Crushing Krisis

Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand

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There’s that point where you think you are drowning but suddenly realize you are swimming. It’s the same as that point on the rollercoaster where your stomach keeps traveling upwards while your body has already begun to settle.

That was today, to a tee – breathless and fumbling until around eleven, where I realized that my definition of fumbling is everyone else’s state of enthusiastic focus.

Somehow it carried through the end of the day and past my mad dash to the train (run past the liquor store at full tilt; realize I have overshot my goal by a block; run back to the liquor store at full tilt), floating me through our meeting until it was just us finishing our wine and Gina and I singing our harmony for Lindsay, and a room full of people saying they can all tell I sing better now.

It carried through the slightly damp walk to my threshold, within which I slipped off my headphones to discover Elise blasting WOGL in the room. “Love the One You’re With.” (it’s been following us this week)

Her head emerged from her office. “I just wanted to make sure you would dance with me.”

I’m sure I’ll eventually figure her out, too.

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My Favorite Trio Tracks: #9 – Typical (from Trio Season 2, #13)

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Trio can act as a snapshot, catching songs as they transform from one form to another. That’s certainly the case with this recording of “Typical,” from Trio Season 2, #13.

At the time the song was a year and a half old, and it still hadn’t truly found its niche, but as soon as I ad-libbed my first staccato between-verse riff while recording this Trio I knew I had found the way “Typical” was meant to be played.

My Favorite Trio Tracks: #10 – Relief (from Trio Season 1, #8)

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While researching my Trio favorites I came across a recording I had completely forgotten – a demo of “Relief” recorded just minutes after I finished writing it.

The demo didn’t sound too much like the song I play today – the guitar rhythms never solidified, and the vocal wasn’t as distinct.

This version of “Relief,” from Trio Season 1, #8, was recorded just seven days later. You can clearly hear that in those seven days the song resolved very clearly into the form it’s stayed in for the past seven years.

My Favorite Trio Tracks: #11 – World In My Hand (from Trio Season 3, #7)

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Today’s song is “World In My Hand,” originally recorded in January of 2003 for Trio Season 3, #7.

When I wrote it in 1998, “World In My Hand” was my first “hit,” in a manner of speaking.

At the time I had only been writing songs for a few months, and only playing for about a year, but when I wrote the lyrics out on the first page of my new poetry notebook I knew I had tapped into something both more personal and more universal than anything I had previously written.

As my songwriting has become more and more refined my older songs have a tendency to drop off of my setlists – especially songs I wrote before college. Yet, no matter how much my songs evolve, this one will always be a favorite.

My Favorite Trio Tracks: #12 – Enjoy the Silence (from Trio Season 2, #7 – “Boston” [secret track])

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Just a brief write-up for tonight’s Trio favorite, as I’ve been awake just about twenty-four hours, which included a lot of Trio remastering, walking, playing guitar, and being a miserable Philadelphia sports fan.

Trio has featured it’s fair share of covers, but I don’t think I’ve ever played one with so little preparation as “Enjoy the Silence,” which appeared in the “Boston” secret track attached to Season 2, Trio #7.

All three songs in the trio were covers of songs I spent a lot of time listening to during my trip to see Tori in Boston a month before. This very well may have been meant to be a practice take right up until I made it through the song, whereas the following two – more-rehearsed – covers wound up being train wrecks. I take special delight in how well-formed and supported the vocals are for the time period.

Tune in tomorrow for another Trio highlight, squeezed into my day somewhere between work and a jam with a new drummer (!).