Episode 154-Apologies

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/20/items/CeskyLivesEpisode154-apologies/CLEP154-Apologies.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This week's tune is a Mandolin, synth and Bongo's thing based on a bunch of ideas and things that came up in a chat I had on the weekend with a buddy of mine. Talk of the world ending, prophets and the like, and I threw in Joan of Arc because everybody who writes songs seems to do that at some point, she's a great character/real life extremely interesting figure.

 

After the chat when my buddy was off home I kinda felt like I'd said some overly negative things, he probably didn't care but I felt crappy about it, hence the title and also the second verse.

 

Hope it's a fun listen anyways, it was super fun to record. Thanks for your time, and ears.

Here's a video for the tune too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjuUOO7r2GQ&feature=youtu.be

Episode 153-Silver Satellites

 

 

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/35/items/CeskyLivesEpisode153-silverSatellites/Clep153-silverSatellites.mp3

Hello listeners. This week's tune is kind of an obvious choice of subject matter, it's a collection of four Bowie related memories, one being a super early memory of hearing Pin Ups on my parents record player, the next one being when I was a teenager and an older friend of mine saying him and his girlfriend from his teenage years used to play Bowie records in her room and feel like they were someplace else, like they were part of something bigger than the small town nothing going on mentality that they were subjected to most of the time. The next is another earlier memory of Molly Meldrum asking Bowie about his sexual exploits on telly, Molly kinda PG tiptoed around bisexuality and Bowie laughed it off saying you can't believe everything you read, (this was super cool 80's Bowie, I think he was just pointing out how irrelevant that line of questioning was).

Then there's me playing Space Oddity to my kids on the acoustic guitar at bed times, and also Boys Keep Swinging, (they loved that one, I hammed it up good). Full circle, now my own kids are Bowie fans, in fact aside from the Beatles he's the only artist my youngest son can remember the name of and my eldest is turning ten on Thursday, he's old enough to proper dig the man and his songs, and he totally does. Losing David Bowie sucks hairy balls, he's put out some great tunes to say goodbye with but it's a guarantee that if he had more time there'd be more tunes.

I hope this is a nice listen anyways, it's a simple thing, like always, maybe you can relate, surely anyone who digs what I'm doing for some unknown reason definitely digs Bowie for all the obvious reasons.

Thanks for your time, here's a video too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJgja5LnLw4&feature=youtu.be

Episode 152-A Long Way Down

 

https://ia601508.us.archive.org/3/items/CeskyLivesEpisode152-aLongWayDown/Clep152-aLongWayDown.mp3

 

Hello listeners. I got Bongo drums for Christmas, I love them, they're in this weeks song. This one's about going to church again after a while away from the place and being not sure really what I believe in, and the way the place presents itself, the odd feeling of being in a room full of certainty. I want to believe like I used to, but I don't see it happening, I'm lookin for a new way, and am incredibly curious as to how people get to where they are in life, attitudes and the like, beliefs, it's kinda fascinating.

On a side note, the image above is from a cartoon called Clarence, if you haven't seen it look it up, it's the greatest.

 

Here's a video/drawing for this weeks tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB9dv2_zZj0&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for listening.

Episode 151-Invisible Girl

 

https://ia601504.us.archive.org/29/items/CeskyLivesEpisode151-invisibleGirl/Clep151-invisibleGirl.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this song came about through a bit of a word jam with a buddy of mine, Ryan Nazzari, whose approach to art and life and the like had an influence on how some of these words turned out, as well as his actual presence and ideas. It's a "come on dude, look at yourself!" kind of a thing aimed squarely at myself. I get caught up in wishing for life to bring me some kinda miracle lady friend, and I have a tendency to see people in a big rosy spotlight quite often, so I've lumped all those rosy spotlight moments into this imaginary ideal in this song and am telling myself to quit that shit. It's not perfect, I'll probably add to it later but this weekly thing is the rough as guts stuff, fresh from the brain. 

Hopefully it's a fun listen, many thanks for your time.

Here's a video for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIrqWsypIaY&feature=youtu.be

 

 

Episode 150-Visible Ribs

 

https://ia601507.us.archive.org/20/items/CeskyLivesEpisode150-visibleRibs/Clep150-visibleRibs.mp3

 

Hello listeners, this weeks tune is about me being a lonely, pacing about the place crazy person in recent times. End of a long year tiredness is train wrecking me, nevertheless I can turn it into a song that sounds cowboy-ish in parts and is fun to play, so there's a positive spin, there's always a positive spin. I've tried a new idea for the video if you wanna have a look, make a drawing about the song, take as long as you want to make said drawing and then squish the footage to fit the tune so that it's sped up, thought maybe it'd be more interesting to watch than watching me layered over me playing instruments poorly. Anyways, thanks for your time and ears, both of which are appreciated. Hope you enjoy.

Here's the video link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh5LaEYhaJ4&feature=youtu.be

 

Episode 149-Lazer Guns

 

https://ia601500.us.archive.org/9/items/CeskyLivesEpisode149-lazerGuns/Clep149-lazerGuns.mp3

 

Hello listeners. On the inside of late I've been an exhausted grumpy bum, but instead of succumbing to that I just wrote some silly lyrics that are just kinda cartoony images and such and played my electric along with them because I love that thing, it cheers me up. I heavily 'borrowed' some of the melody from this song: http://mindcanary.bandcamp.com/track/jukebox-by-the-bay

written by my buddy Conal Savins, it wasn't intentional, it just kinda happened, therefore to alleviate my guilt you should buy there EP from that link I just gave you, also you should do this because it's really great.

Hope this is a fun listen anyways and thanks for your time.

Here's a video for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dFJvsuXKm8&feature=youtu.be

Episode 148-Kes

 

https://ia601506.us.archive.org/21/items/CeskyLivesEpisode148-kes/CLEP148-Kes.mp3

Hello listeners, this week's tune is a super simple ukulele thing recorded in one take because of I'm a bit exhausted and that's all I got in me, (there's a little bit of I guess you'd call it lead ukulele over the top, but nuthin fancy). It's about a character from Star Trek Voyager, (a spin off series from the original Star Trek), called Kes, she was an 'Ocamapan', who only lived for 9 years but was super advanced, especially in regards to humanitarian things, (or universarian....? something that equates in space anyways).

As a 16 year old boy, number one, I dug the moses out of Voyager, it was a weekly ritual and cheered me up no-end, distracting me from my teenage angsty head stuck in a book wishing everybody would leave me the fuck alone life, and number two, I had a huge crush on Kes, I've recently re-watched a little of the show and I'd say it's probably her voice that did me in, I still have a thing for voices.

Anyways, she was dropped from the show and replaced by a character called 7 of 9, played by Jeri Ryan, the writers claim to add conflict, but anybody who's seen her knows they just put her in there to bring in more viewers who like to oggle bodies, I didn't develop a crush on her, her voice was annoying. Also, recently the woman who played Kes, Jennifer Lien, exposed herself to her neighbours kids while abusing her neighbour on her bad parenting and was arrested and dragged away nude, refusing to get dressed, threatening to kill the officers who were arresting her, all of this is in the song, on top of a reference to a chat I had with a work friend whose marriage sounds bloody awful.

All that said, it's just a super simple little tune, hope it's a nice listen and thanks for your time. If you wanna see a Bert beanie my brother bought me from the UK, it's in this weeks video:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF4_1qxS-eU&feature=youtu.be