I enjoyed this guitar part. I tried really hard to not fail on the lyrics and melody.
They say that money is the root of evil but I don't know if that applies to me or maybe it just hurts my ego so I pretend it's something I don't see
When we go shopping at the store I point out all the things that I would like to own you think that I want to buy everything that I see but I only want to buy the things I can't afford
the things I can't afford I only want the things I can't afford
If I can't get what I want any other way I guess I'll have to go behind your back
My kids made a "Press Room" under Catalina's loft bed and made a newspaper. Catalina made headlines, a coupon section and a jobs section in the back and Ammon made the stories. They dropped the price from 50 cents to 25 cents before I got home. I paid a dollar after asking for a copy and they took an hour to hand copy a copy for me, complete with perforated coupons! I thought the idea and the stories were funny, so this is my song for today.
My kids are making papers!
Like actual newspapers!
Like before the printing press was invented papers!
My daughter Catalina totally didn't want to do this. I'm so glad she did. We had a lot of fun, and oh yes, she did get to stay up late, but not the way she likes to.
I just want to stay up late and in the mornings I'd sleep in
Why does no one understand me Why does no one understand me
Why are there so many rules Everyone tells me what to do
Why does no one understand me Why does no one understand me
I'm not doing anything wrong
I'm not doing anything wrong
I'm not doing anything wrong
I'm not doing anything
I just want to stay up late and in the mornings I'd sleep in
Spent the day at Pike's Market Place and took the ferry to Bainbridge Island. There's a sign as you enter the ferry that reads "Don't leave baggage unattended, we are not responsible for stolen items". What an inspiration!
Don't leave baggage unattended
What's that supposed to mean
I'm offended
Oh emotions show
Why can't I check
my emotional baggage at the door
Thank you Jesse for being the creative force behind this song. I barely had to do anything.
Straight out of "Draw 50 dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals" (my notebook for today's song). The Ammonoid has a spiral shell and looks something like a snail with tentacles for swimming. It gets to about 5 inches in length. The Nautiloid is similar but has a long skinny shell and reaches 9 feet long.
i-Ammonoid I live in a shell
I don't have feet I've got to swim with my face
i-Nautiloid I live in a much larger shell
I too don't have feet and must swim with my face
If our faces get too tired we could sink but it doesn't matter we're extinct
Had to get home to go meet a potential babysitter. This gave me a solid 40 minutes to write, work out harmonies and record. The subject matter IS the subject matter.
It's the same old story
I'm running out of time
So just sit down and relax
so you can listen to me whine
Actually if you prefer to
you could probably just stand
This is going to be a short one
in fact it's almost over
Just a few more seconds to go
3....2....1....it's done
So, Denise was reading something on her laptop. I asked her what she wants to do on the Fourth. She just kept reading. Then she stopped reading, and talked to Ammon for a little while. Then she went back to reading. A few minutes after that, she stopped reading, turned to me and said "So, what I want to do on the Fourth is...." So yes, she heard me, but I had no idea she had, and yes, this is typical.
I repeat I repeat my words You don't respond and I can't tell if you heard what I just said
What I need from you is a sign that you heard me a wink or nod or word so I don't sit here wasting time
This is getting pretty old It feels like I've been put on hold by the MVD
What I need from you is a sign that you heard me a wink or nod or word so I don't sit here wasting time
I've been waiting far too long Dammit would you please respond
I woke up early so I could write this before work. The schedule was a little tight at Sam and Maren's today and I needed to get home to be with my kids too. They had a half day for their last day of school. Thanks again Sam and Maren! I hope ya'll don't get sick of me intruding all the time :)
This is supposed to be like those meditating sleep CDs. "Feel your body pressing into the bed. Feel your toes, they are heavy and relaxed. Now move up to the tops of your feet, they are heavy and relaxed" etc. You know, something like that.
My sister in-law, Jill, was complaining recently about not being able to sleep. I don't know if it's technically insomnia that she suffers from or not. I also don't know if this song accurately describes what it's like, but this is about how it goes for me on nights I can't fall asleep (swap "until the sun comes up" with a handful of hours). Thanks for the inspiration Jill! You look like you could use some sleep ;) JK, I can't even see you.
