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Stephen Wordsmith (@stephenwordsmith) progress: 18 winner! joined: July 7 2008 location: New Zealand influences: Laudanum

Bio

2012 Songs

1		Another ducat in the bucket (with psyt)	8 comments // 3 months ago
2		All the way to six	10 comments // 3 months ago
3		I spy (with meadows)	14 comments // 3 months ago
4		The day it rained cats and dogs (literally)	10 comments // 3 months ago
5		Midnight breathes (with  rosedeschamps)	12 comments // 3 months ago
6		Somewhere in the average	4 comments // 3 months ago
7		Steal your rain	8 comments // 3 months ago
8		E (with  tcelliott)	6 comments // 3 months ago
9		Sweet Sweet Cupcake (with lapetitekiwi)	3 comments // 3 months ago
10		Steal Your Rain (with  hoopshank)	23 comments // 3 months ago
11		Draco, Man Of Letters (with johnnycashpoint)	4 comments // 3 months ago
12		Steal Your Rain (with  toddchappelle)	13 comments // 3 months ago
13		The opportunity before the screen	2 comments // 3 months ago
14		English Electric ballad #1	4 comments // 2 months ago
15		Dandelion, Sidewalk Fisherman (with  downburst)	12 comments // 2 months ago
16		An open letter from Monsieur Wordsmith to the Erewhon Medical Centre	3 comments // 2 months ago
17		The oldest martyr ever	3 comments // 2 months ago
18		Limberlost Swamp (with  mattwestcott)	5 comments // 2 months ago

Soundboard

•  johncrossman 2 months ago

  I could take a shot at EEb#1 if you're ok with it. It doesn't bring any particular song to mind as I read it, so I think I'm safe from rewriting an already existing hit. I'll mull it over and get back to you?

•  johncrossman 2 months ago

  Thanks for the footnote enlightenmnent. Now that you mention it, I do believe I have heard of W.T. McGonagall but it didn't stick. Just watched a youtube video of Billy Connolly reading a poem in a snowstorm. Um.
  
  We have a sporting goods store around here called "Erewhon" but I would never think to apply it to a medical facility. Perhaps you changed the name to protect the not-so-innocent?
  
  So, I have such respect for your talents that whenever I don't mine your postings for a song, I find I regret it later. Have you a particular unclaimed verse you could recommend for me to abuse with my music in the coming weeks? Might help ease the post-fawm let down.

•  downburst 2 months ago

  Ah, I'm so glad you liked it. I was (am) worried it was too pretentious, but in my heart of hearts I really like big widescreen stuff. You did an amazing job extracting that imagery from a Titular phrase--truly fine stuff.

•  downburst 2 months ago

  Jenkins!

• emma 2 months ago

  Thank you very much for the comments you have left on some of my songs. I appreciate it a lot. A comment here and there really help to keep me going. I shall try and return the favor after FAWM and midterms have passed.

•  tcelliott 3 months ago

  The 'E' mix up is all good. Phoebe found it very humorous and genuinely liked the song. It was a win/win, actually. I still don't know if she liked the one I wrote for her. Guess I should figure that out at some point. *evil grin*
  And thank you. I do like this one.

•  duaneclancy 3 months ago

  Thanks for the visit ... and "yes" ... there may be more actual content in the "lyric notes" than in the lyric itself. But one was written to show the real protest, and the other to bring everyone else on board. He's doin' it again momma .,.. talkin' all funny and stuff ... how are we supposed to understand what he's sayin' usin' all them big words and stuff ...

• morti 3 months ago

  I don't recall actually submitting, I just did a "this is what I will submit if I get around to it" post and I never did. Very happy to be on it, though.

• johnnycashpoint 3 months ago

  Let's give that a go - give me a couple of days to rustle something musical up and we can take it from there ...

• theodamus 3 months ago

  Hey, great to see you today! Thanks for the lovely comment, I must saying having my lyrics called "John Lennon-esque" is incredibly flattering

• thedustcollector 3 months ago

  How polished d'ywant it? I've been playing around, I can do a messier version with a crowd of kiddish voices (all my own, rather spoils the effect since I don't actually sound like a kid) or I can do a more put-together version with simple harmonies, sort of like a CD of nursery rhymes you play to kids in kindergartens. Kind of.

• johnnycashpoint 3 months ago

  How do, Mr The Smith of Words. You have been unlucky enough to draw me in the random collaboration challenge and I invite you to suggest how best to go about working with ya. Would you like to present a finished lyric for me to musify? Would you like a title, a finished piece of cashpoint instrumental goodness? Do let me know.

• thedustcollector 3 months ago

  I'd love to, but now I'm nervous. high expectations and all. the pressure will drive me to the madhouse before noon. on laudanum. HOW CAN I LIVE UP TO-
  
  also, before I forget, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l08b6wofyA0 . 'Tick Tock Goes the Clock', from Doctor Who. I think different verses are taken from different episodes and different scenes in the latest series- I think it's a song that's dispersed over a period of time, rather than all at once, as in this vid?- so if you really don't want to know what happens, you should probably not click that link. The children's voices start in the second verse.
  
  (and yes. yes it would.)

• thedustcollector 3 months ago

  I was going to offer because I could hear music in my head when I was reading 'I spy', but actually, children would be awesome. or younger people. and there's a young FAWMer too, this one right here- @ojnrox. maybe he'd be keen?

•  natchdan 3 months ago

  Your wordliness is good and things.

•  oddbod 3 months ago

  I was just being a bit facetious really. Fine lyrics you write though.

•  charliecheney 3 months ago

  WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!!!!
  part deux?

•  cts 4 months ago

  Unbeknownst to many, the "vocalist" on most of my "recordings" is @johncrossman. Keep that betwixt us, sir. It could be one of the most brilliant illusions ever created.
  
  ...and it's mighty fine to experience your wordplay once again.

•  johncrossman 4 months ago

  Will you be randomized? http://fawm.org/forums/thread/2707/

• squirt 4 months ago

  Nice bio. I will be keeping an eye on your page, young man.

•  charliecheney 4 months ago

  Hahaha... as to the count-in... seemed like I had to once you invented it.

• jdschramm 4 months ago

  Thanks Stephen! Looking fwd to some great songs from you this year.

•  mojo 4 months ago

  Mrrrah!

•  johncrossman 4 months ago

  I acknowledge your universal truth and trust in its veracity.

• thedustcollector 4 months ago

  *salutes smartly*

•  sapient 4 months ago

  Your bio is so true.
  
  Apart from the bit about melody...

•  rosedeschamps 4 months ago

  We haven't! Oh my goodness. We're collabing this year. No questions asked.

•  dustymason 4 months ago

  word- rockit.

• ankari 4 months ago

  Me too! (That's probably why I keep showing up for FAWM every year, sob... )

•  nancyrost 4 months ago

  Looking forward to more of your wordsmithery!

• ankari 4 months ago

  !

•  robynmackenzie 4 months ago

  Welcome back to you too! I'm glad it's getting exposure--as is your wedding video, which I'm positive is even more lovely than the song.