Why Do I Keep Dreaming About Kenny Rogers?

 

I keep on dreaming about Kenny Rogers or Kenny Rogers songs. The song kinda says why I might be dreaming about him, sort of, kind of.

Gloomy Gus Song 3, Album 2

 The mystery of what wakes Gloomy Gus in the night continues. I recorded Song #2 a few months ago, but I didn't realize it was a Gloomy Gus song till this this week. 

Here's another mix (I boosted the vocals in a couple places):

SpaceX

This is a song about all those dumb rocket launches that SpaceX is doing. I used to get more excited about rocket launches. But now I don't. [Edit: okay, the top version sucks because I had brain fog and messed up some of it...listen to the lower 2 ones (that are identical):

Revised Version! This version below doesn't suck!!!! I had to fix some rapping that was a disgrace. Here you go!

I was having some brain fog yesterday; and, as a result, I mispronounced the word, "pustule," and I kind of fucked up a rhyme scheme. Here's  the better version:

Gloomy Gus Is Back in the House

 

I'm thinking of starting the next Gloomy Gus album. Sorry my vocal cords are fried.

Dumb Animation Shorts

 I got sad when I finished Hell Part 2 (but it still needs to be put together in video software; stay tuned). So, I decided to just do dumb little shorts to keep me from being sad, until it's time to start the next Hell installment.

Shut the Fuck Up Church Music

I wanted to record a nice li'l church ditty, but then there were leaf blowers. 

And here's a wee little cover of part of Shadow of the Day (Linkin Park) to make up for how crappy the above song is (I promise I'm not making any money off of it):

I am a piece of shit. It has been confirmed, and also scientifically verified:

I Wanna Live Where There's No People

It would be really nice to live where there are no other people around. Boy, it would be nice.

Radical Remix: (I like this one better). I took the original demo and replaced the first chorus with it because I like it a little better (demos always sound the best, gosh-darn-it-all!)

MP4 Version (because it never hurts to have a backup):

2026 Sucks

 

2026 Sucks; that's all I have to say (too many good people died). 

The same mix and everything as above, but it never hurts to have a backup.

Spider Car

 

Shoot, I can't remember how I thought of this song. It was just some weird random thought that popped into my head or something, and then I started making a song and stuff. It's about a girl who has a spider car. I realize this is kind of a rough mix a little bit.

Here's another mix, which might be a little bit better:

Luci and Lulu Songs

Here are some songs I did a few months ago that I smushed together to make one big, long song. They're about my cats (Luci and Lulu).

A Space Cadet in the Space Force

The phrase, "a space cadet in the Space Force" came to me randomly this week, so I thought I'd make it into a song. Here's the song about a spacy guy in the Space Force.

Link to the Movie I'm Working On

The work-in-progress-o'-the-animated-movie-I'm-working-on is getting further and further buried in this blog, so I'm sticking a link here, so it's easier to find (both for me when I wanna take a look at it and for anyone else who's interested). 

Hell Part 2 (Part 3 of Part 2 of Hell) 

The page this takes you to has links to earlier parts o' the movie, so you can view what I have so far in its entirety. I have maybe 1 scene to go and the closing credits before it's all ready for me to put together inside video editing software (which will probably be a lengthy process). Alrighty.

8/15/26: I just added a new installment-still-under-construction...sorry it's going so slow!

People Are Shitty

 

This song has some truth in it. The mix might be a little rough.

Dog Bark Sound Song

Okay, I decided to flesh out that dog bark song I did the other night cuz I took a liking to it and thought it could be a nice little longer song. There we go.

This one is the same as the above one, but I mastered it, so it's a little bit louder.

Dogs Barking Song

 

Here's a song that provides a little explanation for why I just posted a big, long loop of dogs barking and stuff. 

The Misophonia Adventures Page

 

Okay, I wonder what my neighbors from hell will throw at me next; but here are some sounds for drowning out obnoxious neighbor sounds. I hope it helps others as much as it helps me. (Although the sounds here might sound worse to people than the sounds I'm trying to cover up; ha ha ha). (See previous entries for more on misophonia).

Noise for drowning out screaming kids:

Noise for drowning out barking dogs:

Noise for drowning out bad neighbors' stereo sounds:

What Is It?

