One Foot in Front of the Other
Greetings. I am new to the Hella Gems roster, but I hang out with the East Coast Hella Gems people in real life. The Hella Gems concept poses a challenge to me, as it is very difficult to compose, perform, record, and produce a new song on a weekly/biweekly [...]
Optimism
So I was sitting around depressed this weekend trying to psych myself up. All I need is to feel a little better, right, and then I just get up off my ass and do… whatever it is that will better my station in life, right? Go get some cool clothes and some shades, right? Maybe [...]
OneMorePerson
So some close friends of mine were married this weekend. The entire time I guess I had my eye on this one girl, and what was I thinking? She was involved with someone, or something. Anyway.
This song is about longing and having an active imagination and filling a little invented reality with vague possibilities, then [...]
Last weekend was my designated time for making a Hella Gem, but that was taken up by sickness and worry over my cat who I had to put to sleep on Saturday, so I abandoned my personal responsibility for grief.
In lieu of something fresh, here is a demo I literally recorded at work last April, [...]
IfIWerentScared
I’m heading to a wedding tomorrow, so I’m going to go ahead and post this.
This song is about my fear that the emotional detachment necessary to deal with the world will dehumanize me.
This song’s a collaboration with Matthew K. Manning, who I’ve been playing music with for fifteen years off an on. We had a high school band together called Royce, and then played in a rock group called Made in China for a few years. After not playing together for a while, Matt came over today [...]
I just saw Nausicaa: the Valley of the Wind for the first time, a few weeks ago. It’s one of those Miyazaki movies. Big budget animated feature. Awesome movie. The animation is a bit more primitive than some of his later films but still pretty amazing. I don’t usually do this kind of thing lately, [...]
WhenSheMoved
Here’s a little song about how sometimes I feel like I’m a bit more grown up and have my feelings a bit more under control now. How do I feel about that? I’m torn! Thus: a song.
Drumming and bassing antics by King Solomon, who also prevailed upon me to change the first chord in the [...]
I wasn’t sure if I’d get a song done this week. Moving/Finals/Excuses. But, Mr. Jings came over this evening and helped me get my studio space set up in my new place, and now with everything setup I threw something together. I don’t really reinvent the wheel with this one (2 verses/chorus + bridge/outro as [...]
instrument_test_2
Here’s a video I made for the song too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHVfmLG4ejE
It’s been a while since I posted, but I had the whole day to myself Saturday and nothing to do, so what better opportunity to make a song This is my second song I made using logic. I had fun making it. No instruments were [...]
