A Day Without SCN - SCN

Had a very weird dream night before last: my parents were still married, I was at my grandparents house in Florida and I was still fucking Jason...and Kelsey Grammer. Don't ask, I have no idea where he came from.

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Here is yet more evidence of how susceptible I am to peer pressure: I finally caved and bought the Evanescence CD today. What can I say? I really like Bring me to Life, and the album was only five bucks more than the single. I'm listening to it right now. Only half way through it, but so far Bring me to Life is the best and quite possibly ONLY really good song on the whole thing. And that's because McCoy's vocals really make the song.

My Immortal? The song that all the girls are just swooning over is just a three minute whine fest. "Oh I'm so dark and tortured and he left me and now my deep and festering pain is even depper and teaming with gangreen." Gag me with a spoon why don'tcha?

The lyrics are really quite juvenile and that's the big flaw. Amy Lee has a pretty voice, and the hard guitars are killer but this band needs some serious lessons in song writing. Got me to thinking about good lyricists and if there are any new artists who write really killer songs, and so far I can't find any. All of the really mature lyricists I can think of already have very long and established careers, people like Laura Nyro, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, Tori Amos, Amy Rigby. None of the new breed of singer songwriters have matured enough to be able to write really stunning lyrics.

Vanessa Carlton? Nope, she still needs some incubation. Ditto for Michelle Branch. Avril Laveigne? Writes nothing but pure fluff. Her songs, much like Evanescence's, don't go anywhere. I'm beginning to have more and more respect for vocalists who are intelligent enough to let other people write their songs. There's no shame in admitting that you can't write lyrics. It's definitely better then writing shity ones and trying to pretend you're a serious artist.

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I love walking. Makes me so happy :) I've finally regained my stamina and can now make it to Tower Records and back with no problem. I even took TWO walks yesterday. It's nice to be back in the swing of things.

Everyday I Write the Book - SCN

When I write my first best selling, tell all memoir I'm quoting the last verse of this song in the first chapter.


Everyday I Write the Book: by Elvis Costello

Don't tell me you don't know what love is
When you're old enough to know better
When you find strange hands in your sweater
When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book


Chapter One we didn't really get along
Chapter Two I think I fell in love with you
You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three
But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six


The way you walk
The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh
In four or five paragraphs
All your compliments and your cutting remarks
Are captured here in my quotation marks


Don't tell me you don't know the difference
Between a lover and a fighter
With my pen and my electric typewriter
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal
I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel