write songs

So, you know, that’s coming along… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn7ODHZKuiE (song is ~1 minute in)

I don’t sing really well, especially right now what with the being sick. But I think the song itself came out decent.

I’m writing music again for the worst (by which I mean best) reason possible. All this for a chance to catch the ears and eyes of Joss Whedon…

I’m going to hate myself if I stay up late again but I am on fire for this evil idea of mine.

Jonathan Coulton is awesome, amirite? It’s reassuring to know that there’s someone out there writing geeky, outré folk rock songs and that there are a lot of people who respond to that. For a long time I couldn’t articulate what it was that held me back in writing music, but I think it’s that I’ve been afraid that what I would come up with would appeal to absolutely no one (historically, it’s been hit and miss). It’s entirely possible that this may be true and I will fail miserably, but I’ve decided I just don’t care anymore. Now the main issue is finding more time…

I suddenly find myself working on something incredibly wanky. How do your reconcile centonized music systems, Tolkien, and hip-hop culture and synthesize them into a style? Oh my God, what am I doing???

I’m developing an affection for Malice Mizer (yeah, yeah, five years too late, I know. I’ve been living in a cave on Mars).

I was thinking, you know—now that there’s a following for Japanese pop culture and music worldwide, and you also have all these American-otaku learning Japanese (dude! Nobody spoke Japanese when I was growing up! I gave it up because I thought it would never come in handy!), how long is it going to be before we have non-Japanese covering or writing their own songs in Japanese to emulate J-rock bands? I’d be tickled pink to see the musical influence ping-ponging back and forth across the Pacific.

Hmmm… :D

I don’t listen to the radio at work—I just play back tunes in my head. Every now and then my head starts playing something I’ve never heard before but when I think about it too hard, it stops. It seems like it might be a good idea to start writing these fragments down and see if I can work them into something interesting. The biggest problem I have is that I don’t really play any harmony instruments anymore, and it’s been years since I took music theory class. I really wish I had a piano but I couldn’t fit one in my cottage if I tried, heh. Even the 20-year-old cheapass keyboard I have is taking up too much room.