Songs

The Two Bit Recordings, Part 2

In Songs on 1 June 2003 with Comments Off

Another song from that 1994 session. It’s melancholy and dramatic and my voice cracks at the end. Perfect.
MP3: 4mb: Powazek-StormClouds.mp3

The Two Bit Recordings

In Songs on 27 May 2003 with Comments Off

Back in college, my friends Jed and Roz and I would break into a UCSC classroom in the middle of the night and set up a makeshift recording studio. Jed had the keys to the sound room, and no one really used the classrooms at night, so we could make a racket undetected. At the [...]

Sure you’re out there

In Songs on 3 May 2003 with Comments Off

Another song for those of you who liked the last one. I can’t be sure of the date on this one - it’s one of the few I didn’t date when I scrawled it down - but I’m sure it’s from the same era: early college, ten years ago, pissed off as hell. And it’s [...]

Ten years time

In Creativity, Songs on 30 April 2003 with Comments Off

Ten years ago, if you’d asked me what I was, my answer would have been “songwriter.” This was before the internet had given me the confidence to tell my stories. Before the web even existed. Back when the most pressing thing in my life was picking up the pieces of my heart that kept spilling [...]