Believe it or not, I was sitting in a hotel room reading Tolkien when I came up with this. Actually, the amazing thing is that I actually remembered enough of it when I got home a week later. Needless to say, this took a lot of time to record…

The first and most successful of my "Recipe Songs". My idea was to have TRULY meaningful lyrics by making them useful as well. This cake is really really good. No, I didn't bake it and I don't have the original recipe any longer. Sorry. Originally…

I woke up with this in my head, including the first line of the lyrics. If you dream it, you must record it, that's my rule.

I was thinking about what I hadn't done so far - no instrumental, no synth, no vibraslap, no cowbell - so I just tossed all that stuff together. The title is in memorial of my brother's recent appendicitis. Edit: I admit that I did a remix…

I keep writing songs about communism, for some reason. I thought it was slightly amusing to discover that Mashino actually IS an industrial town. Sounds like "Machine". Get it? Get it??

This is the one song I actually "wrote" ahead of time for the RPM Challenge.

Logically this song should come BEFORE "Antidepressants", but musically I thought it went better here.

HEAD ON FIRE (Bohnenberger) Woke today feelin sorta queezy kinda sick and tired Wandered out to find the room was spinning and feel my head on fire Try to eat and have a little coffee Stomachs in a mire Paddled out and take a little…

Recorded this to test a new bass direct-in box. I ended up liking the vocals and guitar better.

I think you heard I am a bird You’ll never see my flyin I hang around the yard Never catch me lyin Or workin very hard I made a turd It was my third (today) I do a lot of eatin And strutting round the pen The others might be meeting…