Zombies and Stains...

July 13, 2009

I love zombies..."Night of the Living Dead", "The Serpent and the Rainbow", Robert Rodriguez's "Planet Terror", to Zora Neale Hurston's "Tell My Horse", and now out... "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"! I wanna see that book made into a movie! I even love the 60's band The Zombies...you know the song..."Time of the Season". Do I love them as much as Rob Zombie? No. There is a limit...and that limit one zombie flick a year. But when it comes it's awesome!

I think I like zombies because it feels good to battle death...stopping those bastards in their tracks. Yea they keep coming...but we keep battling. Nothing like a good struggle. To quote Nikos Kazantzakis... "It is in man's struggle that we find salvation." It's not one of his more famous quotes, but I think it was his most important. I personally don't believe in death, but nor do I subscribe to the belief of Heaven and Hell. Our mortality, or rather ending our life as we know it, is our biggest fear, the unknown. Truly. I think "change" is a better word than death. We will no longer be as we once were...but is that so bad? Accepting our nature, and Nature is like the idea of someone holding your arms so you cannot move. You can perceive that you are being held against your will and it is a sort of Hell, or you can believe someone is giving you a hug and you could just stand there and be held forever in Heaven. Perception. I know I shouldn't use those words Heaven/Hell since I don't believe in them in the religious sense...but being raised Roman Catholic, one gets stained from their upbringing and religion. Especially something so ritualistic, visual and sensual as Catholicism. All those candles, incense, images, blood, and pent-up sexuality. Nothing will remove that stain until I'm gone, different beliefs and philosophical/moral conflicts will not wash it away.

I was talking about zombies wasn't I?

*smile*

Latency Ain't All That Bad...

July 11, 2009

The "Gotta Have Its" and the "Nows" need to chill out. There's something to be said about latency, the wait. Latency has such a negative connotation these days, but you know, sometimes we all need a little time for things to settle in, before we make up our mind, or have a tizzy fit about some technological slow down. This goes for everything, art, technology, relationships, nature, politics...ugh...don't get me started on politics.

The next time you freak out about how long you have to wait for a web page to load on their computer/cell phone think about it. It goes to a tower, to outer space, back to another tower, to a mainframe that then goes back to a tower, to outer space, to another tower then to you! The next time you get upset that your plane is delayed an hour or two, think about what it took for people to travel across n this country of ours on a covered wagon, going 3 miles an hour for 6 months and may or may not make it alive! The next time you hear a song or an album and after 20 seconds you've skipped on to something else, or a movie something like Stanley Kubrick made, or a book like Ulysses by James Joyce that would be panned immediately and then hailed later as a master piece. Remember all things are not made and should not be made for instant love and likability.

You gotta let these things breath and give sometime for it to sink inside you and stir around for a while. You may not know how happy you could let yourself be if you just gave it some time.

No...this was not inspired by anything personal, but merely observational, which I sometimes get lost in when while calming my own mind down or just having a real good bowel movement. I've saved the world many a time during it.

*laughing and couching*

Set the Canons Ablaze!

July 9, 2009

The Los Feliz EP is finished! I just posted the latest and final song "Cul-De-Sac" up in the webland for consumption..."magic brownie" consumption! *laughing* I don't know what happened but my mind must have had a "in-the-desert-magic-brownie-flashback"! I was not right in the head when I wrote and recorded this...but then I rarely am these days.

*sigh*

Yes....a sigh. A sense of relief and trepidation of finalizing a work and also to begin to start the train of exposition, distribution, and the masochistic desire of opinion and criticism. I've been up all day and night yesterday, up early this morning and by this afternoon I feel a little delirious... *staring at my hand for a few minutes before I realize I have been staring at my hand for a few minutes*

Ummmm...okay...it's time for a comfy couch, a fan blowing on my face, a mindless movie, and a snack of some sort....Damn! I forgot about food. I don't have any. It's a hard choice...food? Or the couch?

Here's the link for the new song if you are so inclined. It will be temporarily available for download, then you'll just have to wait for the official release sometime in the next 7 weeks.

Cul-De-Sac

Off to the store....

Los Feliz...

July 7, 2009

Photos courtesy of Frank Lee Frennen

I was talking to my Frank Lee Drennen last night on the phone for a few hours. I never had a brother, but I consider Frank one of my three brothers I've adopted later in my twisted life. I used to visit him up in Los Feliz, it's an area of Los Angeles and where old Hollywood used to reside after the cameras were turned off. The times I've had with him and the neighborhood became an inspiration for my little drum machine EP "Los Feliz". He is an amazing photographer/song-writer/artist and he just sent me a few photos he took on his iPhone of ol' L.F. Already I'm getting ideas of the next and final song of the series. The song will be called "Cul-De-Sac". I'll post a link to it when it's finished. Until then here are the photos that Frank shared with me.

Photos courtesy of Frank Lee Frennen

Friends Fur Life...

July 6, 2009

I finished a new song for my "Los Feliz" EP today. It's called "Friends Fur Life", a story about a guy who wants to be more than friends with his girl friend, and they both happen to be into Furry Fandom. If you don't know what that is, I heartily encourage you to do some research. It's quite fascinating.

The music was inspired by 70's television like the "Rockford Files", "Charlie's Angels", and "Starsky and Hutch" with some contemporary twists. Having fun is the name of the game!

This also reminds me of when my Mom and Step-dad went out of town for the weekend and my stepbrother and me had found their porn and marijuana stash underneath our parents bathroom sink behind the tampons...or was the marijuana inside the tampon box...hmmm....something like that. Well that afternoon scarred me for life. I watched one of the worst porn's in porn history and it was my first porn. I can't tell you the title of it, but unfortunately I can tell you the plot. I only saw it the one time and it was when I was 13.

The plot goes like this...a Latin Dictator who looked an awful lot like Fidel Castro decided to poison the world's water supply that would make all men impotent. His evil plot to take over the world was succeeding, when the Alien Federation of the Universe finds out, and sends their most powerful agent, a hot momma with a laser inside her vagina. Needles to say, her, some midgets and snake, a giant frozen blue dong laser cannon and some battles and she saves the day. Please do not search out this film! You will be scarred for life! Especially is you smoked your parents stash of skunk weed. They never said anything about their missing supply...

*laughing*

Here's the link to the song if you wanna hear it. [soundcloud url="http://soundcloud.com/user1812704/friends-fur-life" params="show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=ff7700" width="100%" height="81" ]

Here are the lyrics too:

Friends Fur Life

"No, no, no we're just friends!"

She laughed and pushed me away.

D-D-D-Don't call me sweet dear, don't call me nice

I don't have the nerve to say, to say that

I wanna be your lover.

I don't wanna be your friend.

"No, no, no!" You keep saying.

I'm tired of this game.

I'll put on this furry head for you honey,

I'll be your bear and you'll be my bunny.

I wanna be your lover.

I don't wanna be your friend.

I am weird...I know this. *grin*