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Recent Journal
A write up about all the 2nd album songs (How to drive a ...
a year ago
I've been meaning to do this for a while. This is a write up of every song on the second "I've Made Too Much Pasta" album, "how to drive a bus" . The bus in this case is an accordion! (The cover has an accordion shaped like a bus). This is the first time I ever used a professional studio and I was VERY OVERWHELMED. The recording process involves hearing your own songs and your own voice very clearly and loudly and over and over again, I'm glad I've reached a point where I'm comfortable with that. It was produced by Will Toledo from Car seat headrest, who I met at ANE 2020.
1. Foxes Will Fix Your Car -
A lot of my songs come from me just fucking up other songs or getting other songs stuck in my head until they become distorted. This came from me just repeating "Why do birds" over and over, singing the beginning of the Carpenters "Close to you", and changing the next lyric to "lie to birds". This is not a song I necessarily feel strongly about in any way, I know my mom made fun of it a lot because it was my Aunt and Uncle's wedding song. I just got stuck on the "why do birds" line and created a whole song from it. The various animal references are linked to people I know, or things in real life. For example, Coopertom is the "cat the lets you play their synthesizers until the middle of the night, Bears breaking into your house to play piano is from a youtube video I've seen, and also Bob Drake, Coyotes pouring you tea is a nod to Pepper coyote who recorded the my first album (even though he has never poured me tea, it just fit really well in the song.) Kangaroos help you with you resume is about OZ, though he hasn't really helped me with my resume directly, he has helped me figure a lot of stuff out. Of courses the main FOX fixing my car is King Gourd. I regret the line about the raccoons will steal your credit and " drive you to the bar", I should have made it "leaves you at the bar". Originally I had a the chorus ending with "when I was a young wart hog" but disney would probably sue me. This song is super they might be giants inspired, with a melody line meandering and concluding in folk song "shady lane" type thing. I play this one on accordion live!
2. A hole is a hole is a hole
SOMETIMES i make songs from phrases I HATE so that i can reclaim them. I really hate when bros are like "Well a HOLE IS A HOLE" about having sex with someone, so I decided to make a song where I use that but just mention actual holes. There is nothing sexual about this song! Unfortunately people read the title and think it's a furry sex song. Whatever, I DON'T CARE. Wank to it if you want. Long piano solo bridge was Will Toledo's idea. Wank to that if anything.
3. Werewolf Significant Other
This was originally slated for the first album, but it didn't make the CUT. I'm glad it didn't because I like how it turned out on this one a lot, including a midi techno bridge that Will came up with. I wrote this in 2014 or so while driving the 4 hours to Van-Weasel's apartment at Penn State. I immediately played it on ukulele when I got there and luckily remembered it! (I can't tell you how many songs I have come up with while driving and not remembered). This is semi about our Bondagey/Prey Pred relationship, and semi-about a raccoon's fantasy that gets out of hand. I always like overzealous cartoon characters getting in over their heads and having a moment! Good theme. It went from being a ukulele song to my most METAL song.
4. There's no cure for rabies
A normal ass punk song with some fast chord changes. Beginning sounds like Fraggle Rock. I also wrote this while driving and luckily remembered it. I have reoccurring tunes in my head and I think this was one of them, so I didn't forget it easily. I stole the "My dog's speaking to me" line from Dog Fashion Disco. The lyrics have a lot to do with the "I've Made too much pasta" lore of being a raccoon with rabies trying to survive as long as possible. Some of the things he does include drinking juices and getting massages and meditating. I had also been drinking a TON of Kombucha (I really like it) - and I found it had helped a lot of my stomach problems and made my teeth feel a lot better.
5. I miss you, Space Cat.
I came up with the chord progression for this while at Doodah sitting in a hotel room with a bunch of people, Strobes being one of them. Strobes is a space cat. (Ironically strobes was also in a video for a song called "I miss you, boo cat" after I wrote this song. Completely unrelated) I had this idea of a small cat in space doing all kinds of scary science and the world depending on them. People whispering "I miss you, Space cat" into the air, almost like a mantra. If the whole world is rooting for you, you can't fail. Kind of like a movie where a meteor is coming towards earth and everyone wondering if the team sent up to stop it will succeed or not. This is one of the few songs i use minor chords on! Syd stoat sings the "Space cat" part. A lot of references in this. A drummer of my previous high school band is a flat earther, so I included a flat earth reference.
