2k9 aint over!

Two-fer this weekend (Raleigh/Charlotte) NC

This Friday show just dropped out of the international space station onto us. Ouch. Anyway so far we KNOW we'll be playing with Mumu Tutu in Raleigh, NC @ Slim's Downtown. Doors open @ 10pm.

And Saturday we're back doing our Monthly Res at the Keg & Cue in Charlotte NC.

What I am Going on about...

This is a list of the songs (in no certain order) and a description of what (I think) they are about.

• monstr0 - This song is a 1^st person narrative from a crooked dictator that will use any means to keep people under their rule. “I am the king, of everything / That I can get away with.”
• therapy - This is what happens when you call in specialists to help you deal with your troubled history.
• olives &  almonds - Title is from a grocery list. But it has more to do with avoiding superstitions or “magic” as a way to knowledge.
• imagine that - Is a conversation with a despot. Basically telling them, “yeah I know you have an air force, but we have love and art and -so you can go suck it.”
• new new one - Dystopian blues. A person can fail on so many levels. Economically, socially, spiritually, artistically. I think this covers all of those.
• overwrought - This is about spending the bulk of your time working with people you have no connection to,  other than a paycheck. They likely are not your family or friends yet you spend more of your waking hours with them than you do with you friends or family.
• two eggs any style - This song is about people’s inability to appreciate how hard some jobs are to do and how they can jam up the works with their selfish behavior.
• to arms - This is a love song. But Maria always felt like it is from the point of view of a serial killer/stalker type.
• irresponsible - This is a song about observing a fallen spiritual “leader.”
• estate - This is a song about the homeless. There are no covenants and restrictions or home owners orgs for their lots in life.
• it ends - This is a song about addiction, loss, and becoming unraveled.
• gardenia radicans - They were in bloom when we started writing this.
• minervamerica - America the warrior goddess.
• second best - It’s about gun violence. How in very little time things can go very wrong.
• detached - This is about history. How it is always subjective and very much sifting through the wreckage to postulate on what happened.

Last Night You Missed...

If you didn't make it out to Snug Harbor last night; you missed out on seeing locals: The Swaggerettes and touring act (MS) Come On Go With Us. Yes here you have it, proof that we do in fact get out from time to time. Burying that bus behind the recording compound does take a lot of time, dontcha know?

Recording Continues...

 
I was able to track the vocals for five of the 15 songs on our first LP. In no certain order:
New New One; Detached; MinervAmerica; Irresponsible; Estate.