The internets don't seem to love me... or at least one corner of them doesn't. When I started this month off I was posting video for all my songs to Youtube. (It got a little overwhelming workload-wise so I stopped for now) I went back to check out my views and comments a few days later and noticed my song "We will rise up" had 2 comments!! I went to see what people had to say. The page loaded and emblazened in the comment box was the message. "You …

     Ellis and I talked a couple of days ago and she said she was writing a song for her Granny today. Did I want to write a song for her Granny too? Or perhaps for my Granny? Of course I did, though I had no idea what I would say, or how I would say it (nothing unusual for me, frankly). I was a little bit apprehensive too. I didn’t know either of my grandmothers terribly well. They both lived on the west coast and I didn’t see them often. My Dad’s mother died when I …

Jess shot me the mp3 file for her song “unprepared’ a couple days ago contradicting her song title but, what’s one to do?      We hadn’t talked about a specific theme but I loved the subject of her song. I have lots of experience with being unprepared and more over dreams where I’m unprepared. Mostly my dreams place me in a classroom without my homework, or with some test that I haven’t studied for at all. What hadI been doing for the past few …

       So Ethan wrote to me and said let's write a song about a place of worship.  Something like "House of Stone and Light" or Tom Waits' "Come on Up to the House."  I'd never thought about writing a song about a church so I figured why not?        I sat down and did my usual stuff.  Drank some tea, ate a cookie.  Did a quick word map where I started with the word curch in the middle.   I did an …

     First off, K.C. Clifford kicked ass on this.  I'd been busy drawing cute little stick figures and editing them into my song for two hours when K.C. sent me her song.  It was like hearing Zeppelin for the first time after listening to my ditty for two hours straight.   Damn!  (P.S. if my delivery sounds a little timid in the recording its because I was apparently being too loud for my roommate at 9:00 PM this evening when I was recording). …

         Bethel suggested we write something about buildings and structure which I was instantly excited about because I hadn't written anything about either of those things before.  Moreover, Chuck E. Costa has a great song called "From the Drawing Board" that uses building imagery.  I figured I could do something like his song.   Songs can be tricky though.  They don't necessarily turn out the way you think 'em up.  At …