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Bassist Wanted

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John the egomaniac singer

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Popularity rank 71 #83. Mom helps write

November 29, 2005

MOM: Honey, your soup is ready. And Daniel... play C#sus, NOT Dmin7.
JOHN: Jesus, Mom! Will you leave him alone?! Dan, man, sorry, dude....

DAN: No, she's right, it fits better with your melody....
JOHN: Man... do not encourage her...

MOM: Now, move to D, transition into picking, and alernate up- and downstrokes.

DAN: Move to... OK, wait, what?
MOM: And there's Cokes and juice in the fridge.
JOHN: There's carrots in here! Mom! Jesus!!

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Popularity rank 72 #82. Almost midnight, half-a-song

November 28, 2005

JOHN: Dan, we have 10 minutes left before midnight and only half-a-song.
DAN: Well, instead of song-a-day, can't it be, like, song-every-24 hrs?

JOHN: Ooo... I like that. Yeah.
DAN: Well, OK, we started writing at 8:30. Then we watched "Monster Garage".

JOHN: Yeah, that clearly shouldn't count as part of the 24 hours.
DAN: Right, so 9:30. Though then I watched half of "Fools Rush In".

JOHN: I thought you were peeing.
DAN: Then "Iron Chef", "Good Eats"... whoa. We wrote this half-a-song in, like, 15 minutes!

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Popularity rank 73 #81. First words that come to mind

November 25, 2005

JOHN: OK, come on, song-a-day. We're overthinking this. Look, just give me a word, and I'll say the first few words that come to mind. Those'll be the lyrics.

DAN: OK... "vegetable".

JOHN: Um... all right... "staring blankly at the wall... my mind is gone... I drool, I fall... here or there... I'm always... in... in my wheelchair."

JOHN: Hmm. Pretty God damn touching actually.
DAN: Totally. A song about a disabled dude. We could, like, win an Oscar, John.

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Popularity rank 74 #80. I’ll riff, you think of lyrics

November 24, 2005

JOHN: OK, OK, a song-a-day, starting today. So... first song....
DAN: Why don't I just riff? Maybe that'll get you thinking of lyrics.

JOHN: OK, sure.
DAN: So... how about... like....

JOHN: OK. Dan, this... this just sounds like "China Girl".
DAN: Hey! It is "China Girl"! I didn't know I could play that! Cool!

JOHN: Damn it, Dan! Focus! Focus, man!
DAN: OK, but hey: with this, "El Scorcho", and "Little Indian Princess"... we could totally do like an "Asian Subcontinent" medley.

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Popularity rank 75 #79. Let’s write about stuff we care about

November 23, 2005

JOHN: OK, song-a-day. Now... the best songs come from the heart. Let's write about stuff we care about.
DAN: OK. Hmm... OK.

DAN: Well, OK, dude, how about like oil and the Middle East? Like it's like all... you know, and... I mean, oil companies, and... it's corruption, man. They're protected by corruption.

JOHN: OK. OK, man, I'll write that down as a potential topic.
DAN: Yeah. Definite potential.

JOHN: How was Syriana, by the way?
DAN: Good.

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