Sat, 9 September 2006  We'll have cartoon sex like Diznee How did I wind up buying a Telecaster in 2000? I did a Joni Mitchell tribute show in New Orleans with the old band that summer. Goofy airlines wouldn't let me bring the acoustic guitar on the plane. Borrowed show organizer Michael Paz's Fender to use that night. It rocked. Bought an electric shortly thereafter. So the Tele Sessions are a handful of demos of songs written with the new guitar. The warm-up for the Ones and Zeros record. The four-track cassette special. And why "Diznee?" I was improvising lyrics. They were ridiculous, but something told me to go with it. And "diznee" rhymed. And apropos, in light of recent reports. (Note: Keep your mouse ears open for the musicial D.N.A. of "Jennifer.") Comments[0] |
Sun, 30 July 2006  Come unto these yellow sands... This song was also written for the Carl Liss film Apt. D. The music and the first line came to me in a dream. I finished it the next day, on the can, with the help of a copy of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Check the Bluff Notes on 'Seachange' for the full story. Comments[0] |
Sun, 30 July 2006  Little dead children sing A... B... C... Eons before my good friend/arch-enemy Carl Liss made the video for the song Babylon, he made a feature-length film called Apt D. And just as he did with the Babylon video, he held a gun to my head until I relented to become involved with the project. Working just from the script I wrote songs loosely based on each of the four main characters, plus a title track to pull it all together. Bought myself a state-of-the-art (for 1997) 4-track cassette recorder and recorded and mixed and remixed about 400 versions of each song for Carl to use as the score. Some of the songs also saw the light of day in the 1998 cassette-only release Wafers and Wine: Songs from the Film Apt. D. This is the aforementioned title track. EnjoyComments[0] |
