City Is Dark

Okay, so I just now figured out that I can blog from work. Though I use the word 'can,' rather loosely. I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to access any websites of this sort, but, uh...whatev, fuck this job. It's been a really long time since I've blogged at all so I don't really know specifically what I want to write in this, but things are kind of swell, aside from this shitty job. I've finished two more albums since the last time I wrote in this, titled 'Autumn Rose,' and 'Goodnight Marigold,' respectively. I just came up with a title for the album I'm working on now, and it will be called, 'City is Dark (the December Album).' The 'lead single' is called 'That's the Way Love Goes,' and here are the lyrics. I want to be a country musician:

She tells me, 'I just wanna lose a couple nights,
so tell me when the darkness disappears.
I don't know why anybody wants me,
or where I'm gonna be come next year.
She says, 'I know I ain't offerin much a nothin,
it's a gamble knowin if I go or stay,
and I can't be relied on maybe sometimes,'
but someone's gonna love you anyway

Cause when you smile,
nothin much matters,
to a man like this one,
with two cold shoulders and a handful a dust...
Honey, I ain't askin much.

She says, 'Trust is real important but it's hard though,
and it's worth it just to hear him call my name,
and I been gettin lonesome since the cold come,
and it's hard keepin track a different days.
The months have been fallin off the calender,
and I'm bound to start forgettin people's names.
So I'm gonna stay inside on Sunday,
and imagine bein in a different place.'

I originally wanted to record another chorus over this one at the end and it would've been:

Even heavy metal girls
say I can't combine anything
I know it's comin down
but I don't nothin...anymore...
and I ain't askin much.

but anyway it didn't really work.

I'm gonna try to get it onto myspace, I have a relatively awesome recording of it. JD and I have something of a setup now so we've been recording a bunch. We plan on redoing This Gun (although it will have 2 or 3 less tracks than the cassette version) and Don't Panic (which I'm still adament will be my lesser appreciated masterpiece). We're also going to finish JD's first album, which is going to be called, 'Songs You Can Enjoy.' We're moving to Halifax in April, I think, and then we will be famous, I assume. After City Is Dark I'm going to record a Xmas album, that I'll probably just call Blue Christmas and then a subtitle of some kind.

I spend all my time between calls on wikipedia now. I read the articles on Springsteen, Jim Croce, Saint John, Barack Obama, Hank Williams and Slim Whitman in the past little while. I also figured out that I could visit my freewebs sites so I've been nostalgia surfing.

Speaking of Springsteen, my new thing is Nebraska, Human Touch, and my Jim Croce DVD. I bought Springsteen's VH1 storytellers the other day and it is fucking awesome. Nebraska just kills you. Appropriately. Anyway so I'm trying to move in a country/Springsteen direction now, so I might even write some narratives. That's not the first time I've said I'll do that though.

The funniest thing about my old websites are the 'NEWS' sections, because they're always things I never ended up actually doing. In 20 minutes I will be finished my ten hour shift, and I will be going home to red and white wine, and some kind of concoction involving brie cheese. I am excited. This is what my Saturday is like. I was an hour late today, though, so I shouldn't complain. I had to cross this girl off my 'chicks at work to hit on' list today, and I'm not pumped about it. Anyway, I have nine minutes left so I'm going to work on a poster type thing for City is Dark, which you can fuck off if you don't like, I like three word titles with one syllable words.

love, Matt