friends from far away

here's another one! this is from the archives. this one's all me, as 99% of the things here probably will be. it's a sampler exercise more than anything; the drums are a stuttered sample from the intro of rick james' "ghetto life" (should i give that away?) and the little hook that sounds like a distorted synthesizer is a super-processed vocal sample programmed into a melody. so i guess saying that this one is all me is inaccurate.. it's me and rick james. or at least me and his studio drummer. i'll take what i can get.

friends from far away

it feels especially relevant to post this song now, because it's the time of year when everyone returns to their home town for the holidays and suddenly, things in that town appear to be bustling and full of life when they're otherwise dull and lifeless at any other time of the year. i keep running into people that i haven't seen since high school while visiting my family in birmingham (i now reside in atlanta) and the stock question in any of these cases is "what have you been up to?". after answering this question the first billion times or so, i've taken a liking as to approaching it as though i were filling in mad libs or something. "i've become a pool shark in las vegas!" or "i'm a jehovah's witness!" or "i'm kareem abdul-jabbar's personal chef!". the possibilities are endless.