NEW VIDEO – WE’RE LEARNING HOW TO WALK THROUGH WALLS
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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.
LA RECORD Presents: MICHAEL NHAT’S GOING AWAY PARTY
I am moving to Philadelphia, PA March 8th, 2011
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)
The DELI MAGAZINE Nominated me Best Emerging Artist of LA (Please vote for me)
“ALICE & MALICE” (an experimental comedy written and directed by Michael Nhat)
this is a movie about 2 bestfriends alice (barrie rose) and malice (played by myself) who have been living together for 98 years and wearing the same outfit since they met.
co-starring meagan boyd
director of photography steven a. soria
executive producers adora lopez and anthony trujillo (independent workforce)
LA WEEKLY WRITE UP FOR 3RD ALBUMS RELEASE PARTY “JUST PLAIN DYING”
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MICHAEL NHAT AT PEHRSPACE
When Silver Lake’s Michael Nhat says his main motivating forces are “loneliness, rejection and guilt,” he’s not being glib or pretentious. In a recent interview, Nhat explained that he survived a plane crash as a child, though his mother didn’t, and he subsequently ended up in foster care. Life with an abusive stepbrother and racist adoptive family followed, so it’s no wonder the man’s songs sport titles like “Falling Down a Bottomless Pit,” “All I Hear Is Silence” and “Replacing Their Owners [sic] Heads.” Nhat is releasing his third album in just over a year on Tuesday via I Had an Accident Records. Dubbed Just Plain Dying, it sports a sound that could only be described as “classic Nhat” — an inimitable mix of beats that ranges from spare and light to black and clanging, and his unusual raps, which pour forth in an urgently percussive tumble. Fans of Busdriver, Shapeshifters and early Anticon take note. (Chris Martins)
TEN-HEADED SKELETON 