HAPPY HOLIDAYS: Bing Crosby Works Here?

Well, its 2 days till Christmas and the taste of Bing Crosby and pumpkin pie is nearly palatable. Sitting in a white-washed office building the air conditioning unit whirls resonate like the reverb off a cheap sound machine.

Am I at work? Why is no one else here?
Is the building even open today, or am I in trouble for being here? Perhaps the lights will go off and I’ll slip out to the recesses of the parking garage. But damn, the parking garage is cold, and if I forget my car keys I’ll be stuck on the 2nd Floor until after New Year’s Eve.

Did I buy enough presents? I must have forgotten someone.
Will anyone give me a gift? Wait, it’s not about the giver; it’s the whole receiver thing.

Wait, there’s someone else here! I hear them.
They’re talking about their grandparents and their travel plans. How is this possible? Are they speaking to me? There must be more people in the building, hidden from my cube. I can never see over this wall.
A low voice wafts through the air duct, "That is quite enough for the day."  I wrestle on a jacket, pick up my bag and head to the 2nd Floor.

As I round the parking garage stairwell the voice hits once more, "Happy Holidays" it says.  I agree.

The Forest is Dark and The Wolves are Keen

Dana and Rita, they sit in the dark, they play with their hands, their giggles are sparse.
They fear what they know, but what's worse is they don't - have enough knowledge to fear what they don't.

Perhaps it is youth, perhaps it is luck, that gets them to safety, that helps them to run.
Whatever it is, it's best just to say, "Don't go in the forest when you want to go play."

TUMBLR: W.A Fite

W.A. gets a Tumblr...glorious!

W.A. Fite TUMBLR





Artwork by Dustin Blocker.
Copyright Hand Drawn Records 2011





In the Haze of Sleep

In the Haze of Sleep
by W.A. Fite

The sleep deprived nature of my days spin quickly to thoughts of restless nights, awakened by the slightest of happenings and sometimes through the lack of such. Flicks of false rain trickling in a loop of a sound-machine. The brown haze of burned up sod speaking in a voiceless sigh as if to beckon me back out into the yard…again.

Sure, duty and recklessness rarely extend themselves during the same times, yet as opposites, they also rarely collide.

Why do my bushes die when I water them so fervently? Why do some men live when they treat their bodies to rough violences and self-degradation?

These are the questions that wind into that flicker rained loop. And as the windy drops grow more false with wakened thought, so do my boundless days.

Oklahoma Gazette's Review: "Poisoning the Medicine Tree"

Neither here nor there

Oklahoma Gazette Article - June 13, 2011

By Stephen Carradini

W.A. Fite lives in Dallas, but he’s signed to the Dallas/OKC record label Hand Drawn Records. His “Poisoning the Medicine Tree” is an album of gritty electronic pop with a modern-rock singer over it. He follows a less-traveled path through electronic music: This is not the subtle indie pop of The Postal Service, the sunshiny pop of Owl City, or dance-oriented electro. This is forceful, rock-oriented, electronic music that sort of sounds like the pseudo-electronic experiments of Bush (“Glycerine”), thanks to both the vocals and the song structures. “Beating Thomas Best” and “Jack” are immediate standouts, while the mellower “Carney’s Lake” kicks off the quieter, more experimental back half. “That Ain’t the Way” is a piano rumination, showing his diversity.

WATCH THIS: W.A. Fite - Carney's Lake

W.A. Fite
"Carney's Lake"
Poisoning the Medicine Tree

Hand Drawn Records / El Villa Films
Fite Lite Productions © 2011
http://wafite.com

PICTURE SHOW: Carney's Lake Video Shoot

Yesterday's video shoot for "Carney's Lake" went off great, with overcast Texas skies and filthy pond water. Initial looks into James Villa's viewfinder show this one will make a clean addition to the videologue.

Photo Courtesy James Villa Photography

Snapshots by Darell Blocker

FREE DOWNLOAD: Carney's Lake

Download "Carney's Lake" FREE for the next 4 days ONLY (ends 4/24/11).

UPDATE - Monday April, 25: Free Download is done, but Carneys Lake still available to stream free.

There will be a new video for the track, with the shoot scheduled for this weekend. So...Enjoy.



Carney's Lake by handdrawnrecords

MORNING MUSING: Early Hour Spindle

I would like to submit that time is not relegated to an important frame within the human psyche during the hours leading to rest, but rather that creative energy is stored in the brain seemingly for release only in early waking hours.

If the creator of said energy is one inclined to production of thought, then that time is spent justly winding the spindle of what may later be physical product. However, if that person does not focus thought, then such ideas may be ones that drive a mind to madness.

NO. 2: Storyboarding "Carney's Lake" Video

Inspiration always creeps in the early hours, and the final logistical ideas for this weekend's "Carney's Lake" video shoot hit me with the veracity of the hail during last night's storm.

BTW: In my young days I received a "D" in Penmanship.

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