House flooded...

So the faucet was left running for four hours with the plug in the sink. My mom came home to see water everywhere but figured it was just a spill. She cleaned up what she had originally seen and noticed more water. Eventually she walked down the stairs to see that water was leaking from upstairs, through the ceiling, and into the basement. My room was under the sink, luckily, and received the brunt of the damage. Now we have some shady guys that will constantly be in our house, 15 fans that are on all hours of the day, ruined furniture, and we are all crammed into my brothers rooms (they were the only ones with a completely dry room.)

In happier news the Song Fu voting was posted. The challenge was to write about a number. We chose i (the square root of negative one) hoping to be very nerdy and original but we were saddened when we saw a second i song. He chose to write about i being a selfish loser (our original idea) while we wrote about a real number consulting i in his existence. For all of the entires go here.

Hello world!

I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving. I haven't posted anything on here in a while. hmmmmm... I need to get on top of that. Any suggestions for covers? I did manage to record one video in Florida while on vacation. It was a cover of creep by Radiohead. Amanda Palmer also does a cover of it on the ukulele. Not much has happened since I last posted something. I do have some things coming up that you might want to look at.

November 30 - Song Fu listening party round 2 8 pm est (Jubilee Jews)

December 1 - Song Fu voting starts (Jubilee Jews)

December 8 - Imagine John Lennon tribute show @ Gillioz Springfield, MO 7 pm (The Scribbles)

December 12 - Parkcrest Assembly of God (non-religious show) Springfield, MO 6 pm (The Scribbles)

Definitely check out the Song Fu stuff with the links I have up there. The Imagine show will be the first time the Scribbles will be playing a cover song so that should be interesting. I will try to post my Radiohead cover tonight or tomorrow.

Song Fu with Jubilee Jews!

As another creative outlet A.J. and I will be participating in Song Fu as Jubilee Jews. We wrote and recorded our song for this weeks challenge. The challenge was to chose one of the 700 mole men and molemanic women that John Hodgeman created in his book More Information Than You Require. We chose #487 Lady Anotonia Oddpolyps, the tolerant wife of #486 a former war hero and is now a drunkard. The voting will start tomorrow and there will be a listening party tonight. 39 contestants have signed up but the numbers may narrow down by tomorrow.

Thing-a-week #7 - Live on

Lyrics:

Bright lights glow on an empty stage

But we don't take up half the room that we should

I don't rush but I stare in disapproval

and I bow

I knew that you were there

in the corner of my eye I say you glance

I saw you stare in amazement

and I rush

How long has it been

How long has it been

Time and time again

You are gone for several days

And I stay here feeling strange

and I know

That you

will still

Live on

You will still

Live on

How long has it been

How long has it been

How long has it been

How long has it been

How long has it been

How long has it been

Just kidding...

1 Hello this is an experiment,

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4 ... Just kidding it is working... She's quack

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7 ... Good. How about you, Mitchell? ...

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10 ... I am totally awesome! ... Just Kidding! ...

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13 ... That's quack...

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16 ... Awkward silence...

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19 ...

Thing-a-week #6 - A cover!

I am still working on a song for this week so to keep all 7 of my followers entertained I am posting a cover. That late song really threw me off so I should be back on track if I can post this new one soon. So here is an Elliot Smith cover. It's called Between the Bars and it's on his 1997 release Either/Or. The video quality is crappy because the audio wouldn't work if the file was any larger.

Thing-a-week #5

I'm trying to quiet because it was 1 in the morning when I recorded it so you may not understand what I'm singing.

Lyrics:

we sang songs of love

the songs weren't ever enough

we were always above

those who couldn't love

almost always were you standing there

almost always were my eyes on you

You stayed for so long

You were dancing and singing to all our songs

but I knew so much less

Your songs were always the best

very rarely did my eyes leave yours

almost always I could her your voice

we sang songs of love x4