Don't Tell Blake But...

Firstly, we're mastering Eleven North with Alan Douches tomorrow at West West Side Studios. That will be fun.

Secondly (the don't tell blake part)...

Well he wants to just record a bunch of songs and maybe make a , but I want to make an overly indulgent and overly long album called Metro North. To sort of go with Eleven North. Only instead of writing all these songs in a psychiatric ward, I wrote these songs listening to the Metro North go past my apartment on 116th Street. And here would be the Track List:

1. The White Lights Up At Bloomingdales Bring Me Down
2. The Cold Wind Blows on the Soulless Soul
3. My Own David To Kiss
4. Keep Me Away From the Mirror
5. Open E (You Can Play Anything With An...)
6. Hecksher Field #3
7. Idaho Song #1
8. Alexander Hamilton's Grave
9. I'm In the Spare Bedroom
10. Deep in My Heart
11. Copywrite Owner
12. Will There Ever Be Anyone
13. No Men, Amen
14. Ben, Whenever Your Secret Becomes Old News
15. Fictional Song
16. The Wagon Bridge
17. At Night I Sleep With the Devil
18. Treasure Cloutier
19. Idaho Song #2
20. 25

My favorite song is probably 25. It's my attempt at writing an annoying family carride song. Where the lyrics just go...

I am only 1 year old, I was born a year ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 2 years old, I was born 2 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 3 years old, I was born 3 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 4 years old, I was born 4 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 5 years old, I was born 5 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 6 years old, I was born 6 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 7 years old, I was born 7 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 8 years old, I was born 8 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 9 years old, I was born 9 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 10 years old, I was born 10 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 11 years old, I was born 11 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 12 years old, I was born 12 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 13 years old, I was born 13 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 14 years old, I was born 14 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 15 years old, I was born 15 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 16 years old, I was born 16 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 17 years old, I was born 17 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 18 years old, I was born 18 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 19 years old, I was born 19 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 20 years old, I was born 20 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 21 years old, I was born 21 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 22 years old, I was born 22 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 23 years old, I was born 23 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.
I am only 24 years old, I was born 24 years ago. Everything I see and do for me is so brand new.

All the way to 25. I was listening to it on the train. And I'm listening to it right now. And I think maybe when we record it I'll just kinda keep going until I get to 25. And the guitar and my singing will be consistent and annoying, but we'll add a new instrument for each verse. Like this.

1. Just me singing alone.
2. Singing with the guitar.
3. Add a triangle.
4. Add a tambourine.
5. Add another guitar.
6. Add a flute
7. Add a piano.
8. Add a violin.
9. Add another singer.
10. Add a banjo.
11. Add a kick drum.
12. Add a bass.
13. Add an electric guitar.
14. Add a cello.
14. Add another singer.
15. Add a trumpet.
16. Add a xylophone.
17. Add a trombone.
18. Add a tuba.
19. Add a whale noise.
20. Add my mom singing.
21. Add a baby crying.
22. Add a keyboard playing fart noises.
23. Add a french horn.
24. Add some yodeling.

All the way to 25. OR.... It could just be me and guitar for the 1st verse and then have different people of the appropriate ages sing the other parts. Are kids smart enough at age 2 to sing songs with words?

And then after we release the overly indulgent and overly long Metro North, we'll release the overly indulgent but not too long Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle album thing. The tracklist for that will be:

1. My Brother's Brother
2. Halfway Between
3. Human Love
4. I'm Building a Machine
5. April I Will
6. Saddest Clown
7. Role Model
8. Let's Paint the Town Red With the Blood of the Humans Instead of Protecting Them What Do They Care About Us*
9. Cement Sky

*This title is given with the provision that something as ridiculously long as it doesn't show up on the next Sufjan Stevens album, whenever that happens.

So that's about it for now. I got an A on my Greek and Latin Roots of English test!!! But I got apiphobia wrong. Apparently that is not the fear of apes.