AUTHOR: Nate DATE: 1/21/2008 08:41:00 PM ----- BODY:
I've finally gotten around to hooking things up in my new little music office in my room. It's nice to have a little bit of space to work on things. And soon I'm going to have a new computer to have even more screen space to work on things! This is not exciting to most people I know, but anyone who's worked on something like Final Cut Pro knows how many windows you have to have open at once to work on crap. Well, it's the same in Pro Tools. Right now, I'm looking at everything on my little 15" Powerbook. But soon, I'll have a giant iMac to deal with and life will be sweet. Anyway... so when I first starting recording songs, I didn't have a computer and I was distrustful of recording on a computer. So both facts together stopped me from buying such a thing then. And maybe I'm a Luddite? Who knows? All I know is 7 years later, who has egg on his face? This guy(points to self). So now I have Pro Tools and a shiny MBox 2. But back in the day, I rocked a Roland digital 8 track. And I still have tons of zipdisks full of songs from then. I just counted them, I have 22. And each one will hold around 10 songs or so on average. So that's like 200 songs to root through. Yeesh. But it will be nice to finally have everything on ye olde computer and in mp3 form. So as I wander my way through everything I'll post some things here from time to time. And if you are interested in checking out some old Shelktunes, drop me a line and maybe I'll make a special tasty mix cd for you! Okay, back to the salt mines. But here is a song I wrote 10,000 years ago. I think in reality 2002. It's called, "If It's Just Me". Kind of crappy recording quality but it's charming, right?

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-------- AUTHOR: Nate DATE: 9/03/2007 01:25:00 PM ----- BODY:
Everybody seems out of town for Labor Day, so I was feeling industrious and finished another song. It's called, "Where She Is". Here's the lyrics and mp3 for those jonesing for some new Shelktunes. Where She Is mp3 Took it all, took it all for free Never knew what it meant to me I don’t know where she I don’t know where she is Everyone’s just been on my case Up in my business and in my face I don’t know where she I don’t know where she is Give it up Give it back Cut your losses Cut her some slack Give her some time To make it up I know that’s the last thing you want but you must to in love Maybe she left town, maybe she lit out on you Stiffed you hard, and just when rent is due I don’t know where she I don’t know where she is There’s not a note left tagged on the fridge With that magnet that you made as kids I don’t know where she I don’t know where she is Give it up Give it back Cut your losses Cut her some slack Give her some time To make it up I know that’s the last thing you want but you must to in love I don’t belong with anyone Let alone, with a son I don’t know where she I don’t know where she is What will I tell him when he’s all grown up? Your mother left when you were one And I don’t know where she I don’t know where she is Give it up Give it back Cut your losses Cut her some slack Give her some time To make it up I know that’s the last thing you want but you must to in love

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-------- AUTHOR: Nate DATE: 7/10/2007 09:41:00 AM ----- BODY:
--Finally, they kicked off Melissa on Hell's Kitchen! I hated the sound of her voice. Long Island accents are particularly piercing. Is Rock going crazy? I think he's going to have a meltdown at some point. Don't the guys really have to step it up at this point? For those of you who aren't paying attention, it's now the girls(the nanny, the Waffle House cook, and the pastry chef) vs. the guys(sous chef, sous chef, executive chef). They SHOULD win if it was based on their experience. But that's why they play the games err... have the episodes. --This is a song my brother wrote and we recorded it on our birthday. The fun thing is that I got a phone call while we were recording so you can hear me in the not so faint background. I like to imagine it has the same poignance that Simon & Garfunkel's "Silent Night" cover has with the evening news on in the background. Only, less artful. That was not an Art Garfunkel joke, but if you wished it was, you can just act like it was. --I just went to an audition today in a waiting room filled with various people from different time periods. The best was a dude dressed up like a viking complete with like leather armor and a sword and one of those horn hats. Who has those things? I was chatting with Dave Hill who was there too about how many calls this guy must get. Are Vikings in constant need? Let's hope so. Or else this call spent too much dough on a horn hat. --I'm in Rob Lathan's awesome life coach show(Get Psyched!) again this Saturday at UCB if you're around. It's @ 7:30 and we're after Eliza Skinner's show too. I'm excited to finally see that one. --At least once a day, for the past 2 weeks someone has come up to me at work asking about the Manny. It's amusing. If only for the fact that no one normally comes up to me at work for stuff I do outside of work(maybe the ESPN stuff, and commercials). But at least not with this frequency. Today, a guy came up that I haven't worked with for like oh five years? He came up to me in the burger line and said, "I gotta hug this guy cause he can sing!" That's all for now.

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-------- COMMENT-AUTHOR:Blogger Chris COMMENT-DATE:10:29 PM COMMENT-BODY:Go Waffle House cook!

Rock's tirade was one of the scariest things I've seen on a reality television show.

Meanwhile, Ramsay is getting sued by a New York restaurant manager for the US version of "Kitchen Nightmares". It seems kind of silly because there were 4 seasons of the show in UK for the guy to watch if he wanted to know what he was getting himself into. -------- AUTHOR: Nate DATE: 5/26/2007 02:42:00 PM ----- BODY:
I'm bored. It's Memorial Day and everyone's away for the weekend. Hence... more Saturday Morning Song Fun... Click below for a fun depressing reworking of Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone"... Since U Been Gone When Flynn and I play this we like to Kurt Cobain it up by inserting "All Apologies" into it too.

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-------- AUTHOR: Nate DATE: 4/22/2007 01:35:00 PM ----- BODY:
New Song Fun! This is a song I wrote about Coney Island thinking about how it's going to be so different next year after the end of the summer. Enjoy! Or cruelly, silently, refuse to listen. Do that if you must, enemies of fun. You others... here are the lyrics and the song: A Coney Island Elegy A Coney Island Elegy We made plans to meet on Sunday afternoon It was halfway between us It seemed like a reason A great way to cap off the season So I must have Rip Van Winkled cuz I woke up late But I ran to the train, maybe she still be there anyway I took the F all the way to the sea Instead of her eyes of blue, all I saw was green But Coney Island washed away And somewhere my baby’s in the bay Returning back to whence it came I guess it’s going to be that kind of day You see the coaster, it’s peeking out There’s the killer curve, where girls would always shout They’d grab your hand, or squeeze your knee But those are underwater memories See there’s Nathan’s hot dog stand, my those buns are getting wet But there’s no eating contest now, just the fish are getting fed We said we start there, she said I’m a cheap date But I guess the start was how we’d end things today Because Coney Island washed away And somewhere my baby’s in the bay Returning back to whence it came I guess it’s going to be that kind of day A radio, it’s that song by the Drifters I’m under the boardwalk, and man how I miss her The Wonder Wheel paddles by, and I’m wondering why Why did I sleep in so long, and I started to cry Who should I see but Woody Guthrie, clinging to a tree He called out, “Are you looking for your baby?” Woody said lemmee help you out, ya see I wrote this song Because I’ve been marooned here all along Because Coney Island washed away And somewhere my baby’s in the bay Returning back to whence it came I guess it’s going to be that kind of day

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-------- COMMENT-AUTHOR:Blogger Frannie Parker COMMENT-DATE:9:21 AM COMMENT-BODY:Way to go Rip Van Winkle! --------