tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38970008864320577612024-03-19T02:21:52.912-07:00Pop Music SongsAustin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-22878447271037260582010-12-15T00:27:00.000-08:002010-12-15T00:27:15.862-08:00I must be a Beatles' fan....<object width="400" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VxratRSI3gU?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VxratRSI3gU?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="250"></embed></object><br />
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Sure, he can't sing anymore...but who cares, right?! It's still cool, especially the Give Peace a Chance part..30th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination...<br />
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[Paul McCartney, John Lennon, SNL, Saturday Night Live, Give Peace a Chance, A Day in the Life, live]Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-69040665525383784602010-09-25T11:36:00.001-07:002010-09-25T11:36:29.042-07:00Not you...<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>They're so many people who aren't you...</p></div>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-83270909992872574272010-09-15T04:41:00.001-07:002010-09-15T04:41:32.906-07:00drift away...<div class='posterous_autopost'><p> <p class="p1">no matter how much you like something, it slips away, it slips away, until it's nothing but haze...</p> </p></div>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-2833725438638131902010-09-14T03:40:00.001-07:002010-09-14T04:27:40.344-07:00Unknown Beatles Song - Cosmically Conscious<div class="posterous_autopost">Cosmically Conscious<br />
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This is an example, I feel, of a perfect pop song.<br />
<br />
A pop music song.<br />
<br />
It was written by Paul McCartney, maybe with John Lennon, in India, 1968.<br />
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At a reunion of The Beatles (the two surviving ones) in 2009 in New York, they played the song, with Sheryl Crow, Mike Love of the Beach Boys, Eddie Vedder (of Pearl Jam), etc.<br />
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Paul McCartney once recorded this on his own, and it sucked.<br />
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But, with a band that includes all these great people, it's filled with energy, good energy, and it conveys it - it's just...impossible to get out of your head.<br />
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It also conveys some kind of message, I guess, but more than that - a feeling. It's in the chorus. Such a joy joy, such a joy joy, such a joy joy...joy.</div>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-25367671171277417432010-09-11T23:28:00.001-07:002010-09-11T23:28:24.045-07:00Are You Bad?<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>Many people feel they have a good conscience because they have been considerate and kind to others. But have you done the same for yourself? Have you valued and appreciated, and done all you can with the gifts, opportunities, and talents God gave you? I wish I had (more, at least...)</p></div>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-14768168052219797122010-09-11T23:27:00.001-07:002010-09-11T23:27:53.793-07:00Are You Bad?<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>Many people feel they have a good conscience because they have been considerate and kind to others. But have you done the same for yourself? Have you valued and appreciated, and done all you can with the gifts, opportunities, and talents God gave you? I wish I had (more, at least...)</p></div>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-49452103873059850812010-09-10T13:58:00.000-07:002010-09-10T13:58:18.830-07:00Blue (song)<div class="topspin-widget topspin-widget-bundle-widget"><object bgcolor="#000000" data="http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/bundle/swf/TSBundleWidget.swf?timestamp=1284148373" height="400" id="TSWidget36739" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"> <param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess"/> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/> <param name="quality" value="high"/> <param name="movie" value="http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/bundle/swf/TSBundleWidget.swf?timestamp=1284148373"/> <param name="flashvars" value="highlightColor=0x00A1FF&theme=black&widget_id=http://app.topspin.net/api/v1/artist/2322/bundle_widget/36739&theme=black"/> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/> </object></div><br />
<i>Angels sang this song in my ear when when I was sad... </i><br />
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Blue <br />
All the time <br />
Wrapped around my head <br />
You got blue <br />
All the time <br />
I might as well be dead <br />
<br />
I'm going.. <br />
<br />
Look up above <br />
And always look forward <br />
And think of <br />
The thing you're going toward <br />
<br />
Blue <br />
All the time <br />
Wrapped around my head <br />
You got blue <br />
All the time <br />
I might as well be dead <br />
<br />
I'm going... <br />
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Oh yeah...I got angels in my heart <br />
<br />
Blue <br />
All the time <br />
Wrapped around my head <br />
You got blue <br />
All the time <br />
I might as well be dead <br />
<br />
I'm going... <br />
<br />
I got angels in my soul <br />
They've taken something broken and made it whole <br />
Blue all the time <br />
Wrapped around my head <br />
I've got angels in my soul <br />
They took a broken boy and made him whole <br />
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doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo <br />
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo <br />
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Blue, all the time <br />
Wrapped around my head <br />
Blue, all the time <br />
I might as well be dead <br />
<br />
I'm going... <br />
<br />
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo <br />
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo <br />
<br />
Blue all the time <br />
Wrapped around my head <br />
You got blue....Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-89017133959881019422010-09-10T05:25:00.001-07:002010-09-10T05:25:28.314-07:00Segmented Sleep<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>sometimes i've made cool artistic things at this time (the time in between...!), or written things i could NEVER normally write.</p> <p>i've also written the most embarrassing and stupid emails...</p> <p>in the middle ages, they didn't have emails to worry about, i suppose...</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep</a></p></div>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-78399146583251489392010-09-10T02:54:00.001-07:002010-09-10T02:54:46.918-07:00Damien Walters Parkour<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>This has nothing to do with anything, it's just cool...</p> <p><object height="300" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cNvJy0zoXOY&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cNvJy0zoXOY&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="window" height="300" width="500"></embed></object></p></div>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-7122674414577543552010-09-10T01:40:00.001-07:002010-09-10T01:40:05.285-07:00"Make Your Own Destiny"<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>(The words of the prophets were written on the children's rucksacks...)</p> <p> </p> <p><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-09-10/vvtCEAlDwwAeIBIIwxvwveaDvtEEnrrGqqtuJtxblviGvDnGrgoqezElwoks/make_your_own_destiny.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-09-10/vvtCEAlDwwAeIBIIwxvwveaDvtEEnrrGqqtuJtxblviGvDnGrgoqezElwoks/make_your_own_destiny.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="391"/></a> </p></div>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-60239824601484804382010-03-14T08:07:00.000-07:002010-03-14T08:07:28.133-07:00Invention of Mblogs - Post Pop Music Music<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My cousin told me about a theory, the other day, that a genre of art is always best when it's first invented. <br />
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And I thought about pop songs...maybe invented around the 1920s? So, Cole Porter through Lennon/McCartney...30 years. Has there been a single good pop song since? <i>Like a Virgin</i>, as an example of what immediately followed, is a good record - but would you, could you hum it, the way you would...<i>Hound Dog</i>? Or, <i>It Had to Be You</i>? Or <i>Let it Be</i>?<br />
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And I love the idea, the whole thing of Taylor Swift. It's poetry, it's pop art - but would you, could you, hum her music the way you would <i>Over the Rainbow</i>? <br />
<br />
Same with films - I've been watching TCM recently (Turner Movie Classics, a cable TV channel that specialises in early Hollywood films). I never realised it before. Because I'd never really seen those films before, except...I dunno. I just hadn't really noticed. But those movies were <i>brilliant</i>. Even just run of the mill movies you've never heard of from the 1930s...are just so special and magical, well crafted if not artistic....<br />
<br />
And nothing - nothing...since about...the mid 1960s (again, 30 years-from the adoption of sound films, in the 1930s...)...nothing comes close. Try watching (if you dare) Robert Downey Jr's total travesty - potentially the worst film ever - his <i>Sherlock Holmes</i>, and then look at any old version. <br />
<br />
I'll say - I've seen some totally brilliant movies made recently, but none from Hollywood. I saw a brilliant Korean film - but, they probably only started their cinema culture more recently...<br />
<br />
And <i>Avatar</i> is the start of a new genre. So, we've got 30 more years of whatever that kind of film should be called...(or, maybe its a one-off wonderful wonderment?)<br />
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Hip hop music, same thing - it's has already degenerated into middle aged hum-druminess...Jay-z said he <i>wants</i> to be the new Sinatra - he actually <i>wants</i> it! Remember when hip-hop used to be cool? I do...<br />
