Thursday, October 9, 2008
If You Think You Should Come To California
I would have missed him if my alarm hadn't gone all funky. The CD I burnt a long time ago that was sitting in my alarm to wake me has been skipping and then dying all week. I usually just wake up, but this morning I was so tired that when the CD player stopped I just went back to sleep. Once I woke up I was in a terrible chaotic mess trying to get to work, and I was too stressed/tired to listen to my normal station, NPR. Once I plopped it onto the Edge (The lame-o Alternative station out here) Adam Corolla's voice came on and I might have changed it except for he said Arizona comedian, yes I admit I still have some geographical ties to this sand pile, so I listened. All without invitation, he drove all the way out to LA (6 hours) to be on the Adam Corolla show. It was completely randomly and beautifully desperate . Much like the movie Joe Dirt. He wasn't insanely funny, but his story more than made up. Interesting fellow, kind of funny, serious story. I think all of my hopes and dreams of exiting this sad sun stained city were all sitting in his awkward nervous jokes. I laughed a few times. He isn't a genius, but he's a genius by Phoenix entertainer standards.
Monday, October 6, 2008
The New Album
This is a good time for me right now. People are actually responding really postively to the latest product I've been involved in. My band's CD is now being enjoyed by those around me and the response is very positive. I devoted quite a lot of time to creating it, and it is so good to see it starting to reciprocate. Seven Car Pileup - Seven Car Pileup was my love child. I really belive there is something on there for almost everybody. We cover quite a range of alternative flavors of American rock and roll. Saying it is alternative is more saying it isn't verbatim copies of those genres, but more a Tempe based rock band having fun with composition and a farily diverse amount of arangement styles. There are quite a few things I'm proud of. Hell, why don't I go through each song and say what I love the most about it... I never do anything like this so hummor me.
Sucker Punch - My best lyrics, maybe ever. A ego-less vulnerable exploration of what it means to be a twenty something in today's America.
Outta My Mind - The funkiest song my band's ever done. Makes you want to shake your money maker.
The Apprehension of Hope - Maybe the most heart-felt exploration of politics ever recorded. This is a lot of people's favorite song on the album. I'm completely blown away by that, but in some ways I'm not really.
Oxymoron - I think this song is great. It could possibly be a year or so ahead of it's time, but I don't care.
Steve McQueen - A riff-rocker, my first one that worked, and just snarky enough to not be taken too seriously.
Lets Be Hippies - A really beautiful sentiment that I think a lot of people can relate too.
In Your Pocket - Possibly the hardest song to write on this album. The lyrics are me writing from somebody else's perspective and at the same time my perspective. It's so mixed up and jangled of the life that was happening around me at the moment that it can't be interpreted as anything else than a bitter explosive abstract ballad.
Control - This song is about a concept that I think nobody ever talks about: the idea of how we attempt to create systems of order in our lives when things are completely out of our control. It may be the hardest song to get on the album, but when you do I think it's possibly the most poignant song on it.
New DNA - I'm so proud that this song follows Control. This song is talking about the power of grace and forgiveness in our lives, and how it doesn't come from within our selves, but from somewhere/one higher.
Cardboard Nation - A punk-rock tirade speaking to America's excessive consumerist culture, and the packing supply of choice.
2' (two foot) Ponds - A shallow love song with a groove that just won't stop, and a very heavy fun chorus.
Windless - Maybe the first ever punk bossanova. I love this arrangement style. I'll have to try and convince the band to write another song in this vein.
Sucker Punch - My best lyrics, maybe ever. A ego-less vulnerable exploration of what it means to be a twenty something in today's America.
Outta My Mind - The funkiest song my band's ever done. Makes you want to shake your money maker.
The Apprehension of Hope - Maybe the most heart-felt exploration of politics ever recorded. This is a lot of people's favorite song on the album. I'm completely blown away by that, but in some ways I'm not really.
Oxymoron - I think this song is great. It could possibly be a year or so ahead of it's time, but I don't care.
Steve McQueen - A riff-rocker, my first one that worked, and just snarky enough to not be taken too seriously.
Lets Be Hippies - A really beautiful sentiment that I think a lot of people can relate too.
In Your Pocket - Possibly the hardest song to write on this album. The lyrics are me writing from somebody else's perspective and at the same time my perspective. It's so mixed up and jangled of the life that was happening around me at the moment that it can't be interpreted as anything else than a bitter explosive abstract ballad.
Control - This song is about a concept that I think nobody ever talks about: the idea of how we attempt to create systems of order in our lives when things are completely out of our control. It may be the hardest song to get on the album, but when you do I think it's possibly the most poignant song on it.
New DNA - I'm so proud that this song follows Control. This song is talking about the power of grace and forgiveness in our lives, and how it doesn't come from within our selves, but from somewhere/one higher.
Cardboard Nation - A punk-rock tirade speaking to America's excessive consumerist culture, and the packing supply of choice.
2' (two foot) Ponds - A shallow love song with a groove that just won't stop, and a very heavy fun chorus.
Windless - Maybe the first ever punk bossanova. I love this arrangement style. I'll have to try and convince the band to write another song in this vein.
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