Monday, January 30, 2006

We Don't Want

ugh. mondays are tough.. for everybody, i suppose.

i'm kinda excited, 'cause i'll be driving around listening to The Woods, the new Sleater-Kinney CD i got.. it's pretty great, full of noise rockish guitar and sonic youth-style stretches of rock. it's just tough to sing along with. ha! but i'm excited, it should help me navigate the streets of portland with a new artistic abandon.

i got a bit of work done over the weekend, with bits and pieces of stuff all over the computer.. i've been spending a lot of time figuring out odd voices and re-tuning the guitars and such. it's made for some neat noises and atmospherics and such. of course, i dont think that has anything to do with this song. We Don't Want was recorded yesterday afternoon/early evening.. admist bouts of television.. i wrote it pretty fast while idly strumming the guitar, i even came up with lyrics before i was finished with the music. once i had a few guitars and the drums on, emily jumped in with two accordion tracks and violin.. then i put down bass. i think that'd be it.. i thought about organ or harmonica, but it already seemed so busy, better left alone i suppose.

then we went back to watching televison.

ahh sundays.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm diggin' the lyrics man...I had no idea you were such the wordsmith! Watch out Jacob Mills...!
This is such a great project...I think the next step is to get a bunch of bands together that cover these in a tribute album...it could be after a full year has been composed and then do a big box set...it could be called "365 more songs for your iPod"...and you could get apple to pay for it.
It's 3:18...where is today's song!!!!??!?!?!?

Aaron & Emily MacDonald said...

lyrics.. they're the worst. i keep trying.

i'm looking to sellout to apple as soon as possible, actually.

i know.. it's 9:30 pm! wow.