Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Monday, January 1, 2018
Happy New Year, I dropped an album
"But Phoenix," you say, "You're a writer! Why are you investing time and energy into music?"
"Wrong," say I, "all I have ever claimed to be was an artist."
It's not a very long album, and it's not a very good one, but it's about how much 2017 has sucked and also been full of nazis and if I put it off any longer to get better or write more songs, I'm going to lose all my motivation.
Release albums song by song like a fanfic 2k18.
Inspired by my then-girlfriend when I texted them in excitement about how I had just taught myself to play Fur Elise on the guitar by converting the piano music to guitar music. They were watching Dark Lord Funk and were more focused on that. I said, "But Beethoven!" to which they replied, "Dark Lord Beethoven?" and the rest is history.
Well, not quite. The obvious rationale for Dark Lord Beethoven was a critique of intellectual culture and the impression that it's uneducated, stupid people who are the problem and not our peers. Okay, 'obvious' may be the wrong word here. Moving on.
The Saga of 2017
The title song of the album. "This is a hopeless rage of writing a song 'cause it's all you can do." #relatable, I hope. A list of complaints about bad things that happened in 2017. I think it's catchy, as it keeps getting stuck in my head.
Battle Dance
A love song to the most useful martial art I've ever seen, and also the hardest to find a teacher for, pentjuk silat tanjung sari, or silat for short. It's literally designed for war, and you'll find that dance is more useful for learning it than other martial arts are. It's soft, and subtle, and doesn't look like much, and it will fuck. you. up.
A parody of the National Anthem, with some O Beautiful For Spacious Skies thrown in for good measure. I cannot yet play it fast enough for the tune to be recognizable, and there's only so much I can improve my own playing through the miracles of technology.
Good Things
A response to The Saga of 2017. I depressed myself, and also it's a heavily biased song, so I then went looking for good things that happened in 2017 to balance it out and cheer myself up. Not yet written. It's harder to make good things catchy.
More??
"Wrong," say I, "all I have ever claimed to be was an artist."
It's not a very long album, and it's not a very good one, but it's about how much 2017 has sucked and also been full of nazis and if I put it off any longer to get better or write more songs, I'm going to lose all my motivation.
Release albums song by song like a fanfic 2k18.
The Tracks
Dark Lord BeethovenInspired by my then-girlfriend when I texted them in excitement about how I had just taught myself to play Fur Elise on the guitar by converting the piano music to guitar music. They were watching Dark Lord Funk and were more focused on that. I said, "But Beethoven!" to which they replied, "Dark Lord Beethoven?" and the rest is history.
Well, not quite. The obvious rationale for Dark Lord Beethoven was a critique of intellectual culture and the impression that it's uneducated, stupid people who are the problem and not our peers. Okay, 'obvious' may be the wrong word here. Moving on.
The Saga of 2017
The title song of the album. "This is a hopeless rage of writing a song 'cause it's all you can do." #relatable, I hope. A list of complaints about bad things that happened in 2017. I think it's catchy, as it keeps getting stuck in my head.
Battle Dance
A love song to the most useful martial art I've ever seen, and also the hardest to find a teacher for, pentjuk silat tanjung sari, or silat for short. It's literally designed for war, and you'll find that dance is more useful for learning it than other martial arts are. It's soft, and subtle, and doesn't look like much, and it will fuck. you. up.
Coming soon
A National ChastisementA parody of the National Anthem, with some O Beautiful For Spacious Skies thrown in for good measure. I cannot yet play it fast enough for the tune to be recognizable, and there's only so much I can improve my own playing through the miracles of technology.
Good Things
A response to The Saga of 2017. I depressed myself, and also it's a heavily biased song, so I then went looking for good things that happened in 2017 to balance it out and cheer myself up. Not yet written. It's harder to make good things catchy.
More??
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