Gray Catbird
Good Forenoon, Everyone
Have you been searching the Internet these past years for a “forenoon” reference, only to be disappointed time after time by the use of the word “morning”?
Hurry over to today’s weather forecast at Chicago Weather Center then, and tell ’em Splotchy sent ya!
THE ARGUMENT
I was futzing around on the piano right before putting the kids to bed. I came up with a simple piano part. I liked it enough that I worked on it tonight and eventually fleshed it out into a song. From my brain to an MP3 in a few hours time!
I had a 4-track many moons ago (okay, I still have it) and I was so intimidated by it. I was so intimidated by recording music. I felt like I didn’t have the knack for it. But it really is quite easy for me now. That’s neat. And I like it. I don’t note the passage of time — it absorbs my attention completely.
Okay, here’s the song.
–> The Argument
As always, enjoy (or don’t)!
The Weakest, Least Hopeful Baseball Advertising In Recent Memory
The One Bright Spot In My Workday
Click for bigger
X
O
TANK GREEN TANK
Hey, I had another Saturday night with nothing to do, nowhere to go. Jesus, that sounds depressing. I almost don’t want to continue this blog post. Okay, I’m pressing on.
I made a new song.
I’ve had such hangups writing and recording music in the past. I have always sought other people to play with prior to writing any music. If I don’t have any bandmates, it’s really easy to not write. REALLY easy.
I have a motivation to write music now, in that I have agreed to record like a kazillion songs (or musical snippets) for a short film of a friend of mine, and he keeps on asking me about my progress.
I still think that writing and recording with other people is the ideal situation (magic can happen, sincerely), but I have not been in a band in a long time, and I don’t know how I would easily go about finding/joining one, mostly due to my busy schedule as a dad.
I had fun doing this one. Again, I have no idea if it’s good. I guess I think it’s good enough to share with you.
As always, enjoy (or don’t)!
Joke
A CEO, a Tea Party member, and a union member are sitting at a table. There is a plate with a dozen cookies in the center of the table.
The CEO grabs 11 of them and says to the Tea Party member, “The union guy is trying to steal your cookie.”
The union guy and the Tea Party member look at each other, nod knowingly, then grab the CEO by the neck, decapitate him, kick his head around the room until his face is no longer recognizable, stomp on his body, reattach the now hideously deformed melon-head to his bruised, broken body with staples and duct tape, build a rocket, stuff the CEO’s carcass in the rocket, launch the rocket into outer space, build another rocket armed with a bomb filled with feces and vomit, launch that rocket to intercept the first rocket, remotely detonate the feces/vomit bomb to explode the CEO carcass rocket, sending its horrifically desecrated contents straight for the sun to be burned up into nothingness.
HELP
I don’t know if this is good. I think it is? I don’t know.
I do music so infrequently, I treat every new song I write/record like a special event. I wrote and recorded this on Saturday night (and a little bit into Sunday morning) for my friend Andy’s movie.
I’m not sure if he’ll use it or not. It’s a bit much, I reckon.
As always, enjoy (or don’t)!