World of Arcana

I decided to get an early start to my summer reading assignment. So, over the past four days, I’ve read two books, Catcher In The Rye and The Kite Runner. I only like one of them. If you’d like to guess which one it is, I’ll give you a hint: It’s not Catcher in the Rye.

Anyway, the work got me pretty bored, so I decided that, spur of the moment I’d write and record a song. And below you’ll find the result.

Download “Superstrings”

In other news, there’s not much news to report. I’m trying to get a competitive writing competition started on UnFiction (see here), which has gotten…meager response. As I probably could have guessed.

Sigh… I’m so alone…

*tear*

P.S. To add to the content of my life that I put on the internet and nobody reads, I’ve started a Twitter, which I will put up somewhere on the site for the nobody who visits my site to look at.

Today was a lot of fun. I participated in PuzzleCrunch 2008, an online puzzling competition, with some friends from Unfiction. We didn’t win any prizes, but the puzzle solving was fun. Like it always is on Unfiction.

Also, I’ve been trying to figure out what I was going to play at the final Good Karma Cafe on Thursday. For a while I was thinking of getting some people together to do a full radio-version of Still Alive. Failing that, it was back to the drawing board today. But I decided to give another shot to an idea that I had in October (!). It actually turned out pretty good, and I’m pretty sure it’s what I’ll do Thursday. Hopefully, a video will follow.

Anybody who knows me knows that I am notoriously good at coming up with great ideas for projects, working on them once, and then never doing anything with them again. While this obviously has some ill effects, i.e. a lot of projects that I want to do never get accomplished, it also works as an indicator to me that a project that I’ve worked on multiple times is actually worth accomplishing.

So anyway, I’m cleaning out my room today, and I find a notebook from 4 years ago. Now notebooks are where most of my failed ideas reside, so I eagerly flipped through to see what I’d forgotten about. I was greeted with the index for a book I was planning to write where I ranted about various ideas that I had thought of. I only wrote the first three chapters, but here’s the table of contents that I had come up with:

• Foreword by J.K. Rowling
• F***
• If You Took a Dog
• Communism vs. A Plate of S***
• Bad Answers
• How To Kill A Man
  _{(and other things I learned in Canada)}
• Clowns vs. Statisticians
  _{(or: Communism vs. A Plate of S*** Part II)}
• Making People Sad
  _{(or: If You Took a Dog Part II)}
• What’s Up With Oregon?
  _{(or: The (U?) S of A)}
• Flying Monkeys My Ass!
  _Intermission

Yeah, and also, as anybody who knows me knows as well, I was not very funny when I was younger. But I thought I was. And that’s all that’s important.

Today I did a little more work on a project I’m doing to come up with a list of all the songs I’ve ever written. Currently I have a list including what I believe to be all the songs I have written up to this point in its time, with the following conditions:

1. I’m not counting arrangements or covers, but I am counting parodies
2. I’m not counting any songs that I’ve written as part of a musical (though I may tally those up later)
3. I only count it as having been written if I have both written it and played it at some point in time on some instrument. There are dozens of songs that I’ve written and never even played, and I can’t remember most. So those don’t count.

Currently, the list has 64 songs on it, and I think that it’s fairly complete. The interesting thing that I’ve noticed is that I went through and italicized all the songs that I’ve written, but have never played for anybody besides myself. I’ve noticed that this is more than half of the songs, which is interesting to me. So stay tuned, I may be re-recording some songs from out of the back catalogue, for first-time ever listenings.