Billy Mack Collector - Lampy (Official Music Video)

Ladies, Gentlemen, and otherwise:
I present, to you, the first Collector music video!
The song is "Lampy" and it is an instrumental tune off of the album "Soda!"
Enjoy it and tell all of your friends!

Summery things, may and june.

Searching for Water and Smoking Cigars.

Hunting for Frogs.

Funny Faces & Taking Pictures.

Watching the Tadpoles turn to Frogs.

Walks in the Creek.

Makin' Weird Movies.

About a Song: The Heart of Groton.

i was born less than half a mile from where i graduated college.



I am a local, no way around it. I spent the last two years trying to convince myself I wasn't.
I was born in the pocono mountains.



























I lived in the poconos until i was 23. Then i moved to south dakota.

I wanted the opposite of everything i had ever known. I got that, basically.
I realized, while a huge chunk of my heart was in the prairie, my home was in Pennsylvania.
I thought I'd try a bigger city. I moved to Bethlehem.


Foolishly enough, I commuted the hour from Bethlehem to the Poconos to finish up school. While commuting, I'd daydream about the different places I had lived.
Life is easy in the prairie.
Life is fast in the city.
But dang it, i love the mountains.
I live in the poconos again.

More on Groton: 

Groton is a small town outside of Aberdeen South Dakota. I was living in aberdeen, but took a trip out to Groton in the middle of February. Something like 1500 people ive there. It was about 15 below zero that day. The cold hurt so much we broke out in laughter.


P.S. a funny thing happens at sundown in the prairie in the winter. The snow, on top of the very flat land, turns blue (like everything) as the sun starts to set. If you squint your eyes a little, it really does look like the ocean.


The Lyrics of the Song:

Today i was driving home from the mountains, back to the valley, when i hit a huge curve and was thrown from the car but i didn't come down fast. no, i stayed up there. how did i get up here? suddenly i heard a surge of trumpets across the land and i was in the prairie. how did i get back here? how could anything be so flat, be so gold? a herd of cattle, buffalo. god it's cold. i bet it snows a lot here. suddenly i landed in the heart of groton, right in front of fritz's: thought it was a bar. no, it just sells antiques, don't think i belong here. thought about the ocean; now my toes are cold. checked my pockets; found six dollars. spent it on a nice lamp, thought i'd settle down here. looked outside and it was snowing. then it turned blue and it looked just like the ocean. whoa. gosh and golly i can't remember what my favorite mountain looks like. air is blue and so is dirt and snow and all the earth around me. 

Centralia - Video Edition!

A Trip to Centralia and Locust Dale. Punk Rock Prom!

Various Soda Tastings

Cover of "Perfect Love" by The Residents

Me and a bunch of pals got together at our thursday night art night in stroudsburg PA and threw together a cover of "Perfect Love" by the residents. Expect us to throw together a new cover every week!

Photo Dump - Cleveland, Port Huron, and in Between.

The Boo Box - Cleveland, Ohio

Grocery Store in Cleveland, Ohio

Bowl of Dust at Steve's Lunch - Cleveland, Ohio

Seagulls in Port Huron on the border of Canada

Katherine Drew Kyle from Bowl of Dust

"Dang!" Soda Tasting.

Ithaca and Jamestown Photos

Weird Graffiti in Ithaca NY

Edgy Graffiti in Ithaca NY

Freecycle in the Kind Thrifter, Jamestown NY

The Labyrinth Coffee House in Jamestown NY

Jamestown NY

Late Night Donuts and Wine With Chris Bell in Jamestown NY

The Dinner Bell Diner in Frewsberg

Chris Bell and Frank Besse in Frewsberg NY

Outside the Labyrinth, Jamestown NY

April 16th Videoblog

Live In Cleveland.

Chicago's Bowl of Dust.





Us! Billy Mack Collector!

Travel Videos

Ohio.





Detroit, Michigan

The First Night of Tour!

Yesterday, we held a going away show at our apartment in Bethlehem, The Artichoke Field. There were 7 or 8 lovely people there. We sang songs for each other and got a tad tipsy. Today, we moved out. Here are some videos from the show:










Nate Marks performing "Bigfoot and his Bride"











Welsh Whales (acoustic) performing "Broken Social Scene"






Jacqui Pratt Covering "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"










Billy Mack Collector performing "All I Ever Order"











Nate Marks covering the hit commercial for "Yocco's, the Hot Dog King"

Our New Car!

Thanks, Everyone!!!!