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I spend every lunch break playing the ukulele, working on melodies. Then when I sit down to record a song I inevitably play an arbitrary riff that turns into an uninteresting recording. This is one of those times.

The song is of course about hating the time I spend at work and wishing I could be doing something more personally constructive. It sure would be nice to be paid to be personally constructive. Like an AI developer. Who's really into his or her profession.

Song, Christmas.

Today I bought a new microphone for pretty cheap. I also started using my newly acquired accordion, so today had some potential. This is a pretty simple song, but I think the accordion really makes it. I also stole the title from Tom Petty and the music from various Paul Simon songs. Background vocals and drums would be nice, but this is an okay start:

Oh and is anyone interested in recording some christmas stuff? It's christmas album season and we've gotta deck those halls.

Here's another song. I might have stole the melody from...a Mark Knopfler song called "next time I'm in town" but there's probably a lot of songs that sound like this. I used almost the same exact riff as the last song, but thought I'd make a nice song out of it. Although I'm not sure which song is more uplifting.

I stole my brother's accordion so the next song I do will be even more important, culturally.

I don't get much time to record songs, so when I get a solid hour or two I like to make the most of it. The toughest part is trying to figure out what to sing about. I usually have two or three melodies wanting lyrics by the time I sit down to record, and I just have to sing whatever seems interesting or fun. I'm really lacking in lyric inspiration lately, so I reverted to my method of using a crossword clue for a song title. Today's crossword clue was: "Orchard Nightmare". Having grown up on an apple orchard, I thought the song title could be pertinent to my life. What exactly would an orchard nightmare be? Blight? A poorly-timed hail? A rainy pollination month? So many possibilities. Too bad I took it so fancifully. A song about a rainy pollination month would be pretty important, culturally.

Another song

Here's another song. I haven't been happy with anything I've recorded lately, and this one's not any different. I've been wanting to do something with I - IIm7 lately, and this is it.

Halloween

Here's a halloween song to showcase our newly carved pumpkins:

A new Computer

Hello!

1. I just purchased a laptop on a whim! It is great fun and was a good price. It is an HP G60-445DX Notebook PC that I bought for $499. The screen is so big.

2. We are going to Texas in a few days, so I wrote a nice waltz about leaving New England. I wanted to write a gritty song about goin' down to Texas, but I just wasn't feeling gritty today. Maybe when we get back I'll write a good ol' gritty song.

3. The waltz isn't very nice, but I implemented some swell churchy pipe organing, so that's something.

4. We're going to Plano Texas which is where the JCPenny corporate office and the Dr Pepper corporate offices are. I LOVE corporate offices so this will be a treat. Especially 'Penny's.

5. What do you think of the doodle I made for the video? I think it could be on a shopping bag.