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I don't disparage at all people I think are genuinely cool, like Taylor Swift (I'm not saying I listen to her music, but I think she's cool...)(that is to say, cool for fully expressing her nerdiness on a big stage - that's <i>real</i> cool - <i>cool</i> people aren't cool, but everyone know that...) - I'm convinced Taylor Swift would agree with me that there was a kind of pop song, from Cole Porter through Lennon/McCartney, that they just don't make anymore. And anyway, her music is <i>kind</i> of what I'm talking about, almost, almost an MBlog, or a hybrid, actually...<br />
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Taylor Swift wants to reflect her life through her songs, which she records with expensive musicians at about 100,000 per track (I'm guessing) over a two-year period, and then releases on some weird ancient technology, the CD, as well as on iTunes...it's refined by professional co-writers, producers, musicians, A&R execs, and two years of her own artistic work.<br />
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Good for her. And she's rich for it, too, bless her heart.<br />
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* * *<br />
<br />
I got this idea to just write and record songs in one action - in about 20 minutes per "song" - earlier this year....And, as I didn't actually "write" them ahead of time, I just sang whatever came into my head, they'd be like a diary. A musical diary. <br />
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And this is what I'm referring to as MBlogs (get it? Musical Blogs! :D)<br />
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I'm not saying I won't continue to do more carefully made songs, too...But this is its own art-form - the MBlog - improvised, pop-song length, musical expressions of the moment. Recording life, goals, dreams, ideas and ideals, as we float on down the stream of life...<br />
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<br />
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</div>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-89471960104730096212010-01-18T14:28:00.000-08:002010-01-18T14:28:36.474-08:00Ringo Starr on Drumming<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm just on a Ringo phase, as I saw him doing his new song recently on tv....<br />
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<span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My friend was talking about videos that are both home-made, but cool...and I just found this, and wrote to her:</span></span><br />
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<span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>this is the kind of video you mean</i></span></span><br />
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</div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>I found it on a site that links performers and record companies and video makers - I put this review (below) down, before looking at it on youtube - wow, almost half a million views...I bet this worked for them! It was made in one evening, obviously, very cheap - yet it is cool - here's the review i put:</i></span><br />
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</div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> it's like a spike jonez video without a payoff.<br />
<br />
where are the dogs?<br />
<br />
why aren't they on fire?<br />
<br />
it's so close....there is just some really cool mood that pervades it...it kind of doesn't make sense, in a way that is compelling...it's enigmatic...it just looks cool...and again, there is a randomness about it - like, it makes sense, or would, in a dream.<br />
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but there is no payoff...also, the SURFING graphic doesn't quite do it for me...i don't know what would, though...<br />
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it's really close...really really close...really close...it needs something, but i'm not sure what...but it's good! really good - just not brilliant, but i'm sure this director is easily capable of brilliance...just not yet, or not in this one..<br />
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</blockquote>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-1512618200645233092010-01-08T00:26:00.001-08:002010-01-08T00:44:51.895-08:00I Don't Want to Make Music - I'm Compelled....<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don't want to make music - I'm compelled. Begged for a piano when 3 - read music before words -<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My ability to make music scares me sometimes. Words - I'll get - I used to, like, in school, after having to learn a poem - I'd get a rhyming pattern stuck in my head, and write, literally, 15, 20, 30 pages - endlessly - with Dr. Seuss rock-solid meter, nonsense! I can write rhyming iambic pentameter couplets faster - really - than prose. I once wrote 75 or so Christmas cards that way - rhyming -<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As for music (when I make songs, now, I often just make up the words as I sing - it's usually better that way - though there is some refinement, winnowing...)<br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But music itself - the song - <i>In My Song</i> - from my next LP (first full-length album! - mid 2010 - yeah!!!!) - I literally and seriously sat down and played it, from beginning to end, with most of the lyrics - never having heard, imagined, written, thought it - it didn't exist, I sat down and played it through, straight through - it scares me when I think about it. It scares me.<br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know that people like Lennon/McCartney, Michael Jackson - all sorts of people - Tom Petty, I read in a book someplace - feel that songs come from some magical place - like, God or something.<br />