Went over to Sam and Maren's again today. Just headed straight over from work. After yesterday, it was hard to pass up the opportunity of Maren's sweet voice and Sam's mad recording skills. Don't expect this every time, but I'm going to try to get over there more often. I got done with work really early, but still had to record the song in one take and take off with barely a goodbye. I was only 2 minutes late dropping the kids off for Hon Mu Do. Working out vocal harmonies takes some time, but Maren is fantastic at it.
She said cut your hair and tuck in your shirt
You need to be presentable and don't forget your manners
Make sure you don't act like a fool
and answer the questions
as if you know what you're doing
and always keep good eye contact
Don't worry you'll know what to do
when you start your first day
You just need to get your foot in the door
That's simply how you get a job
Had a great Father's Day. Denise and Catalina made a fantastic, late (because Dad slept in) breakfast. We went to the Seattle Zoo and paid a visit to Sam and Maren and fam on the way home. Wrote a quick song on Sam's guitar, which he keeps tuned down really low ;)
Had a sudden wave of Dead Tired on my drive home from work today, but I kept going as usual. The kit I'm using on the electric drums is called "robot". A match made in heaven.
We're not robots our batteries are different
We run out of juice and we just keep going
We never short circuit or go haywire
and when we want a nap we can go on without it
When a robot's battery dies, so does the robot
and it needs to be recharged to bring it back to life
I guess what I'm trying to say is my batteries
died a couple hours ago and yet here I am
Going on and on and on like a machine
I guess we're more like machines
This one didn't really record that well. Audio/video is a little off and the sound recorded from the P.A. speakers is, well, you can just listen to it. Maybe I should figure out how to record sound direct so it sounds better.
I started out thinking I would just work out this little part of this song I remember from my childhood. The very words I used to sing to Denise when she reached for the light switch at bedtime :) I didn't really figure out the chords just right, but I came up with this instead. Same concept as Vanilla Ice's hit that he built on the chord progression from Under Pressure.
My life is a roller coaster
I'm not buckled in
I'm holding on for dear life
where do I begin
Growing up I didn't get much allowance
just a couple hundred dollars a week
I worked hard and I did all my chores
I even brushed my own teeth!
My first car was a Mercedes
and it was pretty nice and clean
but it was previously owned and it was one year old
So, if you want to know, we went out with a group of friends to an arcade. Denise liked me so much she carried my jacket for me and told me how she liked it when I played my guitar. I liked her so much that I made fun of her and told her she was wasting food when she took toppings off of her pizza and even broke the chopstick that she was using to hold her hair up. We got dropped off at our houses, and there was no kissing, but we did talk on the phone the next day :)
I'm so glad that we're together
I don't know what I would do without you
I need you I need you
Remember that first night we went out
with some friends I liked you
and you liked me but neither of us knew
And I did things embarrassing
and you were so confused
I was nervous so I tried to be funny
but it just came off mean
On the drive back home we made sure
that we sat next to eachother
Shyly I carefully placed my hand
Now with just the slightest effort
you could brush your hand against mine
and see if I would pull away
I didn't and our fingers intertwined
with smiles on our faces
That was our first date
but not the first time that we kissed
Fugack!!! I'm embarrassed to say, this one took me 43 takes to get as good as it is. Watch my face after the last vocal line. That's me trying to concentrate on not concentrating too hard. I could play it fine as long as the web cam wasn't rolling. Switching back and forth between A-minor and A-major was really messing with my head.
Yeah, this is maybe a weird song for me to have written, but I couldn't think of what to write about and the subject has been heavy on my mind. So, why not?
I want a Henderson guitar
I also want to learn to make my own guitars
And maybe some day soon
I'll have the time and money too
to enroll in a luthier school
and also buy myself a Henderson guitar
I want a Henderson guitar
Wayne, Elle Jayne or anyone who knows
what I would need to do
to get onto the waiting list
could you please let me know
The muting on the guitar was hard for me to play and sing. I considered getting one of my kids to clap for me in place of it. Instead, I ended up having to do a fair amount of takes to get it half way decent.