My dude friend spent the night last night; and we listened to lots of tunes. I woke up with this melody in my head, and I'm not sure if the melody is from one of the tunes we listened to last night or if it's something that my brain made up. So...this song is either a song that I consider to be kind of cool, or else it's a bad cover.

Take Me Away

 I had no idea my new horrible neighbors would trigger the PTSD that had gone into remission 5.5 years ago. Sigh. Maybe someday, I'll feel normal again. To all of you out there who have horrible neighbor situations, I hope we all can get some relief.

Noise for drowning out bad neighbors' stereos and screaming kids

 

This is for people who have bad neighbors who have screaming kids and booming stereos and you wanna drown them out but aren't in the mood for music. (I hope it works). 

Microphone Sounds Like Anything In My Life

I have company coming next week, so I'm posting this a week ahead of time and putting it on a timer (today's July 4). See, I have company coming next week, so I might not have time to do a song. 

As you can see from previous posts, I live in a neighborhood that has screaming kids in it, and I can't stand that sound - it sounds to me like a thousand nails on a thousand chalkboards all at the same time. Google the term, "misophonia," and you'll know why it's such a problem for me. 

So, I recorded this song, and here's the reason why: I'm getting some curtains and window inserts to deaden sounds coming from the outside, which, if combined with white noise machines, might hopefully do the trick to block out the kid-noises. But I'll need one of my friends to stand outside the windows with said window treatments and play high pitched screaming-ish sounding voices on his or her phone. That way, I can figure out how loud to make the noise machines in order to block out kids' screams. That's all a very long-winded way of saying, "this is why I did a song with high pitched whiney vocals." I'm hoping they're close enough in frequency and quality to emulate the screaming kids I'm trying to block out.

I actually came up with the vocals and guitar part of this song a long time ago when me and my boyfriend-at-the-time and one other person were all stoned. I won't say who the other person was cuz I want to respect his confidentiality (even though weed is legal now in California).

Gloomy Gus Last Song of First Part of the Album

 

I lost count...this is either song 18 or 19 or 20 of Gloomy Gus and the Forest That's About to Die. It is really dark. But then it isn't dark at the end. If you get to the end, you'll see it's not as dark as it at first appeared.

Okay, I redid the very last part part of the song so it sucks less. But I'll leave the sucky version down there just for your enjoyment.

Sucky ending version.

Make America Fucked Up Again

It's my annual I'm-not-celebrating-the-4th-of-July-themed song, which I've been doing since 2022 cuz America is on the fucked up side. My good friend suggested doing a song called, "Make America Fucked Up Again," so that's what I did.

All My Friends Are Far, Far Away From Me

I miss living in a place that has actual friends in it. I have the coolest friends in the world! But they don't live around here. The one friend I had who lived around here died, and that makes me sad.

Alternative Mix With a li'l bit o' rapping at the end:

Hell Is Other People (Fuck My New Fucking Neighbors)

There's an expression: "Hell is other people." That is true. This is a song about my new neighbors; they've only been there 3 days and my head is ready to explode. This isn't a very good song, though, and my singing voice is ass this week.

Gloomy Gus Song 17

 

It's still gettin' a little dark in Gloomy Gus Land. The owl in the picture doesn't have anything to do with the song. Or does he?????? This is kind of a rough mix.

I fixed some vocals: Sheesh! I was an actual semi-tone off in one part!!!!!! Argh. No, yeah, I'm glad I tried again. Yeah, okay, yeah, yes. I'm glad I tried doing those vocals again. This is a rough mix.

Bonus track (I might add to it tomorrow) Make them go away forever. If you've ever had a bad neighbor situation, you'll be able to relate:

Music For Blocking Out the Sounds of Screaming Kids: Peacocks

My friend and I were at a winery yesterday. It was a winery that had peacocks walking around. They were yelling a lot, and it dawned on me that this could be part of the concept album I've been cooking up in my head - Music for Blocking Out the Sound of Screaming Kids. I hate the sound of screaming kids - it is the worst sound in the world. Would a song with a bunch of peacocks yelling block out the sound of screaming kids if I played it nice and loud on my li'l speaker? We'll see. Anyway, I might make a concept album of songs with annoying, high-pitched sounds engineered to block out the annoying high-pitched sounds of horrible kids.

