A few weeks ago we had a much needed Fall Break from school, and some wonderful people and I decided to go up to The Beach House, a little cozy place on the Oregon coast in a town called Rockaway Beach.  The house is owned by the parents of my good friend Dylan, who continues to let us escape to the peacefulness of The Beach House every chance we get.

Let me tell you: this house is magical.  Its one of those places that makes you feel like you are alive in a different way, in a magical way that makes you understand that playing on the beach, making fires, and cooking dinner are the only things that really matter in life.

So anyway, all 6 of us who went up to the house for Fall Break are musically inclined, and as musically inclined people are apt to do, we made music.  I was jamming with Dylan one morning when I realized that I should record the song we had created.  So I booted up Garageband on my MacBook.  Then I got the idea to record a song for each meal time of the day when we were all together in the house, and boom!  The Fall Break 2010 album was born.

The band: The Beach House Bums

The members: Annie Fassler, Jonah Geil-Neufeld, Walt Javins, Warren Kluber, Dylan Peden, and Alison Stake.  All students or alums of L&C.

Here’s the album.  Its fun.  It reminds me not to take life too seriously, and that my friends are awesome.

You have got to check out the song below that was recently recorded in (guess where) my dorm room.  Its the first time I think anyone at Lewis & Clark has recorded a fifteen-something-person a cappella group in a dorm room that can barely fit two beds.

The song is Landed by Ben Folds, and the group is Lewis & Clark’s only all-female a cappella group, The Merryweathers.

Enjoy

Love, Jonah

I took out my MacBook, booted up Garageband, and sang.  The result:  Six tracks of Jonah, all a cappella.  I made up the lyrics on the spot, as I was singing.

Enjoy.

-Jonah

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Update:  Here’s two other experiments.  Enjoy.