Michael's Texas Embrace

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>From: 2SweetTim
>To: Michael
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>yo wuzzp michal? im still kickin the chicken and burnin the nOObs!
>N i like the stuff, but could u do 2 songs at once? sometimes 1 song
>aint enuff time if im jamming tha bone. I need like 2 minutes more.
>no what im saying?! itd be like a single, w/ a b side. thats how kinny
>chesny rollz.
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>:P T.
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Sure thing, Tim.


Iced Coffee

French Toast

I was in a country mood. So here are two country songs. Except since I have such a poor grasp of construction, little patience, no finesse, etc, they ended up barely being bad imitations of country music. Mabye there's a little twang. It's sort of like somebody told me what country music kind of is, I then I forgot part of what they said, and couldn't quite make up the rest.

Part of it is synthesizers, I guess. I get to a part and I think, "this is where the lap steel would go," or, "right here a mournful fiddle would be cool." But I don't have those, so I think, "I'll throw some synth in there, and it'll practically be the same." But it's really not the same at all. Not remotely. Synthesizers are cooler anyway.

I've been singing the Iced coffee song for years at work. (It's not always iced coffee, but it usually is.) And now there it is with music. That's something.

Tears of Love (Pancakes)

I had to take a break from writing, and I started randomly singing stupid words while playing simple chords. I decided to record a quick demo, to remember the idea. Then I decided that the nonsensical lyrics were probably as good as any. I added some other instruments and some handclaps. Becuase I love handclaps. And I got 'em down to a recording science.

It sounds pretty good, I think. I think it goes to a different place than you think it will at the beginning, and I like that. But I think this picture explains things better. I mean, what is going on in this song? I'm confused, and I wrote it.

It's still a food song, because pancakes are the weapon of choice in this neverending battle. Heat up the griddle. Also, several other objects are eaten over the course of the song.

Tears of Love (Pancakes)


Now to finish my story and my one-act play! (Then my semester will be done and I will probably play lots of video games and read some Orson Scott Card.)

I was thinking about a song for my next song of the week, because I'm a dork and think about that when I listen to music during the week, and this one song so impressed me today, and since it's available for free download from the band, I figured I'd just pass it on to you, like I was some kind of mp3 blogger.

Bishop Allen - "The Monitor"

It is a humble song. Simple melody, bass, drums, light guitar. Kinda shaky singing. But man are these some good lyrics. He compares and contrasts his life to the lives of the soldiers on board the ironclad ship The Monitor. Which is strange and specific enough to get my attention. But man! The ringing in his ears (from being in a rock band) is nothing like the ringing in their ears, and by the time he gets to the "we're singing la da da..." chorus, you realize the chorus is meaningless fluff compared to enduring an entire night of shells pounding against the walls. Man! What a good idea for a song! It seems very literary to me. And I love sideways critiques of modern life. Ironclads and rock bands! Similar? Not at all! Here's why.

(This is in special "Andrew Haun" Format.)

"What ho! Your steed looks rather peaked! Is it well?"
"My God, sir! This is no horse, but a fine and freshly baked pizza I sit astride."
"You intend to besmirch my honor by insulting my powers of perception? Dismount sir, and prepare for combat!'
"The only battle I fight is against my own insatiable hunger."
"Which the gods have given to you in spades, I see."
"You mock, I think, my gut."
"Only in that I meant to point out what I consider to be a wildly repulsive feature of your appearance. And your stench is overwhelming."
"I was hoping the smell of the pizza would cover that up."
"It does nothing to that effect, I assure you. Now dismount from that pizza and fight!"
"Just to let you know, I mean to slide down the hill on this pizza."
"The village is below! My daughters will be crushed!"
"Along with the Iospherical observatory."
"You made that up just now."
"I find that life is merely a long succession of convenient half-truths. There is an Iospherical Observatory. But it is two villages to the west."
"Yes, I find the same thing to be true."
"Would you like a pepperoni?"
"All of my days, I do."

A link! (to the thing that was linked before.)

(I was trying to write a Bright-eyesish country song this one time, and ended up adding a bunch of not-very-country-sounding things to it. You know how it goes.)