http://www.deshead.com Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:07:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No One Will Ever Love Me  --  listen[mp3]I've said it before: Listen to enough Old 97s and songs like this basically write themselves. It's unapologetically alt-country, familiar terrain for me. (See: Whole Story, Another Day Another Bottle, and even Old Guys.) PRODUCTION - There are 2 acoustic guitars, 2 rhythm electrics, and 1 lead ... http://www.deshead.com/index.php/7345 Nothing Left  --  listen[mp3] STORYGirl leaves boy unexpectedly, boy writes song. PRODUCTIONA deliberate exercise in minimalism, with the hope that the whole would end up greater than the sum of the parts. I underplayed everything: Straight backbeat on the drums, lock-step bass guitar and kick, no fancy strumming, no drum rolls. I think this song ... http://www.deshead.com/index.php/7344 Won't Be Long  --  listen[mp3]Some folks on Songfight put together a songwriting contest called NUR EIN. It's half Survivor, half Idol, with judges for the first few rounds and a jury-of-the-ousted for the finale. There are more details at the NUR EIN site. This song is my entry for round one, "Pencil Me ... http://www.deshead.com/index.php/7325 Funny Feeling (Not Exactly Normal)  --  listen[mp3]This is the last of 14 songs I wrote for FAWM, a challenge for songwriters to write an album in 28 days. (71 of us finished. That's a lot of songs...) It's also a Songfight title, so be sure to check out the Not Exactly Normal ... http://www.deshead.com/index.php/7324 Here's a simple method for getting alcohol undetected into places that don't allow liquor. It's especially useful for concerts and festivals at which beverages from outside are permitted. The surgery you'll perform on a drinking box, below, is indiscernible even under scrutiny, so the big guy who checks your bag won't ... http://www.deshead.com/index.php/7323 You're pretty annoying. I'm just saying, you didn't have to combine your love of air raid sirens and your unhealthy obsession with homemade wearable helmet-mounted megaphones. But I'm here to help. See, it's not a crime to annoy people, just like it's not a crime to win back their affection ... http://www.deshead.com/index.php/7321 Canadian beer drinkers live in interesting times. Studies show that we're drunker than ever, and really, it's no wonder. We have products to facilitate cheap public drinking, and since you only rent the stuff, cheap public ... opposite of drinking. We have a solution to the oft-expressed complaint, "my beer, ... http://www.deshead.com/index.php/7319 Other Places I Have Lived  --  listen[mp3]I've been busy finishing a proper album (more on that soon,) and haven't had much time for song writing. But last week it occurred to me that I've been sending stuff to Songfight for a year now. So maybe it was nostalgia, or maybe it was ... http://www.deshead.com/index.php/7318 Earlier this year, Austin Aitken filed suit against NBC because he barfed watching contestants on Fear Factor eat some rat meat. Austin Aitken is a culturally insensitive wuss. The French have eaten rodents for over 100 years, a practice exemplified by this recipe for Souris a la creme. And in Thailand, ... http://www.deshead.com/index.php/7317 A brief pedantic moment: Doesn't the expression "World's Longest Undefended Border" imply that there are longer, defended borders? There aren't. Lots of countries have longer total land boundaries than Canada or the U.S., but the next closest shared border length, that of the Russia - Kazakhstan border, is over 2,000 ... http://www.deshead.com/index.php/7315