Episode 46-Love Is No Miracle

https://ia601403.us.archive.org/29/items/CeskyLivesEpisode46-loveIsNoMiracle/Clep46-loveIsNoMiracle.mp3

This weeks tune is possibly the most positive song I've written in a while, it's about a sermon I heard this morning about how circus elephants were trained from when they were young to believe they can't free themselves from just a plain old rope around the ankle, because when they're young they can't, but they still believe this when they're much bigger, much stronger, and capable of setting themselves free whenever they like. In the elephants mind the rope is stronger than they are, just like people get caught up in the ways they're taught to view or define themselves by what other people have conditioned them into believing, good or bad. Also I recently saw a film called "Before Midnight, third in a series by Richard Linklater, (what a champ), which struck me as being completely honest and fantastically useful to humans in the way it looked at relationships, romantic notions are not forever, feelings can be kept alive with effort and such, but life is life, it's not romantic, it's real, devotion to someone is what it is, they either accept it and are right there with you, in an honest, this is life kinda way, or they're not, being caught up in meaningless detail or just the worlds hefty 'stuff' I guess. There's more to the film than that, I highly recommend it, it definitely plays a part in this tune being written. Also there's a bit of the usual faith and Jesus stuff in here, speaking about how God knows what we need, he knows what we are and we shouldn't hide that because it's made to be shared. This is my personal faith perspective anyways, share it or not, it's in the song, so I'm tellin' you about it. Hope you all have a great Christmas dear listeners, and I'll be back in 2014 with more tunes. You're time is much appreciated, it's really nice to share this stuff with you guys.

Episode 45-Skinny Arms Can Hold You Too

https://ia801003.us.archive.org/7/items/CeskyLivesEpisode45-skinnyArmsCanHoldYouToo/Clep45-skinnyArmsCanHoldYouToo.mp3

 

Here's episode 45, a song about buff guys as opposed to not buff guys, and how it feels sometimes to be a not buff guy when buffness is apparently preferable. This song comes from a chat I had with a couple friends who are of the female persuasion and their views on the importance of arms in a man, he's gotta have strong arms cause they can hold and protect you etc. My argument is that big strong arms don't require much brain power to be created, just exercise, which anyone can do. Personality and intelligence and such are way more difficult to come by, they take real work. Of course there's plenty of buff dudes with brains and personality I imagine but the point is there's also plenty of not buff dudes with brains and personality who feel a little overlooked in the world because appearances matter too much sometimes it seems. Anyways, this song is not overly serious, sound wise I think it needs some distortion and to be a little crazier, but in the spirit of simplicity this is a really straight cut uke version, cause that's what I wrote it on.

Episode 44-Thief

https://ia601006.us.archive.org/30/items/CeskyLivesEpisode44-thief/CLEP44-Thief.mp3

 

This weeks tune is part automatic writing, therefore I have no clue what a lot of it is about, but feelings wise it comes from my recent semi-diagnosis of a mental illness, (my psych doesn't like to put labels on people, because they don't ever fit 100%), which when reading up on I definitely connected with the recorded experience of symptoms and such. This is good and bad, good because I can look at it as an outside thing, separate myself from it, bad because I know exactly when I'm heading into it and that it won't be fun and at times is incredibly difficult. Life has improved vastly for me I have to say, getting help and the like, but every now and then there's a kind of attack I guess you'd say, a falling back into something dark and nasty, but I'm an optimistic person underneath any of that and I think that's been essential. Anyways, there's a hefty bit of oversharing for you.

I keep forgetting to mention also, I have an album out here:
http://cesky.bandcamp.com/album/stone-september

you can have it for free if you like, or throw me a few dollars if you're feeling generous.

Episode 43-All My Kin

https://ia601002.us.archive.org/5/items/CeskyLivesEpisode43-allMyKin/Clep43-allMyKin.mp3

This weeks tune is unashamedly spiritual I guess. I always seem to apologise for singing about my beliefs because I know such things are attached to a lot of dodgyness in this world, folks who believe in Jesus supposedly but who Jesus is possibly quite embarrassed by or even super incredibly mad at.Anyways, this is a song about the God that I believe in, and about humanity, and the two for me being linked. If for me there was no God, I wouldn't be alive, that's the truth, and not in some creation way, I mean that the support and meaning that God provides has saved me from death, literally, life is still a bloody great big mess, as it is for most, but I have a support, someplace to turn to, and I'm glad. I'll apologise again anyway though, or at least add a disclaimer that if you're not into spiritual things this is still just a song, and I don't want to Bible bash anybody, or alienate anyone either.