Earl made a cool experimental video from footage of my last concert in the creek, over an old unreleased instrumental version of I Can See You. (that features the keys). Love the colors, heart!
Category: my music & performances
my songs and shows
“Lean On Me” by Mixed Bag
Some cool coworkers and I started a group called Mixed Bag and sang “Lean on Me” at the DDCE staff meeting.
New Video: No More Shitty Gigs
Ladies and gentleman, I am proud to present the world premier of the best damn video I’ve made to date (with great help, beginning to end, from Earl). This is my No More Shitty Gigs manifesto and pledge:
No More Shitty Gigs
No more sitting in my cube beneath the zombie lights
Where the light is too white and the walls are too tight
I need to go outside and a get big fresh breath of air
But I can’t escape the screen and my butt’s glued to the chair
No more standing on a stage beneath a TV screen
No more trying to sing over the coffee steam machine
No more waiting hours just wait for hours more
In some far off remote hope that my foot gets in a door
No more shitty gigs I’ve played enough for one life
No more shitty years it’s high time I decided
Let’s go for a walk, I’m gonna take show outside
‘Cause it’s my show and I decide where it will go
It’s my show and I decide where it will go
No More Shitty Gigs (Demo)
I’ve been working on this ska/punk manifesto for a month or so. Earl correctly suggested that it should be the soundtrack to the promo video we’re gonna make. Here’s my second draft of two verses and the chorus (45 secs for the video).
No more sitting in my cube beneath the zombie lights
Where the light is too white and the walls are too tight
I need to go outside and a get big fresh breath of air
But I can’t escape the screen and my butt’s glued to the chair
No more standing on a stage beneath a TV screen
No more trying to sing over the coffee steam machine
No more waiting hours just wait for hours more
In some far off remote hope that my foot gets in a door
No more shitty gigs I’ve played enough for one life
No more shitty years it’s high time I decided
Let’s go for a walk, I’m gonna take show outside
‘Cause it’s my show and I decide where it will go
‘Cause it’s my show and I decide where it will go
Your Bright Eyes Shine
Maile asked me to write a Valentine’s day song for Anais this year and here’s what I came up with.
You see a star out of the car as we’re driving by
You yell out star and point out where each one you find
Stars adorn your avenues and so now mine
My oh my, Anais Sky how your bright eyes shine!
You’re my little fox, peeking at the possums
You’re my little bear, heeding where the honey’s hid
You’re my little mouse underneath the table
You’re my little fish doing backflips
You always say, Daddy an A! and I see the sign
You see the tower every time it’s on the skyline
You spy with your little eye some tricky little find
My oh my, Anais Sky how your bright eyes shine!
Have you never seen a dog wearing pajamas?
Have you never seen a giant squid wearing a bib?
Have you never seen a baby with an umbrella
holding a frog like a little kid?
The world is new and new again for you my friend
And so for me it’s new again and again and again
Thank god for what you see in me, through Maile’s eyes and mine
My oh my, Anais Sky how your bright eyes shine!