There is a funny story about an astronaut calling his wife right before boarding the space ship via a phone that Nasa provides, and her not picking it up because she didn't recognize the number. Thanks telemarketers.
6. If you die at work then you die in real life
VERY EARLY song, wrote this right after recording the first album. I had this "first injury on the job is the best injury on the job" lyric bouncing around for a while, I finally found a home for it while working at Amazon! I only worked there for 2 years part time and I was tragically bored. Sometimes that's the best time to write song lyrics. Included a bunch of cartoon peril, and a fantasy about dying at work and finally becoming appreciated. Also includes a cartoony line about "being too cute to die", I always loved when cartoon characters say that about themselves. Self awareness is cute. This song is a bit boring to play because it is the Same chords over and over, but people seem to really like it!
7. Marko
The most heartfelt song I've written. It's completely about Marko the Rat, who's death had come at a complete surprise and it really hit me hard. He was one of the first fursuiters I could recognize and I met him at AC 2009 at my first con. I also met him again in Australia in 2015 and he was very excited to meet me! (he didn't remember our quick meet up in 2009) I don't want to go to into too much details about Marko, but I wanted to capture the uncertainty of realizing you have a limited time and not knowing what the best choices to do with that time are. Travel around, or spend it all with local friends? Which is right? No one really knows, and who can judge you for the choices you've made in the end? He favored the misunderstood trash animals so I tried to capture that within the song, hence the lyric about biting holes in the sheets and the "heartiest dams from the angriest hearts" (big angry beaver reference there). I pictured Marko being a overly polite rat that would sit on the porch crying because no one would let him in after knocking lightly, but in reality the door was unlocked because everyone inside knew they wouldn't be able to hear the door when he showed up. A bit of a Watership down reference there also, where the El-ahrairah appears in Hazel's rabbit hole without knocking to bring him to the after life. At first Hazel is a little bit annoyed, but then he realized who he is.
This one took me a WHILE to write, I went through a lot of bad lyrics to get to the ones on the actual song. People seem to like this one! I'm glad I was able to write Marko a banger song. Para and Will both added a lot of great back up vocals to this.
8. I sleep with my fists in the air
A raccoon Protest song. I wrote this one while working at Amazon also. It has a structure much like "ferret without any whiskers" where it just a bunch of parts in a row and then the whole thing again. I stole some lyrics from "Stairway to heaven", which is a song I ironically can't STAND. I don't know where I came up with the title but I used to accidentally punch walls in my sleep during my "Angry Period". (My angry period is still happening) Originally a song on guitar, I moved it to accordion despite the challenging note changes! I can play it perfectly as long as it's not being recorded and no one is looking at me.
9. Mortis Jackrabbit
Not about WILL TOLEDO. This song is about a nameless friend and their struggles with a bunch of stuff in their life. I wrote it as a pop punk song for them to perform at some point, but I ended up just using it for myself. I can write songs pretty fast if someone ELSE has the burden of having to perform them! I named it "Mortis Jackrabbit" after my depressed mail carrier character from my comics when I worked at the post office. Mortis Jackrabbit was also a failed band I had come up with in the early 2000s. Now it's a cute bunny fursuit, but the name is just taken from the song title and not the other way around.
10. I've Made Too Much pasta
This is about making too much pasta. It took me forever to memorize the name list in the second verse, but now it's PERMANENTLY IN-GRAINED. get it? A lot of people say to me "there's no such thing as too much pasta" but they're fucking wrong.
