beatz project

Dedicated to all musicians who get asked "what do expect to get from making music?"

i made this song up real fast. and i obviously threw it into the computer real fast. i have trouble with levels. but then again, that's what the songs about. let's hear it for Temper Tantrums!

lyrics: i got a hot date and you know i don't wanna be late i need a ride to the bowling alley get ready cuz here i come put my new skirt on chewing peppermint gum did my eyebrows fresh white musk on my neck part my hair to the right cuz its…

another song for kindergarten delinquents. wrote this maybe 15 years ago to make my friends laugh. recorded it, of all times in my life, this week.

Apparently Shreya was listening to a lot of blues when she wrote this. ORLY? Anyway, since she is a woman of mystery, she subverted the typical gender role of this dark, dirty blues dirge and then I trompled all over with my crazy additions…

That didn't stop her. Main vocals/bleeps by Shreya, keys and backing vocals by me. Actually, my baby daughter was in my arms while I was doing those vocals and she started crying. Even though I cropped that part, I didn't use any noise reduction…

This is actually a combo of three pieces: Shreya's song "Cry of the Banshee", my song "Strange High House In The Mist", and some open mic poetry under the title "The Skull." Needs a bit of cleaning up, maybe, but I think I did a good job channeling…