Sounds Good

Me after the gym, entirely unrelated to the post, ha

I finally finished the song "Sounds Good" after working on it for three months... and actually, it isn't really finished, but I do have a nice solid sound for it... and I know the chords I want to play.  I may adjust some of the lyrics, but honestly, "Sounds Good" is a very emotional and heady song.  It starts off as though a sweet love song, lyrically, but as the music slightly changes from chorus to bridge, something isn't right, and the listener comes to find out that nothing actually sounds good, other than the song itself, of course.   It's a play on words and music... and I hope my audience will get that connection.  If not, nothing is lost... people get from music what they will... this song is very cathartic for me, and it's a stepping stone for me to move on from my past relationships.  Sounds good enough, right?

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"In rust we trust."

Premier Night: Bitter Paradox @ Dunedin Brewery

Peter and I, since the formation of our band name, Bitter Paradox, decided to play an open mic at Dunedin Brewery last night.  We had this dude, Wade, jam with us; he played the flute and soprano saxophone; he was old school cool. We did really well, I thought, figuring we played pretty late: 11:30.  The band that went before us were jerks; took them almost 20 minutes to set up, and then they played for roughly 20 minutes...  they were alright, but I wasn't impressed with all the glitter (literally, they had a strobe light...)  Like, are you kidding me?  This is an open mic, not an American Idol audition.  I was pretty annoyed at that point, but I didn't let it get in the way of my singing.  I gave my most bluesy performance yet... we played three of our songs: "Nightmare," "Frightening" and "In the Bay (I get so Angry)".

"Nightmare" went pretty well, but I thought we were going to hold the guitar solo part out longer as we had discussed, so when Peter gave me the cue to start singing again, I was off by about half a beat.  "Frightening" was definitely my favorite to sing; I added some pretty high parts, and I love rocking that one out.... but, it needs to be jammed out more; there is so much we could do with that song.  I added some pretty fun vocal soloing, Fiona Apple style.  "In the Bay (I get so Angry)" definitely came from the heart last night.  When there's a mic to your mouth and crowd before your eyes, you really start to feel the song in your soul.  A dude there started video recording us, so hopefully he will post that on the Dunedin Brewery Facebook page... I don't have have FB anymore, but maybe Peter will post the video on here.

Next time I hope we play three of our newer songs: "Blame the Devil", "Labor" and "Survival of the Elitist".  Till then...

He's Got Personality!

Hey All!  So yesterday, I finally did it... well two wonderful things, actually.  First, I got my new tattoo that I have wanted for fooorreeevvveerr...  I already had a a carpenter ant and a monarch butterfly, but I felt incomplete without a honey bee, after all, that's my nickname!  So check out the pics; he has quite the personality!

The other great news is, Peter and I (I think) finally have a band name!  "Bitter Paradox," which came to me as an epiphany, literally a light bulb lit above my head. Yesterday I saw a guy smoking a cigarette after I was finished working out and I was thinking to myself, "It's so weird that we are all living and dying at the same time... what a paradox.  What a bitter paradox..." And BOOM, and what was so great is that I have been able to maintain the "BP that" Bee and Peter is short for.  So B.itter P.aradox!  YES!  I feel that this name really resonates with our music; it is sultry and seductive, yet scary and emotional, with hints of blues and jazz.  Album title?  Possibly "Simultaneously Living and Dying."