We all like to double our pleasure once in a while, which is why Double Mint gum is so darn popular. Since it’s been a while, I thought I would share some of my latest musical stylings. Enjoy!
And by special request from the most adorable nephews ever. I’m told the 2 year old say’s “more zippy”! Who can resist such cuteness?
Inspiration strikes again in the Think Tank! I spent my Saturday morning penning a song, unfortunately it was nothing really public publish worthy.
However, my (small) fan base has made it clear that outtakes are always enjoyable, and often comical. Therefore, I have put together another one for your viewing pleasure.
Without further ado, may I present Sadie’s Song- Outtakes:
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Here I go, sharing my music with the world once again. Consider yourself lucky folks- there’s something that makes it so much easier to sing alone and in front of a camera than in front of people. I warn you now, I will refuse any requests for a live performance…
To note: I do have songs that are more deep and pensive, but I choose not to share them with anyone. These are my simple songs, topical at best, splashed with a hint of humor.
If you’re a fan of Idol, then you’ll get this in the much larger picture. If you are not, hang in there; it’ll still make sense.
I’ve had the song Mad World (originally by Tears for Fears) stuck in my head since about, oh… Tuesday. I’ve always loved the song, and was inspired to learn how to play it on the guitar. After a few nights of practice, I felt ready to take it to the next level: recording myself. Now, I had no intention of sharing it with anyone, and it was more about hearing what I sounded like than publishing anything. Unfortunately, I didn’t rock it nearly as well as I had hoped, and upon reviewing the several takes I realized the real gems were the moments between the singing and the strumming. I didn’t realize I was so funny when sitting around amusing myself.
Thanks to the magic of movie editing software, I plucked out all the “in-betweens” and pasted them together into a lovely little montage. The following is what ensues when you have too much time on your hands:
When I said earlier that I would be posting something new soon, this was not what I had in mind. However, after many, many conversations today about the imminent Nor’easter, I had snow on the brain.
A little tiddly-bit of info about me is that I play the guitar. I don’t play well, and chances are I will never play in front of you. I have this weird thing about playing- and even moreso, singing- in front of anyone. One living being that I will play for is my cat. He’s nonjudgemental and I don’t think he’s even really listening half the time.
There must be something about writing songs about snow that’s in my genes. In ‘93 we experienced a full on blizzard, and while stranded in the house my mom and I wrote a song about it. If memory serves me correct (and I believe that it does) the hook went a little something like this: “The blizzard of ‘93/ it was the storm of the century/ Hundreds of people died/ shoveling snow outside/ Luckily none of them was me“.
Today I was sitting around, strumming away, and out popped this little ditty. I scribbled down some lines, and in the end thought it was quite catchy. Then suddenly, I felt compelled to… record myself. And now, for reasons that are beyond me, I am sharing this with the world.
It’s a simple song, played in the most undemanding of blues progressions in E. So, here we go… my premier (and most likely last) performance:
P.S. In case you are wondering; yes, the hair the constantly falls in my face is annoying. I’m just used to it at this point.
This weekend, I had the pleasure of a good friend from Boston come to visit. We met a year ago- our meeting a bit of happenstance- and ended up spending the better part of two weeks together before life pulled us back to our different directions. However, it didn’t matter how long or short of a time we spent together, because the friendship we made was clearly a lasting one. Sometimes people come into your life just when you need them most, and, quite unknowingly, we both had something the other one needed. Isn’t life funny that way?
Anyway, we decided to do a special edition blogcast for Valentine’s day. If we seem a bit lackluster at times, it’s because we had some technical difficulties, and this was about the 8th recording of the blogcast. But being the persistant ladies that we are, we had to complete it- for all you folks out there, of course.
Without further ado, I introduce you to the lovely, the talented, Miss Katie! It is my pleasure to be her friend…
What’s in a name?
Sadly, there is no “part two”. Originally, we planned to discuss anthropomorphism (the ascription of human characteristics to things non-human). We even had visual aids. But then James and I got really into our debate and things started to get… “heated”. Then we tried to do a few more takes, but that also meant a few more drinks had also gone down, and things got less and less interesting to the 3rd party observer. The icing on the cake was that on the best take, the audio/video sync got messed up and it wasn’t worth making you suffer through it. I decided it wasn’t meant to be.
But, all is not lost! In case you ever wondered what goes down pre-production here’s a sample. (To note, I am not this bitchy or vain in real life… or at least that’s what I’d like to believe. And James and I really do get along- I swear!)
Behind the scenes:
So… a few nights ago, over vodka tonics, James and I had a bright idea to do a “podcast”. Technically, it’s not a podcast, as it contains video and is not available for upload on your iPod. But, it was what we decided to call it. I didn’t know what the topic was going to be and his suggestion caught me off guard, hence my poor recollection skills in the video. I don’t think well when things are recording me.
So, prepare for 2 minutes and 34 seconds of major dorkiness and rambling, people. And if you like this (and maybe even if you don’t), perhaps there will be more Blogcasts in the future…