11. Having a weird time in New England
I came up with this tune while driving also and wrote it very quickly right before recording. At one point in 2007 ? I THINK, I visited my friend Kilmo in Boston and I was so stressed about my job and other stuff that I had trouble stepping away from my real life for a vacation. I'm one of those people that takes my work home with me. We still had a good time anyway! It was mostly internal screaming on my end. I was also in the middle of figuring out my sexual orientation and experimenting with bondage, but I was still kind of in a previous toxic relationship from college. I had graduated college in 2005 and was completely confused about life. I still am! I just stopped internally screaming about it.
12. Louisa's House
Somewhat based on the game "Maniac Mansion" from NES, possibly named after "Louise" from Oingo Boingo. Both a fantasy horror thing and half- based on all the questionable friends I had in high school and accepting the palpable dysfunction when entering each other's houses. This one is pretty straight forward! A fun song about a house of horrors that you keep going to for some reason, even though you barely get out alive! Will added the noisy part at the end, which turned out to be a really good idea. The noises are all me going to Coopertom's house and playing around on his synthesizers. I did a bunch of synth takes, and Will just put all of them in at the same time thus creating a wall of noise. Big moment was at MFF 2022 where everyone cheered right before the second half when I hit the fuzz pedal, that made me feel really good.
13. Coyote and Rat
Originally called "fox and rat" but I already had a fox song! One of the longest songs I have SO FAR (though the third album is going to have even longer ones) - a story in the vein of "one stormy night" - 2 natural enemy characters becoming friends and escaping society so they can just remain friends without being bothered. They face the abyss together! Very romantic. Includes some Kilmo back up vocals and a Pepper Ah Capella part. Rhubarb does a saxophone solo. A lot of ANIMALS on this one. I changed the second verse to include different chords because I don't like repeating things too much.
14. Gum Commercial
I love jingles and theme songs and I wanted to write my own gum commercial song. Originally had an idea of doing a fursuit video gum commercial in the mento's style, but it never happened. I'm a bit annoyed commercial jingles kind of died in the 90's, cuz there were some really good ones. I recorded this originally at Cooper's house 7 years ago: https://soundcloud.com/scurrow/chewing-forever
Listen to it all here:
https://ivemadetoomuchpasta.bandcam.....to-drive-a-bus
1. Foxes Will Fix Your Car -
A lot of my songs come from me just fucking up other songs or getting other songs stuck in my head until they become distorted. This came from me just repeating "Why do birds" over and over, singing the beginning of the Carpenters "Close to you", and changing the next lyric to "lie to birds". This is not a song I necessarily feel strongly about in any way, I know my mom made fun of it a lot because it was my Aunt and Uncle's wedding song. I just got stuck on the "why do birds" line and created a whole song from it. The various animal references are linked to people I know, or things in real life. For example, Coopertom is the "cat the lets you play their synthesizers until the middle of the night, Bears breaking into your house to play piano is from a youtube video I've seen, and also Bob Drake, Coyotes pouring you tea is a nod to Pepper coyote who recorded the my first album (even though he has never poured me tea, it just fit really well in the song.) Kangaroos help you with you resume is about OZ, though he hasn't really helped me with my resume directly, he has helped me figure a lot of stuff out. Of courses the main FOX fixing my car is King Gourd. I regret the line about the raccoons will steal your credit and " drive you to the bar", I should have made it "leaves you at the bar". Originally I had a the chorus ending with "when I was a young wart hog" but disney would probably sue me. This song is super they might be giants inspired, with a melody line meandering and concluding in folk song "shady lane" type thing. I play this one on accordion live!
2. A hole is a hole is a hole
SOMETIMES i make songs from phrases I HATE so that i can reclaim them. I really hate when bros are like "Well a HOLE IS A HOLE" about having sex with someone, so I decided to make a song where I use that but just mention actual holes. There is nothing sexual about this song! Unfortunately people read the title and think it's a furry sex song. Whatever, I DON'T CARE. Wank to it if you want. Long piano solo bridge was Will Toledo's idea. Wank to that if anything.
