more new songs

cuz we need 'em. last week, corey was like, we should do a glitter glam song. and i was like, like what do you mean. and he was like, just listen to a lot of t-rex, it'll come to you. so i was like, ok, let's get together and do this together. and then, i ended up writing the song without him, after coming with ideas and shit for riffs and stuff all in my head last thursday. of course it's all a total rip off of the t-rex cover we already did, kinda haha. so we gave it a try last night, and the guys were like, what are the words about? and i was like all casually, oh it's like all the weird sex shit the boys in my neighborhood did when we were like little kids. and corey was like, god damnit, not another gay song. and now i'm like, damn i feel bad, i've ruined his excitement over doing a glitter glam song. but i was like, well it's not really gay song, cuz as far as i know, none of the little bastards it's about are gay, it's just a song about the weird sex stuff little kids sometimes do, you know, before they hit puberty or whatever. anyways, so i guess i should make the lyrics a bit more ambiguous or discreet or something, i dunno, some weird shit went down in my neighborhood back then...probably gonna get in trouble for writing a song about, haha.

corey has a song that he's been working on, i think it's really good, but he doesn't have lyrics yet, or at least he has yet to be forthcoming with them, but we gave it a go last night so that i could come up a bass line, cuz he's gonna play guitar on it.

jerry has words for a song and a rhythmic idea, it's something he originally wrote for his old band, but they never developed or played it. it has something to do with menstration as a metaphor for something or other. i'm trying to work with lyrics to turn it into something i'll feel comfortable doing, not sure how to approach the menstration angle? how about bleeding out my ass...hemmoroids?

tommi wants to write a song, music and lyrics altogether, so i keep saying, then sit down and do it!

i'm trying to turn this one song we got that i wrote into something that doesn't bore me. it's getting there, but i gotta work on the words, cuz they just ain't good enough, at all. i'm at work right now, so maybe i'll just get drunk and see if i can come up with anything usable. it's supposed to be about religious persecution or something. but it's hard to approach this kind of subject matter without sounding like a complete pious retard.

it seems like learning and arranging songs with group has become a bit of chore, i dunno, just been kinda tough lately. but after a couple weeks it seems like the tunes really start together. i just hope no one is getting discouraged by having to do the work.

anyways, i'm still saving up for a new computer (laptop that is!) and i don't seem to be getting any closer to having the money for it. i mean, i could just use a credit card and get it now, but i don't wanna deal with interest and debt, i'd rather just have the fucking money. but i keep having to pay bills bills bills! sux. oh well, me and tommi got to see some good friends of ours yesterday, at our homegirl brooke's birthday party. she was in the band for a couple of months on keyboards back in early 2004, before she got pregnant. her little daughter is SO cute, it's sickening, big ol' smile and shit. anyways, we got to hang with emily (jane white) and gillian of the gibbs for a while, it was really good to see them. hopefully we can do some shows together soon! emily's great, we played with her about a year and a half ago to less than ten people out in alameda, and the gibbs are totally super fun, i can't wait for their record to come out.