Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand
by krisis
So, that little Madonna interlude kept me up later than expected and now i’ve got to rush to theory class. I have this incredibly lazy two hour span afterwards in which i plan to borrow a wireless laptop and read plato. Yes, i do lead an exciting life.
by krisis
Either i’ve got to get some curtains or i’ve got to learn to enjoy nude dashes past the windows a bit more. In other news, it is a refrigerator, and i’m not sure that he ever made it out alive. But, enough spying on my neighbors, i’m off to the land of slumber. And, yes, that means there’s a distinct possibility that i’ll wind up #1 p.b for the day without taking a screenshot. If someone else could do it for me, i’d appreciate it. Anyhow, g’nite.
by krisis
i think i finally got a trio down. it sounds like crap. i need to practice more. i’m listening to it now…
by krisis
An interesting sidetrack to my domain worries is DomainZero, which apparently registers a name for free in exchange for sending you lots of spam email for a year. I personally would pay the mere $30 in exchange for an empty inbox, but for those of you no quite as obsessive-compulsive as me, the service might work out just right. I say, hit them up for names now before they go under. DomainZero’s link is courtesy of Lauren, who i blundered upon after a series of quite random links.
by krisis
New Trio is up and featured a bit more prominently on the sidebar (god only knows how people were expected to find the link from last week, ‘cuz i don’t). I encourage you to listen to it, since this entire site really did start from my music (which remains the center-piece). This blog just adds background to where i’m coming from in my songs.
On that note, i’m gonna talk about “deadweight,” which is one of the songs from this week. I originally wrote the lyrics in July of 1999, and then arranged it in early August. When i first wrote the lyrics i thought they would head in the musically jerky direction of Elastica’s “Hold Me Now,” but i wound up being more influenced by my summer obsession with Melissa Ferrick (one part Ani, one part Melissa Etheridge, shake well). I actually didn’t think “deadweight” would amount to very much at all, which is evidenced by the fact that i wrote it upside down in the margins of another song (which remains unused).
The chorus came first to me first: here i was headed to college while some people seemed to be intent on keeping me rooted to the spot where i stood in every sense. While most people tend to think the song is about my mother once they hear that much about it, it’s actually about a friend of mine from highschool. He was perfectly fine as a friend, but his whole life was centered very much around secrecy, competition, and negative energy. I increasingly found that being with him kept me rooted in the catty snappish spot i spent much of high school in, and i didn’t want to be there anymore. However, as many times as i tried to “cut him loose” in the past, i always wound up friend with him again. Realizing all of this in “deadweight” put an end to the vicious cycle; i haven’t spoken with him since.
For more commentary you can head here or here. Audio of “deadweight” and most other songs i mention can be found in the AMkitchen, which is the core of my webpage.