3. Werewolf Significant Other
This was originally slated for the first album, but it didn't make the CUT. I'm glad it didn't because I like how it turned out on this one a lot, including a midi techno bridge that Will came up with. I wrote this in 2014 or so while driving the 4 hours to Van-Weasel's apartment at Penn State. I immediately played it on ukulele when I got there and luckily remembered it! (I can't tell you how many songs I have come up with while driving and not remembered). This is semi about our Bondagey/Prey Pred relationship, and semi-about a raccoon's fantasy that gets out of hand. I always like overzealous cartoon characters getting in over their heads and having a moment! Good theme. It went from being a ukulele song to my most METAL song.
4. There's no cure for rabies
A normal ass punk song with some fast chord changes. Beginning sounds like Fraggle Rock. I also wrote this while driving and luckily remembered it. I have reoccurring tunes in my head and I think this was one of them, so I didn't forget it easily. I stole the "My dog's speaking to me" line from Dog Fashion Disco. The lyrics have a lot to do with the "I've Made too much pasta" lore of being a raccoon with rabies trying to survive as long as possible. Some of the things he does include drinking juices and getting massages and meditating. I had also been drinking a TON of Kombucha (I really like it) - and I found it had helped a lot of my stomach problems and made my teeth feel a lot better.
5. I miss you, Space Cat.
I came up with the chord progression for this while at Doodah sitting in a hotel room with a bunch of people, Strobes being one of them. Strobes is a space cat. (Ironically strobes was also in a video for a song called "I miss you, boo cat" after I wrote this song. Completely unrelated) I had this idea of a small cat in space doing all kinds of scary science and the world depending on them. People whispering "I miss you, Space cat" into the air, almost like a mantra. If the whole world is rooting for you, you can't fail. Kind of like a movie where a meteor is coming towards earth and everyone wondering if the team sent up to stop it will succeed or not. This is one of the few songs i use minor chords on! Syd stoat sings the "Space cat" part. A lot of references in this. A drummer of my previous high school band is a flat earther, so I included a flat earth reference.
There is a funny story about an astronaut calling his wife right before boarding the space ship via a phone that Nasa provides, and her not picking it up because she didn't recognize the number. Thanks telemarketers.
6. If you die at work then you die in real life
VERY EARLY song, wrote this right after recording the first album. I had this "first injury on the job is the best injury on the job" lyric bouncing around for a while, I finally found a home for it while working at Amazon! I only worked there for 2 years part time and I was tragically bored. Sometimes that's the best time to write song lyrics. Included a bunch of cartoon peril, and a fantasy about dying at work and finally becoming appreciated. Also includes a cartoony line about "being too cute to die", I always loved when cartoon characters say that about themselves. Self awareness is cute. This song is a bit boring to play because it is the Same chords over and over, but people seem to really like it!
7. Marko
The most heartfelt song I've written. It's completely about Marko the Rat, who's death had come at a complete surprise and it really hit me hard. He was one of the first fursuiters I could recognize and I met him at AC 2009 at my first con. I also met him again in Australia in 2015 and he was very excited to meet me! (he didn't remember our quick meet up in 2009) I don't want to go to into too much details about Marko, but I wanted to capture the uncertainty of realizing you have a limited time and not knowing what the best choices to do with that time are. Travel around, or spend it all with local friends? Which is right? No one really knows, and who can judge you for the choices you've made in the end? He favored the misunderstood trash animals so I tried to capture that within the song, hence the lyric about biting holes in the sheets and the "heartiest dams from the angriest hearts" (big angry beaver reference there). I pictured Marko being a overly polite rat that would sit on the porch crying because no one would let him in after knocking lightly, but in reality the door was unlocked because everyone inside knew they wouldn't be able to hear the door when he showed up. A bit of a Watership down reference there also, where the El-ahrairah appears in Hazel's rabbit hole without knocking to bring him to the after life. At first Hazel is a little bit annoyed, but then he realized who he is.
This one took me a WHILE to write, I went through a lot of bad lyrics to get to the ones on the actual song. People seem to like this one! I'm glad I was able to write Marko a banger song. Para and Will both added a lot of great back up vocals to this.
