I Wonder If There's Something Wrong With Me
I woke up feelin' off this morning, yes, indeed, and I wondered if there was something wrong with me. Then I remembered this song from yesteryear I did a long time ago. It's a wee little ditty about wondering if there's something wrong with me - I think it was 2002 that I did it. This is sorta an updated version; I don't really remember what the original one sounded like, though, so maybe it's a whole new song.
This song is a true story: I used to live in Altadena, and ever since the fire, I was wondering how my old house and how my landlords' house fared (they're right next door to each other). A friend and I drove there a few weeks ago, and my old house and my landlords' house are still standing! The house next door to my landlords' house was also standing. But the whole rest of the block, and most of the rest of the street, were burnt down - just total devastation. These 2 houses, which used to be such happy places, looked sad. They looked ghostly. They looked like houses that didn't know what to do with themselves, being on a block of houses that had been destroyed. They looked desolate and uncanny. That's what this song is about.
The lyrics are:
Similar to yesterday's tune, I'm doing another little number that sort of fills in the blanks on the Loosey Goosey Lucifer Album, Part 2 that I'm working on. Loosey Goosey Lucifer, the Goddess of Light, is getting ready to tell the Drinking Church, members, who are in a state of sad resignation, that it's better to fight the evil dictator who has taken over their country.
This is another song in the Loosey Goosey Lucifer Album, Part 2. I'm not sure which number song it'll be...maybe the 3rd. The Drunk Church is resigned to dying because the world is doomed.
I Wanna Do The Chester Bennington Music
The hook of this song came from a dream, and stuff. It's about Chester Bennington and stuff. I started judging myself in the middle of writing/recording it. You might be able to tell.
This is a crap song about how all my songs about owls end up being crap songs. I've only written a couple of them, but they were all crappy. And shitty, too.
This is another song in the Loosey Goosey Lucifer Album, Part 2; it's another song from the point of view of the fly. This fly has psychic abilities and has taken a trip to the Doomsday Clock. This fly has a warning for humanity, sort of.
I don't think the words, "cautious optimism," are actually in the song, but that's what the song's about, and stuff. I'm considering using this music or a better version of it for the closing credits o' the first chapter of the movie I'm working on. I haven't decided yet. See, it's the end of the first part of a trilogy, but the trilogy will be all one big movie. It's like, hey, let's end on a hopeful note, but not too hopeful.
You can take a look at what I have so far of the movie - it's on the December 24, 2024 entry on this blog - the installments are somewhere between 30 seconds and 4 minutes long, the average being, probably, 45 or 50 seconds.Okay, I did a 2nd mix; in imagining this song being the closing of a chapter of a 3-part movie, I realized it felt like the instruments needed to be louder in order to achieve the type of feelings/ambiance/goodness I wanted to evoke.
This is a song about earthbound spirits of drunk people. Whoops I fucked up on the title of the mp3 file above - it should be "spirits of drunk people," not "spirits of drink people."
There was a little snatch of songy-ness I had years and years ago when I was improvising stuff after smoking weed. I decided to make a song out of it and stuff. It's that usual theme of humans destroying the Earth, and me being an alien and looking on. My voice is poop today, to the extent that I'm almost a little embarrassed to post this.
Higher vocals mix:
Things Start to Get Better Mix 3
This song is 2 minutes and 22 seconds long, and today is February 22 - 2/22. So there's all kinds of 2s all over the place. Anyway, it's a really really reallllly rough draft of a song I'm gonna put a little part of in a movie I'm making, the Hell Movie, which I'm posting as I go on the December 24, 2024 post on this here blog.
This is a REALLLLLLLY old little ditty. I wrote it back in 2000, so it's about 25 years old. Geez, man. I thought I'd do a little updated version of it with souped up lyrics and a rap and live drums and stuff. Here it is. Do us humans have free will? Or is there a little homunculus running things inside our brains and we don't know it?
Here's a mix with the drums higher in the mix...I dunno which version is better, though. Like, when I play it on my iPad speakers, the original mix's drums sound loud enough, but my Bose speaker would disagree. My headphones feel the same way as the Bose Speaker. And my computer speakers are like somewhere between the other 2.
Okay, I tweaked one more thing - here's another mix:
This song, well, I guess it has its moments, but I couldn't get a good mix to save my life, so overall, it sounds like shit. Enjoy!
I saw a KTLA news story the other day that said an asteroid is coming toward earth and might affect us. All the commenters were like, good, cuz our world is going to shit, anyway. That's what this song is about.
This is the next song in the Loosey Goosey Lucifer album, part 2. The Drinking Church people hear about what happened in that past life when Loosey Goosey Lucifer did a brave thing and got burned. Her past act of bravery inspires them to fight the good fight, in light of the dictator, Murpt.
I'm posting this song while there's still free speech - that might be around for much longer. I sorta messed up the hair in the turd picture. Anyway, I think the song is kinda self-explanatory. Oh yeah, it's a little rough; I might do a polished version later.
This is the next song in the Loosey Goosey Lucifer Album, Part 2. She decides to tell her friends, the people of the Tiny Church, that she was burned in a past life and rose like a phoenix outta the ashes. She's hoping that, maybe in a weird way, it'll give them hope and inspire them to fight against Murpt. Stay tuned for what happens next. Oh, yeah, the hook came from a dream.
This is a rough cut of a song that could potentially be good if I didn't sing like ass. The after effects of the flu virus makes my voice sound like ass. But maybe I'll record a better version when my voice doesn't sound like ass.
I'm Drinking Whiskey For My Birthday
This is a nice li'l song to go with "I'm Drinking Beer for Christmas." It's a teeny tiny bit apocalyptic. I'll leave it to the listener to decide why I feel apocalyptic.
Grandpa and Grandma and I 2nd Version
Yesterday, I was lying around with the flu, and upon entering into a nap, I asked my dreams what my next song should be about;=. I fell asleep and had a dream that said, "Grandpa and Grandma and I are writing songs about parallel universes." That sounded just fine for a song idea. It might be kind of boring.
Just puttin' this here for safe keeping. I'll add the other little player thingy later. And a picture, that, too.
This one's a really rough demo and kind of painful to listen to because my having the flu is making my voice break. Blehhhhh.
Okay, here's the little player thingy for the tired of being sick song:
I was in a reverie state the other night, when the hook of this song came to me. I coulda made this song darker than it turned out, based on the lyrics of the hook, but I went for something less dark than it coulda been. It's about spirits of the dead comin' and giving warnings about things, and stuff like that.
Oh, lordy lord, this year is getting off to a scary-dark start. I used to live in LA, and to see my old stomping grounds getting reduced to smoldering piles of ash has been heartbreaking. That side-note is all to say there's so much darkness in the world right now that I decided to make this song less dark than it coulda been. Hopefully that makes sense.
Oh yeah, I'm coming down with something cold-ish or flu-ish, so my vocals are a little bit scratchy and stuff.
I'm working on a movie based on a series of comic books I did back in 2020; there's a character in it, or sorta like a character, who is a wind-storm. I wanna make some ominous music that goes with the storm when it first shows up. The first part is my attempt to make something eerie and ominous and creepy to go with the storm. It's gonna go through some revisions, I'm pretty sure. The second part is the storm talkin' to the audience and sayin', hey, I'm a storm. Here I am. I'm a storm. Yes, indeed. Yeah, I'm hoping to do a more polished version of this little ditty at some point.
Postscript - in retrospect, I realized I kinda like this version of the song, but it needed a little bit o' remixing. There's the remix down there.
And here's what I think is going to go in the actual movie - a conglomeration of the windstorm song and another little number that's also storm-related.
