Mad Props to Erin Nelson
I am taking time out of my VERY busy Wednesday night (read: top chef and boston market) to issue lots and lots of props to a certain Erin Nelson of Viterbo University. She is (i believe), the first to perform, record and upload a FreshX song other than kait and i. And guess what? she sounds amazing.
Honestly, I just had a really lovely moment noticing what’s happened over this year. CC wrote a beautiful post called my heart is split, kait wrote a lyric, i set it, k+i bickered back and forth about how to finish it, and then suddenly it was done. And usually that’s all the happens, and in a few years maybe the song would have a life. But I made a pdf of the sheet music on my little mac, posted it here first, and we made a scrappy little recording. And Erin Nelson downloaded it, learned it, presumably found a piano and a pianist, and uploaded it here. I think that’s fucking rad.
So please! Other wonderful singers out there, let’s share the love, record some videos. Be like Erin Nelson, be a part of the weird creative cycle that is the freshman experiment. i swear, we’re all gonna win f’in pulitzers for this shit someday.
word, b
PS: Brian loves greasy food.
Fancy Restaurant + Excessive Sandwich From South of the Mason-Dixon Line = The Happiest Brian of Them All
Erin! You sound amazing!!! Brian’s right. This is so cool.
Erin you have a beautiful voice. I love the way you sing this song…trying to figure out exactly what that food is…I recognize bacon and maybe something cheesy under it? Looks like a heart attack on a plate!
It’s called a Kentucky Hot Brown. Bobby Flay won his challenge with it on “Throwdown with Bobby Flay” and ever since it was a goal of Brian’s to eat it. And eat it he did.
Also – We just got our second video of My Heart Is Split. This one is sung by a guy. I had my doubts about guys singing this song but it’s fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZprHME5vd0
Size 12 feet!! LOL
Hey! So my friend was pretty cool and re-mixed “My Heart is Split” without me even asking him to, and took out all the crap in the back and balanced the sound…take 2!
http://hydrideshift.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/
Great job, Erin!
Here’s another version I really like (although he does some random house cleaning at the end).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRz_tq9du2w
Actually, this video introduced me to Kerrigan and Lowdermlik.
I like that one a lot too. It’s surprising but he’s got a really great voice and there’s a really intimate and playful quality to the video overall.
I’m in LOVE with this project. I’m actually going to Viterbo next year for musical theatre and found Erin’s video- and I watched it… and watched it, facebooked it to my mt junkie friends, and in fact I’m still listening to it as I type this message. Erin did a wonderful job with this song! K&L- you guys rock.
Thank you for saying that, Amelia. That means so much to us. It’s strange to work on this project – normally the gratification of a show’s success is so delayed but here, we expect it instantly. It’s so cool when several months after something happens, I check in here and see that someone new has started reading / watching / listening and they’re looking through our archives of this year-long process.