Won’t Help A Thing

Here’s another short song.

To Be A Creep

Here’s a song about the concerns of being older and not acting your age. It is actually terrifying to other people, because I can really get along rather well on my own. Realistically speaking I could probably live off of my savings for a while and spend my money filling an entire house with Fanta cans and old newspapers. Who can do that when they’re 21 years old? Nobody, that’s who!

Anyway. If anyone knows anything about preamps, let me know and I will complain to you. Otherwise, enjoy the song!

I Saw Her

Went to church this evening. The preacher quoted kierkegaard on staying on the sidelines in life. Then I went to a potluck and saw a girl. Then I wrote a song about it!

It was a pretty good evening, you know?

Been doing a lot of stuff in FL Studio lately and no real instruments. Mostly because it’s just drag and drop. It’s a hassle to drag out my various pieces of real musical equipment and set them up. I haven’t even touched my guitar in months. that’s very sad.

Tonight I pull them out again. I want to start doing more instrumental pieces for that game I’m working on. This one took me about 10 minutes to compose for one minute of recording. I might use this as part of a longer piece or maybe in a part where the music can be short; like a menu or something. As usual, it ends abruptly because it is meant to be looped.

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Check out my latest sketchbook post for a little bit of concept art if you are interested int he game.

My Love For You

The lyrics for this one just started coming out the other evening, so I wrote them down real quick. Then this morning I took a moment to record a melody a cappella. Then this evening I had an idea for the guitars and recorded them.

These lyrics are searching for stability in something unstable.

Smiling Bill Malone

So. In the past week or so I’ve been sort of inundated with concern from friends and family about my mental condition. Which is all fine, you know – nothing’s worse than being in a terrible way with nothing there to cheer you back up, you know?

It did make me all of a sudden a bit more self conscious about what I have been putting up here, though. So I tried to write about it with sort of a high concept metaphor, where there’s some other guy who is running around being upbeat and being a go-getter and all that, who sort of stole that ability from me sometime in elementary I guess. Lyric writing being what it is, much clarifying information was dropped on the floor, so the result is maybe open to misinterpretation.

But I added a bunch of electric guitars and reverb and echo and stuff so it doesn’t sound so “raw” and “close”, like a bedroom confessional thing.

Oh, and I figured out that the speaker actually was not plugged in on my amplifier. Which explains most of the problems I was having.

Enjoy!

I Wanna Wreck My Car Karaoke

If your name is Fokes, and you like to sing karaoke, you may have asked me for a version of this song you can sing karaoke to.

So here it is. And here are the lyrics:

i got a pretty nice job it pays pretty good

i got a pretty good apartment in the city

i got a pretty nice car it’s my favorite possession

i got a pretty nice car i wanna wreck my car

i wanna wreck my car, i wanna wreck my car

if i can’t have you, i wanna wreck my car

i wanna wreck my car, i wanna wreck my car

i got a pretty nice car, i wanna wreck my car

i got a pretty good life i got some pretty good friends

we share some pretty good interests and they’re pretty good folks

i got a pretty good family they’re pretty supportive

i’m pretty happy you know i wanna get real drunk

i wanna get real drunk, i wanna get real drunk

if i can’t have you, i wanna get real drunk

i wanna get real drunk, i wanna get real drunk

i’m pretty happy you know, i wanna get real drunk

and you know i’ve been trying to save some money

but my automobile insurance is way too high

i got them on the phone to get a reduction, but they said no

they know you’re pushing me aside

i write pretty good songs i write pretty good words

i got pretty nice girls who like them too

now what do i say to those girls if i love you?

they’re pretty nice girls i wanna wreck my life

i wanna wreck my life, i wanna wreck my life

if i can’t have you, i wanna wreck my life

i wanna wreck my life, i wanna wreck my life

i got a pretty nice life, i wanna wreck my life

So now when you find yourself all alone and feeling sort of resentful and self destructive, you’ll be completely prepared! Good luck.

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My guitar amp is broken. That’s a little depressing.

I’ve also got some other stuff going on.

I really need to get it together.

uglymess

Trying to come up with something else in FL studio. I guess this is sort-of a dead end. Or an ugly mess. I only gotta about 30 seconds out of this one. If I may be so bloggy, here it is anyway.

I Wanna Wreck My Car

This song is a pretty good summation of my life since puberty.