Crushing Krisis

Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand

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Hmph… blogger does not seem to be compensating for the time-change… i suppose it won’t be in effect in California until it’s 2am there, which is another nearly three hours. Or something. I’m much too tired to figure out all this time-change b.s. Last year i was at a party during the time change, so i didn’t have to worry about it. And then i wrote “Crashing.” Yes, we’re definitely coming up on the big “Crashing” retrospective next week; interestingly, i didn’t even make note of the two-year anniversary of “touch.” That’s rather sad, since it was my banner song for quite a long time. I’ll try to get a new interview with me done soon so you can hear about all sorts of new songwriting psychology. If you have any questions, please interview me by your own whim. It’d be fun.

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I wonder what it would sound like if i reviewed my own CD… probably some rubbish about how the songs are “ultimately ambitious but all too often struck from the same mold. hopefully one day he’ll learn to break it and reassemble it as something new.” Of course, that’s how i actually feel about my music most days. Which means i must be a very good reviewer

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while i was writing “other plans” i was listening to ani’s “untouchable face.” i was writing these lyrics about hanging on but pushing away in that same tranquil mode that “untouchable face” is in, but when i got to the music that was immediately ditched in favour of a bouncy acoustic thrash. at the open mic last week, in the middle of playing ani’s “gravel,” i realized that “other plans” had become much more a mirror of “gravel” than i had ever intended it to be of “untouchable face.” and now i can barely even play it… does that say anything?

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Much to my surprise, when i gathered up stray lyrics to bring over to Amy&Renata’s last night i came up with a solid fistful of nearly complete songs. Despite my incessant bitching about lack of inspiration and talent, i’ve been steadily writing at the rate of about 3 in two months but haven’t gone back to polish any of my work yet. I’ll see if i can find the time to get some more lyrics up on AMKitchen between Friends and Will and Grace :)

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