<br />
I feel different, somewhat. <br />
<br />
For one - almost every song - well, some come just when I'm dreamy - but a large number came when despondent. It worries me about being happy - will I ever write another? Well, I've got enough to last several lifetimes!<br />
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And - say, with <i>In My Song</i> - I feel - I know - I don't know - aaaugh!!! I was despondent, I sat down and played straight through a never-before-heard song - and when done - was at peace with myself and the universe.<br />
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So - I don't feel that songs come from a magical place - not at all - I feel I'm in a magical place - I once, literally, saw a golden light suffuse a room I was in - when the song <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/album/know-no-fear/id298753983?i=298753987&uo=6"><i>Know No Fear</i></a> came to me.<br />
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I don't write songs.<br />
<br />
And songs don't come to me from elsewhere.<br />
<br />
Magic happens - I feel better - and a song exists - that, apparently, seems to have that same effect on others.<br />
<br />
I'll never forget someone who wrote this, back in the day:<br />
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<b><i>"Your music really made me think. I've been in some trouble, and haven't been able to decide what to do. After listening to Falling Out of Time it clicked. I know what to do! Thank you so much!</i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>I'll be one of the first to buy your CD's!</i></b><b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i>Love and Cookies,"</i></b><b><br />
</b><br />
<b>- dimples</b><br />
<b><br />
</b><br />
That makes it all worthwhile - <br />
<br />
It's okay if they're stupid, or catchy, or fun, or anything else they might be - these songs have the power to change lives, as they've changed mine, and other people's lives, too. They're fun - they're cool - but they're magic, too - -<br />
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<a href="http://www.popmusic.com/list"><b><i>AW</i></b></a><br />
</div>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-91385194232481134922010-01-07T14:46:00.000-08:002010-01-10T20:32:33.219-08:00Fly Like a Bird by Austin Washington<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/album/fly-like-a-bird/id298753983?i=298754074&uo=6" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="177" src="http://www.PopMusic.com/IMAGES/thumb-fly-itunes-190.jpg" width="190" /></a><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fly-like-a-bird/id298753983?i=298754074&uo=6">Fly Like a Bird</a><br />
by Austin Washington<br />
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<embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="239" src="http://blip.tv/play/go4A8dN_AA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed> <br />
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<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fly-like-a-bird/id298753983?i=298754074&uo=6">itunes</a><br />
(2 more Fly Like a Bird videos <a href="#morevideos">here</a>)<br />
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<i>Sometimes I walk to the edge of a tall building, and I look down, and I tell myself, if I just took one more step, just one more little step, I could...</i><br />
<br />
I took a ride without using a plane<br />
Some say I'm crazy others say I'm insane<br />
But I think it's more that my real life sucks<br />
I'm more at home with the chickens and ducks<br />
<br />
Yeah<br />
<br />
Oh, sometimes I<br />
I fly like a bird, yeah<br />
Aw no<br />
Oh, sometimes I<br />
I fly like a bird, yeah<br />
Aw no<br />
<br />
My friends on the ground keep on calling me back<br />
They say I'm crazy say it's sense that I lack<br />
But I think it's more that life on the ground<br />
Just seems so dumb in my dumb one-horse town, yeah<br />
<br />
Oh, sometimes I<br />
I fly like a bird, yeah<br />
Aw no<br />
Oh, sometimes I<br />
I fly like a bird, yeah<br />
Aw no<br />
<br />
'Cause if you dare to dream, yeah<br />
Be ready to fall<br />
But if you never let your heart soar<br />
You ain't got nothing - ain't got nothing at all<br />
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(This is the part where you picture yourself flying...hey - wanna tee-shirt! They're cool!!!:) (that link is somewhere! well, on spreadshirt, at least...!)<br />
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<a class="style2" href="http://itunes.apple.com/album/fly-like-a-bird/id298753983?i=298754074&uo=6" target="_blank">get Fly Like a Bird at iTunes NOW!<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've been flying around<br />
Since the day I was born<br />
Though I lost a few years<br />
When my insides were torn<br />
But now I am back<br />
Floating high on the breeze<br />
