wait, I'm not sure I get this we are supposed to ... what was that again? um something about bats, and depression. The bats make him depressed? Well, something like that... maybe if he keeps repeating it I'll figure it out...

i dig this - if i look up from my work to check out who someone is, i always feel like that's worth at least a 7.

Biography by Lee Meyer
Before emerging as a solo artist, M. Doughty (first name: Michael) was best-known as the frontman of the unique avant-garde group known as Soul Coughing. Spawned in 1992, Soul Coughing was formed after Doughty met his bandmates (Yuval Gabay, Sebastian Steinberg, and Mark de Gli Antoni) while working as a doorman at the Knitting Factory, a staple of New York City's hip underground music scene. Soul Coughing signed to Slash/Warner in 1993 after making a name for themselves on the local scene and attracting the attention of music labels with their fusion of rock, Doughty's beatnik-inspired lyrics, and elements of hip-hop and electronic music.

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In July 2002, Doughty released the limited edition live album Smofe + Smang: Live In Minneapolis. It featured a large selection of solo material as well as Soul Coughing classics. A book of poetry entitled "Slanky," which was initially self-released in 1995, also coincided with the live album. In 2003, more solo work surfaced in the form of the Rockity Roll EP, which was then combined with the Skittish album and rereleased with a handful of bonus tracks when Doughty signed to Ato records in 2004. In 2005, Doughty released his first solo effort to feature a band, Haughty Melodic, which contained fleshed-out studio versions of several songs debuted on Smofe + Smang.

That Cuban girl
That brought me low
She had that skin so fine and red lips rose-like now
Her mouth was wide
And sweet as well
And now relentless hours of dreaming up her smell

And I feel as if I am looking at the world from the bottom of a well

Lonely
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down

Oh all the days
That I have run
I sought to lose that cloud that’s blacking out the sun
My train will come
Some one day soon
And when it comes I’ll ride it bound from night to noon

Aimless days, uncool ways of decathecting
Painless phase, blacked out thoughts you be rejecting

"Let her down in the old Velveeta"?

i guess i'm a big-time fan then. i bought the CD (after hearing "Looking..." on RP) and i've been listening to it almost every day ever since. i love every song on it.

Agreed. I bought this CD and it was a bit of a disappointment for two reasons. 1) RP cherry-picked the best songs. I can't hold that against them, but there are some really blah songs on the CD. 2) Said blah songs tend to drag even the good stuff down since they indeed, do all sound the same to some extent. Unless you're a big-time fan, RP's efforts really should suffice.