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Halfpenny Orchestra progress: 3 joined: January 2005 location: California, USA website: www.halfpennyorchestra.com influences: Simon & Garfunkel, The Decemberists, Mountain Goats, Counting Crows, Ben Folds, Iron & Wine, Over the Rhine, Bob Dylan, Arcade Fire, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Radiohead, M Ward, Spoon, Andrew Bird, Sufjan Stevens ... lots of people. (Warning: Our music may or may not actually sound like any of these artists...)

Bio

2010 Songs

1		Dawn	8 comments // 2 days ago
2		Oh My	3 comments // 2 days ago
3		The Sea Monkey Theme Song	10 comments // 1 day ago

Soundboard

• Rob Cooke 12 hours ago

  Thanks for the comment on Heartburn. I think it's the best song I've written for a while actually.
  Who'd think I'd be grateful for being sick the other day?

•  Billy Chase 20 hours ago

  Thanks for the Loteria drawing. I've been writing some surf tunes lately and "El Camaron - The Shrimp, No. 30" will fit right in.
  
  I'm looking forward to this.

•  songsville 2 days ago

  Hey another Reaper-er ! May the scythe be with you ...

• Jeff C. 4 days ago

  Haha! ARCE? I thought I was the only one. ARCE, class of 1986. I took a guitar class my senior year because I needed an elective.....and that's how it all starts.
  
  I do find it interesting how people perceive engineers. "You're an engineer....and a musician? And a comedian? I thought engineers were too straight laced for those kinds of things." Apparently, there are at least two of us with right brain/left brain capacities, huh?

• Jeff C. 5 days ago

  Wait, one of you aren't a structural engineer, are you? That'd be serendipitous. Or something. 'Cuz I went to Poly and I am a structural engineer.

• Ant Lion 5 days ago

  Great, thanks for the challenge, excited to have this inspiration! I think I'm going to have to make this one a collaboration with my cello-playing friend.

• Captain Vulpine! [Back with a Vengeance!] 5 days ago

  Pear?! I didn't even know there was such a card!
  
  But... I... I'll write the hell out of that song! Pears are going to wish they never existed when I finish with 'em!
  ...Or perhaps they'll become a proud and boisterous fruit, I suppose there's really only one way to find out.

• Jeff C. 5 days ago

  SLO? I went to college in SLO.....just a "couple" of years ago. It's a great place. Anyway, thanks for the Death card. I'll see what I can do with it. Death of innocence? Death of taste? Death of....death? Wow, this might more difficult than I thought. I'm gonna have to see where this takes me. Hopefully not to the grave. Haha!

• Captain Vulpine! [Back with a Vengeance!] 6 days ago

  Who?! Wha?! What's all this about? I want to play! *runs in circles*

• heylovie 6 days ago

  Deal me in.

• negasi 6 days ago

  Thanks muchly!

•  Mal 6 days ago

  Awesome! Thank you!

•  Summer Russell 6 days ago

  Woohoo! Thanks!

•  Dan Wallbank 1 week ago

  Thank you, sirs!

•  themightygreegor 1 week ago

  La Rosa! Coulda been better but coulda been WAY worse, hahaha! Thanks, and I'm on it.

• Taylor Tay 1 week ago

  And for that matter, Tay Squared will be good enough a name for me

• Taylor Tay 1 week ago

  Thanks for organising the Loteria picks. Apart from mine containing the mysterious Number 23, the Moon is always something cool to write about... I'll get right on it!

•  Jharms 1 week ago

  YES! Thanks!

•  Corinne Curcio 1 week ago

  Thanks for the loteria pick! No 20 is perfect for me, since I am an avid birdwatcher!

•  Josh Belville 1 week ago

  yes! Sweet, thank you.

•  Dusty Mason 1 week ago

  Perfect....I LOVE my card.

•  Patrick Madden 1 week ago

  Sweet. The World. Thanks for organizing this!

•  orinoco 1 week ago

  Ooh, a ladder. OK. I could do a metaphorical ladder, but that might be too easy - I'll try and write a song about an actual ladder, if I can Thanks for having me on board!

• greenambit 1 week ago

  Huh, funky challenge. I'll have to see what I can do. Thanks!

•  Karan 1 week ago

  This is fun indeed! I have written a "heart song" just now. But I may well become hooked on the subject and do another one; we shall see...

•  Potato 1 week ago

  hey thanks for my task, this is gonna be a real challenge should be a good laugh though...

•  Robyn Mackenzie 1 week ago

  Have fun, you say. Oh, I shall, Halfpenny Orchestra. I shall indeed.

• expendablefriend 1 week ago

  Awesome, deer + glockenspiel. What's not to like? I'll do my best!

•  Elaine DiMasi 1 week ago

  The Flowerpot? I love it. Hope to do it justice. Cool thread you've got there. More in a bit!

•  isaac quatorze 1 week ago

  thank you, Loteria dealer! we should see if we can get everybody to put "loteria" as one of the tags so these songs can be easily called up. sorry if that's already been suggested!

•  Jim Koman 1 week ago

  Hey, just noticed you guys sent me a message back in January! Sorry I failed to notice it. Nice to find there are Fawmers in SLO. While this isn't my first time signing up for FAWM, this is the first time I'm going to force myself to complete it. I look forward to hearing what you guys produce!

• stevekey 2 weeks ago

  Did you hear from Ashley at New Times? She's doing a FAWM feature.

• Errol 3 weeks ago

  Hi Bret!
  
  I don't know if we talked about boardgames last year! Ya, I think I should your other half my boardgame closet. We were talking about boardgames in chat. I had to slow down on boardgames when my youngest was born. I used to have a boardgame night every week, but then I stopped about 5 years ago because of the little one. Now, I've restarted boardgame night one a month. Great fun!

•  Nancy Rost 3 weeks ago

  Can't wait for "Took a Bath in Buford".

•  Jharms 3 weeks ago

  Thanks for the recording tips-- and Wailing Wall is pretty cool, too.

•  Jharms 3 weeks ago

  OK, I should try them. I've listened to DM Stith and Son Lux from the remixes they did to My Brightest Diamond, but I haven't listened to their solo stuff. I also like Half-Handed Cloud, who's from the Asthmatic Kitty Label. And I just found David Bazan (or Pedro the Lion) recently, who writes a lot about theodicies/ anti-theodicies.

•  Jharms 3 weeks ago

  Hey, thanks! I've been trying to find stuff like Bifrost out there (Christian/Indie), but haven't been too successful. Do you have any suggestions?
  
  And I love your influences as well! I was just rocking out to Spoon last week, and Ben Folds is one of my biggest inspirations as far as lyricists go. Not sure how I missed him...