Nothing like starting off your day with a little sunshine! Obscure as it may be.

random link time!

Good luck to the EU convincing Texas to give up the death penalty.

Well, I am at Granny's and that is wonderful. The most exciting thing to happen today -- AND YESTERDAY -- was that today I got my car oil and transmission fluids changed! CAN YOU FEEL THE EXCITEMENT?!

Seriously though, I am always a fan of, as Saturday morning cartoons used to say, chillin' like a villain.

So what else to do on a long summer day but write emo songs!

Here's the prerequisite (always humorous) vocal warm-up and mic test, consisting of whatever song happens to be in my head, whether or not I've played it before, and capoed to a moderately ambitious key. Today that song is Avril's When You're Gone.

Followed by this reflective, button-all-your-cardigan-buttons little number called Rubber Boots. It's about not wanting to take risks and playing it too safe.

Recording is a never-ending struggle against my aging headset. I apologize for the static and for the completely random beeps, which was why I faded out the ending of Rubber Boots, a technique I normally detest in favor of actual resolve. If someone doesn't like it, then I will gladly accept if they rent me out a couple days at Abbey Road. ;)

I am always hungry