactly four elements, (i.e.,drums/bass/guitar/vocals).02: Drum part forms basis of composition and form of each song.03: Instrumental performances extemporaneous and in real-time; first complete takes; no combining takes.04: Instrumental

An Hour off Your Life CD/MP3 Now Available

2011-10-25T19:40:00.003-05:00

My new album, appropriately entitled An Hour off Your Life, is now available on CD. Buy it here or in the mE-Commerce section. I've had the privilege of being the first person to buy a copy (the proof copy). This one really kicks ass, and I hope that you will let it kick yours. The MP3 download version of this album is available here. Although it's usual for my albums to be stylistically and

Masturpieces CD Available; Rest of Album Deleted Indefinitely

2011-10-02T17:36:00.002-05:00

Masturpieces, a collection of "bonus" tracks from four of my previous albums, is now available on CD ("only"), here. It will be listed in the mE-Commerce section when I feel like monkeying with code. The tracks, totaling 66 minutes in duration, have been previously released as "bonus" tracks on previous CDs, and are: "Breakfast of Creepazoids" (from Breakfast of Creepazoids) "Funfzig" (from

My New Used Guitar by Me

2011-09-04T10:40:00.000-05:00

A couple weekends ago, the idea to buy an electric guitar got up me. Not having played guitar – owned a guitar – since 1996, and not recorded any music with one since 1994, and having sworn-off playing "the" guitar since then, this inclination to acquire one seemed to come out of the blue, as though planted in my brain by some message via satellite (They do have that technology; it's amazing),

Just a Thought

2011-09-01T11:20:00.001-05:00

Wouldn't it have been so much better if we'd just loved each other?

Censorship: iTunes vs. Amazon

2011-08-29T20:00:00.000-05:00

"20 Songs from 13 Album" on iTunes The nature and purpose of censorship is to arrogate the role of arbiter of morality or taste, presuming oneself as having the definitive proscription for social bounds of comportment. The manners and methods of censorship are, however, amusing to compare between one realm's and another's. I find interesting the manner in which iTunes tends to censor titles

My Catalog Numbers by Me

2011-08-02T20:46:00.005-05:00

Summer doldrums . . . heat index circa 150°F . . . fatigue; exhaustion . . . another rodent invasion . . . first anniversary of the death of my next-door neighbor and friend, whose ghost pranks me by awakening me an hour before I'd intended to rise in the morning . . . revising the artwork and cataloguing of my discography . . . I have finished revising the artwork of each of my CDs to bear

Coffee for Regret Now Available: CD & MP3

2011-07-21T16:38:00.001-05:00

My album Coffee for Regret is finally available on CD and as MP3 download. Coffee for Regret features eight songs in a variety of styles – avant-garde Lieder, musique concrète, chimprock, electro-symphonica, motorock, and jazz – but all free of conventional tonality. I find trying to "describe" my music by me a bit like tying to explain a life-changing mystical experience to a drunk college

My App by Me (Jumping the Bandappwagon)

2011-07-17T11:37:00.003-05:00

Not usually an "early-adopter," I just had to hit this while it was still young: Bandapp looks promising. Read an article about its inception and methods here. What "sold" me on the service is that it's a rare medium of promotion and dissemination that offers revenue to the artist, and I am partial to musicians of "hardcore" or "fringe" pedigree (as is this service's developer). Fits well with

Another Internetric "WTF?!" Moment

2011-07-16T03:59:00.001-05:00

Hello, out there.

2011-07-10T12:11:00.001-05:00

[click to enlarge] Checking the Stats > Audience page of my site, I am pleased to find that this site has viewers located in Germany, France, the U.K., India, Romania, Russia, Estonia, the Philippines, and Sweden, in addition to the USA. Hello, out there! Would be nice to hear from more of you. I have Google Translate at-the-ready. Also checking the traffic sources, I find again today that

My world just got a little weirder.

2011-07-07T18:07:00.004-05:00

[click to enlarge] I swear on a stack o' Bibles that I have no idea wherefore this site's second-greatest referring site/URL would be what it is, according to the accompanying graph chart (screen shot taken of this sites Stats > Traffic page), below. I had not known of the site's existence until I saw the stats a few minutes ago. All I can say is that this world gets weirder by the minute,

My Near-Demonic Level of Productivity by Me

2011-06-30T20:46:00.003-05:00

My musical "output" over the past year's time had been rather prodigious, roughly an-album-per-month. Each CD has its own theme or "vibe" and its distinct package artwork to complement it. A bit astonished, I scratch my head and wonder, "Where did this all come from?" This would seem to pose a quota to maintain or a rep to protect, but I'd feel accomplished to be a lot more modestly prolific.