Thank You, Friends

Thank You Friends Mix 2

This is the next song in the Fucked Up Relationship Album, Part 3. It's about how the main character, after neglecting her friendships for a year, in the context of the fucked up relationship, goes back to her friends and they welcome her back. those are the friends in the band with the banjo that she used to be in. They smoke pot. 

The Nipomo Oak Trees

The Nipomo Trees

Okay, yeah. So, I'm losin' hope for the oak trees, the over 3K oak trees that are going to die in an egregious slaughter because of a horrible, massive, greed-driven housing development. Those trees are in the town where I grew up, Nipomo. It is a centuries old oak forest. The evil San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission voted to approve it this week. There was just one dissenting member, who stood up for the trees and the people of Nipomo (who will be breathing in air poisoned with particulate matter way above acceptable levels - many of whom will die of respiratory illnesses).

Yes, it's very clear to me now that 4 out of 5 planning commissioners are doing some kinds of back-room deals with the developer. And they don't mind dumping this massive development on a town that doesn't have the infrastructure to support it because Nipomo is ALWAYS getting screwed by this idiotic, unethical planning commission. FUCK THEM!!! Except for the one who dissented. She rocks. Well, the only thing that cheers me up about the whole thing is that those 4 commissioners who voted in support of this thing will go to Hell when they die.

In any event, I'm promising those trees that, when they die, I'll sing a song to let the Spirit World know they are coming. I'm hoping that'll at least ease their journey into the afterlife. Fuckity fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
 

Jesus does not approve of this BULLSHIT.

Relationship Reboot

Relationship Reboot

Relationship Reboot Mix 2

Relationship Reboot Mix 3

 This is the next song in the Fucked Up Relationship Album, Part 3. Actually, it's the first song, probably, of this album. I realized this album needed a song that sorta introduces it, so here it is. It might not be that good, though. I'm not sure yet. But it's about rebooting the relationship like how you reboot a computer when it's going all wonky.

Yeah, mix 2 hangs together a little better. Yeah.

Yet Another Half-Blind and Out of Balance Demo

Half Blind 10.20.23 demo with bass

 Hi everyone! Here's my next demo of this song. I may end up with a thousand demos before I'm done with all of this and stuff. I was just experimenting around with moving it up to the key of D because in the key of C, it went too low for my vocal range. The final version won't have strummy guitars in it; the arrangement'll be closer to the version I did week-before-last. Just playin' around. I wanted to try changing up the song structure just a tiny bit and tweaking the raps a little bit. There's still a little additional tweaking I need to do to the raps, before I go for it and do the polished version. And I may end up with 10 polished versions cuz I wanna make sure my vocals don't suck, and they tend to suck a lot when I try to do the definitive version of a song. The alien cats in the picture go with this song, yes, indeed.

I Don't Know How to Live in This World, Version 2

I Don't Know How To Live In This World Version 2

I think I recorded the first version of this song 2 weeks ago. My memory fails me these days. In any event, I kept on thinking, "I like this song and all, but something is missing from the lyrics." Like, I kept singing about bein' smart in the other place and dumb in this place. I kinda felt like I could make my lyrics deeper and, how do I say it? Less specific or something? Like, make it more open ended and introducing the possibility that I might be an alien, but stating it just as a possibility and not as a known fact. So I did a sadder version, lyrics-wise, but the tempo makes it more peppy and upbeat.

The peppy, upbeat nature of the tempo and the presence of banjo and cats counter-balances the depresso-nature of the lyrics, and makes for a song that might be good to listen to when one is depressed. The tempo might be cheering-up-worthy, but the lyrics make it not-a-bubblegum-song, cuz bubblegum-songs are obnoxious when you're depressed.

Note, I did this picture for one of the earlier versions of this song, and as you can tell, in the intervening time, between when I initially drew it and now, I wrote a bunch of rap lyrics for another song to the side of the picture. Poopity poop.

He Said If I'm Safe, I'll Never Be Alone

He Said If I'm Safe I'll Never Be Alone

 This is the next song in the Fucked Up Relationship Album, Part 3. It's about how the boyfriend sez to the girlfriend the words of the title of the song.

We'll See Each Other One Fine Day

One Fine Day

This is a song that came from me getting to meet lotsa nice people in the job that I do, but then I never get to see them again. 

Half Blind and Out of Balance, Version 4

Half Blind and Out of Balance 10.7.23 C

Yes, indeed, this is another weekend of trying to write a song called, "Half Blind and Out of Balance" as I imagine it. It's sorta a rough demo. I'll do a more polished version at some point, where it fits my vocal range better. I'm zeroing in on it, I'm zeroing in on this song bein' finally to my liking, after 3 years of trying to imagine what a song called, "Half Blind and Out of Balance" should sound like. It's gettin' there, I tell ya. It's gettin' there. Yessiree.

Band with a Banjo

Band with a Banjo

This is the next song in the Fucked Up Relationship Album, Part 3. The main character, while enjoying TV with her old-guy-boyfriend is also reflecting on the fact that she used to be in a band with a banjo in it. It's like, where did her life go? How did her life go away?