Bjork as a Teenager

I made the beat for “Bjork as a Teenager” in 2002 at the Avalon Hotel in Burbank, California on San Fernando Blvd and Olive Ave. I wrote and recorded a demo for it in 2004. Six years later in 2010 I redid the song with the same lyrics basically but added friends Magick Orchids to song and released it on my official 2nd album “Swimming to Cambodia”. The video stars Christina Tran (Golden Lucille), Eloisa Hexx and Alexa Green Directed by Joshua Clarkson Director of Photography Steven A. Soria (IWF) Recorded at Malo House in Los Angeles, California

YELLOW VINTAGE MICHAEL NHAT SHIRT

hello,
i am happy to have the girls yellow vintage michael nhat shirts made by rhea tepp on american apparel shirts from the closeout store available for mail order here!
it’s great to have and you can use it to meet people like the following:

her: i like that shirt who is michael nat?
her: oh it’s pronounced michael not
her: is that a brand?
her: he’s an asian rapper from la
her: asian rappers suck
her: he’s actually really good. what’s your number? i’ll text you a link to his site
her: fuck you
her: fuck you too

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NEW COLLAB – MENU BY MICHAEL NHAT AND MAGICK ORCHIDS

I made this last night with friends Magick Orchids (Champoy and Rhea Tepp). I sampled the beat and we wrote to it and recorded it right away at Malo House in Los Angeles. Recently they have been working on their new album “Origins of the Grind” due this year on Annie Hall Records. I have been spending my time shooting and editing a new non-narrative home movie I’m making called “All My Friends Break Sidewalks” while visiting LA.



lyrics
MN: she likes rum and coke wrote plays that sold
at age ya know i think 11 or so?
hopes on sale again win your favorite end
they only invite you to meet your girlfriends

RT: Painted circles around our eyes
Lying in the grass staring at the sunshine

C: love is but insanity with a collaborator
i should know much better
but i don’t like eating
alone…like eating alone…

MN: will you slit your dreams for what they’re worth
going back to work turns out it’s real
worse things that happen to your parents
tearing out your wallet

RT: Paddiwack oh Paddiwack I dont wannna see you back
Until you can pretend to be a mystery again

C: what a price to pay to be able to say
that you did everything your own special way
my way or the highway

MN: we’re learning how doubt it even if we’re drowning
go eat shit and write a song about it
sounds fit for a king long live the
don’t forget to deliver cooked solder

RT: Blowing bubbles into the sky
We glued our hands together because no one means forever anymore

C: how do you get know what really counts
will the same things matter when no ones around

MN: paint no one alive these days but
you might like have to wait some decide to take
their own matter wait what i gather?
is this menu right? heads on a platter?

RT: Paddiwack oh Paddiwack I dont wanna see you back
Until you can pretend to be a mystery again

C: here they come
with their guns
and their no no nostalgia
instead making music
its the music that made ya!
tie me up tie me down
then you can shoot me all around
then you can leave me on the ground…barely breathing

NEW VIDEO – WE’RE LEARNING HOW TO WALK THROUGH WALLS

FREE DOWNLOAD “We’re Learning How to Walk Through Walls”

I shot this footage in august 2008. It was the 3rd video I shot that year with Elizabeth Ann (aka Lis Bomb). The song was finished at that time and I had intentional plans for this video and this song to be together. The album it was released on came out in October 2009 (How to be Microwave’s Michael Nhat Self-titled) on 12inch Vinyl.

A lack of a computer of my own, money, neglect, the video was not finished upon the albums public release until this past week.

NEW COLLAB – MICHAEL NHAT & KYLE SOUZA (NARWHAL PARTY)

I started this song “Superfriends 2” for the PICNIC album which is a beat I made with vocals from over 10 friends (Lee Noble, Kid Infinity, Dusty Clouds of Halloween Swim Team, Magick Orchids, The Little Red Writer, Josh Crampton of Luna is Honey, Barrie Rose, and Drew Denny. From the beginning I knew I wanted Kyle Souza (Narwhal Party) on the song so after a few weeks of missed meetings, me moving out of my Silverlake place and in with Barrie, then me getting kicked out of Barries, me staying at The Girl House, having my belongings in different places, we finally got to together to record and of all things to happen, the tape we recorded “Superfriends 2” on is missing!! I didn’t want to waste his trip or our chance to record so we made a single “Self Help Books” at ABC Rehearsal Studio and another song as well called “Floor”. How to be a Microwave has posted the song on their blog for your listening pleasure HERE


(photo: Elizabeth Ann)

“Self-Help Books” (lyrics)
by Michael Nhat and Kyle Souza (of Narwharl Party)

KS: we ride the backs of beasts in our dreams that take us to places that can never be seen. claws are pushing out the toenails on my feet. we grow useless wings and are told to swim or sink.

MN: The beginning of windows that turn to sand put a lot of them together would they form a beach? Fans of Thomas lennon wonder if John Lennon and he are related

KS: Imaginary people and their inbred thoughts lead them down career paths until they are caught letting go of urges they have suppressed. And we thought we would all be something as long as we tried our best.

MN: Send in the clowns like Frank Sinatra only poor people eat pasta if you ask Oscar a monster can be a kid with the ability to wish for anything he desires beyond reality

hook: Are you fulfilling your life yet? Have you stopped suppressing a smile yet? Probably not fully functioning. Self help books. Self help books.

LA WEEKLY WRITE UP ON LA LOTTERY LEAGUE

(photo: Amy Fortunato)
L.A. LOTTERY LEAGUE DRAFT NIGHT AT PROJECT INFEST
The L.A. Lottery League, the local response to an endeavor created by a group of Columbus, Ohio, artists in 2008, takes the members of more than a dozen local bands and reshuffling them to create a dozen brand-new bands by the end of February. The first part, Draft Night, is presided over by a “council of chiefs”: The Smell’s Jim Smith, musicians Michael Nhat and Dalton Blanco, impresario Sean Carnage and booker Deseret Rodriguez. This Star Chamber of the scene chooses the combinations of musicians who will work together under a new band name to produce a dozen minutes of unpredictable, completely new music. The result might be a phenomenal blossoming of artistic potential — or it might be the musical equivalent of the Louisiana Superdome, at which occasionally some kind of barbaric sex or suicide occurs. Free; details at newmusicarchive.org. (David Cotner)

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