This song came from a song-fight inspired theme for RPM 2007. The title was one of three picked from a hat by RPM HQ for people to try to write a song for. This one came to me in my kitchen in mid February. I was absent-mindedly singing the phrase…

Listen girl...this is just how I feel.

The horn line came first, I started humming it in the garage one very cold morning in Feb. I was stuck for a title, until a friend used Kismet in a sentence. It's a fun bouncy number, though the mix is kind of bad.

Another of the three songfight inspired titles. Painted Tense (the title) actually came from a band name generator website. I thought it might make a good song title so I submitted it to the RPM HQ person doing the name-from-a-hat picking. I would…