The tips of my toes<br />
Are on the tops of the trees<br />
<br />
Sometimes I<br />
I fly like a bird, yeah<br />
Aw no<br />
Oh sometimes I<br />
I fly like a bird, yeah<br />
Aw no<br />
<br />
Oh<br />
Sometimes I<br />
Fly like a bird<br />
Yeah<br />
<br />
Up in the sky<br />
Just you and I<br />
Under the clouds<br />
That are far below<br />
Up above the sun<br />
We can have fun<br />
Just you and I<br />
<br />
Alright<br />
<br />
They're never gonna see (Aw!)<br />
The thing that's so obvious<br />
Obvious to you and me (Aw!)<br />
<br />
They can't fly<br />
They're stuck on the ground<br />
<br />
Glory Alleluiah<br />
Let me sock it to ya (Huh!)<br />
<br />
Alleluiah<br />
Let me sock it to ya...<br />
<br />
etc...<br />
<br />
Livin' in the land of the spirit<br />
With our hearts in the land of the free<br />
<br />
They're never gonna know<br />
They don't even want to let their hearts grow<br />
<br />
Gonna sing this song<br />
'Til the end of time, and beyond...<br />
credits<br />
released 03 April 2009<br />
Austin Washington, a puff of air, and wind (lots of it...)<br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3897000886432057761&postID=9138519423248113492" id="morevideos" name="morevideos"></a> �<br />
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<b>Here is a video I made when making Fly Like a Bird...</b><br />
<b>(SKIP TO 1.24 IF YA WANNA SEE THE REALLY COOL BIT!!) <br />
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<embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="251" src="http://blip.tv/play/go4AgbvxaAI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed> <br />
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<b>from <a href="http://www.facebook.com/AustinWashingtonFan">facebook</a>:</b><br />
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<blockquote><i>Found on iPod last night - totally forgot. 2 years ago,learning to edit video w/ iMovie, same time, recording Fly Like a Bird (on iTunes now, btw!) So, this was me,practising editing.The sad part of Fly Like a Bird, in video, not in final song, (<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/album/fly-like-a-bird/id298753983?i=298754074&uo=6">on iTunes</a>!)<br />
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Maybe I should make another version of the song?! With the sad bit?!<br />
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I am embarrassed I called myself an "artist". It sounds really stupid, I think!</i><b> <br />
</b><br />
</blockquote><b>I'm embarrassed that I referred to myself as an "artist" - it sounds a bit grandiose - what I like to be, and aspire to be, is a normal person who transforms my actual life into music - which is why I want an actual life, not one of a pop star! (Not that it wouldn't be - won't be (!) - think positive, Austin! - uber super fun to perform, at, like, Glastonbury someday, or something like that. I'd LOVE that. </b><br />
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<b>But I think I'd be infinitely better than most people, because my <i>aspiration</i> is to be a normal person (quite a stretch for me, I gotta say! ;) - who...yeah, I'm repeating myself, now - how can Britney Spears make a song anyone but someone like her can relate to? That's my point.</b><br />
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<b>That's why the video was, literally, (the one at the top of the page) made while waiting for my hair to dry...haha...)</b><br />
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<b>Okay, here's the original video, made whilst the song was being made - and here's the description, first, from my fan page at Facebook</b><b> <br />
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<b> </b><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here is a video of me, chatting about the song, and then...you get to here the whole tune if ya like! Groovy....(and you get download it <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/album/fly-like-a-bird/id298753983?i=298754074&uo=6">here</a>!)<br />
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<embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="338" src="http://blip.tv/play/go4A4cNZAA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed><br />
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<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/album/fly-like-a-bird/id298753983?i=298754074&uo=6" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="177" src="http://www.PopMusic.com/IMAGES/thumb-fly-itunes-190.jpg" width="190" /></a>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3897000886432057761.post-82893221091123901152010-01-01T21:18:00.000-08:002010-01-08T07:50:21.488-08:00Pop Music Songs by Austin Washington, President of Pop<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Austin Washington<br />
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</div><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>"The greatest song-writer in pop music history. Combining the word-play and wit of Cole Porter, the imagination of John Lennon, the depth of feeling of Kurt Cobain, harmonies better than any boy band, the skillz of Dr Dre, and the catchiness of a bad head cold, Austin Washington's songs capture the true depth and breadth of all that is good about Pop Music."</i><br />
