And now a moment of silence...

My first ukulele (technically not mine. My little brothers.) is smashed. Dead. Forever gone. I hope I can reuse the bits and pieces for something... Maybe a diy banjolele? I went through a lot with that thing. *sigh* Well, here's a pic. 

A song?!?!?!?!?! WTF?!?!?!

Guess what? A cover!!!!!! YAY!!! MUSIC!!! You've probably gotten sick of me talking. So yep. A cover of the Magnetic Field's The Book of Love. It's the first Magnetic Fields song I'd ever heard and it got me hooked on the band. So here it is along with the lyrics:


 The book of love is long and     boring 

No one can lift the damn thing 

It's full of charts and facts and figures 
and instructions for dancing 

but I 

I love it when you read to me
and you 

you can read me anything
The book of love has music in it
In fact that's where music comes from
Some of it is just transcendental 

Some of it is just really dumb 

but I 

I love it when you sing to me 

and you
you can sing me anything 

The book of love is long and boring
and written very long ago
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
and things we're all too young to know 

but I
I love it when you give me things
and you
you ought to give me wedding rings
I
I love it when you give me things 

and you
you ought to give me wedding rings

My thoughts on music after watching The Runaways

       If you haven't already, I would go see the Runaways (for all you springfieldians, it's at the Moxie and should be at Hollywood 14 in May.) It's a great movie. Pretty graphic though. I enjoyed it. And I must say, I feel like I should change as a musician after watching it.
        There was something that really appealed to me about playing crappy loud music in front of people who don't want to hear you and are throwing stuff at you. Now there was quite a lot of drug usage in the film, and that doesn't appeal to me at all. But the actual music.
        The ukulele just doesn't fulfill my needs anymore. Don't get me wrong, it's wonderful instrument and it's portable and easy to play. It's great. But there's something about playing loudly with distortion and lots of reverb that is just so appealing. I miss my cover band days... Just playing with a full band with drums and noise and feedback. It's a wonderful feeling. Completely different than what I'm doing with the Scribbles and "solo". I'll have fun either way, it's just that I need something new. And something loud.
        Also on a completely new side of music, I've learned how to use Abelton Live. It's cool to do that sort of techno/electronic thing with midi controllers, cool synths, and all that jazz. But I get sick of the repetitiveness after like 15 min. It's still fun to know how to do though.
        Now back to what I was really talking about. Loud music.
        Not just loud music, noisy, intentionally bad music. Simple lyrics, simple chords, but loud and rebellious. And I would never do it with complete seriousness, I would take the Andrew WK route. You know that whole thing with him and the Steev Mike thing and him not being real. Personally, I think even if it's all fake and he's a group of people who trade out the role of Andrew WK, that it just makes him an even cooler "artist". But that's another blog post.
       Lately, I've just felt the need to make loud music, that you can party to. Not for me to party to. I'm not much of a partier, but for other people who are.
       I'm not sure how I will find the loud music I'm looking for or if I ever will, but I just wanted to let you know what my thoughts are at the moment with music.

Goodbye.