Kevin Kesterson - Doomed To Succeed: Songs 2002-2006

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1	Music For A Film	3:14
2	Ryan On The Beach Toasting – Ryan McBee	2:26
3	Vikja	5:38
4	The Light	5:38
5	White Corn Tortilla	2:15
6	Lady Godiva's Operation Written-By – Lou Reed	4:05
7	Long Cold Summer	2:34
8	Hits (Clean Radio Version) Drums, Engineer, Mixed By – Justin Randel	3:42
9	Fader (Strings Version) Drums, Engineer, Mixed By, Programmed By – Justin Randel	3:10
10	The Cut Off	3:23
11	Idiotekk Written-By – Paul Lansky, Radiohead	2:13
12.1	Snow Storm	1:31
12.2	Normal America Backing Vocals – Justin Randel	4:30
12.3	Without Your Love	0:55
13.1	Society Is A Hole Written-By – Sonic Youth	2:22
13.2	Flag Human Beatbox, Humming – Ryan McBee	4:03
14.1	Depleted Uranium Tip	4:44
14.2	I Fall Written By – Rebecca Schoenecker	2:45
15	The Hardin Castle	2:40
16	Off The Grid	2:40
17	I May Stray	1:48
18	A Little Bit Of Rain	1:59
19	I'm A Fucking Mess (Now That You're Gone)	1:43
20	Planetarium	2:05
21	Baby Adventure	2:05
22	Flood	2:40
23	Further Down The Road	1:45

Credits

• Liner Notes – Ryan McBee
• Producer – Kevin Kesterson

Notes

Hand numbered edition of 33.

[sic] from the outside and inside insert:

PILOT?POISON RETROSPECTIVE
the vivid , on going pulse behind many of my more intense collegate moments ,more often than not contained a heavy dose of the early auto pilot discs- always annoymous & running together - colors in a window melting to say my opinion is bias misses the point- & to say that its humble is bullshit-it is a very confident-cocky posture I take when speaking of what sweats from the four track in the basement at 4am, & it will always dig deeper in the flesh than most anything autoPILOT prooves it is not a matter of the path you choose- but the one you carve, this is what makes the man- & nothing less is tolerated. It is the texture, the essential core creation of these songs that explode w. ferocity- & at moments, damn near terror; whether it be a drunken rage or a lonely hanging of feedback THE STRAIN has always defined what i have come to understand the autopilot and poison generate to be

hand-crafted w no bullshit, ni pretense- alittle sexy slipped in here &there, but that's the real deal jack, cause this guy knows his Joan Baez no doubt

formation&disintegration:both can take on an oddly similar nature/texture- cracked lines running after one another in a continual shuffle of opposing forces; so said, autopilot and the poison g.

there isparticular comfort taken when recorded music, created amidst such turmoil- is captured and tamed in such a beautifully developed way as dr.kesterson manages via these two ongoing endeavors.

that Eternal straining for a closer look at the essential core, which can, at any moment- explode upon itself- a self-destructive fury-to have all these forces somehow wound up in the fuzzing swell of mashed instrumentation -growling out the latest Vision-there is, no doubt, a diliberately linear element superceeding the seeming chaos which the poison/pilot combo can spin itself into-but let there be no mistake, the "light" guides this puzzle at each turn- &theannoymous artist hides barely beneath the knobs

the HUM never fades completely, layers upon layers &yet there is an intimacy to be found in these hymns- from the early indulgent tracks , to the more recently traditional sketches these are songs wrung from thehands of a man who knows God- and knows how to keep us hooked & panting the next pummeling.

-ryan mcBee,dec.06,