wrote the title before the song
(then i felt obligated to at least write a guitar riff around the song)
(winter 2007/2008)
this song is dedicated to our high school valedictorian…
(or salutatorian rather)
it’s a song about college girls i never knew and friends that were never there…
written in december 2009
jimmy durante impression in the intro
(as jesus christ)
(‘frosty the snowman’?)
barry kostibos
ray kenwell
mary
(mother of jesus)
(about no one believing i’m jesus)
written during winter 2010
(written around the title)
(written for proposed aqua album)
(because i’ve caught many flukes and won prizes for them)
(after miss fisher rejected me)
(‘fishin’ 4 fisher II’)
(made a video around it)
(goofy syncopation (which i love))
(like ‘girly pearl’)
(a postlude to “finest hour”)
(broadway show tune meets bartholomew manilow)
(because @ american idol auditions they forced us all to sing “can’t smile without you”)
zoom-in on marvin gaye’s left eye
(based on the freudian concept???)
(i was introduced to the concept as a middle schooler)
(i bought a book on dream interpretation @ holiday book sale in the school cafeteria???)
(biblical joseph was the original dream interpreter!!!)
(women who want to be men)
(girls who want to be boys)
(ala the hauers)
(follow-up song “castration anxiety”)
this is “pilgrim’s progress II”
(3 years later)
(groove in Emajor with allusions to minor7th of chord)
(plane flying overhead chadwick beach island compound)
sparking, mystical late beatles/beach boys sound (“dear prudence”)
written in january 2005
(i spent most of the last year at harvard songwriting)
(i wrote one song every day starting january 1 2005)
(just as i had tried to do the year before)
(this one grew out of a chord progression that don juan rodrigo had taught me)
(seemed to have a celtic country flavor to me)
(like the best acoustic led zeppelin)
(then jackie byrnes asked me to write a song for her on valentine’s day)
(so i wrote the lyrics for her)
(she was a high school soccer teammate of my sister)
(two years older than her)
(like bottoni + drewnowski had been to me)
(partying at the sophomore semiformal + hannon backyard)
jacquelina divine instrumental
(plain jogajungle.com logo over black backdrop)
written in march 2010
(about corinne melville)
(or heather?)
about one of our deaths
(would i take her out with me?)
(so that we were forever linked in death)
or my return to her?
‘seeing a stop sign’ means that i’m getting negative signals from her
(‘and knocking about’ implies violence)
(very mccartneyesque line)
‘millions different methods below’
(of torture in hell)
lines sound great
(i’m not sure i know what they mean)
about self-reliance
and not killing yourself
(features great soul singing)
(very beatlesque)
gloria rasputin + albert peterson
(*cue ‘555’* reprise)
“dive dive dive…”
joseph + christine hauer: (“he’ll never make it alive…”)
they fucked with you once…
they’ll fuck you again…
don’t you dare fucking listen to them!
(kindergarten –> age 5)
(fifth grade –> transition from elementary school to middle school)
missus winter? why not missus summer? she was the second old lady to denigrate me. like my brunette mother’s mother. no use crying to her, she understands not sympathy.
where’s my hairdresser?
(from “sal(ad)” to frank(ie) to tom(my) to vin(ny)”)
five…five…five
(he’ll never make it alive…)
now i have so much potential that i’d rather die
(cue “brian wilson” being “paralyzed with excitement”)
fifth grade is the beginning of another cycle. appropriately enough, the school appointed the same teacher as it had 4 years before)
(why is elementary school the only cycle with 5 years over 4???)
(from 2 to 2 to 5 to 4 to 4 to 3!!)
(valley view middle school)
(kimberly blackadar)
(fifth grade)
(i told joseph about kimberly choosing me over chester cua)
(he merely attributed it to the negative –> “she doesn’t like asian boys”)
(kathleen hannon)
(gabriella zini)
(plainfield as breeding ground for competitors)
(jeffrey taylor as copycat)
(cue *copycats*)
(yet the taylors were also strong cultural influences)
somehow “jew”ette got to me every four years.
TT (as in gaTTi)
(why the double Ts?)
(i’d much rather have double Ds…it’d make such as much phonetic sense)
i’m dark by day and light by night
i lit u up and taught u to breed
weird = unpleasantly eccentric
i’m only on trial for my life
it’s alright man, i’m only your son
i wanted your all yet you gave me your none
i had me a ball still you’re still just a square
you tried to end all and i don’t even care
ive got nothing to do and just so much to say
i love all u all but just please go away
you’re trying to work while im trying to play
youre trying borrow, im trying to pay
you want more than me as im
i smuggle my drugs and i snort your cocaine
your mother’s a bug and your father’s insane
so this must be hell…
then where would we be?
god
yes?
woa
what
what do u need now?
i thought you were busy ending it all
i thought you were gonna be good to me
in a world full of squares you were having a ball
in a world full of fools you were cursed with a brain
so you cut up your lines and you snort your cocaine
and pretend not to notice what everyone sees
yougive it all up and then float in the breeze
she was licking her lips i was jumping for joy
shes a delicate girl i’m a sensitive boy
she’s good little girl, i’m a bad little boy
(shots of kerri mraz green?)
(unisex gaelic name)
(late 2010?)
(jason mraz / eastern euro?)
(warren middle school)
(child of divorce)
(footballers / cheerleaders)
(inferiority complex)
(friend of gabriella cohen)