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"Perfect From Now On" 2003-06-04 - 3:51 a.m. older - previous - next - profile - host - my band - my lj lots to talk about but none of it interesting I spent all day waiting for the sun to go down so I could play Silent Hill, but I only had the sub-scenario left, and I beat most of it yesterday, so that only provided about 20 minutes of entertainment and since that was my whole day plan, it left me pretty much fucked I ended up watching the Real World [yeah, I know. But I figured I'd end up getting sucked into it later, I might as well watch from the beginning so I knew what was going on.] and I was amazed, for the first half of the show this guy(I forget his name now; Alex or Anthony or something with an 'A') was acting exactly like me. I was watching it and I was just shocked because it was like, there wasn't even little differences it wasn't like the same basic things but he does them this way and I do them that way; it was bizarre of course the second half of the show he completely blew up and acted like a dick; where as I wouldn't've let things go that far so yeah, I finally got around to watching Singles again God, I love that movie and even though I think Steve and Linda is a good storyline; Cliff and Janet make a much better one I just like how after Janet dumps him Cliff realizes he was a dick and changes but what I think is just kind of goofy is the beginning, where Linda falls for this sleazy guy and I just can't believe she's that dumb; 'cause here's this white guy, with blue eyes and blond hair, with a french-sounding accent claiming he's from Spain but whatever it's still an awesome movie plus it has the guy from Brimstone(and Children of the Corn) in it, which is a plus oh yeah, and it's so funny; 'Would' was generally considered the Alice in Chains single(no pun intended) from that movie, the music video for it featured a poster for the movie, and I'll bet 'Would' was on the soundtrack but in the movie, when they're playing in the club, they play about two seconds of the chorus from 'Would' the song they're playing most of the time is 'It Ain't Like That', which is one of my favorite Alice songs but sadly, one that never got a video nor was released as a single but what are you gonna do? but on a note that's actually interesting; I wrote another song this one kind of has a story behind it, because all these random elements came together perfectly so that you'd think it was all planned first I should say that I've always liked those kind of "lying for a good cause" type lines like when someone's dying and their friend/lover tells them they're going to be just fine or specifically like in The Simpsons where Homer quits the plant and gets his dream job at the bowling alley, but then has to quit because they have Maggy; and he says to Little Timmy "we'll make it to California some day" and Timmy says: "Sure we will Mr. Homer, sure we will" and then coughs really horribly [honestly I almost cry whenever I see that, even though I know it's just a dumb gag] and so in the midst of my discovering all about Built to Spill; I found out they had a song called "Perfect From Now On" and for some reason that kind of struck me as one of those things so I went out of my way to try and find that song, only to discover it was the name of an album, but not a song so I decided, OK; I'm going to write my own song called that now usually I don't like going into the songwriting process with the title first; but I could kind of hear how it would work out in my head, so I went with it anyway so then tonight I watch 'Singles', and that movie always gets me in a wierd mood because it's a good movie that makes me feel good; but at the same time it's like: "where's my happy ending?" "where's the girl I can finally say 'bless you' after she sneezes for and then she'll realize we belong together and we can make out in an elevator?" and since I kind've had the idea about the song anyway, I figured that this put me in the mood to write about kind of a disfunctional relationship where the two mean well but just are bad at it well last week or so[before I'd even heard of Built to Spill] I wrote this guitar melody while I was really depressed; but I scrapped it because it was too up-beat sounding so tonight I took that and modified the crap out of it but it was still really up-beat but at the same time it kind've unintentionally sounded like Built to Spill [even though I didn't try to, I'm sure that's a result of my listening to them so much in the last few days] so basically I was skirting the line where if the lyrics were too romantic, it was going to sound like a pop song but if I made them "disfunctional enough" it would sound like Built to Spill, and therefore it wouldn't suck I had the idea for the well-meaning couple that's just bad at being in a relationship together, so I used my feelings for Sindy to provide the "well-meaing" part [which also made it hard to make them "disfunctional"] and I just basically took the things I was feeling and skewed them until they sounded right [or would that be 'wrong'?] there's a couple 'Singles' references in there, as well as a Built to Spill reference(other than the title); I couldn't help it the lines about 'taking seven days to call = playing games' and 'saying "bless you" when the girl sneezes' are from Singles and 'it's so hard to read' is from Bad Light by Built to Spill but anyway, without further ado; here's my latest effort: and so I spend my days, waiting for you but you're so far away, leavin' me screwed and just who's to say, what is right? try to stay awake, to see the light these days you never call, is it a game? roses wilting in the trash, what a shame I never go by your house, stay at mine we'll see eachother next month, say it's fine and it's so hard to read, love letters I never sent them anyway, yours are better I don't say "bless you" when you sneeze, I'm not a priest things are going so well, at least and someday we'll make a change yeah, someday we'll rearrange and when things are good, we'll say that now, everything's gonna be- perfect from now on... we're neither here nor there we still say we care and someday we'll make a change yeah, someday we'll rearrange and when things are good, we'll say that now everything's gonna be- perfect from now on... -Perfect From Now On Me so yeah, hope you enjoy Sweet Dreams and Screw You All [except Sindy, even though she didn't respond either. I love you!] My Life As A Movie: opening credits: Where Is My Mind? by the Pixies party scene: Freak Scene by Dinosaur Jr falling in love scene: I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy and The Stooges love love scene: Heavy by Collective Soul after a break-up driving scene: Stone the Crow by Down driving to make-up the break-up scene: Graveyard by The Yeah Yeah Yeah's plain old driving scene: Woke Up This Morning by The A3 chase scene: Hey Man, Nice Shot by Filter fight scene: We Die Young by Alice in Chains funeral scene: Desperado by The Eagles closing credits: Still Flat by Built to Spill � � |