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From the files of Yarn AudioWorks.
Original music by Jay Kustka.
Featured as a "recommended 2012 ShortDoc" by the Third Coast International Audio Festival, for which it was originally produced.
Producer's note: Unnamed at the time, the hamster has since become known as "Lily."
Jay Kustka is a Boston guitarist and singer/songwriter with 30+ years experience. A recent semi-finalist of Lee Ritenour’s Six-String Theory contest, his playing styles range from roots rock/blues to funk, reggae and beyond. Check out his music at the links below:
http://www.jaykustka.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDayRiffer
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaykustka/with-a-little-help-my-first-album
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From the files of Yarn AudioWorks.
Original music by Jay Kustka.
Featured as a "recommended 2012 ShortDoc" by the Third Coast International Audio Festival, for which it was originally produced.
Producer's note: Unnamed at the time, the hamster has since become known as "Lily."
Jay Kustka is a Boston guitarist and singer/songwriter with 30+ years experience. A recent semi-finalist of Lee Ritenour’s Six-String Theory contest, his playing styles range from roots rock/blues to funk, reggae and beyond. Check out his music at the links below:
http://www.jaykustka.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDayRiffer
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaykustka/with-a-little-help-my-first-album
Transcript
Hello baby. You wanna wake up? C’mon, wake up and play with us.
I got my first hamster when I was 16 and it’s been a chain of hamsters since then... They don’t live long. They generally live about an average of two years... People always say, don’t you want a pet that lives longer? I’m like, not really. You know, I think it would be... you have a pet for fifteen years, how wrenching is that when they die?
There you go! Hi baby! You like the wheel, don’t you? / Yeah, you like that wheel!
A hamster, you know it’s not gonna be around for very long. You give it a nice little place to live, it’s your companion for a couple years. You know it’s going. But you try to give it a happy little life while it’s around.
The first was Boo Boo, then there was, um... Spooky. Punkin. Tuffy... Sophie. Babydoll. Chloe. Smudge. Hamster Hamster... Skeeter...Wolfgang... Buster...
Well,...
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Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charcoal | Jay Kustka | N/A. | N/A | 2012 | 00:30 |
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