Crushing Krisis

Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand

demos

I Slept On Top of the Sheets…

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Having introduced the trinity of my love, my mother, and my best friend, my cast of characters now widens considerably (though it stays predominantly female).

There are former crushes, drinking buddies, and college roommates left to touch upon. However, there is one past character who – even if she doesn’t come up too often these days in blog or in life – had a major impact on your humble singer/songwriter.

She is known as the Queen of Darkness. QoD for short. [Read more…] about I Slept On Top of the Sheets…

Couldn’t Stop, Couldn’t Keep It

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Under some amount of compulsion from my need to be picked for my office building’s talent show, earlier this week I recorded a quick take of my well-received cover of “Stop! In the Name of Love.”

And, proving that the easiest way to defeat my procrastination is through convenience, i used the same recording setup/settings to record a neat little multi-track version of “Couldn’t Keep It.” Not technically perfect but, despite that, it’s very close to being the definitive version of a song i’ve been hearing in my head nonstop for the last year.

Silent Peer Pressure (Count The Most (demo))

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Fine, have a song. But, know that i wrote it less than 72 hours ago, and that it took two mics, two takes, one completely made up lyric transition, a heap of compression, a helping of reverb, a well-placed fade out (over my well-meaning but not well-tempered 20-beat Eb (look out, American Idol)), and carefully deployed doppler (i dare you to locate it) to make me even vaguely pleased enough to post this.

Count The Most (demo)

Like I Love You

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Maps – Playing with new toys – stomp distortion for guitar, and compression to keep it at a constant level. Oh, and singing like a girl, but i’ve always done that.