What's new in the New Year.

Owther is almost finished. I'll put the audio up when it's done. Youtube video will soon follow.

I thought I would post more while I was out of school, but that didn't happen. Seems the more free time I have, the less creative I am. I'm going to have work 34 jobs at a time just to ever finish a novel.

Hopefully in a few weeks I'll have some new music; I received a melodica for Christmas and should be getting a keyboard soon. No promises.

King Owther update.

J.C. did his recording work. We had a great time in "the studio"--he's one hilarious guy. I also bribed him with sake, which seemed to do the trick. Now Remy Music-Master is taking the vocals and putting it over his original music and re-mixing it for just the right sound.

And then, kids, Disclaimer Man, he of the awesome programming and making-things-happen skillz, is going to set it up in Youtube video-form! My lovely (ha!) drawings and words, as narrated by a drunk faux-Scotsman with a cockleburr's voice, all over some amazing ambient music! It's going to be amazing! Or at least mildly entertaining.

Coming up soon: Audio-story & Youtube video. Also may have an audiobook reading of "Beeowolf" recorded in December. Hopefully I'll be able to tell you about my successes in getting my e-book together in a couple of months' time as well.

New song--I've Got A Thing (For Parentheses)

I am thinking this will be in an early rock-and-roll style. The Collaborator recently bought a ukulele though, so it might be rock-and-roll ukulele. Who knows. Here it is:

I've got a thing (for parentheses)
Just the right brackets (put me on my knees)
They're good for asides (and soliloquies)
I've got a thing (for parentheses).

Some people have a footnotes fetish
But that's not really me
They like it in the asterisk
Or with a superscripted three.

Some people do it with a period
Some prematurely punctuate
Some people like to subject and object their predicate.

But
I've got a thing (for parentheses)
etc

Just the sight of those loving arms
Gets me all aroused
I tingle reading Vonnegut
And I devour Proust.

I checked out a book of poetry
With a very modern air
When I came to e e cummings, I came everywhere.

Because
I've got a thing for parentheses
etc

You can keep your semicolons and dashes
Your carats, tildes, back-and-forward slashes
When it comes to insertion
Of pointless diversion
I've got a thing
Oh I've got a thing
Got a huge huge thing
(For parentheses).

Should be recorded next month...I'm already excited.

Sipsey River Bottoms

A very long, long time ago, when I was but a wee girl of 20 or thereabouts, I was a huge fan of the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?  Actually, I still love the movie and own it, I just haven't watched it in a long time.  Maybe I'll have to do that once my finals are over next month.  Anyway, one of my reasons for loving that movie so much is for the old-timey music in it--gospel, folk, country.  So I endeavored to write a song in that style, and came up with "Sipsey River Bottoms."  Of course, I only wrote the lyrics.

I posted it to my LiveJournal, and a friend of mine on LJ who is a musician (Glen), took the lyrics and wrote music around it and recorded himself singing it and then gave it back to me.  I loved the result, and I need to record my own version.  Perhaps next month when The Collaborator is here we'll do some kind of guitar-harmonica cover of my own song.  Maybe even with harmony?!  We'll see.  You can download Glen's version of the song here.

Lyrics are below the cut, if you need them.