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March 30, 2007
If...
Saturday Night Live were to do a sketch parodying Macy Gray, all they would have to do is have Macy Gray come in and sing. She is a parody of herself. And she sounds like grover. Y'all remember grover right?
Posted by chriscoxmusic at 11:38 AM | Comments (0)
March 26, 2007
Romance
Romance can kill you. It can send you into a sea of emotional and actual debt. Romance can boil you down to an amoeba, just running into walls and light-poles.
Romance can save you. It can breathe cool air into dark, dry lungs. It can give you a reason to get up in the morning. Romance can inspire the building of an empire.
But romance is only a symptom. It is just an indicator of what is or isn't happening underneath. And like most of history, we as a society spend most of our time chasing the symptom.
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March 23, 2007
You could go with this, or you could go with that
I just can't decide if I'm a homebody or not. I mean, I love the home my soon to be wife and I are creating, and can't wait to live there with her, but there is also the side of me that cannot wait to travel more and tour and all of that. But then again, is there anything better than sitting on the couch for a night, drinking hot chocolate and watching TLC with the person you love? We like "Little People, Big World".
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March 17, 2007
The Truth
The truth is: if you're going to play music, you must do so because you love it. And you can't just love music. You have to love the scene. The clothes, the beer, the breakfast at denny's after. You have to love the whole thing. you dig? And here's what i'm realizing: if it were up to me, all the music I would make would be very melancholy and simple. If I just spent my time in a room with a guitar or a piano, forced to write and not care who liked it, most of the songs I would write would be like Jeff Buckley's version of "Hallelujah". But here's what I'm REALLY realizing: It IS up to me!
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March 15, 2007
Wow
I don't usually talk a whole lot about politics, but I just have to say that the way John Edwards thinks truly terrifies me. I don't think he'll win, but the fact that he's as popular as he is can only be a bad sign. I cannot bear to hear the word "entitled" or "child" one more time. I don't know his heart or if he's got some kind of agenda, but I do know that if America were run by him we would be in trouble.
Posted by chriscoxmusic at 01:00 AM | Comments (0)
March 14, 2007
Unsolicited advice for musicians who are just getting started
Inevitably, you'll meet so-and-so, who toured with what's his name, who had a hit last month. You'll drink beer with them and they'll tell you stories and you'll feel like the hottest thing around. But keep one thing in mind. They are talking to YOU! That automatically makes them not that big a deal.
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March 10, 2007
Dawn
I don't really like any of the songs i've written. There are a couple that I get excited about when I start playing them live. But for the most part, I am much more excited when I play other people's tunes. But that's not the deal. The deal is that I play my tunes and you listen to them. But I'm just not sure that I thought throughly enough when I signed on the dotted line. And like most deals, there is a penalty for breech of contract. The penalty comes in the form of a reputation, or lack thereof. This is a strange time in life. There are times when I feel totally lost. There are times when I don't have any clue. And there are times when i am SO excited about the road stretching out before me.
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March 03, 2007
17? 18?
I'm sitting here at The Lost Bean and they're playing "Dave Matthews, Live at Luther College". Oh, man, this REALLY takes me back. I think there was an entire year of my life during which I only listened to this cd. I'm exaggerating here a bit, of course. What's interesting here is that during my year with Dave, I was becoming what I call "zealous" in my faith. If they ever write a biography about my life, this would be the "pharisee" period. So I was very young and very much in need of hope and signifigance. And very into this Dave Matthews record. I fell in love with his "Christmas Song", and wanted quite badly to play it at my church for Christmas. "Dave Matthews?!?" Said someone whom I worked under at the church, "the same guy who sings 'Hike up your skirt a little more...'? No, the answer is no". And there it was. My first taste of Christian nonsense. My first realization that I had placed my hope in the followers of Christ, rather than the man himself. It was painful and sometimes I don't think i'm over it.
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