Thursday, January 25, 2018

Corky Red Tail's Adventures in the Spirit World





Oh, heavenly gosh, this is the album I've been working on for almost a year. Here it is in its entirety, with all the songs in the proper order. I'm writing which characters in this wacky rock-opera thingy sing each song, so maybe you'll have a good idear of what's going on in the story. In any event, I'll get back to posting new stuff next week, but I thought it would be good to have this entire album here in one place for your listening enjoyment. Woohoo.

In short, this album's based on the movie, Skins. [Spoiler Alert!!!!] It's about this teenage or early-20s dude, Corky Red Tail, who gets murdered. He wants to get a message to his mom that he's okay in the spirit world. He at first tries to get Rudy the cop; Rudy's brother, Mogie; and Mogie's best friend, Verdell to get the message to his mom, but it doesn't work. After Mogie and Verdell die of events related to their suffering from alcoholism, they join Corky in the spirit world, where they all work together to get Rudy to get the message to Corky's mom that he's okay. (Rudy ends up throwing a bucket of paint on the bust of George Washington at Rushmore, which makes George look like he's crying, and that ends up being the sign that Corky's mom needs in order to know he's okay. That's cuz it looks like a drawing Corky did in a notebook of George Washington crying, from when he was a kid (see above).)

See, much of the stuff in this here album actually does happen in the movie. I wanted to make a behind-the-scenes back-story thingamagigger involving Corky cuz I was curious as to what happened to him in the spirit world. Now I know. Thank God it had a happy ending.

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Corky sings most of the song, but Rudy is the guy sayin' "no as a matter of fact, he did not" and the dude askin' about trouble makers is Rudy's boss. Corky's singing about how he'd love to live in a place where cats sing and people smoke lots of pot. Little does he know he's gonna end up there soon (the spirit world, in other words.)

Corky sings this song. It's about how he likes working at the supermarket.

Corky sings this song. It's about how it sucks to be murdered.

When Corky gets to the spirit world, he's bummed out that he didn't get to sing his death song before he died because it happened so suddenly and unexpectedly. But then the spirits tell him he can go ahead and sing it, anyway. Then he does.

Corky realizes he needs to get a message to his mom that he's okay. This medicine man-dude is the talking-dude in the samples. He's tellin' Rudy that maybe Iktomi the Trickster Spider entered his brain and that's why Rudy feels out of sorts (see below).

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Rudy and the medicine man sing this song. Rudy feels not-himself; unbeknownst to him, it's cuz Corky's trying to communicate with him, and that's making his thought processes feel all funky and messed up.

In this song, Corky is trying to communicate to this drunk guy, Verdell, who sez "whatja stop by for?" Corky's trying to take advantage of Verdell's altered state of consciousness in order to communicate. It doesn't work.

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Rudy finds the 2 guys who killed Corky and gets revenge by bashing their knees with a baseball bat. Rudy's the one who sez "I'm the ghost of Murdered Corky." Meanwhile, Corky's freaking out cuz he's scared he influenced Rudy to do that.

Corky convinces Rudy to go to work the next day (although Rudy thinks he made the decision by himself). See, Corky's mom's house is on the way to his work, so he stops in to say hi. Corky wants him to get the message to her that he's okay - it doesn't work.

Verdell ends up dying and going to the spirit world, where he meets up with Corky. In this song, Verdell is telling Corky about how alcoholism screwed up his life.

Then Verdell comes up with a plan to get Corky's message to his mom. He says they can get Mogie to do it, because he's a joker; and graffiti-ing George Washington to make him look like he's crying would be right up his alley.

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But when Mogie gets the message, he misinterprets it as blowing up George Washington instead of painting him.

Then Mogie dies, and Verdell and Mogie sing about how much fun they can have in the spirit world (Corky joins in with them).

Corky visits Rudy in a dream; Rudy is confused until Corky tells him it's a dream and spirits can visit people in dreams. They proceed to smoke pot.

Mogie, Verdell, and Corky try to prepare Rudy for the message they're about to give him.

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Rudy gets the message from the 3 of them and realizes what it is (telling him to vandalize George to make him look like he's crying). But he thinks it's a stupid idea. The three of them tell him to do it anyway.

Mogie re-iterates the importance of making George Washington look like he's crying.

Rudy finally decides to do the deed; Verdell and Mogie are flabbergasted that Rudy, the straight-laced cop-guy, is gonna do something illegal by vandalizing George. Corky throws in his death song, for good measure.

Rudy's singing about how he threw that fucking can of paint. He did it. Woohoo.

Corky, Verdell, and Rudy are all happy and relieved that they succeeded (along with Rudy) in getting the message to Corky's mom that he's okay.

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Now they're singing about how they can go and have fun. It's a re-statement of the theme of the first song, just to tie things together.

Alrighty, then. Next week, I'll post some new stuff. Yesiree.

Friday, January 19, 2018

Nice Day For Race, Eh, Isn't It?




This is the last of the 3 grande finale songs on the Corky Death Album. Oh, holy gosh, I cain't believe I've already reached the end. I'm a little sad because this has been an ongoing project for almost a year now.

In any event, this song's sung from the point of view of Corky, Mogie, and Verdell. They're all happy that Rudy (who's in the picture, driving the SUV) threw the paint on old George at Rushmore, made him look like he was crying, and as such, succeeded in making a sign for Corky's mom that Corky's okay in the afterlife. (Cuz it'll remind her of a picture of George Washington crying that Corky drew when he was a kid).

The three dudes in Heaven are all happy now, and they start singing about how they're in a place where cats sing, and people can drink as much booze and smoke as much pot as they want, without any repercussions, cuz it's Heaven, after all. There's a re-statement of the theme of the very first song on the album, which ties everything together, maybe.

I think I'll post the album, in its entirety next week, so stay tuned. You'll get to see what the order of songs is, and all that.

For anyone new to this blog, the album I'm discussing is based on the movie, Skins. (Spoiler Alert)... It follows this character, Corky Red Tail, into the afterlife cuz he gets murdered in the beginning of the movie. Then he's joined by Mogie and Verdell, who both die of alcoholism in one way or another. The three of them work together to try to get a message to Corky's mom that he's okay in the afterlife. The most likeliest candidate to do that is Rudy, Mogie's brother, because all three of them knew Rudy when they were alive, so they're all connected to him in one way or another.

Friday, January 12, 2018

Earveh



 This is the backwards version of next week's song. Shit, it's the last song of the Corky album. I'm a little sad to see it ending here. Man-alive.

Friday, January 5, 2018

Have a Nice Day, Now


 In this song, Corky, Verdell, and Mogie are all happy because Rudy threw the bucket of paint on George Washington's bust at Rushmore and the way the paint fell on him, it made him look like he was crying. Now Corky's mom is gonna see it (cuz it's gonna be all over the news), and since it'll remind her of a picture of George Washington crying that Corky drew on a notebook when he was a kid, she'll know it's a sign from Corky that he's okay in the afterlife.

For anyone new to this blog, the album I'm discussing is based on the movie, Skins. (Spoiler Alert)... It follows this character, Corky Red Tail, into the afterlife cuz he gets murdered in the beginning of the movie. Then he's joined by Mogie and Verdell, who both die of alcoholism in one way or another. The three of them work together to try to get a message to Corky's mom that he's okay in the afterlife. The most likeliest candidate to do that is Rudy, Mogie's brother, because all three of them knew Rudy when they were alive, so they're all connected to him in one way or another.

Monday, January 1, 2018

Rudy, Mogie, Timmy, Bobby, Charlie, and Daisy



I'm posting an extra song this week because I'm finishing up this graphic novel, and there's a scene where the characters sing this very song. I have this notes section where I went on to tell the readers where to go to listen to this song. I was gonna refer them to this here blog, when I realized I'd never posted this song! I posted the backwards version of it on July 10, 2016, but I never posted the forwards version of it. 

This song's from the previous rock opera/death-album thingy I wrote in 2015, also based on the movie, Skins. This song's sung from the point of view of Rudy the Cop. He's singing about how maybe if he's good enough, he'll get to go to Heaven.

I threw in stuff about my cats, Charlie and Daisy, as well as Timmy and Bobby, who are characters that play supporting roles in the graphic novel. So that's why there's a picture of Charlie and Daisy up there. It's not like Charlie and Daisy necessarily have anything to do with Rudy the Cop. Neither do Timmy and Bobby. I just put 'em in there to pay tribute to them.

This is what July 10, 2016's entry sounds like when you turn it around.

This is the song I posted on July 10, 2016, in case you want to refer to it without having to scroll through this blog to get to it.

I'll get back to the Corky death album songs later this week.