AREA 52 UPDATE

I knew weeks like this were a-coming.

I've been working ahead, trying to get more than one song done in a week, because I was a Boy Scout for all of three months (my mom couldn't afford a uniform and I remember even in the third grade thinking the whole conformist vibe was kind of bogus, especially since when I was eight years old I figured I'd be about where Mel Gibson is today, if you catch my messianic drift, and no, I don't know what went wrong, aside from the whole reality-kicking-in part. You don't have to say it, I already know), and in those three months the one thing I learned was that sometimes being prepared is a good thing.

So I've been working ahead for a rainy day, and this week it rained in Area 52. I wrote a sweet little song about seeing a friend of mine in a TV commercial (for a very embarrassing product that propriety forbids me to share, for the moment), and after fucking & mucking with it for three days this week, it just wasn't coming. There are two breaks in the middle that, despite the round-the-clock efforts of the greatest minds of my generation, remained unfilled.

I hate that.

So I got home from this Oscar party last night, thinking less about how sick I got watching Renee Zellweger squint and wince and preen through her speech and more about what-the-fuck-now, and then I realized. The Song About Drowning!

I stayed up all night remixing it, and I present it to you here. Enjoy the pants percussion, yet another Innovation By Necessity(tm) here at Nero labs, and the best guitar solo I ever played.

Being coherent at work is for wusses.