Sick Acoustics like Pooh Sticks
It's shweet having a college-sized winter break again. I'll be in Baltimore tomorrow to visit a design agency and my old TFA roommates, and then turn back around home for yet another Okay Samurai reunion to see the new Lord of the Rings movie. Most of my time at home has been spent playing guitar and working on a solid setlist. I'm at around 16 songs right now (10 originals, 6 covers), about 1/4 ready to go, 3/4 rough. One thing I'm focusing on is making the covers more interesting and creative, mixing similar songs together to create new choruses. My favorite is a mix of every Outkast single into Justin Timberlake's Cry Me A River, or as I like to call it, Cry Me A River Over Baghdad, I Like The Way Mrs. Jackson Moves Like A Polaroid Picture At McDonald's (I'm Lovin It). Another song takes the clock tower theme from the Castlevania video games, and with lyrics and a new arrangement, it's now called Monochroma. And I'm also wondering about playing a Korean pop song from 2001 by this guy called Position (but Shinhwa is still the best of the Kpop bands - new album coming soon!). Jeff Ma (manager) and I were talking today about acoustic guitar acts and how the coffeehouse stereotype is that you must be sitting on a stool and playing original love ballads with cliched metaphors like "I'm falling, catch me" or, straight from high school creative writing class, "no one understands me." In other words, I'm glad I got hooked on Tenacious D. Not to say I'm against slow songs or love songs, because I've got them too, but for a live show you gotsta rock out! By the way, in addition to starting his own website, Jeff Ma will also be writing on okaysamurai.com in the near future, being that he has joined the extended OKS family.
I'll write again on Sunday night after this weekend's events unfold.
Thursday, December 18 at 8:29 PM
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