Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand
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Oh, and, just to prove that i’m really not getting any more awake as this goes on but am still functioning on higher levels of logic, i somehow managed to sing “when a boy loves a boy and a girl loves a girl” in the “La Isla Bonita.” Hah! Especially considering who i was recording it for. Hah!
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There’s some outstanding requests for DeathCabForCutie and Garbage, but i think i’m justifiably a little fried right now. And, i just barely decided what the last beeside will be. Lemme catch my breath for a minute.
BTW, the coffee had about as much caffeine in it as orange juice. Also, when the hell am i going to learn how to spell that word? At least i could be consistent about it. Bah! Back to songing.
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Some notes on the requests. That’s the order i recorded them in, but not that they were asked for. I needed lyrics for 1-3, chords for 2-3, and lots of righteous misplaced gender angst for 4. I kept the first complete take of each song, and the only one with a significant false start was Rabi’s. I did “Outta Me” first because i’ve recorded it before and i know i can ad-lib all over the place. I thought Yucca’s would be very hard but it was simple because i spent a long time transcribing it last summer so that it would make sense on such an occasion. I was planning to do “La Isla” anyway, but had been putting off transcribing the chords. Please note that i incorporate the guitar solo into my strumming, because i care that much about solo acoustic Madonna covers (of which we’ve seen four, so far). I did invert the instrumental bit and then didn’t sing to it like Madonna does; however, i pounded on my guitar quite a bit like she did at the concert to make up for it. A year ago today i couldn’t sing “Not a Pretty Girl” and play it at the same time, and now it’s one of the easiest Ani songs for me to cover except for that it’s always using all four of my fingers and i tend to abuse my guitar a lot when i play it. Enjoy, ladies and gents.
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Some addendums to that post: 1) I typed “rabi” instead of “wockerjabby.com” into the hyperlink at first without noticing. 2) The entire coffee thing is moot because the mug is too hot for me to even approach. I can’t even sneak up on it. 3) You’ll note that i missed linking to Martha despite linking to the other two kiddies in my circle of awakeness, but that’s because i knew she was posting this really funny summary of me and my blog on her page shortly. I am still laughing. Still. Martha is definitely a daily read now; that’s what you get :p