</blockquote><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, if only someone else had said that! ha ha...but other people did say this stuff, and it makes me feel <i>so</i> good... <br />
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</div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>"Your music really made me think. I've been in some trouble, and haven't been able to decide what to do. After listening to Falling Out of Time it clicked. I know what to do! Thank you so much!</i></b><br />
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</i></b><br />
<b><i>I'll be one of the first to buy your CD's!</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Love and Cookies,"</i></b><br />
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<b>- dimples</b><br />
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<b>* * * </b><br />
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<b><i>"WOW! I just heard that song and-WOW!- it really moved me. I think you guys are fab! Don't change ANYthing! Keep up the fanTAStic work, sugar!</i></b><br />
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<b><i>P.S. If you ever go on tour, pleeeeaaaaaassse try to make it to Georgia, honey!</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Love and kisses!"</i></b><br />
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</b><br />
<b>- Lynda</b><br />
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<b>* * * </b><br />
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<i><b>"[Austin Washington] rulez! i think u r tottally cool!! work on your album and release it soon!!</b></i><br />
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<i><b>i really like your music! put more on this site i will visit it often now !"</b></i><br />
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<b>- webSURFER</b><br />
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<b>* * *</b><br />
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<i><b>"Can I have an autograph? You guys are going to big!"</b></i><br />
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</b><br />
<b>- Sarah</b><br />
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</b><br />
<b>* * * </b><br />
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</b><br />
<i><b>"Hi my name is elise and im 11 years old. i think you guyz are so talented and you rock! i hope you guyz make a cd so i can buy it and listen to it everyday! bye peace out~ELISE~"</b></i><br />
<b><br />
</b><br />
<b>- Elise</b><br />
<b><br />
</b><br />
<b>* * *</b><br />
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</b><br />
<i><b>"the more i listen the more i like!! :) "</b></i><br />
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</b><br />
<b>- webSURFER</b><br />
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</b><br />
<b>* * *</b><br />
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</b><br />
<i><b>" i love you music ”</b></i><br />
<b>- Ciara Bennet</b><br />
<b>United States</b><br />
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</b><br />
<b>* * *</b><br />
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</b><br />
<i><b>“ so johnlennonesque! ”</b></i><br />
<b>- Rsevchuk</b><br />
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</b><br />
<b>* * *</b><br />
<i><b>“ you are cool ”</b></i><br />
<b>- Daliza</b><br />
<b>fl Falkland Island</b><br />
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</b><br />
<b>* * *</b><br />
<i><b>“ its really good ”</b></i><br />
<b>- Monikangkana</b><br />
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<b>* * *</b><br />
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</b><br />
<i><b>“ I'm hoping for some good songs.. and i just found it here! "</b></i><br />
<b>- kristoffer</b><br />
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<b>* * *</b><br />
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<i><b>“ Austin Washington love youuuuu ”</b></i><br />
<b>- Sevaloli </b><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>BIOGRAPHY</b><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Most mere mortals, it seems, aspire to be pop stars. Well, a lot do, at least.<br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Austin Washington - or, the magnificent, marvellous Austino, as his friends call him (actually, no) - is anything but mortal. Standing at over 11 feet tall, he was blessed at birth with a preternatural ability to shatter glass at the length of two football fields.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">His tones are anything but mellifluous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">However, with modern studio trickery, his out-of-tune screeches and warbles have been transformed to almost sound human.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Almost" is the key word, here, as no 11 foot tall, helium-filled (did we mention that? that's why we must keep him tethered to the ground, lest he float away) - luminescent (he was genetically modified with lightning bugs) boy can be said to be fully human.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">His <a href="http://www.popmusic.com/songs">songs</a>, though, speak for themselves...</span>Austin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.com7