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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

TrueLove
The guitar part and the melody+lyrics came to  me in a flash! On the interstate. And I envisioned them as being like the Fall, sounding like a cacophony sort of.
Well, that didn’t work out well at all. Shows what I know, right? The guitars sounded much too thin and not at all what I was [...]

Steno Steno
I suppose a brief introduction is in order, this being my maiden Hellagems voyage and all. Some here already know me through my various jaunts to Atlanta to visit billjings, good friend and Cake or Death cohort. I currently reside in Jacksonville, Fla., although I’m in the process of moving to Mississippi (fortunately, my [...]

This is NSFW (and definitely rated R for language).
In the spirit of Felix, I quickly recorded this with voice and ukulele using the Voice Memo function on my iPhone while I tried to clean up my old place hastily so my landlord could start getting the house ready for the new tenants. I was [...]