andy liotta: monday songs

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] “not again.” max sits on the couch, a news bulletin has interrupted his basketball game. his roommate looks up from facebook. “what is it?” “another guy killing defenseless people.”

February 21st, 2011 | Tags: country, death, hypocrisy, lonely, madness, murder, sad | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Leave a comment

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] she turns off her phone after the third call in an hour. she smiles at her date. she has to say something. “my sister wants to know how it’s going.” she’s certain her smile isn’t coming off correctly, that he picks up some sign of discomfort. she adds, [...]

January 17th, 2011 | Tags: breaking up, grief, sad, suicide | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Leave a comment

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] for matt margolin. we played music together for many years. back then, he was one of my closest friends. and though we hadn’t seen much of each other this past decade, i always thought of him with great fondness. a kind man, a chaotic genius on the guitar, [...]

September 27th, 2010 | Tags: bluesy, loss, matt margolin, sad | Category: monday song | Comments (15)

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] staring at the floor. frozen. scuffed wood once elegant, now dulled by years of water spraying from the kitchen sink. it’s the eighth floor at liberty lane. frozen. looking down. familiar. elliott came from a family that spent their lives propping up the walls, keeping the ceiling in [...]

September 13th, 2010 | Tags: family dynamics, jazz influence, sad | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Comments (2)

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [show note: i'm playing at the pub at vios next monday, april 6. corner of 20th ave and 65th street. kids welcome. great food. and my music. see you there. 7 to 9pm. no cover. can you beat it?]   number 19. not much to say about the [...]

March 30th, 2009 | Tags: dancer in the dark, gabriela leone, high school, lars von trier, lonely, loss, sad, slice of life | Category: monday song | Comments (2)

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   [special note: i hope to see all of you seattle-ites tonight at the pub at vios. 65th st and 20th ave in north seattle. its free. kids welcome. i start at 7pm. see you there.] with number twelve, we complete the first album. and free at that. [...]

February 9th, 2009 | Tags: astrud gilberto, bossa nova, duke ellington, mania, papa's culture, paul mccartney, sad, steely day | Category: monday song | Comments (5)

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   [special note 2: playing tonight at the pub at Vios at 7pm (beneath third place books on 65th st and 20th ave in north seattle). i will also be playing there next monday. been trying to put together a number of monday songs for live performance. we'll [...]

February 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Add new tag, beach boys, beatles, bouncy, elo, high llamas, mania, sad, the damned | Category: monday song | Comments (2)

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   [special note: i'm playing a show on monday, feb 2 at the pub at Vios. it's at 65th st and 20th ave below third place books in north seattle. show starts at 7pm. i'll be playing some billie burke estate tunes, a few monday songs and some [...]

January 26th, 2009 | Tags: country, family dynamics, lonely, relationships, sad, willie nelson | Category: monday song | Comments (1)

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   number eight brings us back to the wholeheartedly sad songs. this one came very fast. the opening chord sequence and the lines “too much history, too much you and me” came almost at once. most weeks, finding words is like stripping wallpaper – a lot of effort [...]

January 12th, 2009 | Tags: breaking up, nirvana, sad, sarah vaughan, satie, tom waits, torch song | Category: monday song | Comments (2)