Trex - Walk Around

This is a kinda cute piano and vocal ditty about my family's pets (Woodie, Peta, Daffy). I recorded it while visiting my parents in Charlottesville.

Kinda dumb piano idea.

This explains the chords in "Other Idea". Not that that song needed any more attention.

Trying to play punk/rock on piano. Hmm...

Sick-sounding cyclic licks. Get it? Short.

I guess I was getting psyched about my upcoming travels. Too bad I didn't have enough stamina or creativity to stretch this song out a bit!

I was back in Alexandria, and back on guitar. Singing about something that I have long since forgotten.

My "throne" was the piano bench.

I was back down in Charlottesville, flailing away on piano again. There's a couple nice solo attempts in here, but lots of sloppiness. I had more enthusiasm than skill, which usually happens when I return to an instrument for the first time in months.

The semi-interesting trills in the beginning segue into a boring piano dirge. Zzzzzz...

Silly song whose words of advice I have never been able to heed. The music is kinda decent. The lyrics are funny.

My car's timing belt died when I was driving back home to Alexandria from visiting my parents in Charlottesville. The "funny" thing is that my dad had just been telling me that weekend that I should get the timing belt checked. What an annoying coincidence!

This "song" is my "live" commentary on what happened. It's "interesting". "Right"?

I have a video of the broken-down car. I haven't reviewed it yet, but I'm pretty sure the date was mid-May. Hopefully when I review it I will get an exact date. I'm guessing that the piano songs recorded right before came from that same week.

Simple guitar riff with an explanation. Short. This was the last bit of music I recorded I Alexandria. Sniff.

I was remarking on my low alcohol tolerance. In the background is "Demian", from Tripecac's College Collection.

Back in Charlottesville. Back to boring riffs on piano. This one is supposed to be reggae, but I got bored so ruined it.

I'm guessing that this and the next several piano songs were recorded in June, after I had moved out of my Alexandria apartment and into my parents' house while preparing for my first Alaska trip.

This reminded me of Julian Cope's "Rite" projects. It's okay.

I thought this sounded like a dull lullaby. Snore. Actually, it's kinda pretty at times. In a "snore" sort of way.

I was trying to play "Suspect Device" by the Stiff Little Fingers, but, well... Now you know why I don't play cover songs.

I think the title is a combination of ghoul and Gould. I was reading some science writing by Stephen Jay Gould. I don't know how the "ghoul" fits in. Maybe I thought the music sounded haunting? It doesn't. It's just repetitive and semi-trancy.

One of the dogs started barking towards the end, probably because someone was coming home. That's what gives the song its title.

What gives the song its annoying cheesiness? My brain, that's what!

I guess I had just seen one of the dogs' legs moving in his/her sleep. Time to write a song about it!

It's a decent mid-tempo improv, pretty at times, sloppy and/or boring at [most] other times. You can hear one of the dogs shaking its collar in the background.

Chasing the bus / chasing the biscuit. Get it? I was getting read to take my first Alaska trip. My plan was to take a bus from Charlottesville to Bellingham, where I would catch the ferry to Alaska.

The music is repetitive and driving. Hmm. Driving. Get it???

This song was named after the neighbors' little white dog, who was a real brat. It's very fast, blurry, and kinda annoying, just like Zippy.

This isn't as bad as the title. It actually has a nice melody to it. Relatively speaking. I doubt I could whip up something this tuneful today. I'm too old and boring now.

This was my attempt at a bossanova pattern. Did I work? Don't know and don't care. Thankfully, the recording fades as quickly as my interest.

I'm pretty sure it was recorded on a different day than "Banging".

This mindless reggae pattern accellerates. Wow, how neat! Not.

This was recorded on the same day as "Bossanotsonova".

Another not-so-new sounding bossanova practice. Blech.

This was recorded on the same day as "Bossanotsonova".

I was getting bored of the piano and my keyboard's fake drums, and was thinking about buying drums. Of course, I never did, because drums are incredibly loud, and most of the time I lived in apartments.

This song is okay. Par. In other words: pretty horrible. Its gets better towards the end, though.

I have a note that says this song was recorded before 1997-06-12.

I'm not sure what other songs (if any) were recorded on this date.

This songs seems like mostly intro (preparation). As soon as the main theme gets started, the song quickly ends. The title refers to preparing for my first Alaska trip.

This song starts off slow and constrained but about 1/3 of the way speeds up and then turns into an improv. It felt like it was a dog that was "unleashed" and running wild.

I guess I was worried that something would prevent me from going to Alaska. I don't remember what the threat was. Must not have been that serious.

The music is okay. The beginning is similar to "Peta and Woodie", which was recorded a few minutes, hours, or days later.

Final words. Blame the equipment!