Monthly Archives: August 2010
Day 243: MelAnChoLia
I’m reading 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and in it there’s a really great paragraph on melancholy as a mood. Trouble is, this book is really big, and I can’t find it. So, I will make an approximation of my own. … Continue reading
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Day 242: I Want You Now
Another shot by Mr. Kuklis to start us off this week. So many reasons to be excited today, but the one that has me going back and forth from the tv to the computer is the US Open (the tennis … Continue reading
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Day 241: Pinhole
I have a few pinhole camera pictures up on my wall. They’re made by this artist who hangs out in Union Square and sells them by the bushel. A friend of mine from work recently went to Easter Island to … Continue reading
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Day 240: Chase 2
Another chase sequence idea, this one probably taking place in a Russian bazaar, or something like that. In Logic, which is the program I use to do all my recording, the accordion setting that I like best (no, sadly, I … Continue reading
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Day 239: Come Home (Brooklyn, Meditate)
Today is a homecoming / home-leaving day, at least for one or two friends of mine…
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Day 238: Superman Saves The Day (Again)
I like the story about how Sufjan Stevens had to remove the Superman from his record cover after DC Comics threatened to sue. Subsequent copies had the Superman covered up with balloons, and later versions had the Superman removed. I … Continue reading
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Day 237: The Chase 1
Looks like I might have an opportunity to do a real music job — music for a chase sequence in a short tv piece (I think some people call those “commercials”). Which means I need to practice writing chase sequence … Continue reading
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Day 236: Twenty-Nine
Happy birthday, Joe. —Lyrics— glide through the city on whisky wheels even god can’t stop us tonight a couch and an island, an empty room a party dressed as a fight and you would hit it so hard you would … Continue reading
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Day 235: Brazil, With Love
Happy birthday, Mae. —Lyrics— to austria, and your drawn and quartered town three women came, scared and underground moravia, don’t let it get you down they were tired, they were tired of everyday they were tired of everyday being far … Continue reading
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Day 234: Forty
I find it satisfying to project a somewhat distorted view of myself onto the songs I write — to write from the perspective of someone who is very much like oneself, but not quite. I say this in part because … Continue reading
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Day 233: From The Beginning
Today was one of those days where songwriting happens in fast-motion: I have to be out of the house in about 6 minutes from now, and I only sat down to write about an hour ago. It’s funny how on … Continue reading
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Day 232: Power Lines
I really wanted to call this one “Power,” or “In Power,” because to me it’s much more about the thick tug of power in a geopolitical sense. I put a shifting base of chords underneath a constant, repeating guitar line … Continue reading
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Day 231: My Daughter Could Do That
Ever heard that while wandering around a museum? Best be glad our own lives aren’t under glass. The reviews would probably be scathing. —Lyrics— put everything i have underneath museum glass annotate scholarly for the visitors that pass ooh, shuffle … Continue reading
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Day 230: The Place That Matters Most
This song describes my day perfectly. —Lyrics— i took a train to the city to reconstruct the week away i couldn’t feel what i was missing it wasn’t love, it wasn’t pay lift me up up and away i’m tired … Continue reading
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Day 229: Then There Were Two…
Over the past few days I’ve spent some time in a town upstate that has really seen better days, and today I heard a story about a friend of a friend who is now on food stamps. This recession — … Continue reading
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