Here's a version with more (and slightly louder) peacocks because the peacocks peter out a little bit at the end:

Lots and Lots of Cats

I actually recorded this little ditty a few months ago, and I was saving it for a rainy day (i.e., a day where I didn't have time to record a new little ditty). Such a day has come to pass, so here it is. My phone told me I had "lots and lots of cats" in my camera roll, so that inspired this here little number.

Welcome to the Show

This is another depresso song; it's this whole metaphor thing, where, like a bad TV show is a metaphor for life as we know it right now. Oh yeah, there's a part that includes all my cats in it - my current cats and the cats I had before.

After I smoked some weed, I kept on having a teeny tiny bit of rapping that stuck in my craw, so I made it a tiny bit different. Not that anybody else would notice, but yeah, yes, okay, yes.

Bonus Weekend Song (Cuz It's a Long Weekend, and an Idea Popped Into My Head): I am Just a Fox

Here's a bonus track for this week...I'm not sure how this song'll age, but here it is. A person thinks of herself as all soaring and majestic, like an eagle, but she's actually a fox.

Gloomy Gus Song 16 - Time to Say Goodbye

I guess this album is getting a wee little bit dark...don't worry, it gets lighter in time, but not that much lighter.

Here's a version where I messed with one of the bars of rap and added a little to the ending. We'll see how this version ages, versus how the above one ages. 

Songs About How Kids Suck

 

Have I ever mentioned that kids suck? They wouldn't suck so much if their parents weren't moronic asswipes that let them scream like banshees and irritate everyone within a 5 mile radius.

Here's a more polished version of the song...there was a line of rapping that was kind of clunky sounding, which in turn, made it hard to understand, so I polished it up a bit! (It probably has a big, dumb, long pause at the end):

Old-People-Who-Wear-Sunglasses-Over-Their-Glasses Sunglasses

 I got some old-people-who-wear-sunglasses-over-their-glasses sunglasses. It's a true story!!

Restless/Fucked Up

Last week's song was about depression, and this week's song is about anxiety. It's becoming the Mental Health Clinic Musical Hour.

I felt like the ending was lacking something, so I added a little guitar stuff to it:

Two for the Price of One: It Was Only Gone For an Hour & She's Stuck in Eternal Mondays

 It Was Only Gone for an Hour:

I was thinking about how everybody's scared of their consciousness passing out of existence when they die; but when you think about it, that's what happens when you go under anesthesia. No time passes. There's nothing awful or painful about going into non-existence on a consciousness level. And, who knows? Maybe there's some way we come back again, even if we do get blotted out. (I'm not sure how that would happen, but maybe, just maybe). And if centuries pass between one fading outta existence and fading back in, it will seem like no time had passed.

She's Stuck in Eternal Mondays:

I was trying to think of a good metaphor for depression. This is what popped into my mind: Being stuck in eternal Mondays. The person in the song likes it, though; I mean, she likes being stuck in eternal Mondays. I'm not sure why.

Gloomy Gus Song 15: Nothing

This is Gloomy Gus Song 15. I'm not sure yet if I like it. It's about how when people are depressed, sometimes they feel nothing, and why is nothing not neutral, since it's nothing?

Everything Will Disappear When The Bombs All Fall

This song is another end-of-the-world-ish piece o' music. I'm doing a lot of those lately. Maybe that's because it's sorta kinda the end of the world, maybe-ish.

Another mix (that I like better) (with a big, dumb, long pause at the end):

Foot in My Mouth/Demon Song on a Sunday/I'm Stupid

 I don't know if my mistake this morning was going-to-Hell-worthy, but I felt that way when I did this song.

Screaming Kids

There are many little shits in my neighborhood. I hope they go away. 

This song is dedicated to all the people out there who hate the sound of screaming kids.

Gloomy Gus Song #14: What's the Point of Living if We're all Just Gonna Die Anyway?

 

Here's Gloomy Gus Song #14: It's a little existential ditty.

alternative mix with big dumb long pause at the end:

We're Drinking a Lot

 Here's another drunk church song. It might suck.

