Crushing Krisis

Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand

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“Will It Ever Come” is a funny little song, and the first beeside of the day to be from my demo cd. I decided that since this is theoretically bringing in an entirely new audience to add to my regular one it was okay to cheat a little and use the songs from my demo as beesides. But, anyway, it’s a special funny little song. First, that recording of it was a studio ad-lib… literally consisting of me asking if the tape was running and then playing it straight through without any extra takes, and then rewinding and adding the second vocal without even really thinking about what i was doing. Honestly, i had never even played the song all the way through before, it was just a set of lyrics i had with me.

The lyrics, which were some of the first to be featured on this blog, are their own funny little story. The night that i wrote them i had been to the house that some of the other people i do theatre with share, and one of those people was a girl that i was very much in love with at the time even though we were agreed to just be friends. I gave her a copy of my previous demo and we talked a little, and she had this winsome smile half the time, and when i got back to the dormitory i sat down and scribbled out “will it ever come” on a scrap of paper and then blogged it absentmindedly and forgot about it. If it wasn’t for my new demo it wouldn’t have ever seen the light of day.

And it was the last song i wrote about her.

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I do not like it when Matt brings houseguests with him. Matt is my roommate, but i’ll talk more about that in a minute. Back to houseguests. Granted, i have kissed approximately 6% of all houseguests who i’ve spent significant time with, but the other 94% smoke, drink, play my bass without asking, take my bread out of the freezer but do not put it back, eat my instant soup, watch horrible Woody Allen films, and dirty all of my dishes. In honor of that last bit, i now have my official Blog-A-Thon Spoon, because i really don’t intend to wash any of my other dishes at any point today and all of my blogathon food can be eaten with a spoon.


Last year Matt worked in a computer science lab with Joe, who lives directly above us now and is the boyfriend of Gina, who wrote “All That’s True.” So, that’s who Matt is. I didn’t really intend to live with Matt; I don’t think he’s the sort of person i would have ever lived with had it not come right down to the wire, but when things come down to the wire in life you occasionally make exceptions. It was July or August, and i was starting to panic about getting an apartment, and i logged into Shafted one day to see Matt asking if anyone had an apartment yet and we wound up looking around together and finding this one. The entire first week of Crushing Krisis is pretty much about me procrastinating about packing, almost missing putting down my deposit on the apartment because Matt was asleep, getting sick, packing while sick, and having to spend a week at home because i almost missed putting down the deposit on my apartment. But, anyhow, now we’re exactly a year beyond that frenzy of checking classifieds for apartments, and although Matt isn’t my favourite person in the world he’s certainly not the worst roommate in it either. So, anyway, one of these frenzied nights i wrote “Will It Ever Come,” and that was a backwards seugeway.

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Oh! I’m listening to Like a Virgin right now and i see that Pie in the Sky has that as an album that one of her special songs is from. if i can get my email working right i’ll have to offer to record a song for her,… and, by the way, i left 5 beeside slots open for requests, so if you have a request and a few dollars for MANNA i have a song for you.

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As a note, some of you might be listening to these songs and just hearing a lot of clipping, buzzing, and crap. If so, i’m sorry, but you’ve got some crappy speakers.

This might sound pretty presumptuous on my part, but check out my reasoning.

On Friday i got to work with two burned cds of 25/24 material and proceeded to put them into my computer and turn it up only to hear all sorts of volume problems and really bad clipping on all of the vocals. Every computer in the office that i tried the discs in featured the same result, to differing degrees. I was pissed, and defeated, and whining about how i had to rerecord half of my songs, but when i got home and sampled some of the songs that i had uploaded i found that they sounded pretty much as clear as a fresh summer day on my computer.

I only mention this now because this hour’s songs tend to clip worse than any of the other ones, even on my speakers. If you’re having the clipping problem and still want to hear my work, instant message me from the sidebar and we’ll cut a donation deal in exchange for a best-of-cd.

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