Day Twenty-Four

I dragged the true love in last night and we worked on an XTC song we both like using GarageBand. It is still very rough with many errors but since we put in so much time in to it on a school night (for him at least) I am posting it anyway. We may end up doing a month of music for March. Very alliterative indeed! And this will doubtless return in a more finished form, especially with more harmony and such. Yay! Don't forget you must download to listen...

Mayor of Simpleton.m4a

 

This is a add-on heart: an old valentine I made for the true love that I just found while cleaning. The song is about love but there ain't no heart in it.

Day Twenty-Two

So I was incredibly inspired by Pomplamoose yesterday (and continue to be so) and decided to get my hands dirty with Garage Band. This is the very imperfect result of many hours of fun by a first time mixer-of-tracks. It was very fun to do and I look forward to doing more of this. Today I am going to look for a book about it to help me out.

I was able to showcase many instruments, all of which *I* got to play. Just what I have always dreamed of doing! This is a song by a band that was a favorite during college and I still like them: Poi Dog Pondering. Enjoy. And listen for the word "heart". You will have to download it and then play it (was struggling with how to post it-also, turn the volume down).

Big Beautiful Spoon.m4a

On a side note, you may have noticed the month is drawing to a close. I think I want to continue with making stuff but don't think I want to do hearts. Any suggestions for the next month? I would love to hear them.  Music? Just plain making stuff? Rabbits? The sky's the limit.

Day Twenty-One

Idea totally stolen from Etsy homepage but I changed the material at least. Consider it an homage. We used some of them for dinner too!

Day Twenty

The true love came home and I felt happy but unenergetic to say the least.. 

Day Nineteen

This one is a little bit of a make up since I was not feeling very motivated that day. Oops. This was a collaboration and many of the pics were so fun I just threw a bunch in! We started with hearts and then kind of went from there. Thanks go out my fellow bean and seed artists!

 

Day Eighteen

Well, I will confess there was a good deal of alcohol involved in the shooting of this film, if you hadn''t already figured that out. Luckily we had a really good musician on guitar and lead vocals to make it sound like something verging on music (they rest of us were reading the lyrics on the screen). I have sung *much* better than this but my off keyness makes it feel a little more old timey. Or something. As do the many times I come in early.

The guitarist racked his brains all evening to come up with something for us to collaborate on that had the word "heart" in it. An excellent choice and I chose this take because everyone sounds good except for me and I will take one for the team. I hope you have enjoyed the silliness. Our least musical participant rocked the steel drum and tambourine. Our host rocked the banjoloid. I played her accordion. The true love is away so he was not involved and can not veto :) My hat is off to the band for being so game. I hope they never get to see this video...

Note: The video will not upload in entirety so you are missing the awesome finale. Sigh.

Day Seventeen