If You're Feeling Groggy, Feed Yourself a Doggie
Since I am unable to do any real work at the moment, I decided to fiddle with my Livejournal Interests for a good while. I’d say I performed a more or less 40% modification. The initial purpose was to rid the list of the more general interests and replace them with more specific ones. For example, I replaced Indian Food with Korma and Vindaloo. The purpose is to define myself in a more explicit manner. Whether I have succeeded or not, I don’t know. It was a mildly interesting amusement, however, which ate away a bit the fog of depression I wrote about earlier. So, now my view is only partly occluded.
I have been thinking to adjust my sleeping schedule. So: my plan was to stay at work all night, a good deal of tomorrow, and crawl back blearily to my flat sometime in the evening to retire. It’s three in the morning now and I don’t know if I am going to make it. Perhaps the portion of the fog eaten away by my idle pursuits on Livejournal has been replaced by exhaustion. I did get up at 16.00 this past afternoon, though, and wonder why I should be so tired after only eleven hours. Maybe all the salami and horseradish I ate earlier stole my alertness. Maybe if I snorted the horseradish, the alertness would return. I should give it a try.
Oouh.
Commentaries:
Tony:
Yeah, doing something works better than doing nothing. And a regular sleep schedule is a definite plus.
I’ve arranged two songs in two days.
Me:
I have a regular sleep schedule. It is just from about 7 or 8am to 2 or 3pm. The daylight hours are waning. I’m not totally nocturnal, so I’d better start going to sleep earlier. Yeah.
Which two have you arranged?>
Tony:
“Julia Dream” (Thu) - just a simple driving piano figure (with sustain pedal!), some backgroundy distorted guitar. Flute part at end. Intended country/western accent when sung.
“Come On Darkness” (Fri) - bass, some hand drumming, 2 dulcimer tracks playing the chords. Sang along with that CD today.
“Only the Good Die Young” (Sat) - slow down a bit & cut out some of the repetition, stun bass, organ lead (prob. 2 in stereo), vox in baritonish range. Maybe strobe light/phototheremin trick for beat. Need to finish transcribing from tab.
“A Smart Kid” I plan to be mostly if not all vocals; “Bee Dream” I haven’t thought about yet, probably incorporate violin.
As my own accompanist, and as a spare-timer, there are limits to what I can do… trying to make ’em distinctive, anyway. I think my aptitudes run producer > writer > player.
Me:
Here's my take on 'Bee Dream'...
C F G
Each of us has in his soul
C F G
A portion of eagle - a portion of mole
C F G (extra two beats of G)
One soars in the sunlight - one snores in a hole
C F G
The mountain which looks like a prop
C F G
Is black at the bottom and white at the top
C F G
Soldiers surrounded with twine
C F G (two extra beats of G)
I have to cut through it and claim what is mine
Eb Bb
The summit is marked by a tree
Eb Bb
My double in uniform challeges me
Ab
He says is this tree mine
G
I say tap it and see
C F G C F G
C F G
So he drives in a platinum spout
C F G (two more beats of G)
Turns the tap on and all this jelly comes out
Eb Bb
Royal jelly which I stored in this tree
Eb Bb
In an earlier lifetime when I was a bee
Ab G
Yeah I'm a king bee though my wings be furled
Ab G
And my kingdom is not of this world
C F G C F G etc...
You might want to use a capo on the third fret or just transpose the whole thing to A (so the Eb becomes C), but it's up to you!
sxaxxen
Tony:
Using a capo is for the weak!
MzoNe:
So does that mean you are going to transpose it or do it in C, big britches?
Tony:
I’ll play piano & violin on it, so I’ll probably just do it in C. I’m good on the chords and structure, but could you pick out the vocal melody for me?