2012's Lyrical Resolution Revolution: January Edition

I figure if I'm going to do this, I can't fail on the first month, right?!?  So here's what I have in store for January.  I wanted this song to reflect my re-institutionalization to song writing and I felt that this brings it out just right.   It reflects on what I learned and loved in the past about how things were and hope for how things are to come.  I pretty much feel that it shows not only maturity from my usual standard in writing, but also on how I grew as a person in my life.

So here's to the first song of the new year.  Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your written-verse pleasure: Seasons.

There was once a time in our lives, when we thought we were invincible // And there were times within our lives, when we wished we were invisible // And there were those times in our lives, which we thought were incredible // And there will be times that we’ll be tried, to either stop or to let it go

They’ll be a season where we’ll have to be tested // Will we make it today, or we doomed to yesterday // From the sins of our fathers to what fortune tellers call // To either live for the moment or experience old

This season – we’ll make the best of our time // Last season – we reminisce of our crimes // The reason – that we continue together // Next season – we’ll live like its forever // This season – // No reason –

There are times within our lives, where we go through a crucible // And there are times within our lives, where we go through such a spectacle // And there are times within our lives, to tame the bull or grab hold // So many times that we’ve been tried, to either step up or to let it go

They’ll be a season where we’ll have to be tested // Will we make it today, or we doomed to yesterday // From the sins of our fathers to what fortune tellers call // To either live for the moment or experience old //

This season – we’ll shine the light on our times // Last season – remember a sobering sign // No reason – we can’t continue together // Next season – will be better than ever // The reason – // This season – // Live in rhyme – // And reason –

There’s no rhyme – // And no reason – //  There’s just time – // And passing seasons –

This season – we’ll make the best of our time // Last season – we reminisce of our crimes // The reason – that we continue together // Next season – we’ll live like its forever // This season – we’ll shine the light on our times // Last season – remember a sobering sign // No reason – we can’t continue together // Next season – will be better than ever // This season – // No reason -

I sure hoped that you enjoyed this being the first of many songs to come from me this year.  Here's to living up to a resolution, being productive, and doing some good with my talents.

BootLeG sampler.. signing off...

Early Start on New Year's Resolutions

Here it is getting towards the end of the year and I'm certain among the list of holiday parties and presents and get-together's, I'm certain that somewhere you might have contemplated about what you're trying to do to improve yourself for the next year.  The setting of resolutions and the eventual breaking of them by spring.  Hence why I didn't set any this past year, but I'm feeling a little different this year.  I was thinking about what I could do to improve personally and what goals I thought of what I should do that I haven't accomplished yet.  So I've compiled a reasonable list and this is what I think would be great for resolutions, at least for me.

• Beat Final Fantasy VII, finally :: It was the RPG that changed the landscape of all other RPG's for a generation.  I remember when I first played it back in high school and was fascinated by how badass it was.  It's been a goal since I can remember for such.  So I figured why the hell not.  I've already downloaded it off of the Playstation Network and figured this will be the year I will beat the game that haunted me for the past 15 years.  I'll even post some updates about it later, but this will finally resolve my obsession of beating my white whale.
• Read, something else that isn't webcomics :: As a homeschooling parent the wifie and I stress very strongly the importance of reading to my sons.  They see my wife read a lot, me not so much outside of articles online.  I feel that this is a personal resolution to not help myself be more literate, but be a good example to my sons.  I'm a strong believer that reading is indeed fundamental, and I want to take that example across the board to my sons.
• Write a new song/lyric a month for next year :: I've been personally neglecting myself with writing new material for the past two and a half, well, close to about three years now.  A lot of stuff happened and I wasn't feeling much creative and that I was kind of depressed at that time.  But now since I felt that I've took a long enough hiatus, I want to bring my musical juices back and ripen them for the thoughts that I've had the past time.  I feel pretty good about this and I am assuring myself to put a new song/lyric up once I'm done by the end of each month in 2012.  Get ready for some kickass stuff to come out of this.  And to further on with this, by the end of the year, I will make sure that I learn how to play the guitar and preform one of my songs via a youtube video.  I figure guitar because bass solos, even though I like them, not as sexy as an acoustic guitar.  So look forward to some great content on that end.
• Learn to manage all that's on my plate ::  Lately I've been trying to work on other web content manage systems such as Wordpress and Joomla to help with other's requests for sites.  I have been stuck putting my stuff on the back-burner thinking of other's need before mine.  Which is in essence a good thing, but I need to take some me time to get my stuff off the ground.  I didn't do as much as I thought I would do such as videos on this blog or even upgrading the look and feel just yet, but I will with this resolution.  I want to make time for me to do what's good for me while not neglecting any of the time I devoted for others.  Of course I still need a day job and family time, that's not gonna go away, but I feel that with this resolution, I can get something going for myself as well as others.

