random thoughts

I'm in Minnesota now. Prior Lake. Working at Thomson Reuters. Need to book shows. Gonna record some new stuff. Started playing with a drummer and bass player in Minneapolis. They cool. Trying to find other musicians to fill us out. Blake is finishing up mixing of Merry Cemetery, which I'll get on iTunes by Thanksgiving hopefully. It's supposed to be Christmasy, but it's not really. More just dark sounding. Real dark. Here's the track list I have on my iPOD:

1. Cooperstown, N.D.

Synopsis: a song about losing your job and killing yourself. It's got me and my guitar and then some trumpet (me)/sax (neil) and some drums (blake) and a bass note thing and a ride cymbal and then finally some synth strings.

2. The Cold Wind Blows on the Soulless Soul

Synopsis: A song about someone I obsess about now and then. Leah said the lyrics are cheasy, but whatevs. I whistle on it. And it's the first song Rachel Epp sings on. Haven't heard what that sounds like yet but I bet it's cool. And Blake put some pretty jingly guitar on it.

3. The White Lights Up at Bloomingdales Bring Me Down

Synopsis: Really the only Christmas song on the album. Got some real weird keyboard glock thing on it. and i did the drums. and rachel epp sings on the end of this one too. It's real pretty.

4. Needles and Pins

Synopsis: About the liberty of death. Probably the coolest song on the album. Like it's the only one that could be in a car commercial, probably. Me and blake collaborated on the drums. He added a cool bass line that makes the chorus and thus the song.

5. My Own David To Kiss

Synopsis: My first blatantly gay song in like 6 years. At least the first recorded and put out for mass consumption. I want his love inside of me. Heh heh. Got some weird synth stuff (like all the other songs I guess). And we recorded one of the acoustic guitars using the inboard mic on blake's laptop. So that's cool.

6. Snuffed Out in the Prime of Your Timeless Square

Synopsis: Another song about the person I obssess about sometimes. About walking around with him in Times Square and wishing I could just follow him everywhere. Really great lyrics if I do say so myself. Blake and I played this live a couple times with him on the glockenspiel. Makes me wish I was still living there still playing that with him. Oh man. And the third verse sucked, so we replaced it with a synth solo.

7. Keep Me Away From the Mirror

Synopsis: I wrote this song when I was hung over and regretting alarming everybody with a suicidal facebook status update. Well, it was a pretty vague facebook status update and really wasn't all the suicidal at all. But I still felt like a fool. I like the oohs on this song. It's pretty epic, but longer than....

8. Idaho #1

Synopsis: The song that Blake keeps naming Idaho #2 but is actually Idaho #1. Idaho #2 is pretty cool too though. I don't really know how I feel about it. It's really short but epic at the same time, especially with how sleepy the rest of the album is... Hmm... Oh this is also the very first song I ever wrote about the guy I sometimes obsess about. I wrote it when I was about 16. Which might be why I have mixed feelings about it. But it sounds cool. And Blake quoted the throw away verse I wrote about swimming inside my head on his facebook status once, so maybe it's not so throw away after all

9. Heckscher Field #3

Synopsis: Song about a softball game I saw once in Central Park. In actuality the game happened at Hesckscher Field #1 or 2 and #3 doesn't have any bleechers, but still. Pretty oooohs and this mic thing the roommate that replaced me in Brooklyn made.

10. Alexander Hamilton's Grave

Synopsis: About smoking pot in that cemetery by wall street. It's pretty good. Rachel sings on this and sounds totally high because she didn't know what to sing, but I'm pretty sure she wasn't really high.

11. 7A

Synopsis: About meeting Vaughn and Kenny to go eat somewhere, this time 7A in the Lower East Side. And about hating New York but liking the people that live there.

This was fun. I'm gonna do one of these for Minnesota and 11 North later when work gets boring.