MaggotyAnne
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The best concerts I've ever been to were all $10-$15. The really expensive ones over where I live are usually in overcrowded venues with shitty sound quality, they only cost so much because the bands are popular. Fortunately for me, most of the bands I really like are pretty underground. I would shell out to see, say, Beirut or Arcade Fire, but they're elitist bastards who have never come near enough.
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I hate screamo, it sounds like adolescent girls. But old punk is alright, like Fear.
I never scream, I'm the stereotypical image of an opera singer.
"Shh! I've got to conserve my voice!"
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Hellooo!
I am an angsty teenager trying to overcome my horrendous use of cliches. I'm full well aware it's impossible to avoid them completely at this point, but I'm still going to try.
I play the piano and sing. I can read music, and have been sing in choirs since 4th grade.
I mostly play Dark Cabaret, but I like to write funeral marches for fun. I try way too hard to write sophisticated sarcastic lyrics, and have ridiculously high expectations of myself. I've written about five song lyrics, countless melodies, asnd one complete song. I'm not that great a pianist yet, but I'm trying.
I like:
Harlequin Jones
Jason Webley
The Dresden Dolls
Voltaire
The Tiger Lillies
Rozz Williams
Jill Tracy
The Guild of Funerary Violinists
I also like 70's punk and it's demented offspring (Gogol Bordello!), Indie stuff like Beirut, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Arcade Fire, and Okkerville River, and Elliott Smith. But my stuff doesn't sound like that.
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I've started to experiment with blues scales. It's weird for me because I don't really listen to the blues, but it's what I'm writing. At least I know I'm being original.
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Conor Oberst doesn't have a very good voice and his melodies aren't that great, but his songwriting is amazing.
We must talk in every telephone, get eaten off the web
We must rip out all the epilogues from the books that we have read
Into the face of every criminal strapped firmly to a chair
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare
We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
Into the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing
And it'll go like this, all right
While my mother waters plants, my father loads his gun
He says, "Death will give us back to God
Just like the setting sun
Is returned to the lonesome ocean"
We must blend into the choir, sing as static with the whole
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul
Into this endless race for property and privilege to be won
We must run, we must run, we must run
We must hang up in the belfry where the bats and moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
Into the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge
And then we'll get down there
Way down to the very bottom of everything
And then we'll see it, oh, we'll see it! We'll see it! We’ll see it!
Oh, my morning's coming back
The whole world’s waking up
All the city buses swimming past
I'm happy just because
I found out I am really no one
The plot developement is superb, and he doesn't use repetitive choruses. I want to learn how not to do that.
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That was painful.
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Do you know how to do it properly? It can be really dangerous.
I'm just starting to really take care of my voice. I'm breaking the habit of constantly clearing my throat (Tourettes syndrome, but I can actually quit thanks to the meds I'm on), I'm drinking lots more water than I used to to thin the mucus in my throat, and I've been using moisterizing nasal spray. And I've been refusing to talk when my throat hurts. I don't think I've damaged it that much yet, but I don't want to anymore. Though I probably know more about the vocal process because of my background in choral singing.