Friday, June 25, 2010

Battered Heart

This week's song is about a baker who whips battered hearts back into shape. His confections are certainly to be construed as affections. He knows that love makes the world taste good. Actually, he's the very baker who Tori Amos sings about in her song "Baker Baker". Look him up, he's awfully sweet.

So that's what the song is about and all, but you should know that this is the first song recorded in our new basement studio. Scot got to bang on real drums! I never thought I'd see the day when our too-cool-to-care cat hid under the bed, but apparently all the sonic desensitization training we've put him through for the past nine months was not enough to prepare him for the shocking loudness of live drums (he thinks this week's song should be called "Battered Hearing"). Living in a house means that we no longer share common walls with other humans, and dammit, we intend to live like it!



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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Diet Riot

This week's song is the newest Luv Club jam. Did you know that the members of Luv Club are ghost hunting body builders? They recently took a break from their weekend ghost hunting to lay down a track so hot it will burn/torch the calories right out of your body. Luv Club knows that you can work out all day every day, but if you aren't listening to the right kind of music while you do it you'll never be truly fit (see any and all workout montages from the Rocky movies for proof). Luv Club wants their listeners to be fit. They want you to make your workouts epic, but also understand that some of their listeners are on a budget that excludes gym memberships and would like to offer some cheap alternative workout tips. If you don't have a state of the art Russian gym to work out in, try pulling horses out of snow drifts to build total body strength. Or you could run briskly through bad parts of town to build up your cardio. Fill some sacks with heavy books and try walking about to build back strength. How about finding a creepy man who only speaks through one side of his mouth to bark workout commands at you when your will power is fading? Or, just wait for Luv Club's full length album to come out. People are going to be dropping pounds like crazy. Brace yourself for some heart pounding, muscle confusing awesomeness! Hit it.



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Friday, June 11, 2010

I'm A House

This week's song was very much ripped directly from our real lives. I don't always like to write autobiographical songs (seems a bit too Dear Diary), but we are moving next week, and as I was doing some packing and cleaning it occurred to me that both Scot and I have moved a lot in our lives. As a child, moving upset me. I always felt like I was being forced to leave things and places behind that were irreplaceable. I think I may have been slightly overexposed to The Wizard of Oz. As an adult I no longer feel this way, no longer feel the need to cling so tightly to places or things. While thinking these thoughts, I was sweeping the floor in the living room and still finding flecks of glitter from the Christmas tree that stood in the corner of that room six months earlier. Something about that seemed prosaic to me, it seemed to speak in favor of my thought that nothing is ever really left behind when we move on. I stopped sweeping to jot down a few lines about it. I let these written lines sit for a few days, not knowing what, if anything, I wanted to do with them. On Tuesday morning I decided to sit down and see if I could come up with something for this week's song. I pulled up my word processor and found the scraps I had jotted down and discovered that below the lines about the tree appeared the line "turning life into a song". I didn't remember writing that, but felt it was the thought that would make the ideas I'd piled up while sweeping become cohesive and tidy. So here it is, a sparkly clean song about home sweet home.


We hope to employ the help of the fabulous Luv Club to complete next week's song!



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Friday, June 4, 2010

Connected In Connecticut

This song should probably come with a warning label. IT WILL GET STUCK IN YOUR HEAD. That being said, we're killing two birds with one song here. My Mother is one of eleven kids. She has six sisters and the sisters love nothing more than to get together and perform songs at family functions. One of my cousins is getting married this coming Fall in Connecticut and we're having a shower for her at the end of June. The sisters usually do some pretty awesome Weird Al style song parodies for these events, but decided that since Scot and I were writing a song a week anyway, we might as well write one for them. Daunting! This little song had a lot of jobs to perform. It had to be something they would have a blast singing and performing. I wanted it to be cute and rompy while doing the job of telling the love story of my cousin Corey and her fiance Brian. It also had to work as one of our weekly songs and hopefully hold appeal for listeners outside of my family. I think our version of the song is pretty sweet, but cannot wait to hear (and hopefully videotape!) the sister's performance of it.



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