the music of our lives...

HEY FIVER... HERE IS A NEW BLOG POST FOR YOU TO READ!!!
back to my otherwise beautiful thoughts... i have been on a HUGE roller coaster ride the last few weeks. i cant even begin to describe all of the emotions but here i am today, asleep in my bed and unstoned (blind melon). i have been listening to a wide variety of music lately in order to sit back, relax, and float down streams (beatles). i have discovered a few new artists that have been just what i needed (the cars). the first one is sort of a rekindled love, it the breeders, a firey alt chic band from the 90's with a flare of grundge and psychodellia and a hint of pure punk. started by kim deal of the pixies and tanya donelly of throwing muses, the breeders have helped me just get along (breeders) with my problems at work. i have found that they seemed to have influenced a number of other post grundge/pop punk bands that are thriving today, such as the strokes (they have a very similar sound).
the next 2 just wanna have fun (cydi lauper), they are me first and the gimme gimme's and jonathan coulton. me first and the gimme gimme's is a punk cover band that takes old brown (george harrison) songs and punkifies them. for example they took the lyrics and chord structure of fife and rain, added heavy distortion and speed the whole thing up and made an awesome cover version. in fact i dont think they have any originals at all yet everything they play is played in a pretty original way. their catalogue includes; i am a rock (paul simon), science fiction (rocky horror show), country roads (john denver who is from the rocky mountains and is high(roy green jr.)), stairway to heaven (led zepplin), crazy (patsey cline) and stand by your man (tammy wynette). fun, fun, fun (the beach boys).

the third and final artist i want to talk about is a guy named jonathan coulton. the only thing most people would have heard of his is the theme song to code monkeys, an 8-bit animation about a video game development company in the '80's of the same name. the theme song is only the chorus to the song. jonathan, whose fans lovingly call him joco, writes mainly about nerd topics like programming, evil villains falling in love, and ikea. he even has a song about how tom cruise crazy tom cruise is as well as a great cover of baby got back... hill-arious!!!

anyway, i have decided that i need to try my hand a writing so i am going to try, but before i do i need to study up. i talked to joel and he told me how he learned about lyric structure. i think i am going to start there and see how far i get. well, i guess thats it... i hope fiver is satisfied with what i have written.