14.8% of this year's fawmers have donated, raising US $11942 for FAWM 2012. As usual, ten percent ($1194) will go to charity.
Scott Lake (@scottlake) progress: 6 joined: January 31 2007 location: Colorado, USA website: www.rockstarnot.rekkerd.org influences: This year my influences are a bunch of Noisetrade artists I downloaded that most people have never heard of. I have a playlist on my .mp3 player of all their cool ideas I want to co-opt for my songs. |
2012 - This is my 6th FAWM. 2nd year in a row where the last week of February will be eaten by being out of town. I may have to do lyrics only or take my USB mic and sing on other people's stuff.
So, potential collaborators needing some guest vox, harmonies, etc. lemme know.
Song titles and ideas to flesh out:
Dust Devil Decimation
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Counting on my Fingers (learning ASL)
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various Steven Wright one-liner jokes, for example: I tried daydreaming today, but my mind kept wandering. Title: The Daydreaming Sonambulist
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Obsessive Compulsion (after watching a classic episode of Monk)
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Mercy
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Blameless (working title)
Front Range commanded to wear dress whites
Chorus:
We are blameless, blameless in His eyes.
It's the Grand Mystery, we become His prize.
We are blameless, blameless for all our wrongs.
They are now past history. and over us He sings His Song.
We are blameless. We are blameless,
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Swimming in Lake Vostok
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House on a hill (working title)
Verse:
We made a mistake, to put hope in a house upon a hill
Wasn't our intention, we didn't do it for a thrill.
"Buy, don't rent if you can, it's the American way"
Two kids, a dog, a car and a mortgage each month to pay.
Well the two turned into four and I'll say our lives are blessed.
I just wish the dream was true and we would have avoided all this mess.
We paid our bills on time, it wasn't us guilty of default.
But when all houses are foreclosing, selling opens wounds and pours in salt.
Chorus:
Don't put all of your hopes and dreams in a house upon a hill
Speaking from experience, it will eat you from inside right up to and until,
The straw arrives that sends the camel falling to it's knees
And Wall Street bankers stroll away scot free, blithely ignorant of their disease.
Verse 2
Could have rented for two hundred less per month, hindsight wisdom speaks to me.
Put those hundreds in the bank, at least I'd have some interest compounded quarterly.
We even paid our principal ahead, swimming against the financial tide.
As it turns out, that's about all that we got back, that we got anything is a weak upside.
Chorus again
Verse 3
In ten years the value of the home dropped twenty two percent,
That doesn't include the 30 large we spent on home improvements.
To include that in the sum of the loss, an injurious insult.
Again to rent would have been wiser with a positive result.
Bridge:
So is there now a happy ending, a blissful denouement?
A lesson learned perhaps, thoughts to dwell upon.
Chorus again
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