Waking everybody with a sound That's been likened to sawing Some call it snoring All the best husbands do it So our wives have something to tweet about As if the bobbleheaded conversation sprinkled with some speculation covering the sanitation habits of the generation that we're raising all across the nation ...wasn't enough (some choral wailing) Kids are upside down in nearly Every single family picture It's probably better that way Definitely better than attempts to fish for sharks from the car I wonder whose genes he got? Should this be rhymed with bergamot? Maybe, but probably not Though citrus-scented gas Might be a winner (some more choral wailing) (Love) Love never gives up, never looks back Never gives up, never looks back, never gives up... (endures) (Love endures)... Waking everybody with a sound That's been likened to sawing Often called snoring And if I'm not sleeping through life, you're not going to either.**Could I have possibly written a more tongue twisting bridge? Why yes, I could have. This abridged tongue twister (ha!) was the compromised version... :shock: It was also much harder to sing at 12.30am than it is now at 10.00am. Hmmmm... Did you hear the stumbles in there? I might as well have sung "dup nebber dip dup"...
Preposterousness
pre·pos·ter·ous [priˈpostərəs] adj : absurd; or ... how God's ways appear to man
worshipper. hubby. soon-to-be daddy. ex-pat Aussie. music lover. accountant. creator of electronica. ERP nerd. media+web for Exchange Church. owner of freaky thumbs.
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I only blog here occasionally, as most of my blogging energies go into the Exchange Church Blog, so you might also like to head over there for more of thoughts.
Love Endures (Snoring) : a song as a gift
Let me fill you in on the past year, creatively speaking...
Remember Our Creative Community? And my own personal goal to post 12 recorded masterpieces (humour me...) this year?
No? Well, seems I didn't either.
Actually, I did...I was just ignoring it...
It all went so smoothly for about 5 minutes. Then I decided to go and produce our church's first worship album, and it all went a little haywire. Great excuse huh!
The last song I posted here was back in May. MAY?!? Where did the last 6 months go? Wait, I know exactly where they went. Lots and lots and LOTS of hours in a recording studio with the awesome worship team from Awesome Church. It's a sacrifice I've been glad to make, though Diane and I have definitely felt the strain too. The album is very nearly done though, and this is a good good good thing.
Anyway...
About a month ago, I did a post over at my good friend Jenni Clayville's blog telling a bit of my story, because like everyone ... I have one. Or two. Maybe more.
In the comments, Jenni's amazing husband Brian requested a song for his birthday. Now, he may have been joking (I really don't know - I never asked - it's not like I haven't embarked on this personalised song thing before), but it was the impetus I needed to write something of my own again and see if I could remember how to do this. I've been writing and recording congregational music all year, which involves a very very different process to how I approach my non-church music, which mainly comprises mini electronic pop epics (poptronica).
So I wrote this. You now have your own song, Brian.
And Jenni, I still want to re-do yours properly as a thank-you for sending me the audio file of Brian's snoring that inspired this. I'm just looking for a big band... who'll work for free...
Gotta say though...my snoring is WAY worse than Brian's. Though the only time it's been recorded I had sinus and a completely blocked nose, so...
Back to the song...
Lyrics: as usual for me, it took a long time to get the lyrics to happen. Music = easy peasy, but lyrics...no. Except when I'm writing church music, when the lyrics often come first and suggest the melody, etc. In this case, as for all my commissioned "song-for-a-friend" works, I try to dig up plenty of dirt from significant others, but usually most of the good stuff comes from Twitter and Facebook stalking anyway. Add in some inspiration from a great post on Brian's blog, and we have a song that combines Biblical truth, snoring, fishing for sharks, gas and twittering...amongst other things.
Music: again, as usual for me, it's crammed too full of ideas because that's pretty much how I roll all the time; always lots going on. I love the production side of making music, even though this isn't produced as well as I'd like it to be, purely due to time constraints. It also has a few of my now trademark twists, which are therefore not twists because it would be a twist to do something straight. I may be the M.Night Shyamalan of poptronica.
Love Endures (Snoring) by dg4G
Forget the future...we're getting a breadbox
This really is too bizarre for words. Really.
Go here for the full horror.
Or just sit back and watch this (very poor quality) video showing the lightning speed with which you can twitter using a Commodore 64.
Yes, a Commodore 64.
Owner of Freaky Thumbs
Some of you might be aware that most of my social media profile thingys include the phrase "owner of freaky thumbs"
A few of you might even know why.
But as I've been getting more and more random enquiries about this, it's clear a lot of you don't. In fact, up until very recently (like last week), it was possibly the single biggest topic of Twitter direct messages sent to me. Yeah, bizarro.
So, for all of you who have no idea what I'm on about, this amazing piece of cinematography should clear it up.
So tell me...what's freaky about you?
Just thought you should know...
Acquiring Patience
As you may know, I'm trying to hire for a few positions. I've been tweeting about it a fair bit, so if you follow me, I offer my humble apologies. The process is quite exhausting, but I've found doing it internally yields better results than using agencies.
The small win I'm celebrating is that I finally filled one of the positions. So just 4 more to fill. Yay.
Still, I'm blown away by the things people do to try and get noticed. I've talked to some friends who are in human resources full time about good ways to benchmark people's applications, and have also tried to help an awesomesauce friend in refining his applications by putting my experience on both sides of the recruitment fence to work.
Clever creativity is key in getting the attention of those who have the sometimes always painful job of trawling through the emails. And for me, it's a good way of putting into action my constant prayer for more of patience.
I thought I'd seen most of the ludicrous attempts to capture my attention until yesterday, when I received an application typed entirely in a font very similar to the one below.
If you are the person who sent this to me...what on earth were you thinking????
I suppose I should be happy that it wasn't snailmailed on parchment shouldn't I...
Hashtag Madness
Most of you would be aware that I spend a lot of time on Twitter. Or rather, it spends a lot of time with me whenever I'm at my desk at work (which seems to be a sweet spot in the tweeting habits of the inhabitants of the American content). It's especially good company when running huge CRM reports, blah blah blah, cough, zzzzzzzzzzz.
Anyway, recently there has been an increase in the use of a few hashtagged words to enable quick searching of the essentials like prorably and numpty which have entered the vocabulary of the masses. (I like to speak prophetically, so work with me here...) I also, um, enjoy reading the bromance page from "time to time". Don't crucify me.
I'm excited to announce that in preparation for her imminent entry to the blogging world, Diane has purchased the exceptionally brilliant...
Quite how she's going to use this as the title for her food blog is yet to be determined, but I've given her a stellar suggestion that I hope she uses.
In the meantime, she'll need lots more sensible suggestions from the marvellous readers and stalkers who stop by here...so give 'em to me and I'll pass them on. She'll be eternally grateful.
Warbbler
Some days just need a little bit of light relief.With all that's been happening with freaky weather down here this week, today is one of those days.Thanks to @kmesiab who Twittered this and made me laugh.
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I still am.
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I still am.
