February 2012
2 posts
Flood and Flame - 1st song I wrote for the New...
I finished writing this song, and recorded a good version of it today. It’s a sad song, in contrast to all my other stuff. I’ll have it up sometime by the end of this week, for a day or two. This song will be on the upcoming FREE download album coming out in Spring.
Always in a daydream din
you cut your skin on a dirty razor
that fell from high as the clouds...
How Jeremy Lin Has Awakened The Once Dormant...
As a Filipino-American and Asian-American who’s lived in New York almost his entire life, the last and only time I’ve been a New York Knicks fan was during the early 90s. I remember fondly how my my father, little brother, the occasional relative or family friend, and I would would watch the Knicks after mom’s epic mealtime of rice, Filipino dish comprised of something meaty...
January 2012
4 posts
A more final version of Night In Her Apartment....
The harmonies on Night In Her Apartment. With the...
the harmony part to the “Mystery song”...
My favorite songs of 2011 . Part 2
6. Low Anthem - To Them Ghosts Who Write History Books
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7hOkCQogTk&feature=related
To me, another beautiful song about mortality, impermanence, sacredness of life. I’m also recently rediscovering how beautiful the clarinet can be when used tastefullly in song…all because of this band.
favorite lyric: to them ghosts who write songs/everyone asks...
December 2011
3 posts
My favorite songs of 2011 - Part 1 of 2.
All the songs below here were songs I first heard in 2011, though they might not have been released this year. They all rocked my world…and made me feel less afraid of my mortality.
Here’s my top 6 songs (out of 12).
1. Fleet Foxes- Grown Ocean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgv6dKV03dA
This song was the first song on my playlist when I went on my whale-watching trip in Boston this...
This is an instrumental for a children’s...
November 2011
6 posts
Super rough demo to a song I wrote yesterday. If...
New musical idea. just had the melody haunting my...
New version of the song I wrote 2 days ago. A...
Electronic instrumental part to a song I started...
Super rough demo. This is a song I started and...
October 2011
3 posts
Whale Watching in Massachusetts -Song Playlist
The Low Anthem-To the Ghosts Who Write History Books••Slow Runner-Devil Moon••Bananarama- Cruel Summer••Sigur Ros-Glosoli••James Blake-Lindisfarne II ••Pete Yorn-On Your Side••Brian Sendrowitz-Planes Fly By••Mates Of State-Palomino••Beach Boys-God Only Knows,Sloop John B••Bloc Party-So Here We Are••Sam Amidon-Wedding Dress••Fleet Foxes-Montezuma,Grown Ocean
Time to Launch: 15 minutes.
I feel...
rough demo of ‘A Night In Her...
Kneecaps. Rough demo of a song I used to play out...
September 2011
1 post
i just got the wind knocked out me.
I just found out from Facebook that a good friend of mine with whom I had lost contact and hadn’t seen in more than 11 years, passed away last year.
We became friends through music. Ralph was in my music theory class and also an amazing jazz drummer. During my time in Binghamton, we were in the official jazz band and also were in a hotshot jazz quartet (with me on the alto sax). Our...
August 2011
1 post
Instrumental version of something I recorded in my...
June 2011
2 posts
I wrote this song almost 10 years ago for a...
lyrics to new tune I wrote yesterday.
This song just might make the new Foxfur album.
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v1
I want to talk you
and to see your face
and tell you how you are beautiful
and tell you how you are beautiful
I want to talk you
but I’m so ashamed
forgive me for all the pain i’ve caused
forgive me for all the pain I’ve caused
verse 2
...
April 2011
5 posts
“you are beautiful always, baby/you are...
New song ‘Way Gone’. Rough recording...
way gone - new song - notes and lyrics
I was writing this song as I stuck my head out the window for minutes at a time while driving 65 mph, on route I-78 at 4 AM. Right after I opened up for Mike Doughty. I didn’t write the whole song like that, but I think part of the second verse.
This song is about the gradual lost of humanity that a person goes through…. when working and living in a system that puts profits over...
March 2011
9 posts
Rebecca Black Video "Friday". Observations and...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0
0:00-0:02 - We are introduced to Rebecca Black, and Ark Music Factory. I conjecture that Ark Music Factory founder Clarence Jay named his company after two passions of his:The Biblical flood of the Old Testament (Noah’s Ark) and perennial 90’s dance group C&C Music Factory (Gonna Make You Sweat Til’ You Bleed).
0:02-0:03 - She...
My first memory involved music
It was in San Diego, after my parents left for work. A sunny day, though for some reason, I seem to remember the colors of the room muted. Sunlight sifted through the shades, forming shadows of train tracks along the walls.
I was crying incessantly because I didn’t want to see my parents go. I was hysterical. I felt like I would never see them again. I don’t understand why I felt that...
Rough demo of ‘What a Miracle’, a new...
‘when to say when’ rough demo. Listen...
When So Say when lyrics. Acoustic version...
when to see her when to feel shy when to get brave when to say hi when to talk much when to leave the bar when to connect when to see stars when to stay up when to hold hand when to make move when to touch back when to feel lips when to close eyes when to submit when it feels right when to say when when to see her when to feel close when to call much when to write notes when...
What a Miracle
Preview of it is up.
vs1
We got the clues from maps and faded photographs move forward, we would pass the sadness of our lives at first, we had our doubts (that) we’d find the ivory tower and wasted all this time in useless sacrifice but you were awfully kind the spirit from your eyes burned brighter than this trial there’s only half a mile (to go)
v2:
As all the universe...
February 2011
8 posts
Super rough draft of a song I wrote. Will be...
Very rough demo of a song I wrote earlier this...
V-Neck. New Song. Lyrics and Notes.
The stars are strong tonight
“They’re yelling “F#*K You!” to the artificial light;
The virgins in their cars are singing “Wha Wha Wha”
as they leer into the bars
Ch:
And I can see that love has made you brave
you wore a V-Neck in a way
that I interpret would lead me to your arms
if I am perfect with my charm.
V2:
I slid into your sight
and you said...
“She sang – with strength undiminished – with all of the art that was hers. I was...”
– Gilbert Millstein, describing Billie Holiday’s performance at Carnegie Hall at 1956, in which he narrated the show.
new song - "Love Song to an Insomniac"
v1:
In search of the dream that you almost forgot;
the silent film screen had you dancing a lot;
the image was tangled in verse;
you were blessed with a curse -
of imaginary friends who never let you down/
they flew from Pari(s) with their heads in the clouds
and they said you have nothing to prove/
they were there just for you
v2:
And you lie awake as the night’s giving birth to the...
January 2011
10 posts
hayop ka - 1st verse and chorus
pagkatapos mo siyang gamitin uulitin naniniwalang walang nangyari naniwalang hindi mali
after you use her,
you repeat
you believe that nothing has happened
you believe that you didn’t do any wrong
humaharap sa mundo malinis ang damdamin; alam ko ang katotohanan alam ko kung sino ka
you face the world with a clean conscience
well, I know the truth
I know who you really are
ch: Hayop...
*Listen to this on headphones.****
Chorus:
...
True story. Oh, Ms. Jones. →
This is what I created on the train ride an hour...