Tag: fiftyninety

37 Down, 13 to Go

The lyrics are about a ghost story I found here. The whole song was written, recorded, and mixed today. Every last bit of it, all done today. I think the last time I did that might have been 2001 when I was in college.

50/90 – Two Month Update

I did nothing musical today. I thought about it, but that was it.

So tomorrow is September first, and we will be into the final month of the challenge. Where do I stand right now?

I tried to view this thing as three album-in-a-month deals, with a goal of 17 songs per month. In July I completed 14 song and had an additional eight in progress. In August I completed 13 new songs and finished the eight left over from July. I also started but haven’t finished six more songs. That’s 35 finished and 41 total. The 17 per month goal would mean 34 complete at this point. Believe it or not, I’m ahead of the pace.

Now I just have to keep up the pace and not get lazy so that I can have the whole mess finished before October first.

35 Songs Down, 15 More to Go

I mixed two songs tonight. I wanted to get some guitar playing in, but we’ll just have to settle for the mixes.


This one is sort of about how much money Market Basket lost during the whole CEO fiasco. Now that it’s over I haven’t been into a store yet, but I will at some point this weekend.


Tonight’s second song is about being a teenager who knows everything. I guess. Sort of. Something like that. Originally it was going to be about how the music sounds like Journey and how much that pissed me off. But somehow it turned into a high school kinda thing. I guess. Sort of.

33 Songs Down, 17 to Go

Lyrics inspired by a Facebook conversation about my niece’s first two days of kindergarten. Sort of. I guess.

Musically, this one may have been written in the Trapp Family Lodge*. The Hills are Alive with the Sound of GarageBand for iPad.

*It may have been written the night after we stayed at the Trapp Family Lodge. I can’t remember. It was the first song idea I messed with during our Canadian vacation in July, I know that for sure.

Song of the Day

The music for this was written in a hotel room in upstate New York. How rock and roll is that?? The lyrics are the second in a growing group of songs inspired by folk stories I found on a website. Here’s a link to this story. It’s about a guy who was famous for tall tales and cider.

Music for Labor Day Weekend

Tonight’s edition of the 50/90 song post is a little ditty about the annual college student moving day crushing that the city of Boston goes through over Labor Day Weekend.

Happy double parking, moving trucks driving the wrong way on one way streets, red lights are just suggestions weekend, Boston! WOOHOO