Download Broken Windows and Shooting Pains on iTunes.

I wrote and recorded a handful of acoustic songs roughly around 2002 and never really knew where I could fit them into a record. I started kicking around the idea of having two music projects; one being a band and the other my acoustic songs. I wrote these 13 songs with a solo project in mind but eventually held onto them because I didn’t want to detract from the energy I was putting into Last Falling at the time. 

I always envisioned Last Falling being the band name of a few like-minded friends who would share a common bond in maintaining a creative music project – I never thought of it as a selfish professional business or a name for myself. An epiphany and a few realizations later, Last Falling makes sense to me now. My songs are best left to my own success or demise. Open eyes are beautiful.

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04/05-04/11 Idokungfoo.com

A while back, around April 2006, I discovered an amazing artist on istockphoto.com by the name of Simon Oxley. He is a British born designer/illustrator operating from Fukuoka, Japan. His pop culture design expresses a very simple, fresh, and intuitive attitude. I would describe his work as half cheeky and half witty with an extra special pinch of cuteness. We’ve exchanged a few emails over time where I would keep up communication and let him know where I’ve been seeing his distinctive work.

I purchased a license for this particular piece that I modified a little bit and used as a print on a couple rounds of shirt production in 2006:

Simon’s pop culture influence didn’t hit me until I saw an episode of Lost (season 4 I think) where there was a Japan flashback scene where Jin enters a toy store to buy a stuffed panda. His artwork and cute little creatures, my adopted name “Vortex Buddies”, are widely renowned in Eastern culture. A poster of the “Vortex Buddy” was on the door of the store where Jin walked through in that particular episode. I’m not sure if it already existed at the location, or if it was the idea of the show creators or set designers at the time.

I started using Twitter last year and found the artwork used on the site to be vaguely familiar. I asked Simon about this to which he wrote, “Yes, Twitter used the bird as a support for their text logo”.

Visit his site idokungfu.com and check out his work for sale on istockphoto here.

I am proud to announce that there are a total of 48 tracks now available on iTunes for free, via the Last Falling Podcast.

Official iTunes Link / Official Last Falling Podcast

The current catalog of songs available right now spans 12 years, dating back to 1997. The podcast will continue to serve its function of updating you on what is new and when tracks (I have yet to find) are available.

Some are wondering why I’m doing this; why my past is up for grabs.

To them I say I am fulfilling my obligation as an artist to remain vulnerable given the climate of the music industry in addition to our horrible economic shitastrophy. There is no obligation to buy my music or any music for that matter. I love what I do and this is just a great opportunity to open up my vault for you.

I’ll personally keep you informed about what’s new through my little vortex on the internet and continue to deliver music the way I hear it.

I was just checking up on my stats when I saw this:

Not sure who wanted to know, so there you go!

With that, I leave you one of my favorite exchanges from Monty Python and The Holy Grail:

ARTHUR: Old woman!

DENNIS: Man!

ARTHUR: Man. Sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?

DENNIS: I’m thirty-seven.

ARTHUR: I– what?

DENNIS: I’m thirty-seven. I’m not old.

ARTHUR: Well, I can’t just call you ‘Man’.

DENNIS: Well, you could say ‘Dennis’.

ARTHUR: Well, I didn’t know you were called ‘Dennis’.

DENNIS: Well, you didn’t bother to find out, did you?

ARTHUR: I did say ’sorry’ about the ‘old woman’, but from the behind you looked–

DENNIS: What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior!

Okay, who bought the ‘dude rock’?

Come on, I won’t be mean. I just wanna know who it was.

Mark, was that you? Don’t lie.