These are all the most important headlines for this week according to CNN.com and me.
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The Talkin’ Headline Blues #89
Well, I haven’t done a Talkin’ Headline like this in a long time.
Made me giggle.
This is how a Talkin’ Blues SHOULD SOUND. That’s something you’ll hear someone say who’s really serious about Folk Music. Someone who knows ALL THE RULES. Someone who’s a lot better at musical instrumentation than I am.
At various points in time I have been that someone.
At this point in time, I’m not. I’m just enjoying myself. I’ll take note of that. Things go up and things go down. That’s how it is.
These are the headlines for this week, though. No more news, okay CNN.com? Please?! I can’t take in any more except for this! I mean it! Please don’t make me! My brain is not that big….
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New Song: Get on that gospel ship (come on, come on)
Here’s a tune I wrote…last week? On the 24th of…July? Whenever that was. Was 2 weeks ago. I just checked.
So the weeks fly by.
And, this isn’t a one line or one verse song like I said I was gonna stick to. (I also said I was gonna do one a day. Oh well.)
Anyway, I wrote this one in a minute. And then, after playing it through to some guitar music, I realized it’s actually probably part of this song from last year (which, actually doesn’t sound much like this old version, but there’s no recording of the newer version to my knowledge). Weird that the song from last year was from late July too. Maybe I was unconsciously trying to rewrite that one.
Either way, this is a second part to it, which I’m always looking to add into my songs since a lot of the time they only have one or two different parts in them. Mainly because I write them and then don’t work on them at all. Then I get bored with them and just throw them away.
And because I’m lazy.
Anyway, this new song has some good elements. I’m particularly drawn to the very end. The whispering-singing-type part. That’s interesting to me.
Now, I’m going to probably not post any new songs for a while. I need to go back and do some relearning. I haven’t done it in so long and I think it’s part of the reason I’ve gotten so lost. I stopped trying to teach myself anything. (Remember, I’m lazy by nature, so it’s easy to just sit back on my haunches and relax and say, “Ahh, I’ve done it….”)
But I’m done with that. My hands have been on fire for 2 or 3 years and I never knew why. Maybe this’ll help.
That being said (and making no sense), I’ll probably still post a bunch of new songs and new ideas and new diagrams of things that will help to become something again.
I’ll keep doing the Talkin’ Headline songs too. Those are funny to me. Plus, if I don’t, then I just don’t read any news at all and can’t fool as many people into thinking that I have any brains.
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The Talkin’ Headline Blues #88
Here you have the CNN.com headlines from last week. How many of them do you remember? How many of them are we all still talking about? White youth running wild? Yes. The Catholic Pope saying it ain’t so bad to be gay? No.
Well, okay. Baseball suspensions are VERY IMPORTANT.
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The Talkin’ Headline Blues #87
Well, I tried a new melody for this version. It’s different. It’s borderline talkin’ blues, I’d say. Not sure on which side. But I think it adds to the hilarious headlines that people working for CNN.com actually wrote.
Or maybe robots write those?
But then who tells the robots what to write? And if no one tells them, how do they know what our events are? How is it that they’re so aware of our needs and desires that they know exactly what will evoke an emotion in us? Hmm….
I, for one, am getting on the side of these robots.
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