Sorry for the slow updates!  I will be updating more, as I have updates on deluxe packages (yay!), comics, video contest results (remember?), and theories on the multiverse.  By the way, some humans have learned to compute with light, and some are building walking robots.  Some humans are going into space and still others are looking deeper into the universe.
Margaux by ChrisMerritt

Margaux

Today it’s a brand new year, you can start again but / I get nervous when you call / When you call

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Norfolk, VA – Sept 30

plus, New York, New York – Sept 24

Thanks for your comments on the ultra-serious Carl Sagan post – I’ll try to respond later Meanwhile, I’ll lighten up.

I’m working on a comic strip and an animated music video and an album. Yep, and album. No new tracks, but some of the “best” tracks from every CM album and it’s being produced by a special-secret-man.

By the way, have you purchased the new Chris Merritt rock-and-roll record, titled Chris Merritt – A Journey Of The Heart Chris Merritt – Virginia Is For Hoverers (Part II) yet? If you answered no, and then said – “I wish to the stars I had a copy, but where in the heck can I buy it?” It’s so easy! Just click on the “Add To Cart” button and send me some peanuts! Cold hard cash! Smakeroos! Chicken feed! A glory wad! Some dead presidents! Trading stamps! Mint leaves! Greenbacks! Bread! Cookies! Clams! Frog skins? And you’ll be listening to some great new music in minutes as you sink peacefully down with the American Empire!  “Oh boy, thanks Mr. Chris!”  Don’t thank me, son, thank your mom’s face.  Thank your mom’s face.

Walking On The Water

Yeah, this is evolution / Who can be the better fibber? / And the brain gets bigger / And you’re walking on the water baby, aren’t you, baby aren’t you?

Baby, you’re a young thing / Try to understand that I have got a front and a back stage / And love is just the show that runs for, that runs for longest, baby Read the rest of this entry »

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Buy the new Chris Merritt album, Virginia Is For Hoverers (Part II) for only $8.45 ! You can also go over to the Store!  If you already purchased the thing…..I thank you!

Shattered and bombed that life will go on after my own life is gone / Like it is now in France or Canada / I need to find some medicine tonight

But you’re the only drug around that will calm me down / Calm me down

Carl Sagan

Stubborn defiance of reason and science / but you hold the flame in the dark / Superstition is gone, and now so are you, and there’s nothing anybody here can do

Well I slept not a wink all night / Your sour smoke won’t make me right

Cause you’re the only drug around that will calm me down / Calm me down

Yeah but you’re the only drug around that will calm me down / Calm me down / Calm me down

The late, great Carl Sagan changed my life.  Everyone should read Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark.

I was going to talk about Sagan for this post, but I think it uncannily fitting to talk about current events instead, and more specifically, the effects of illogical personal bias and unreason on our explosive, complicated Read the rest of this entry »

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Radio by ChrisMerritt

I got a radio, it sounds a little funky / I got a radio, but it tries to fool me / I got a radio, but it appeals to monkeys / I smash a radio, and it starts to soothe me

You suck when you sing / Your slow-moving king has lost to my queen

I got a radio, it sounds a little funky / I got a radio, but it tried to fool me / I got a radio, it appeals to monkeys / I smash a radio, and it starts to soothe me

Your bitches are broke / Your bands are a joke / And you can’t hold us back / We’ve taken your land, but we don’t have a plan for building it back

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Surfin’ by ChrisMerritt

Surfin’

Has the world got you down?  Here’s why – cause baby, you can’t understand it all as hard as you try / Plus you’re broke right now, and that doesn’t help

I lay awake at night / I can’t dream with dead dreams / I’m just a loser with a mind, my Carolina

Man is a lamplight in the vacuum of space / You’ll probably die without the answers, Carolina

When I’m filled with dread then I go to a place in my head

Surfin’ and watchin’ the girls go by / Falling asleep on the sand / Wake to the surf washing over my hand

Surfin’ and watchin’ the world go by / Falling asleep on the sand / Wake to the surf washing over my hand

I was a burning sun then I blew myself up and made a home for you to live on, Carolina

Then evolution made you clever and cute and now you’re building a machine that will out-shine ya / My Carolina / My Carolina

There’s no Weinberg or Faust (or Dawkins or ???** or Hitchens or Hawking) when I close my eyes / There’s no cloud in the sky

When I’m surfin’ and watchin’ the girls go by / Falling asleep on the sand / Wake to the surf washing over my hand

Surfin’ and watchin’ the world go by / Falling asleep on the sand / Wake to the surf washing over my hand

** can anyone hear the name here?  It would be some physicist or biologist or something, I forget who I said!  Laptop speakers suck.

