Tag: audioblog

Went out tonight to a posh Mexican restaurant near Lincoln Center (not on my dime, oh no, lol lol).

Wrote a tune on the subway ride home.

Been promising NL and kj I’d do an audioblog so here it is.  The link will take you to gabcast (at least I hope it will!), so hit “play” on episode number 8.

Gabcast! Auld Manhattoe #8

lyrics are below.

I heard from a little bird a request we do some Holiday Cheer stuff here at Docudharma.

Well, I don’t know how cheery this is, but it is one of my favorite spiritual prayer/songs.  Ava Maria.  The Shubert version.  I read he wrote this in devotion to the Virgin Mary when he was a young man.  The melody is one of the loveliest I have ever heard.

But I also think about Mary (in my own idiosyncratic way).  She may have been a young girl when she gave birth to Jesus, but when he was crucified, she was no longer young.  If she was 16 when she gave birth, then 33 years later she was 48.

To watch your son die just when you are entering middle age and facing your own mortality, that is a story in itself,  I think.

Anyway, enough of my odd meanderings.  Here is my version, just a fragment of the song as I couldn’t find lyrics which would teach me the entire version.  As usual, please remember to turn the volume down, or the distortion won’t be purty.

So, a fragment of Ava Maria.  Merry Christmas to all, in the real spirit of the holiday.

Gabcast! Auld Manhattoe #5

Tis the start of the festive season, so I was goofing around on Gabcast and did my own version of George Gershwin’s “Lady Be Good” … and I even scat!  Badly, but then it’s Wednesday, so I don’t care.  Let all my enemies scoff, I say HA!

Anyway, life is always good even when it’s bad.  Sort of like sex.  Or chocolate.  Or something.

If you do listen, please remember to turn the volume down – I am singing sans music over the phone so there’s some distortion.

And seeing as the new soapblox we have here will not allow me to directy link a plug-in to Gabcast, here’s a link to Episode 4

Later, gators.

Ok, so this is a test – if it doesn’t work, I’ll delete this diary.

Because I don’t know how to write music, when I do write a tune, I have to record it right away or I will forget the melody.

Wrote a tune, called “Carry On” and posted it at Gabcast, an audioblogging site.