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May 28, 2006
Multi-task Shumlti-task
I was talking to Kristi on the phone today while typing an email to someone regarding what i currently do for a living. The guy and I aren't really buddies and have a pretty professional relationship. As I was talking and typing, my brain kept getting confused. I kept beginning to type "i love you" and "i don't really want italian". Half of me just wanted to send it. Ok, philosophy time with chris. YAY!!! (children's voices). Here's what i'm coming to understand. I'll keep it short. Many times in life, on both a day to day level and with large life changing decisions, you have to decide to either suffer or settle. Setting sucks but suffering hurts. Ok, done with that. A while ago i was in my car with some friends in la. We were stopped at a light in not the greatest part of town, windows down, when we heard a bum sitting on a bus stop bench angrily yell "i know everything!!!!!" I thought this was funny because we all know those people who live their lives proverbially yelling this. Maybe the bum was one of these people before he went crazy. Or maybe he really does know everything and is just trying to help. Ok, one last thing. Some of you may remember that i have a list of celebrities that I believe would smell bad in person. #1 will always be Stevie Nicks. Well, i've come up with a new list to join that one: company slogans that make absolutely no sense. The list is short, but it will grow. Feel free to add to it if you have any, Here's what i got so far
2) "we'll beat anyone's advertised price or your mattress is FREEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Really follow the logic there and think about the options they're giving themselves.
and, what i think will always be in first place
1) "with a name like smuckers, it has to be good" No, i'm sorry, it doesn't. jerk.
Posted by chriscoxmusic at 11:10 PM | Comments (3)
May 25, 2006
Yeah!
This website from which I blog allows readers to post comments on my blog if they feel so inclined. But I have to approve them first. Not being a huge fan of words like "approve", i at first looked for a way for the comments to be automatically approved. But there wasn't one. I have to manually approve each one. Anyway, i'm really glad now that I have to do this because in the past month or so i've gotten a few anonymous comments (say that 10 times fast) in which the body is just a link to gay porn. Not that there's anything wrong with that! But it's just... not the most appropriate venue. So if this is some prank from a friend... it's not really that funny. Actually, it's kind of funny. It'd be funnier if i approved them.
Posted by chriscoxmusic at 05:25 PM | Comments (2)
May 23, 2006
Put yo hands on tha ground!
You know how at concerts the entertainer will say "put yo hands up! put yo hands up!"? I think it'd be sweet to have the crowd put their hands on the ground.
Posted by chriscoxmusic at 02:19 AM | Comments (0)
May 22, 2006
are you sick?
i am often asked this question. Some days i wake up, in the same apartment, with the same crap laying around everywhere. And i just know. I will go through a couple rolls of tp today, trying in vein to stop my damn nose from creating awkwardness. Allergies. I freaking hate them. I throughly enjoy writing these blogs. I don't even know who or how many people read them, but they make me feel a little more legit. Because i love pop music, "in my mouth", as mike marion so eloquently stated. I love boom-boom-chuck and do-do-do. But I can't stand all the crap that goes along with being an artist influenced by these things. I am not ryan cabera, by a long shot, but i think i'm trying to compete with him. No, deep down, i am a philosophy loving artist, and i always will be.
Posted by chriscoxmusic at 05:31 PM | Comments (0)
May 21, 2006
Oriented
Spent all day yesterday at Corey Witt's house, helping him record guitars for a record he's making. Good times, and Vietnamese coffee. This stuff is great, just powder and hot water. After what seems like forever, i've finally got some new songs to play for you. I haven't really written anything in almost a year. Let's see... in other news, if you're a general hospital fan, listen for my voice soon! I recorded vocals for a tune that made it's way onto that show. Don't know when, if it hasn't already happened. I genuinely wish i could take a picture of my living room in it's current state. We have a deer head and a goose here and enough gear to make any girl not want to marry any of us. I'd like us all to take a moment and remember the 2004 hit "Whoa" as recorded by Mya.
My love is like (whoa)
My kiss is like (whoa)
My touch is like (whoa)
My sex is like (whoa)
My ass is like (whoa)
My body's like (whoa)
Now I don't know this for certain, but i'd be willing to bet that this song was co-written by a small list of people, who most likely got together and talked out all the lyrics. So let's all imagine those conversations...
Posted by chriscoxmusic at 07:07 AM | Comments (0)
May 15, 2006
Complexity
A year has passed since i graduated*, and my mind is boggled. I think my metabolism is slowing down. I feel like i eat a saltine and a carrot every day and still am managing to pack on the pounds. There is a complexity to the bittersweet-ness of this time of year. It's finally warm again and all the myspace pictures are of kids in black cap and gowns. And one cannot help but think back to where one was a year ago, donning said cap and gown. In my life at the moment, things are good. Very good, but graduation is a special time because you feel like you can conquer the world. And I can, you can, but i think the thing you realize as time goes on is that conquering the world is a hell of a lot more complicated than you realized and in the end not really that cool. So your desires change. When i was a kid i absolutely could not stay home on a weekend night. I had to go out, even if it just meant going to a friends house and doing what i normally would've done at home. I remember one friday night as i was leaving i said to my dad, who was settling in for the night, "don't you want to go out? It's friday night!" He laughed the kind of wise fatherly laugh that makes you realize how far apart you really are. He was over it. He'd been over it for like 20 years. I'm staring to like old cars. There's just something cool about them.
* I have not yet technically** gradated
** I just have to do this one lame thing
Posted by chriscoxmusic at 12:49 AM | Comments (1)
May 12, 2006
What was THAT?
I was sitting here on my couch yesterday, trying to write a song, when something came over me. I'm not sure how or why this happened, but i suddenly felt the overwhelming urge to clean my dirty stinky apartment. I went into a trance. Old starbucks cups? GONE! Napkins from del taco on the coffee table? OUTTA HERE! I even tackled our sink, full of dishes on which grew things so hideous they'd make Oprah a lesbian. When I came to i felt so... calm. That has never really happened to me before and I doubt it will ever again. Life is interesting these days. I'm staying relatively busy doing all sorts of stuff, writing, recording a bit, teaching, trying to promote my career. All in all, life is good! I went and recorded vocals for a project today and just about blew my voice out. I was given a recording of the tune a couple days ago, listened, and thought "pshhh... i'm all over it, no problem." Yeah, not so much.
Posted by chriscoxmusic at 02:26 PM | Comments (0)
May 09, 2006
Likable
i feel like one of the most important things in life is to be likable. I don't think i'm spelling that right.
Posted by chriscoxmusic at 12:15 PM | Comments (1)