Music Video: Having Fun In The Former USA

 

I chose this song for the music video from the Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer album.  I suppose that makes it the single from the album, though "All Roads Lead To Death" seems to be the most popular track, at least based on what Spotify reports.  I like a number of the other tracks as well.  In fact, since I wrote them, I like them all, but favorites do emerge, and this is one of them.  It seemed the most videogenic since I had a location in mind.  I had a job once where I had to travel to various industrial areas around Cleveland, Ohio USA.  There were a lot of rough areas, but one in particular looked like a wasteland.  I returned to that area for this video, and it actually looked better than it did a few years earlier (it appears the city knocked some of the worst buildings down), but it still looked apocalyptic enough that it worked for the video.  I've always found ruins interesting, and here are some industrial variety ones.  The video I suppose counts as a remix of the song as well since I left the train noise in this video version.  So at least now there is a music video from each album.  The next one will be from the next album.

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!

New Recording!: Orange Marmalade

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This is an older song I started playing again, so I did a new recording of it.  It's the usual guitar, vocals, and drums.  My kid had an Avengers tambourine he was getting rid of, so I made good use of it as part of the drums.  I always liked this song, so it was nice to flesh out a recording of it.

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!

Winter 2026 Hoof & Antler!

  

The new Hoof & Antler is out!  For the Winter 2026 issue, I wrote an article about Annie Oakley, who actually grew up in Ohio.  The newspaper, which is an endangered species--I just heard about the imminent closure of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette--, is free at any Mickey Mart.  This issue, as usual, has a lot of other fun stuff in it as well, so pick one up if you're lucky enough to live in a part of Ohio where Mickey The Moose roams!

If you want to read something else by me, then get my new novel, The Front Yard War!

Frighty #4

The new Frighty is out.  Before I post the link, remember this zine is designed to be printed.  Reading online or otherwise electronically is not recommended.  The Internet is just being used as a distribution method because we're too cheap to pay for postage and printing.  When you print it, print it doublesided, mark it "flip on short edge"--let's repeat that so no one prints half the pages upside down; once again, flip on short edge--, fold it, staple it if you feel ambitious (to anyone who doesn't have a long stapler, you can do this with any stapler you flip open, you just have to staple the zine into a phone book or something, then pull it out and use a pencil or something to roll over and flatten the raised staple edges down--if that makes no sense, then somebody on YouTube probably has a video showing how to do it or just ask me and I'll show you how; just don't get a boo-boo doing it and use a rubber band or some other binding instead if you're worried you will), and you're good to go.  You can make copies if you want others to read it; we don't care.  Just don't sell them unless you're sending the money beyond printing it to us.

The issue was fun as usual, but it's the last one planned.  For something that was intended as a one-off, four ain't too bad.  Maybe some day we'll do a fifth issue, but even if we never do, how about you do a zine using this method and let me know when you publish it so I can check it out?  Thanks again to everyone who helped with this one!  Here's the link for printing/downloading:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-sXxwkcc9TPr4Xyn57YsVKIwNeBrQtp/view?usp=sharing 

For more Wred Fright writing, then read the latest novel, The Front Yard War.

Music Video: Another Year Without A Valentine

 

I chose this song for the video from the Gang Of Foreigner album.  It was a tough choice because I like some of the other songs such as "Smart Set" and "Cheekbones And Legs" a lot as well.  The video's not the greatest because I'm getting kind of burned out on music videos, but it expresses the idea of the song visually well-enough, and I wanted to have at least one music video for each album.  I do love that Marcel Duchamp heart image.  It was also nice to display one of my beloved Bill And Opus mugs.  Those stickers actually are scratch and sniff, and they smell pretty good.

Next up is a video for "Having Fun In The Former USA".  I shot that footage before but waited because I wanted to release the videos in the proper album order and had to wait for the stores to bust out the valentine displays, which I didn't actually end up using much of, but that was the initial plan anyway.  By the way, it didn't take long.  I was able to get footage right after New Year's, and I probably could have gotten some right after Christmas if I went to the right store.

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!