In case you don’t know, I recently released an album (of actual songs) named Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1, based on the nowhere-town adventures of amateur songwriter William Griffin, his blind love interest Claire Javernick, and his best friend the sentient triceratops Lorenzo (no last name), back when they were 12-14 years old. You can download that album here.
I’m strengthening methodically the first volume for the rerelease (one of a few) by removing some songs, redoing one, and writing entirely new songs. The following song, one of the last in the album, renders the way William takes rejection.
In case you don’t know, I recently released an album (of actual songs) named Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1, based on the nowhere-town adventures of amateur songwriter William Griffin, his blind love interest Claire Javernick, and his best friend the sentient triceratops Lorenzo (no last name), back when they were 12-14 years old. You can download that album here.
I’m strengthening methodically the first volume for the rerelease (one of a few) by removing some songs, redoing one, and writing entirely new songs. The following one, titled “Tricera Troubadour,” renders William’s and Lorenzo’s childhood antics before a girl came into the picture.
I’m burning through Udio‘s monthly output, so I may only have two or three songs more to create before I find myself helpless.
In case you don’t know, I recently released an album (of actual songs) named Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1, based on the nowhere-town adventures of amateur songwriter William Griffin, his blind love interest Claire Javernick, and his best friend the sentient triceratops Lorenzo (no last name), back when they were 12-14 years old. You can download that album here.
The following song, that will be included in the next release of the first album, delves into young William’s private struggles.
In case you don’t know, I recently released an album (of actual songs) named Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1, based on the nowhere-town adventures of amateur songwriter William Griffin, his blind love interest Claire Javernick, and his best friend the sentient triceratops Lorenzo (no last name), back when they were 12-14 years old. You can download that album here.
These last few days, I’ve been relistening to my AI-generated songs almost exclusively, in the album’s order (both the first and the unreleased second one). In the first album, I noticed myself skipping certain songs. No reason to include in an album songs that I’d want to skip over, so I’m considering redoing some songs and moving others to a B-sides album thingy. In addition, I’ve written a couple of new songs for the first album, that I will include in a future re-release (one of a few, I’m guessing).
Anyway, here’s the sole song I’ve managed to produce today, titled “Tricera Girl.” It renders William’s infatuation with his next-door neighbor shortly after meeting her. I think it came out very well.
If someone had told me in summer of 2021, when I started my bizarre story Odes to My Triceratops, that I would end up producing a fifteen songs-long album of studio-quality music out of its silly lyrics, I would have vomited out of happiness. I have become a jaded old man, I guess. Anyway, you can download the album right here:
Please tell me if you have any trouble downloading it. It would be quite sad if I intended to make it available only to screw up the delivery.
Anyway, this album features the fifteen songs included in the first part of that story (out of three). It’s a sort of a concept album that follows the troubles, particularly romantic ones, of amateur songwriter William Griffin from the years twelve to fourteen or so, as he enjoyed his youth with his blind next-door neighbor Claire Javernick and his best friend, the sentient triceratops named Lorenzo (featured in the banner of this site). William isn’t all that bright, nor all that talented, but that won’t stop him from producing as many songs as humanly possible in the hopes of processing his turbulent feelings.
I wouldn’t have been able to produce these songs if it weren’t for the magnificent AI service Udio.
Songs contained in this first album Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1:
Lorenzo
Lemonade and Willies
My Friendo Lorenzo
Better Dead Than Blind
Claire With a C
Fairy Tale Too Real to Be
I Am Your Stegosaur
For Claire, Who Can’t Read
Let Me Eat Your Stuff
Part Goldfish
No Magic Potion
Wait About a Month for Love
Helpless and Pure
Please, Play With my Guitar
The Burning Heart Inside Your Throat
Quite a few hits in this album. Check out the song “Fairy Tale Too Real to Be” right here, for your listening convenience:
I hope you are enjoying my forays into Udio‘s AI services so it will generate songs according to my absurd specifications. You better have been enjoying them, because I’m about to clobber you with five new songs, a few of them excellent.
They are based on the song lyrics included in my bizarre free-verse narrative titled “Odes to My Triceratops.”
First one is a grunge track called “Lorenzo.” Possibly my favorite of the bunch.
Next up, a soothing traditional folk song titled “Lemonade and Willies.”
Now check out this lovely lullaby titled “My Friendo Lorenzo”.
Listen to this uplifting song about three friends having fun, titled “Claire With a C”:
Finally, an energetic garage rock song titled “Fairy Tale Too Real to Be.”
Midway through my ongoing novel, “We’re Fucked”, I started linking songs in the Author’s Note section that often comes after the chapter. I wanted to have a convenient list at hand of the songs I have already mentioned, so I created a YouTube playlist: here’s the link.
Nobody has actually mentioned anything about the songs I’ve linked, so I don’t know if anyone has even noticed them or listened, but in any case, the playlist contains the fifty-six songs mentioned so far, and I’ll keep adding new ones as I write the following chapters.
Today I could have either developed the scaffolding of the next scene of my ongoing novel, or I could have played the guitar. For now I’ve done the latter. Maybe a mistake, because the booster shot caused me some lung issue and after singing it’s gotten harder to breathe.
As usual, I uploaded to YouTube the whole session of me playing the guitar and singing poorly. The link is below.
I hadn’t played the guitar since my current contract started. I could have either written today or played the guitar. Well, I can’t play the guitar at work, while with some luck I’ll progress on my latest novel tomorrow morning, turning the otherwise pointless Monday workday into something meaningful at least for me. Although there’s a good chance that the guy I’m covering will simply appear at the office, so I’ll have to turn around and go home. This is my life as a thirty-six-year-old guy who wishes he was either born as a giraffe or not at all.
Anyway, I uploaded the guitar playing session in two parts. I get into it quite a bit, and I sing poorly.
I was recalled to work a couple of days ago. I still feel off. I couldn’t focus on writing the next part of my ongoing novel, so I played the guitar instead. Below are the links for the entire session, that I uploaded to YouTube.
I finally managed to record a version of Joanna Newsom’s ‘Kingfisher’, which is one of my favorites to play, particularly the second half of the song.
Guitar practice (13-11-2021), Pt. 1
Guitar practice (13-11-2021), Pt. 2
‘Hotel California’ by Eagles
(I uploaded HC separately, because it tends to get copyright struck although I’m the one playing it.)
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