Grandmothers of Death

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I started recording this song at about 6pm, and now it's 8:17pm. Cool, man, in about 2 hours you can have a song go from bein' an idear in your head to bein' on the internet for everyone in the whole wide world to hear! (Or, in my case, the 3 people who check this blog. Thanks, guys!)

Anyway, I think I know what this song's about, but it would be stupid to try to put it into words, you know, man. But, I thought it'd be nice to stay with the theme of grandparents and death, cuz that's kind of a nice thing to write songs about.

Okay, yeah, the picture has nothing to do with the song, but the cats behind the screen door are sorta ominous-looking, like the narrators of the song. I know, I'm reachin', but I just wanted a pretty picture so this blog wouldn't look too boring.

Bleh.

I really gotta get off my ass and do some recording. Man, this has been the longest hiatus in forever. Bleh, bleh, bleh. At least I'm doing NaNoWriMo againg, though.

Commentary - Grandpa-ish

Yeah, this song, one o' my main influences for it was Phillip Glass. He's a big ole influence o' mine. Minimalism and rock-n-roll go together real nice, yesiree. See, I was workin' on my most recent novel, and I was trying to figure out a weird way to describe the trance state the characters were finding themselves in. The word, "Grandpa-ish" came to mind. Yesiree.

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That was also the last song I wrote/recorded when I was livin' in LA. The theme of the song works pretty well with endings, I guess.

Grandpa-ish

This week's song is called Grandpa-ish - I couldn't think of a way to illustrate the song, but I think the photo there sorta goes well with it, yeah.

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Grandpa Songs

I need to post a new song-poops, and I've been all lazy and stressed out. I might have some time tomorrow, in which case I'll post a song called "Grandpa-ish." It's a song from before I left LA, and one of the new songs I'm writing here is called "Grandpa's House" which was inspired by a cool friend o' mine. That way I can have a whole series of Grandpa songs. Well, 2 of them.

Yes, More Old Songs

Bleh, I have a couple songs in the cooker, but the writing is coming slow cuz I just moved and moving takes away my creativity, bleh. So, here's a song from 2002. When it turned 2002, I thought, cool, since the year is a palindrome, I'm gonna write a bunch of songs that're palindromes. If you play the song backwards, it sounds the same as when you play it forwards. If you listen to the first track, it's the regular song, and if you listen to the second track, you hear the song forwards in one speaker and backwards in the other. It doesn't match up perfectly, but it's pretty close, yesiree.

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The lyrics are:

Dood stops tug to grab a bar, got guts, pots, dood. (4x)

Did it fart on a pilot to lip a not-raft? I did. (2x)

Oy poop, sit tub, a gnat stang a butt - is poopy o. (2x)

Did it fart on a pilot to lip a not-raft? I did. (2x)

Toot-poop, o not drab to crap on a no-par-cot, bard, ton o' poop toot! (2x)

Did it fart on a pilot to lip a not-raft? I did. (2x)

Oy poop, sit tub, a gnat stang a butt - is poopy o. (2x)

Did it fart on a pilot to lip a not-raft? I did. (2x)

Dood stops tug to grab a bar, got guts, pots, dood. (4x)

09-09-09

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That's right, you can count this as "working" cuz I'm "on-call," as you will. Hopefully I won't be needed, cuz I'm too exhausted. New jobs tend to do that. I had to post something today cuz today is 09-09-09. Weirdly enuff, it's also the deathiversary of someone in my life, but the song I wanted to post (about him) ain't on this computer yet. ARgh. But, maybe that's that particular soul's way o' tellin' me he wants to keep the date of his death private.

The song I posted is one I wrote way back in 2001, and it was, oh it's complicated. DAvid Byrne had just come out with his new album, Look Into The Eyeball, and so before I listened to it, I made a whole album of my own with all the same song titles. I was trying to predict what his album would sound like. Hah. This song sounds NOTHING like DB's "Like Humans Do." That's okay cuz I like mine better. I guess that sounds cocky. Arrogant, too.

Okay, why isn't this damn thing letting me post? ARgh!

Soon-ish!

Hi all,

I'll be back to posting in probably a couple more weeks. I've been away from the internet for the most part cuz of poopy moving, and my new place won't have internet for a while (then I'm going on vacation, where my internet will be dial-up -- too slow to post songs!). But it'll be soon-ish!

Go to Hell, Breathe, Fuck You

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The song's supposed to be called Go to Hell, Breathe, Fuck You, but some computer malfunction is determining that it be called 21 track 21. Hmm. I wrote this way back in 2001 and this recording is from then, too. I got the chorus of the song from a dream (the chorus was just playing by itself in the dream). The verse I wrote in waking life, but it's what the dream was about.

I'm gonna stop doing this for a while. Bye.

I'm not writing songs these days cuz I'm pretty blocked. Hmm. I have lots of old ones but I can't decide what to post.

Alcoholic Barbie Doll

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I wrote this one back in 1997 around the same time as the one from last week, yesiree (but I recorded this version more recently, yes).

I guess you can hear it for yourself in the lyrics, but, like, you know, it's from the point of view of somebody's superego.