Gone a Long Time (Polished Version)

This is the polished version of that little ditty I did a few Sundays ago with the dandelion picture and stuff. I think it's about a depressed gal who has gods and goddesses she knew in a past life come visit her in her sleep. 

(Side-note: this is one of those songs where I wonder if I like it because it's a fine little tune or if I accidentally plagiarized someone - I hope it's the former and not the latter).

PainRain

 

I guess there's a little man who lives inside us and sings about pain and rain and stuff. I guess so. Or at least, that's what the song told me this morning. Here's another Ghost Owl picture that doesn't have much to do with the song, unless it sort of does. Maybe the little man who lives inside all of us and sings about pain and rain is actually Ghost-Owl-shaped.

Dried up and Shitty (Gloomy Gus Song 13)

 I did this song a week ago; here it is (recorded it ahead o' time cuz I don't have time to record stuff today). (The pic of the Ghost Owl has nothing to do with the song; I just had lots of pics of Ghost Owls lying around).

I'm Drinking Sunshine

 

This is a song that was derived from the Green Sunday song I did on Sunday. I fleshed it out and made it into a drinking song. Okay, this is the worst mix ever; I'll remix it tomorrow!

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Alternative Mix (I think it might be the definitive mix):

Here's a beginning-of-a-song thingy, derived from the other little song nugget I did last Sunday. It's unfinished, and I'll probably finish it in about 2 weeks. But I wanted to post it in case I die before I have time to finish working on it:

Gone a Long Time

 

Okay, I decided to just make a regular post of the bonus track I have down there that I published a few minutes ago.

Green Sunday

 It's a green Sunday.

Bonus Track:

Back to the City

 

Hmm, this mix might suck; I'll do a remix tomorrow if it sucks. Anyway, it's a song where the first part of the lyrics came from a dream. I hope it doesn't suck too much.

Here's a better mix (with a big, dumb, long pause at the end):

Gloomy Gus Song #12 - Oblivion

 

This is Song #12 in the Gloomy Gus series. The stupid podcast hosting service isn't working when I try to upload it, so all I have his this stupid MP4 file (with a big, dumb, long pause at the end):

(Post script - go to the MP4 player at the very bottom of this blog entry cuz I fixed a very bad mistake I'd made in the song (well, to some, it might be minor, but to me, it made everything suck) (I fell out of rhythm in the rap toward the end for a nanosecond, and so I went back and layered some extra vocals on top to make it not suck).

Okay, it finally worked, Geez, man:

The better mix:

I Don't Know What Happened To Me

The repeating part of this song came from a dream this morning, where 2 girls came to me, alarmed about some music they were listening to. It was instrumental, but there were overtones or something that made it sound like there was a human voice singing. It sounded like my voice, but it sounded as if that voice of mine was turned around backwards. And it was singing "I don't know what happened to me." It was eerie, so I made a song about it.

Here's a better mix (with a big, dumb pause at the end):

Gloomy Gus Song #11 (The Whiskey Song)

 

This is a song about why Gloomy Gus likes whiskey. See the movie file below for a 2nd mix (the timing of one of the banjo lines sucked, so I stuck another banjo on top of it to make it sound less stupid).

Part 3 of Hell Part 2

 Here's another dumping ground for the clips from the Hell movie I'm working on. 

The earlier part can be found here:

Part 2 of Hell Part 2

Most likely done being under construction:

Possibly done being Under Construction (subject to minor tweaking):

Stay tuned for the movie-all-put-together, which I'll post once it's done (it'll probably take a little while).

A wee bit o' revision on the 3rd to last scene (we'll see which one I like better);

Late Summer Sunlight Is So Depressing

Y'know how, in late summer, the sunlight is all goldy-orange later in the day? That's always been a depressing shade of sunlight for me. It reminds me of being bored as a kid, at my brother's soccer practice at the end of summer, knowing my days of freedom were numbered because school would be starting soon.

Gloomy Gus Is in the House (Gloomy Gus Song 10)

Gloomy Gus went over into some country music sensibilities. Oldy, oldy, moldy, old time country music. But with other sensibilities, too.

Here's a louder mix: