My Birthday Cover of “Everybody Knows”
Spent my birthday this year recording an arrangement/cover of a Leonard Cohen song, “Everybody Knows”, and I’m pleased with how that went.
Category: bookshelf
Set expectation level: Amateurish rush-job.
Joni Mitchell Brexit – We won’t know what we’ve got till it’s gone.
I’ve been suggesting we’ll have a “Joni Mitchell Brexit” for months. Nobody will believe the “project fear” stuff until it’s happened. We don’t know what we’ve got till it’s gone. Got around to producing the song that those words imply yesterday. So here’s the song I call “Joni Mitchell Brexit”
What Bokononists say when they commit suicide
Next up in my album about my bookshelf is “What Bokononists say when they commit suicide“, A song about Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle“. Vonnegut’s brilliant short and simple sentences describe a world-destroying military invention, delivered with his curt Kurt style. Great book. The song is a jazz musical scene from the book, featuring someone else’s…
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I’m A Subgenius Preacher
No more sleep in 2018. It’s all over bar the last bit of drinking. I’ve spent the last few days of the year pretty lazily until I got some “Bob” in me yesterday and wrote and recorded this song in the hope of getting it out. Next year: More stuff! More meditation! More fasting! More…
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Heart Of Gold
The fifth song in my album about my bookshelf is about Douglas Adam’s “Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy” and is a song about the drive in the Heart Of Gold.
Outside Context Problem
Track four from my album about my bookshelf is called “Outside Context Problem” and is inspired by Iain M Banks’ book “Excession” in which utopic luxury space communism society “the culture” maybe faces their own Outside Context Problem. Great book, here’s I butchered half a page of it. All the good stuff in those lyrics…
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Learning To Be Me
I wrote a song this weekend inspired by Greg Egan’s short story “Learning To Be Me”. I also made significant progress in my code to puppet and motion-capture the characters in my VR flying saucer story. To celebrate, here is a video of me in the ship’s galley (and also in my studio) doing a…
Profit Implies Loss
In order to avoid having to think about three dimensional vector maths, I have wasted half my weekend writing and recording a song inspired by Hagbard Celine, a person with whom I would have many deep political and philosophical differences if he were a real person. While also being broadly in agreement. My weakened RSI-riddled…
“Bob’s” Excuse 2018
Nuh-huh! If anyone blew off everything all weekend and spent the entire time making a song about “Bob” instead it was probably you! Click here to view at Youtube if the player below fails Words mostly by Ivan Stang and the Church Of The Subgenius Recording a song with the in-built recording thing on my…
