Laura

This is from my electronic album "This Mountain Will" under the moniker, "Satellite Boy"

Musically, I think I was going for Soft Cell with a driving beat, inspired by Radar Love from Golden Earring. By that rationale, I guess I should have named it Tainted Radar Love. I can't explain why I went with a -1940's era crooner- voice, but it's my favorite part of the song.

The name came from a series of recurring dreams about a giant tortoise, imprisoned in a bamboo cage in the jungle. I would stumble upon this creature and he would shove his head through the bamboo bars and scream, "FIND ME LAURA!" Although, he may have been saying, "FIND ME, LAURA!" Either way, it's a troubling dream.

The noises at the end are from hitting the weather button on my police scanner and recording multiple tracks with reverb. There's also a subliminal message spoken quietly as the song fades, but I cannot remember what it was, or to whom it was aimed.

Tell me how you feel after listening to it. Maybe we will get a clue about that message.

To Build a Robot

A quick blueprint for a robot made from misc. stuff and things.

This will be my current side-side project. I will have a robot in my house shortly. Long overdo, really. If this "sculpture from junk" turns out well, I will be making others to sell. I just think it should be that sort of world.

SINNER

This song came to me as I was falling asleep on the couch. I woke myself up and went straight into the studio. I wrote and recorded it in about 30 minutes because I just wanted a rough demo that I could polish up later. When I played it back though, there was nothing I could think of to add to it. So, I mixed it down and called it good. I tend to favor the songs that I record in this fashion. I guess it's because I don't have time to fret over trying to make it perfect and it just sounds more natural. Or maybe I just like my voice better when I'm sleepy.

The visuals in my head, when I wrote the lyrics, were set in a Spaghetti Western, despite the Middle-Eastern accents. A guy tells his wife he's been cheating. He's sorry and ashamed. The other woman hurt him somehow and he comes crawling back to his wife asking for forgiveness. She doesn't give it to him. So he takes her out back and throws her into an old well. It's an awful story. And I don't know that it has a moral. I just liked the pathetic and hopeless imagery of it.

Just a short while after mixing the tracks, I saw the clearest UFO I have ever seen in my entire life.

That story will come soon.