I Got A Rock

How was everyone's Wednesday? I know mine was just swell. Last night, before I went to bed I wrote down a couple lyrics I had going through my head. So I woke up this morning, and have been working on writing a song around them all day. I changed most of what I wrote down last night, but kept the general idea. The song is coming along pretty nicely, but I was stuck at one part, so I took a break to write this thing up. I've never been one to knock out a song real quick. I take my time, and that often leads to me overthinking what I'm writing, and scrapping a lot of my material. That's probably why I don't end up with too many completed songs. Things were easy back when I was in a ska band. I could just bang out some crappy lyrics about how emo kids are sad or any number of dick and fart jokes on the spot. It was easy. Of course, all those songs blew major gorilla dick. Now I try and write songs about my feelings, and express them through metaphors, imagery, and anthropomorphism. It's fucking difficult! But once I come up with something I'm happy with, it's all worth it. I really need to get on a song writing roll, and just keep the songs coming. This one song whenever I find the motivation to pick up a pen isn't cutting it. I need you guys to motivate me. Give me inspiration! Don't just sit behind your computers and enjoy my funny rants, and moving stories. Make me feel things! Damn! Alright. Well let's move on to today's moving story.

This story involves a dinner party at my friend Ryan's house. Ryan invited Kate, AJ, and myself to his house to make and eat dinner. But this wasn't going to be just any normal dinner. The four of us were going to make ourselves a raw vegan meal. Ryan had a raw cookbook, and he wanted to try it out on us. We were also intrigued by the part of the book that said maintaining a raw diet was supposed to make your eyes glow. Now I have some pretty gorgeous eyes as it is. In fact, the more I think about it, all four of us have some unforgettably beautiful eyes. So this added boost of having our eyes glow just sounded ideal. When we all got to Ryan's, we sat down and flipped through the cookbook to see what we would make. After much deliberation, we settled on Thai Mango Wraps and Chocolate Banana Shakes (using almond milk, instead of the not raw real stuff). And once we were all decided, we got to not cooking. The banana chocolate shake consisted of banana, chocolate, and the almond milk. We also made the almond milk ourselves from a recipe we found called 30 second nut milk (Don't laugh! It's not funny!). The wraps consisted of mango, various greens, some sort of sauce we made, and some sort of edible leaf used as the wrap. Now we had no idea if any of this was going to be any good. So it was decided that I should drive over to the pizza place and get a ziti pizza just in case our wraps and shakes weren't any good. While I went out to do this, all of the food was assembled. And when I came back with the pizza, we were all ready to eat. So we dug in. Everything ended up being great. Those shakes were amazing, even compared to a normal milkshake. Almond milk is delicious. And the wraps were great. Sure, they tasted a little nature-y, but that was pretty refreshing. So our raw vegan meal was a success. Except for the fact that we had a large ziti pizza laying around. So we broke our meal-long dedication to be raw and vegan, and ate a very delicious ziti pizza. Oh well. I guess we would have to survive without glowing eyes, but Ryan still has the cookbook. Our glowing eyes don't have to be a forgotten dream. Maybe one day our eyes will glow brighter than the stars in the sky. The glow of our eyes will only be matched by the warm glow of our hearts (And to think I can't even finish a lousy song). But either way, it was a great meal. And I may be mixing up stories, but I think we all went swimming in Ryan's pool, afterward. It is also very likely that we played pool basketball if we did, in fact, go swimming after our meal. And I'm going to go ahead and continue this story as if these events did occur. So the teams were split up AJ and Ryan versus Kate and me. It was a grueling game, for sure. Water was splashing everywhere. And with the waves our thrashing and flailing created, the hoop itself was floating around the pool. It made for a unique obstacle that we all had to overcome. But in the end, the team of AJ and Ryan came out on top... by a lot. But nobody had more heart than the team of Kate and me. We fought valiantly, and left the pool with our heads held high. I guess it's possible that more happened that day, as well. I'm not really sure. But all of the important details are there. It should also be noted that since that one loss, Kate and I have gone undefeated in every game of basketball we've played since. With my height and power, and Kate's swiftness and ability to manipulate the other team with her looks and personality, we are an (almost) unstoppable team... With glowing eyes.

Alright, well I think I'm going to see what I can do about writing more of this song. It would be pretty cool if I could finish it off tonight. My band Easy Chowder is really taking off, and there's a lot of demand for new material, so I need to be able to satisfy the fans. Hell, we may even need to play a show at some point. But I also don't want us to get ahead of ourselves. We need to strike at the exact right moment. But until then, I'll keep trying to write songs about feeling ways about things. But I'll see all of you guys tomorrow with a brand new story in the continuing adventures of Four One Five Choruses! Bye!