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Chris Brown

I fucking hate this guy. Why are people still buying his records? "I like the music." Oh yeah, go put in an Usher CD. I hated this guy before everyone hated him. Remember when he danced on all those tables at the MTV movie awards and everyone was blown away? Well, I was fucking confused...

This hack has ad-libbed his way into a shit storm the likes of which i hope he never seed the end. Now, I'm not telling you to CLICK THIS LINK, but do so if you REALLY want his record.

What a hack.

Under Water

I made this little ditty over the weekend.  It was the first time in a long time I was home with the sun out and it was warm enough to get into the pool.  I'll tell ya, nothing gets you into the water faster than a rolling camera!

"My Favorite Gift" From: Me, To: You

I love Christmas Music.  Every year, around the first week of November I start to mix it into my playlists and by Thanksgiving, Suzi has already been overwhelmed by the spirit of the holidays because of my incessant affinity for the holidays.

This year has been a little different.  For some reason or another, I just wasn't in the Christmas spirit.  I thought back on all my other Christmases and about all the great gifts I gave and received and I remember specifically about the Christmas of 2003.  It was the first year Suzi and I were together and our relationship was only a few weeks old.

I'll never forget that Christmas, especially, because being with her was something I had wanted for a long long time and I finally got what I really wanted at a time that I really needed it.  She'll never know how happy she made me that year and every year since.  So in trying to get myself into the Christmas spirit this year, I decided to write a Christmas song about that first year we were together.

I started writing the song about a month ago and with the help of my buddy Addison doing some producing, knob-turning, and additional instrumentation, we got this song done.  I am really proud of it and am happy that I can finally share this with you all.  I shared with with Suzi last night and she loved it so I hope you love it, too!

Enjoy and I would love to hear your feedback!  Merry Christmas everyone!

Click Here to Download "My Favorite Gift"

You can also stream the song here:

My Favorite Christmas Song (This Year)

This song has pretty much shaped up this Christmas season. Sure, my favorite Christmas song of all time and the song that is in my top-20 songs of any kind of all time is Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You," but this song has infected my Christmas season. I think my semi-annual 'funk' is upon us and this song makes it all better.



Enjoy!

Day 5

Here is Song #5 called "Falling."

"This song is a great idea I would love to build upon later and really flesh out into something more special than this. It's got a fun poppy feel to it that I have never really explored before. It's lightyears better than my iPad experiment yesterday! Haha"

Day 4

Here's my song for my 4th day: "Sometimes Looking Back is Easier Than Looking Forward"
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"So the Gorillaz's new record is being recorded completely on an iPad and a bunch of bands are doing viral videos playing songs using their iPhones, etc so this song was completely recorded using my iPad. Well, that and GarageBand. I started with SoundDrop -- a sound-generator app based off bounding balls off of these lines you draw with your finger. It's a completely live "instrument" if you will in the sense that it's not pre-programmable. That's the confusing off-but-in-time clicking you hear. Then I used JamPad for the synth lead, drums, and guitar. I did live switching on the drums so they have some strange 'choices' for beats but I figured WTH. Then I used QuickVoice to record vocals which i couldn't record straight into GB so I recorded and then synced back to the song after laying it into GB. A fun experiment but I'll try something more tangible tomorrow."

Day 3

Here's my song for Day 3 -- "Me and Ubiquitous"

"I grew up doing theatre. It kept me out of trouble and taught me what it was to be professional and work hard at a young age. I loved it and I thought that was my life. While I still work in entertainment today, I had to leave the theatre so I could support myself. Growing up in the theatre, I met so many amazing people. One man was Jerad -- an ex-Jungle Cruise skipper from the 1990s that collected nickels and whose favorite word was 'ubiquitous.' He was only a few years older than me and I would love to hear old Jungle Cruise stories. He passed away suddenly Monday and I found out about it today. This is what came of that."

Day 2

Here's my second song. "Quick Bullet"

"I have been in the same band for 9 years. We are not active but far from broken up -- we just all have day-jobs now and maybe get together once or twice a year to bang out the songs. We haven't written a new song in over 5 years (aside from 30 second songs here and there for Prop 8, etc). About 5 years ago, I heard Ryan playing the first riff you hear in the song and it stuck with me. I play it constantly but couldn't ever hear the song. Then this song-a-day exercise came up and I knew this had to be pulled out of the hat. I came up with the first two lines of lyrics on a bike ride today, came home, and recorded this in an hour. While it totally SOUNDS like I took only an hour to do this, I was so much more excited to get this song DOWN as opposed to perfect -- to the point that I whispered the vocals, basically and only did one pass at it. I'll DEFINATELY be coming back to this song in the near future. I hope you're all into it. It might be something completely different from anything else on here. Sounds like NOFX or Propagandhi."

Day 1

Here's my song for Day 1. I'll call it "Autumn".

"This idea was started at 11pm on day 1 on the piano.  I thought all day about how I wanted this song to sound and the most interesting part is how that all went out the door when I sat down to do it!  The 1/4" I was using was dying so it created this clicking sound on the bass track that sounds like an off-time metronome -- I'll take that as art! As song writing isn't my strong point, It's going to be a challenge starting an idea and moving on the next day.  Ready for day 2!"

7 Songs in 7 Days

My good friend Addison Kowalski was jumping on a train and I was going with him.  We are going to write a song a day for a week.  These will be posted up on friendswritesongs.tumblr.com but as that site has been having some issues this past week, I thought I would post them up here for my blog readers -- although I haven't posted in months so who knows who's gonna hear them?

Along with each track I finished, I will post the blurb I sent to Mr. Andrew Capra -- mastermind of the FriendsWriteSongs blog.  I hope you all enjoy them -- they're pretty awful.

My favorite song off this record

Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Skeletons

LOTB cover from this year

Here's a cover song we played at the Prop 8 Rally show we played earlier this year. Enjoy!

love it

video and song. love it

What makes time travel possible:

Ronald Reagan!

Merry Christmas!

Here's a track I played bass on earlier this year for a Christmas Movie. Stoked!

Enjoy:

Phoenix

I saw this band on SNL and loved them. Now they're all over commercials and my iPod. This Take Away Show-series they did in Paris just makes them that much more bad ass. Enjoy.

One of my favorite blink videos

and they had nothing to do with it. This was a typography project this kid had to do for a college class. This was the FIRST TIME HE EVER USED AFTER EFFECTS! Blew my mind. This was the first one I saw and I went to watch others to see if they were as good and they all sucked hard. I was blown away by this kid's work and hope blink pick up on it. Also, i LOVE this song. SO underrated!

Enjoy!

DJ AM

I'm surprised they did this but stoked and proud:

Blinkumentary

yes please: