Music, culture & politics. We'll also update Whitee's recording progress.
Hey, remember music? Yeah, this is supposed to be a site about music...particularly the lame-ass stuff I make. Well, a brief little update...I tweaked the lyrics to
Vegetarian Bondage Freak. The guitar part for it is done and I just about have it learned. So as of now there's music for...hmmm...let's see: Muddy Said, Flapjacking, Leftovers of Wayne, Tasty Beverage, and Vegetarian Bondage Freak. I'm not sold on Tasty Beverage though...we're going to need to get someone else in to do it. I'm just too damn white to do this reggae stuff and that's what TB is. There's also Construction on My Road Not Taken, which is basically going to be a piano, stand-up bass / old-school Tom Waits kinda thing. So we'll let those musicians deal with that.
So what...it's only been about 3 years since the last release? I'm shooting for Boston's record....only in their case everyone waited like 12 years and the next album sounded exactly like the one before it. I guarantee this one will be nothing like the other two...now if that's good or not is up to you.
The other night, I got stuck having to listen to one of the "urban" radio stations for an hour or so. The music actually offended me. Not because of the lyrics...well yeah, because of the lyrics. But not because they were too nasty - it was because they were too stupid. I'd rather listen to Hootie do that BK commercial over and over again than listen to that drivel. And I won't even get started on the music. Oy!
Actually, I haven't been listening to anything new lately. There just hasn't been anything that I've come across that has even come close to piquing my curiosity. Right now I have Sly & the Family Stone playing...show's you where my head is at.
Shifting Topic Alert!I was at the library last week, and as I'm just about to leave I bumped into an old friend of my sister's. When I was in high school I had a GIGANTIC crush on this chick. I ran into her a year or so ago, she gave me her address to give to my sister and when my sister wrote to her it was sent back. So I told her this and she gave me a different address. So when I asked her how she was doing, she mentioned that she just came from Drug Court (a special court system that we have that just handles drug offenses). She didn't seem to be doing well. I can't take on any reclamation projects, but I did give her my number - told her to call me if she wanted to get together for coffee. It was sad...