new music: "Dues"

Here's a lil songseed from last night.

Words:

That's what she said to me
I don't have to pay my dues

Music:


Download it: http://abitofnonsense.com/mp3/dues.mp3

As always, contact me if you want more info, higher quality stuff or garageband files to play around with. i'm working on streamlining this process.

Also contact me if you want me to work more on a song seed that you like. You just may help me finish a song!

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new music: Nevabefo'

I enjoy creating new words. It's such a glorious feeling to run a Google search with no results - it's as if the Gods of the Internet are saying, "You're original! You're a trailblazer! A pioneer! Nobody has thought of that word before!*"

*and put it on a website


In this case, the word that has appeared on the internet never before is: nevabefo. It means "never before."

Nevabefo:

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video: Magic ABC's!

Here's a music video I made for "The Alphabet Song" from Super Simple Songs, my school's original ESL/EFL CDs.





ACTUALLY, this "video" is really a stop-motion animation. It's a slideshow of about 650-700 individual photos, which I snapped one-by-one over the course of several hours. It was intense.

Q: Jeremy, why did you spend several hours gently nudging magnetic letters around a whiteboard?

A: Because that's my job, and it's awesome!


I teach English some days, and I make videos other days. The videos are to help spread the word about Super Simple Songs, which are CD's full of fun English songs for kids. Super Simple Songs are all written and performed by Devon, Troy and Tanja, the other teachers here at Knock Knock English.

Here are some more of the Super Simple Songs videos I've created over the past several months:

www.youtube.com/SuperSimpleSongs

If you press the orange subscribe button on that page, you can find out whenever I post a new Super Simple Songs video.

Know anybody who might enjoy these videos? Like any ESL teachers or 3-year-olds? If so, send them the video links! Even better yet, put me in contact with them!

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song: You're Telling Me

I planted a new songseed in the Creative Forest. It's called "You're Telling Me."

Here are the approximate lyrics:

you're telling me to go other ways/
i don't wanna go other ways/
i wanna go the way that i want to/
and if you don't want me to go that way/
then i'm sorry/

i can go this way if i want to/
i can go that way if i want to/

so far awaaaaaay/
from effectin me/
you're so far awaaaaay/
from havin an effect on me/
yeah/

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Something Upon Which We Can All Agree.

Whether your black or white, young or old, straight or gay, I think we can pretty much all agree...

...that Gargamel, the bad guy from The Smurfs, looks kind of like Danny DeVito.

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Nagi

This is possibly the cutest video clip I've ever put online. You can read the story below.







This is Nagi. from Knock Knock

The Story:

Nagi is a student at Knock Knock English, the school where I teach English here in Japan. Nagi and her Mama came in one day during their free time, because they wanted me to video her singing her new rap song. While I was setting some stuff up for the real video, we were listening to her favorite song by the Black Eyed Peas. She decided to record herself with my computer's video camera, and the footage was too precious to ignore.

You can find a bunch more videos I've made with Knock Knock English here: www.supersimplesongs.com/videos.htm

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Consolidation

It's Sunday afternoon, 3:57pm. I'm spending the weekend consolidating.



Consolidating my blogs.

Consolidating my YouTube accounts.

Consolidating my websites.

Consolidating myself.

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song: Polishedness

Here's a song I started (and finished) over the last hour. It's kind of representative of my current drive to share things online, regardless of their level of completion and refinement. If I only shared things when i felt they were completely finished and perfect, I'd pretty much never share anything.

So, I'm gonna start taking the extreme opposite approach -- just tossing each thing up here after my first sitting or two with it. As always, feel free to download it, enjoy it, remix it, etc.

Lemme know if you do anything cool.

j-chap

Some of the lyrics:

I'm happy right now.

1:34am

Sunday

Sometime in 2007. May-ish.

5th? 6th? 4th? Around there...

polishedness is overrated
polishedness is overrated
polishedness is overrated
polishedness is overrated

what's the point of finishing everything if you ain't gonna finish anything, know what i mean?
listen
what's the point of making it perfect if it's at the expense of never finishing it?

be okay with it not being okay, okay?

be okay with it not being perfect, and,
you'll find that you can finish it and it's always worth it

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