Halfway To Heaven

Halfway to heaven

Here's a song about God talking to a person through a can of beer. Whoops, I just realized I drew the picture as a bottle. Oh, well.

I'd initially written it as a depressing-ass song, but as I was recording it today, it sounded like shit, so I changed it up. Now it's an up-beat-ish country song.

I can't remember how I came up with the idea for this song. But if God were to come along and tell someone they were half-way to Heaven, talking through a can of beer is as good as any other way, I guess. I guess so. Yesiree.

Decidedly Unhappy

Decidedly unhappy

This is a song about white people.

Okay, see, I was on a run this morning, and at one point, I saw a Caucasian woman watering her lawn. I thought to myself, I wonder if she'll smile or say hi when I pass by. She didn't. Rather, she had this very frowny frown on her face. It's hard to describe. It seemed as if the frown was etched into her features. It's as if she'd made a studied practice for the last 50 years of making sure she had a very frown-like appearance.

It's something I've observed a lot about white people. Us white people, we tend to be unhappy. There's a certain level of tightness to the features of white people as we walk around. It's this unhappy tightness - or maybe it's a tight unhappiness.

I dunno, I mean, it seems like unhappiness has been ingrained into white people in a way that it doesn't seem to have been ingrained into other ethnicities of people. I dunno why white people are so unhappy. Actually, I do have a theory, but it would be long and boring to go into explanations and stuff.

In any event, as a result this morning's white-person encounter, I decided to write a song about an unhappy white person.

President of Your Head

Download 02 president of your head

This is a reaaallly old song - from the year 2000. I thought I'd add it to create a little balance, cuz some of my more recenter tunes have been on the dark side. Not that this song is light, but it's not dark neither; it's fairly neutral, I guess is what you'd call it.

But anyway, I like this song just fine; it's one of those old songs that I sorta forgot about.

When you hear the vocals, you may be dismayed by the flatness of them in some places. At the time, I was intending to make it sound like the narrator of the song was all unenthusiastic and stuff. But it came out flattish in places.

I was thinking, at the time I wrote it, that it would be cool to write a song that was all presidential. This is how it came out.

I Was Born With A Shadow Following Me

Shadow following me

Here's another song from a dream. Or, well, I guess just the lyrics of the chorus is from the dream. Yesiree.

It's dark and uplifting at the same time, or that's how I hear it. I was trying to go for a bluegrassy sound in the chorus, but it sounds a little bit more like Celtic music.

City Of Angels

City of Angels 2nd Remix

Shit, dude, I know there's another song out there that refers to "the city of angels," but I said "fuck it," and recorded this anyway. I mean, I got this song from a dream, and when the dream calls and tells you to do a song, you'd better heed that dream's advice. It seems like the only good advice these days comes from dreams. These days dreams are saying "Stop fucking around."

This is another one of those depressogenic songs. Sorry if it makes you depressed. But the dream told me to record it.

The vocals ain't all the way perfect, but the funny thing is I don't give a shit, cuz there's something poignant about the imperfectness of the vocals. I dunno. Maybe I'm fooling myself.

Anyway, I should give a brief description about this song. It's a depressing song about LA. Poopity poop.

I Don't Think I Should

I dont think i should

This is a song about wanting to be with the wrong person. Sometimes that happens to people.

26 Miles

26 miles

I wrote a new song quite unexpectedly this morning. Like, it came to me in a dream, and you know how dreams are. When they call for you to pay attention to them, you'd darn-tootin' better pay attention to them. So, rather than doing work today, like I intended to do, I did this instead. Yesiree.

I, um, yes, am continuing to steal drum sounds from Linkin Park. I'm, like, creatin' my own rhythms and all that. But the sounds, themselves, are from good ole Linkin Park. Yesiree.

Get That Lonely Feeling

Here's another song about depression. The chorus of it came from a dream.

Download Get that lonely feeling

Yeah, what can I say? 

It's a song about when you're so depressed that you can't feel anything, and even feeling like shit would be preferable to the blank, empty, lonely feeling you have when you can't feel anything.  And you wonder to yourself: What the fuck just happened? Why'm I like this now?

Hmmm...okay, that's odd - it's supposed to fade out fully at the end, but it comes to an abrupt halt instead. Oh, well - just imagine it fading out all the way, and you'll get an impression of what it's supposed to sound like.

Science of the 21st Century

Geez, man, my songs are getting all deep and weird.

Scienceofthe21stcentury

This is one of those songs that I got part of from a dream. As a result, your guess is as good as mine, as to what it's about.

Yesiree, I'm still experimenting with electrobeats. I stole the drums from a Linkin Park song but made up my own rhythm with them.

How Would Water Like Linkin Park?

This song has kind of a long back-story. Heh heh.

Howwould waterlike linkinpa

I was reading about this guy named Masaru Emoto, who did these experiments on water. Like, if you take a glass of water and put a sticker on it that says something like "love," when you freeze the water, it makes these pretty crystalline structures that are all nice and symmetrical and snowflake-looking. But if you put a sticker on the glass of water that says something nasty and mean, the water forms these gross looking asymmetrical, dull, poopy looking shapes. (His book is called "The Hidden Messages In Water").

The book I was reading yesterday said that water also forms these ugly looking shapes if you subject it to harsh sounding music. That made me wonder what qualifies as harsh-sounding, and what doesn't. Like, what kind of music does water like, and what kind of music does water not like?

Then I wondered if water would like Linkin Park cuz I've been listening to lots of Linkin Park.

That's what this song's about - like, how would water like Linkin Park? I'm not sure, myself. I kinda thought this song would be funny if it actually sounded like Linkin Park. But it doesn't. Oh, well.

Popular Girl

Here's a song about how fucking awesome it is to be a popular girl in high school.

Download Popular girl

Self-Conscious World

Download Self conscious world

I got this song from a dream this morning. It's sort of an old-school Industrial tune.

Okay, crap, when I tried to listen to this, it was all crackly and sounded like shit. Go here if you have that problem on your computer, too (it seems to sound fine here):
http://dreamblog.typepad.com/welcome_to_the_land_o_dre/

Dang.