Thursday, December 11, 2008
Unbeknownst to many of you, DYM broke up back in October. Recently, it was proposed that we get the band back together to shoot a music video for a non-existent Christmas song.
Last weekend, we shot the video. It’s about seven minutes long. Which means that we now have to write and record a seven minute [...]
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
With a couple of brand new tracks chock full of edutainment:
1. Don’t let those damn leftists take hunting out of the classroom! Grab some pointers from Kill the Birds, our contribution to the For Supergrover project.
2. Ever wondered who was in line to succeed the President? Enjoy a very rough mix of The [...]
Among the many topics of conversation at the 2008 DYM Memorial Day Band BBQ, the one that stuck with me stemmed from Pennystripe showcasing her recent attempts at lyric writing with impromptu acoustic guitar accompaniment from Djerzi. 1 They even went to the trouble of coming up with a name for their act: Djerzistripe. [...]
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The wait is finally over, as is this series, which in my defense I thought would be much, much more interesting. Turns out writing about the creative process isn’t all that much fun, so tough nuggets.1
But now it’s time for you, our audience, to determine how close we got to providing a product [...]
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Hey, guess what? These songs are nowhere near being done. Now I have to write an apologetic email to the three winners extending the deadline a couple more weeks. Which means I have to invent some bullshit gift-giving New Year’s pseudo-deity for comic effect. Something like this:
“Ho ho ho! I [...]
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Here’s an update, with a week to go before our self-imposed deadline:
1. The TV Theme Song: “Theme to Love Bus”
The music is written, and recording is underway. We shot for Golden Girls, realized we couldn’t write anything resembling a Joni Mitchell song, and switched to a slightly more generic 80s style theme song. [...]
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One way to help speed along an occasional song is for the subject of the song to disagree with me on matters of contemporary popular fiction.
Thanks, Sandra!
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Got off on a tangent in that last post and forgot why I was posting in the first place.
Here it is, the Chiasmus Press Fight Song Contest winner, “The Man and How We Plan To Stick It To Him.”
I will say one thing about this song. I really wanted the line to be “their [...]
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
[ December 15, 2007; ] See? This isn’t a show. But I’m categorizing it as a show so that it appears on that nifty little calendar you see to the right of the blog.
Three songs.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Wow. It’s almost mid-November, and we still don’t have those Gertrude Press Auction Winner songs done. Hmmm… did I ever mention something about the importance of deadlines? Oh, yeah! I did!:
The best thing about Occasional Songs is that there is a built-in deadline. If you’re writing a song for someone’s birthday, [...]
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
A song for Brooke on her birthday, up now on the You’ll Get Nothing And Like It! page: “After the Apocalypse You Will Be Our Slave”
Featuring more lyrics about the end of the world, plus a guitar riff starring three of your favorite notes!
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
This almost makes up for getting passed over for the OC Soundtrack.
Support your favorite small press, why don’t you? (Or even a somewhat larger press that does good work but needs the money.)
Or, you know, buy some comic books. Whatever.
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Friday, September 21, 2007
The fine folks over at Chiasmus Press are having a Fight Song Contest. They want a sound that’s “somewhere between Buddy Holly and Bikini Kill, with healthy doses of Miles Davis, Tony Bennett and Diamanda Galas.” We TOTALLY fit that bill.
Time to get to work.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Writing about writing songs is actually going to be a bit trickier than I’d anticipated, since I’m working on three songs at once. Since the process is a bit different for each of the songs, I’ll be blogging in triplicate throughout, and I’ll mostly leave it up to you, intelligent reader, to recognize the [...]
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Sometimes, when you’re crying your eyes out, hanging onto the railing of a bridge, or even just hanging out in a friend’s apartment holding a gun to your head, you’ll hear someone say, “You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family.” Or something like that; you’re probably too distracted by your [...]
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Writing a pop song is pretty much the easiest thing anybody can do. You don’t need any tools or devices–as a matter of fact, let’s write a song right now.
Pick a word. I don’t know you, so I don’t know what you would consider easy… maybe you’re the type who’d rather invent a [...]
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