Music Is Everything

I've been tinkering around with this blog some more and i'm thinking i want to include audio. Maybe not on every single post, but i just want the ability to throw in audio the same way i do video and pictures. Music is everything. Sometimes the right song playing in the background will change your mood from 'i don't want to do anything' to 'i'm a golden god of creativity and genius'.
I used to write and record music when i lived in my apartment. Most of the songs were about whatever girl was giving me issues and/or drama at the time cuz if i'm gonna be honest i seriously have no idea what else i'd write about. I'm not political. I don't have angst. But girl drama, sure. Plenty of "what in the world am i supposed to do here you friggin chick" situations, so why not? What i really like about music is how it instantly takes you back. That quiet second bedroom in my apartment recording in the middle of the night wearing headphones so the neighbors wouldn't be disturbed. I had this digital recording studio the size of like, i don't know, a phonebook maybe (pictured left). I would plug in my guitars, keyboard and microKorg and record away. The tedious parts were vocals and drums. Not a big fan of singing. Playing guitar is easy, but if i had some hot girl with that perfect haunting voice to sing my lyrics i would hand them over in a heartbeat. And while the microKorg had some drum beats you could plug into songs, they were way too repetitive and blah sounding so i'd always tinker and tinker and tinker until i had a full drum track that sounded real to me. Recording was fun at the time, but there's no way i could get back into it. Not by myself anyway. One song landed in an indie movie thanks to myspace. Have i blogged about this before? I feel like i've typed that sentence before. The movie was "Break Up Bob" and the song was called "Fade". I even got invited to go to Los Angeles for the premiere screening and red carpet event and everything, but of course i didn't go. I felt like the jig would be up when instead of this music dude showing up it was just me; some guy who recorded the song in his bedroom to impress a girl. I don't know. Maybe i should've gone.

This isn't that song. This is a song i wrote about a nurse with unbelievable blue eyes. Well they looked blue in her scrubs. Maybe they're green and i'm a jerk for not knowing that. Whatever. It's not a song all about her and her blue green blue eyes, but more like she inspired the feeling i had when i wrote it. It's one of the last songs i recorded. I didn't have the patience to go with intricate drums so i went for an ultra simple staccato beat that just repeats over a simple bassline and piano with my fuzz sounding guitar over the bridge. I like it. Tell me what you think.
projectFM - "blind"