Double Blind.

I had to record the songs that I wrote for my Commercial Songwriting class.

The CD is due tomorrow so I'm up at 4 am finishing them up. I fully intended on singing and playing into one mic but decided to go a little fancy. So these are the results - A little rough but nice enough.

Please be gentle because, as I already mentioned, I recorded these between 12 and 4 am with only one or two takes.

So check out: www.myspace.com/alexskidmoremusic.

There's more coming...I promise.

To whet your earbuds, We've got a song in the final mixing that includes Cello and Sephra (who can also be heard on Reconnect The Wires).

Enjoy!

Happiness Writes White.

I am naturally drawn to writing whenever I'm stressed out or upset about something. It's how I find my way out of the cloudiness. Writing out my thoughts and expressing those feelings helps me figure it out or at least get it off of my chest.
So it's very fitting that I haven't been writing lately, as things have been so good lately. It feels that this semester I have continuously met positive influences that have also brought along opportunities.
I finally feel like I know what I'm doing. I've declared my minor and mapped out the path I'm taking in my major. My next semester of classes looks to be a great one.
I guess, for the first time in a long time I am happy. There are things that I wish were different but I am happy.

But I think that I avoid writing when I feel this way because I feel that I have nothing to say. Nothing of value. It becomes more of an update to my life rather than something I've learned or am learning. And I know that we learn thru every experience - good and bad - but I feel that things pop out more during the dark times. It's during those times that we are tested and kept on our toes and we learn the most about ourselves. We learn what obstacles we can overcome and to what depths we stoop. It's at these crossroads that we find out who we really are. We face our mortality and humanity and that is what I find worth writing about.
But I must remind myself that life is good; and while it is filled with despair and beauty within that, there is this other kind that is just beautiful. And to truly enjoy life, that needs to be admired just as much.

One Day Without Shoes.

Would You?

Alright, so I wrote a song earlier in the week and meant to post the lyrics. I'm currently in the midst of recording a demo of it which will be up once completed. I will consider it one of my favorite songs until I write something else that is better.
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Would you watch the sunrise with me
In a field with no one around
See the light in your hair, golden brown

We could lie in the grass on our backs
And rearrange the clouds with our minds
With each color, oh we could paint a whole new life

As the world comes out of her slumber
I know that there's something so much more beautiful
So would you let me look in your eyes
To see the light that lights up my sky

When it rains will you walk beside me
Thru the dark in a land we don't know
Down roads we swore we would never go

We can cry about last summer
Look back on our time together
And wonder why we ever said goodbye

There's no such thing as forever
Just as flowers die, so will you and I
But don't you worry, Death is the only
One who will ever take me from your side

Would you watch the stars shine with me
If you're cold you can wear my sweater
We'll close our eyelids together, yeah