Monday, June 9, 2008

Music - because work is currently crazy

I have had the most stressful and intense day today at work. And so, I am going to move on to something much more interesting (to me) and chronicle my favorite Canoofle songs and videos currently available online. Music only first - in no particular order:

Turtles Upon Turtles - Sammy and Curtis had already recorded the music for this. I came in to do vocals. We had no lyrics, but the music reminded me of a dream that I had the night before where there were all of these turtles stacked on top of each other on top of some parallel universe that was our universe and when it was time to go a turtle would just float out into space. Curtis set me up to sing it into the body of a piano. I'm pretty sure he has the photo. Anyway, when Ethan asked me about the song and I told him the story he told me not to talk about that anymore.

These WiFi Affairs - This was my first Lodge with Canoofle. It was a ton of fun and I think the song is funny. If I were to record it again I'd swap lyrics around a bit. But all in all funny and fun times.

Four Pickles - OK, my first Lodge as well. But this was one of the first time that I actually honestly cracked Curtis up. Mostly because I could keen realistically. Silly ideas - pickles going to sea and all, but funny.

I Got it Goin' On - Played piano instead of keyboards here. Hopefully it sounds a bit Elton John. I ended up with bloody fingers after the run up and I kind of felt like Pete Townshend. Only if Pete Townshend played piano . . .

Play the Cabin - We went up to my dad's cabin in Bend in the winter. When we showed up it started to snow. Perfect atmosphere. While we were hanging out, we could not help but hear the rhythmic sound of the dryer and so we grabbed stuff and started making music out of it and we played the cabin. Another piece of that was our Dryer Jamboree.

L'Orange du Sang (Blood Orange) - Michelle wrote this (Curtis' partner). Fun, funny, and abstract as she is. I hope I did what she intended . . .

OK, so I'll stop here. These are my top so far - although there are many others that rock as well. Mister Christmas, Refill for my Vina, Bus Girl, He Did, Don't Give my Shirt Away, Shark, F. Scott Fitzgerald's21 Pieces of Advice to his Daughter on Living, High Five Heaven. Go visit the Veronica Lodge to check out the rest of it.

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