Artist and Musician
Next of Kin? Have you ever been so down and out that your health care worker asks where your nearest relative resides? Then proceeds to ask you to die on a specified date so that the worker gets to win the raffle that the nurses are betting on, betting on your death calendar date?
Could You Be The One? I am starting to get the feel of the whole do it yourself ethos. Like when I was teenager making mix-tapes for friends. Or some sort of homemade magazine. I run around the internet. Asking myself questions like: What poem did that person write today? What drawing did another person do today? Who put up themselves singing today? What is the new photograph today? What wrote about philosophy? How is so and so feeling? I am having […]
Mad Man Blues. I have felt that some blues songs were off limits for me to play. This cover of a John Lee Hooker classic is one for which I qualify: even friends tell me that I am crazy as hell, but in general, kinda cool.
Here It is Tomorrow. Here is an under two minute quickie cover of another band that was produced by Mitch Easter.
Have Fun!! Just a reminder for me and everyone else. Play and have Fun!! It is supposed to be fun!! I goofed around for five hours today on the drum-set. 🙂
PleaseWakeUp. Here is a melancholic little piece. Sometimes I wish that I had a lyricist/singer upon which to collaborate. Any takers? I really should be careful of what I wish for, because I just may get it.
Happy Hour! In 1985 I was 15 years old, and dependent on college radio and underground record stores, yes vinyl, for new music. So on my birthday that year, I grabbed my sister’s Schwinn 10 speed bicycle and rode several miles to get to the music store, unbeknownst to my father. Arrived to find the host of my favorite radio program selling lp’s. This song, by a group named the HouseMartins, was available as an import. I am not certain if I […]
A kettle of boiling water, Howling, screeching. How does the liquid feel about evaporating In the Frigid, winter air? My candle melts, growing older, dimming. It is change. Moment to moment moving shadows of steam. I smile. A last note humming and gurgling, “silly man.”
Next Hittites. this was today’s afterthought….
a Little More You (take 2). “A Little More You” written by LittleBigTown Don’t you wanna dive on in, yeah the water feels right Dancin’ on the edge of the love you’re a beautiful sight So why’re you still standin’ there in the half moonlight Come on, baby, give me a little more you Your battin’ those baby blue eyes and, honey i swear The way you got me needing you girl, it just ain’t fair You’ve given me a little bit […]
a Lil’ More You. I would play a round of name that artist, but I am short on skittles to give to the Victor. 🙂
Artist- Ted Giffin - Musician 