This tune is about the insanity of the bizarre and sometimes terrible situation we find ourselves in.  Alone, doomed, mortal, ignorant.

Thinking about the beach makes me happy.  Being on the beach makes me happier.  I have no worries there.  SO GET THIS:  when I run into the ocean, I’m filled with this overwhelming sense of euphoria – I start giggling and splashing around like an overexcited weirdo with brain damage.  Anyway, I always had this sense that it was a deep, genetic, biological euphoria – like something instinctual, a profound sense of being where I belong.  Well, that could be superstition, but check this out:

I’ve been reading this great Welsh writer and biologist Elaine Morgan who has convinced me that for some part of our evolution as Hominids, our ancestors were aquatic apes.  Until recently, this was thought to be fringe science, but is now becoming more accepted.  Mrs. Morgan is empirical, ballsy, and brilliant, and these are, in my view, her most compelling arguments for the aquatic ape hypothesis:

• we’re hairless – like every other mammal that is aquatic, or has had aquatic ancestors
• we have manual breath control (which allowed speech), unlike chimps and great apes, which is usually developed in aquatic environments
• we’re biped – like chimps, when they wade in the water
• we have a layer of fat below the skin only seen in aquatic mammals (which allows us, unlike chimps, to become morbidly obese)

This isn’t one of her points, but it should be:

• I am at my happiest and giddiest swimming at the beach or wading in water

Track number 2 from Virginia Is For Hoverers (Part II). By the way, throw us 8.45 really quick for the full album download – you won’t regret it

This tune is unfinished lyrically, even though I like where it’s ended up. I wish I had more time and money to work on it. I had a few more ideas. I rewrote the lyrics recently (only a few changes) and titled it German Girls. When I wrote this song, Read the rest of this entry »

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Don’t forget, buy the new album Virginia Is For Hoverers (Part II)! Just click here —>

Hello, beautiful human – thanks for checking out the new album, Virginia Is For Hoverers (Part II).  People are actually buying this thing.  It’s doing better than any other thing I’ve put out.  Amazing.  I wasn’t sure if I would have to trap and eat the mouse that lives in my apartment to survive, but fortunately, Jerry lives another month (this is weird, right….I named him after Jerry Seinfeld, but then someone pointed out there’s Jerry from Tom & Jerry…how did I not Read the rest of this entry »

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Presenting:  Virginia Is For Hoverers (Part II).

Chris Merritt – Virginia Is For Hoverers Part II Digital Download 8.45:

Virginia Is For Hoverers – Deluxe Edition     *see details below   40.00:

Thanks for your patience, folks.  I have the most supportive fans on the planet – I really don’t deserve you and it amazes me that there are people who are interested in this music I make.  You guys rock.

You can buy a digital download for $8.45 (the price of two slices of pizza and a coke at the pizza place down my street!) or buy a deluxe edition for $40 (more on this in a second).  I know it’s easy to distribute mp3s for free, but keep in mind that your purchase will help me survive and give a big push towards getting a real label (or something) involved in my music.  If I ever have the resources to make big studio records, I’ll be giving you guys as much free music as I possibly can.  I want to use this record to promote myself and get some things happening with all the connections I’ve been making over the last three years.  I would really like to be able to turn my internet back on, get some groceries, and get some cough medicine (haha!!  do I sound pathetic enough??) and get some physical promotional copies of this thing made.  Let’s get this music out there!!  It’s time to shop labels/management/promotion!!  I need your help!

*About the deluxe edition:  As we’ve been making Part II, I’ve been hard at work on a Deluxe Edition of Virginia Is For Hoverers.  The Deluxe Edition will feature Virginia Is For Hoverers (Part I and II) as physical copies, with a bunch of bonus stuff, including cool bonus artwork.  They will be mailed out in about three weeks (prints and CDs are being copied!!), but you get the digital downloads of Part I AND II, plus the Big Girl and Sugar singles  immediately.  The package will feature:

• Large 18″ X 18″ prints of Part I and II album covers
• Physical copies of Part I and Part II
• Bonus artwork
• Bonus CD of alternative mixes, versions, and entirely new songs!
• Bonus CD of every Tuesday Tape ever recorded
• Artist commentary (ranting over tracks)
• Signed, personalized drawing

Listen loud.

Enjoy.

Love,

Chris

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finishing artwork…..perfectng track order