So those are just some of the resolutions I plan on taking.  It's not as serious as others like losing weight (which I do need to do) or stop smoking (which I don't smoke to begin with), but it's stuff that I contemplated for for a long time and I really want to get this going.  I love to continue on with this blog post but I really feel that this is enough for now.  It'll be a great year, and I hope that your's will be as well.

Happy holidays and a wonderful new year.

BootLeG sampler.. signing out...

How BootLeG got his groove back

Yeah, I know it's been like for-friggin-ever between posts, but I have a good reason for such.  Honest.  For starters, I've noted on one of my first posts that I've seem to have hit a roadblock on writing songs.  After all; as a bassist/lyricist that thinks very highly on his talents; that was a hard pill to swallow.  I always hated hitting those slumps where I think for the longest time that I had peaked and can never reach any higher of an apex.  It's a real crappy feeling for anyone I would assume.  But that was also when I was working overnights and had some time in my hands.  But as we all know now that I'm back working daytime shifts and that leads me to a more compact constraint on outside interests.  But sometimes in the strangest of times, inspiration comes and then you just have to let it take hold.

 

I've been back on days for well over a month now.  And as for the past three weeks, I've actually have been productive in song writing again.  I have seven songs at the time of this post that I'm working on currently that are brand-spankin'-new.  And it didn't occur to me until a few days ago on what my muse was in song creation.  Oddly enough; public transportation.  It's my funnel to find out what I can create during my 90+ minute commute from work to home and vice versa.  I guess it's the ambiance of having all the different people that takes the bus from the princes to the paupers, all the peaks and valleys of our society gathered in a 45-foot long tuna can.  It's strange on how just a simple change to someones environment can create a catalyst of events.

 

I can even see how since the break from the last time I wrote songs which was probably just after the beginning of the year to three weeks ago how my style of writing changed as well.   It's strange how my taste in lyrics matured after each hiatus in my opinion.  I found that it's more of a redemption and new found life type of message in these recent lyrics versus others that was motivated by angst.  But that's not to say that I have angst in these songs as well, it's just that it's more than that in these.  Some of my lyrics are as follows:

 

Lyrics from If I'd Won the Lottery:  Who needs a second house when you already have one // who needs so many cars that you could lose count // all I ever wanted was a simple life // so the hell with all the toys that the world could provide...

 

Lyrics from All the Pretty Girls: Oh, you pretty girls // you just don't know the trouble you're about to get in tonight // living in your own world // the consequences you'll have in store, are far to dire so I make this song out to // all the pretty girls...

Lyrics from Nothing to Prove:  Allegiance, deceit, and lies, can never hide in the fashion that you're wearing // burn the chevrons off your sleeve and wear your heart proud when your the victor, faker...

And that's just a sample (no pun intended) of what I've been up to.  Hopefully once I get some things together I could post the full version but I'm a perfectionist like that and I would also would like to get some audio with it as well to post.  But that's gonna be a good while before that happens.  So until then, I'm just gonna have to keep up with perfecting these songs analog before posting them on my blog; but rest assure, they're gonna be friggin' awesome when I do.

To finding my muse, flowing with it, and finding a balance between my songs and finding time for my blog...

BootLeG sampler.. signing out...

Don't forget what lyrics?

In an earlier post I written about how certain theme songs are epic with and without lyrics to them. But what if they did have lyrics, all of them. That would be pretty sweet. But only if the lyrics truly represented the show. I hope that this would at least stir some stimulation to the idea that that would be either hilarious or just plain awesome. So I'm compiling a list of shows that could benefit for some help from a disembodied voice.

1) Bobby's World: I mean c'mon it has to be the sleeper cartoon of the 80's and 90's. Fox had a goldmine and if they could have Howie Mandel do the theme in Bobby's voice, that would be epic. Here's a sample line from an improved theme... "De de de, I'm a kid on a trike//de de de, I have a really big head..."

