Music Videos

Blizzard (2010)
Fireworks (2010)
Gowanus (2010)
Nearing the Edge (2010)
Evening Library (2010)
Skyline (2010)
Desert Dream (2010)

Branch (2010)
Cycle (2010)

Pizza Carbonara (2011)
Boulder City, NV (2011)
Tree (2011)

Violet (2011)

Concussions (2011)

As Clear As Rain Pt.2 (2011)

Walk After the Snow (2011)

Painting With You (2011)
Until 19 (2011)

Woods of Mount Guardian (2011)

The Great Outdoors (2011)

Noise and Cookies (2012)

Live Performances

“Band Forever” with Beth Heuer at Perch Cafe, Brooklyn (2011)

“Hawaii” with Beth Heuer (2011)

“F Train Over Brooklyn” with Jocelyn Medina and Gani Parrott (2011)

“Snow Globe” at Perch Cafe, Brooklyn (2011)

“Steaks and Lard” with Jed Miley (2011)

“Serendipity” and “Snow Globe” at the First Annual Hudson Music Festival (2011)

“Midnight in Kingston” on mandolin at Teachers & Writers, NYC (2011)

“I Have Flowers” at Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn (2011)

“2010 (New Year’s Day)” and “Transition City” at Gizzi’s, NYC (2011)

“F Train Over Brooklyn” and “Painting With You” at Perch Cafe, Brooklyn (2011)

“The Morgue” (2012)

“Console” at the Second Annual Hudson Music Festival (2012)

“Underground” and “You’re Exploding / Tonia” at Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn (2012)

“How Have You Been?” and “Jimi” with Ria Boss at Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn (2013)

Short Films: Unhappy Holidays (2007), Coney Island: The Last Stop (2008), 4705: Year Of The Earth Rat and 4706: Year Of The Earth Ox (4705-4706), Other Places (2009), Exhibit 1 (2009), The Manual Polar Goes For A Ride (2010), Family Band (2011), Old VHS Tapes of: Bobby, Ian, and The World We Live In (1 & 2) (2011), A New Digital Video of Bobby (2012)

(see also: Out of Print and Unavailable Filmography)

Albums, EPs, and Singles recorded during this era

Straight Edge Songs for 420-Friendly People (2011)
A 42-minute psychedelic instrumental I made in 2011; apparently, this one makes people feel like they’re high, so I released it on the 20th of April, 2011.

Mount Guardian (2012)
A noisy, experimental album with distorted electric guitars, tree frogs, charangos, and other instruments, recorded on the top of Mount Guardian, NY in 2010. This also includes a very early, very chaotic version of “Branch”.

Lullaby Screams (2012)
A dark, lo-fi album of droning acoustic guitar, hand percussion, and vocals; a lot of experiments with looping and soundscapes.

Blank Earth (2012)
An ambient soundscape, simultaneously chaotic and soothing.

Trips (released 2013)
Lots of sonic adventures, songs and some spoken word pieces. Some unique early versions of songs like “Midnight in Kingston” and “Stranger Dreams” (now better known as “Beautiful, Terrifying”). This album ends with two longer experimental pieces that were recorded on Mount Guardian: “Mount Guardian Return” and “Message from a Sad World”.

More than the Nightmare Station (released 2013)
3 albums in one; this one combines my now out-of-print albums Campaigning in Empty Apartments (From Room to Room), Driving at Night on the Highway, and The Nightmare Station. Some early versions of songs like “Rockport, ME” and “My Love is Away”, along with some of my early hits like “Controlling the Dog” and “Laws of Physics” that haven’t appeared on an album since.

Rarities (released 2013)
A lot of rare recordings of mine, including many that have often been requested from out-of-print albums, in addition to my 3 songs from the Dogs vs. Cats split EP I released with Phoebe Novak that same year (including a very early version of “Cannonball Becomes the One Armed Man”).

Transformation in the 24 Hour Deli (released 2015)
A selection of songs I wrote and recorded from age 8 to 18; it starts with some early recordings of songs from my first band, The Band Of The Land, and then explores a number of different musical realms from my teenage years, with a variety of experimental approaches and some more traditional rock and folk arrangements of my original songs from that period of my life.

Landlocked Island Rock (released 2015)
Some additional recordings from my teenage years; mostly songs about growing up in NYC at the beginning of the 21st century, and some that were more inspired by my adventures in experimental filmmaking (especially the song “Who is Her” and the poem “Gold Became a Useless Cover”). This has some fun songs on it, I was pretty happy with how “Bubble” and “Life on a Landlocked Island” came out.

2 (released 2016)
A recording from when I was a teenager of my poem “Bath, Maine” set to music. This was one of the first things I recorded when I started making music again in 2009 after a long hiatus, and it laid the groundwork for a lot of what I’ve done since; it was inspired by the same events as my song “Pennsylvania”.