a musical created on the internet by the award-winning writing team Kerrigan and Lowdermilk based on the lives of two young bloggers as they share the story of their freshman years of college
I’m working on Last Week’s Alcohol and I want to share with you guys what Brian just sent me. It’s cool to hear what came out of his long ramblings that he posted a couple months ago. Right now it’s 3 minutes and we anticipate the song being about 7 or 8… but this is what the basic groove will be based on.
I want you to know what you’re listening to: this isn’t what the song will be. This is the groove I’ll be listening to as I write lyrics… so the lyrics end up almost feeling like a descant above this main melody. At some point, we hope that the main motif will be sung with a lyric on it but that probably only happens once.
Take a listen. My notes so far are mostly schematic. I don’t have a plan for where the story goes yet but I’ll start to map it all out pretty soon and I’ll share this as I go.
Hey guys, I’ve been working on finishing off Pretty Girl Blues.
This first files is me bitching about the key change problems I got myself into, and the second file is me having it figured out. The truth is, however, that I’ve basically got 90 percent of it figured out and probably need to be in a room w/ kait to figure out the rest. ‘Cause we may not want a big musical build and key change into the 3rd chorus, we may want a spoken line, a little joke, something else… anyway, enjoy. I project that there will be a finished song and sheet music for this in the next week or so…
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
