New Songs…
Everyone:
We have the two new singles available for download through snocap: You can preview them in the player below AND purchase them. Here is some background on each tune.
sims life:
I was walking to work one day and passed this advertisement promoting a new high rise development being built downtown. The models in it were not real people, but cartoon characters with ‘perfect bodies and perfect teeth’. Each was holding a martini and toasting the charlotte skyline. I instantly wanted to be them. They were worry free, hip, and beautiful – i was barely awake walking to a job that i disliked and wearing pants that fit very awkwardly.
People do unplug from the world and we all have our ’sims’ that we play. Whether it is being exclusive with our circle of friends, playing warcraft, or working too much – we do what makes us feel safe and validated. The world we live in requires risk and sometimes wearing pants that don’t fit. live strong.
good to your momma:
I recently have come to realize that I do not have to be nice to everyone on the planet. Not that I go out of my way to be mean, but I realize that I have a finite measure of human ‘niceness’ that only goes so far. This song is about trying to escape ‘niceness’ that clogs the passages of true dialogue. My mom called me and was upset with me about this song so I hope that she reads this and sees its meaning(hi mom!)
‘you gotta be good to the killers and the predators’. This is the other theme of the song and speaks of giving goodness to people that do not deserve any. This is strange thing that feels strangely right – even though I can’t tell you why. Maybe it’s because they are so far from grace that to deny it to them would be to deny the very reason that grace exists. So, ‘no’ I do not believe in the death penalty. As gandalf says in Lord of the rings(paraphrased), ‘many men deserve death and many deserve life, can you give it to them? do not be too hasty in dealing out death and judgement’.