2) Seinfeld: Truly, it doen't need a theme, and it doesn't even have a theme per say. It's just a random jazz bass riff and some scatting that what it opens to. But it's true theme song is at it's ending credits, at which you can play at any part of the show seriously. Think about it, a theme that could potentially last the entire show, c'mon?! "This is a show about nothing, and we make big bank//and this song is played at the end, because we're that bad ass"

3) M.A.S.H.: I've already talked about it in my last theme lyrics post, but still, it would rock if it had it's own lyrics for the series versus just having some morbid message of suicide for the M.A.S.H. movie. It would be a nice uplifting comedy of errors that should suffice for the lyrics on M.A.S.H. because the show itself was a comedy of errors. "Why the hell this war's still going//it's been eleven seasons//and is Klinger ever gonna get away"

4) C.O.P.S.: I know, what's with all these acronyms. Well, C.O.P.S. was a show on CBS Saturday morning cartoon lineup that took place in the then future with this bad ass half cyborg cop that was more or less like a cross between RoboCop and Lawrence Fishburne. Classy, but lacking a good theme; all it did was repeat it's title name kind of how like Eek the Cat did in its theme. Repetitive and lame. So here's my take on it... "We're off to kick some cyber ass//C.O.P.S.//C.S.I. ain't got crap on me//C.O.P.S."

5) Beetlejuice: It's just that epic. A sick and twisted tale about a goth girl and her friends in some sort of bizarro limbo world. That and it came from Tim Burton. The only thing missing from it is lyrics to make it a grand opus of cartoondom. "Beetlejuice//he is one//sick little//demented person//oh no here come a huge sandworm//he chasing us oh W.T.F.//this some twisted stuff that Tim was smokin up"

So that's my rant on only some of the shows that could benefit from some theme lyrics. I hope you like where this was going and if you want more insight on where that idea came from, just follow the link here to That Guy With The Glasses and you'll find out. And no this is not a paid promo, it's me just being a huge fan of the sight.

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I have a song that's stuck in my head

Don't you just hate it when you have a song stuck in your head. You try and you try and that darn thing is still playing like a pair of old men playing chess in Central Park, IT GOES ON FOR FRIGGIN' EVER!!!!!! Well, I have such a problem, but it's a little odd. And I ask if you respond or comment to this, that would be most appreciative. My problem stems from songs that don't have lyrics. Why don't they have lyrics, why are they so damn catchy, and what would be the lyrics if they had any.
This was spawned from a website that I frequent, and that one of the topics on it is remixing theme songs and adding their renditions of whatever lyrics to them (and by that I mean voicing over them with their own personal revamped lyrics.) So far, they were funny and that got me thinking, what theme songs could benefit from that. And for the longest time, I've been trying to figure out what the hell would become of the theme song for Sanford and Son if they had lyrics. It had a catchy tune in amongst itself (thank you Quincy Jones) and I just don't know what to make of it. Shaft had lyrics, Good Times had lyrics, and if What's Happening had lyrics, I'm sure it would only consists of how fat Rerun is, how much of a punk Dwayne was and how Roger always got spanking from his mom eventhough he was like 20 or something like that... what a wuss.

And another show that some might would think that benefit from adding lyrics would be M.A.S.H. But to most people's surprise, there is actually lyrics to M.A.S.H. It was in its movie and boy is that warped. The lyrics go on a morbid rant and follows with a chorus of suicide is painless, I was like WTF on that. Pretty heavy and bizarre stuff happening on that, even though it was a sitcom about war, most people sought it out as being a comedy, hell, it's final episode still reigns as the highest rated event on television. But I'm leaving the topic, people loved it and I bet you that if they actually played the lyrics of M.A.S.H on the show instead of keeping it as an instramental, it would have never lasted 11 seasons, lucky if it would have lasted the status quo of 6 episodes after airing its pilot. Pretty messed up.

Anyways, what is a song nowadays if if didn't have lyrics... and what are most theme songs nowadays, top 40 hits. I mean if I hear that stupid theme song from Friends one more friggin time I'm gonna go on a rampage to every coffee shop in the world and slapping every yuppie down that I see. I mean, that's that friggin annoying. Seinfeld didn't have lyrics, and quite frankly, I don't think it needed lyrics. Sanford and Son didn't have it and maybe for the best its not supposed to (but I think that I'll ask Q himself on that one.) It just boggles my mind, why lyrics, why no lyrics, why am I still rambling on about this... oh yeah, I know that answer, cause I'm the BootLeG sampler.., that's why and that's what I do.

BootLeG sampler.. signing out...