8. I sleep with my fists in the air
A raccoon Protest song. I wrote this one while working at Amazon also. It has a structure much like "ferret without any whiskers" where it just a bunch of parts in a row and then the whole thing again. I stole some lyrics from "Stairway to heaven", which is a song I ironically can't STAND. I don't know where I came up with the title but I used to accidentally punch walls in my sleep during my "Angry Period". (My angry period is still happening) Originally a song on guitar, I moved it to accordion despite the challenging note changes! I can play it perfectly as long as it's not being recorded and no one is looking at me.
9. Mortis Jackrabbit
Not about WILL TOLEDO. This song is about a nameless friend and their struggles with a bunch of stuff in their life. I wrote it as a pop punk song for them to perform at some point, but I ended up just using it for myself. I can write songs pretty fast if someone ELSE has the burden of having to perform them! I named it "Mortis Jackrabbit" after my depressed mail carrier character from my comics when I worked at the post office. Mortis Jackrabbit was also a failed band I had come up with in the early 2000s. Now it's a cute bunny fursuit, but the name is just taken from the song title and not the other way around.
10. I've Made Too Much pasta
This is about making too much pasta. It took me forever to memorize the name list in the second verse, but now it's PERMANENTLY IN-GRAINED. get it? A lot of people say to me "there's no such thing as too much pasta" but they're fucking wrong.
11. Having a weird time in New England
I came up with this tune while driving also and wrote it very quickly right before recording. At one point in 2007 ? I THINK, I visited my friend Kilmo in Boston and I was so stressed about my job and other stuff that I had trouble stepping away from my real life for a vacation. I'm one of those people that takes my work home with me. We still had a good time anyway! It was mostly internal screaming on my end. I was also in the middle of figuring out my sexual orientation and experimenting with bondage, but I was still kind of in a previous toxic relationship from college. I had graduated college in 2005 and was completely confused about life. I still am! I just stopped internally screaming about it.
12. Louisa's House
Somewhat based on the game "Maniac Mansion" from NES, possibly named after "Louise" from Oingo Boingo. Both a fantasy horror thing and half- based on all the questionable friends I had in high school and accepting the palpable dysfunction when entering each other's houses. This one is pretty straight forward! A fun song about a house of horrors that you keep going to for some reason, even though you barely get out alive! Will added the noisy part at the end, which turned out to be a really good idea. The noises are all me going to Coopertom's house and playing around on his synthesizers. I did a bunch of synth takes, and Will just put all of them in at the same time thus creating a wall of noise. Big moment was at MFF 2022 where everyone cheered right before the second half when I hit the fuzz pedal, that made me feel really good.
13. Coyote and Rat
Originally called "fox and rat" but I already had a fox song! One of the longest songs I have SO FAR (though the third album is going to have even longer ones) - a story in the vein of "one stormy night" - 2 natural enemy characters becoming friends and escaping society so they can just remain friends without being bothered. They face the abyss together! Very romantic. Includes some Kilmo back up vocals and a Pepper Ah Capella part. Rhubarb does a saxophone solo. A lot of ANIMALS on this one. I changed the second verse to include different chords because I don't like repeating things too much.
14. Gum Commercial
I love jingles and theme songs and I wanted to write my own gum commercial song. Originally had an idea of doing a fursuit video gum commercial in the mento's style, but it never happened. I'm a bit annoyed commercial jingles kind of died in the 90's, cuz there were some really good ones. I recorded this originally at Cooper's house 7 years ago: https://soundcloud.com/scurrow/chewing-forever
Listen to it all here:
https://ivemadetoomuchpasta.bandcam.....to-drive-a-bus
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Favorite Music
Dogs Barking, lamp noises, harsh clambers.
Favorite TV Shows & Movies
a 4 hour laserdisc of a train
Favorite Games
Wig out with Grandma, Donate Forks, sniff taste kill, Spider or Country?, interactive soup pulling.
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longbus, atari wingspan, james tendo, Mtendo,
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Octopus.
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ivemadetoomuchpasta.bandcamp.com
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Vegetarian.
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You can't fuck while the lawrence welk show is on.
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I remember when I recorded that and the funniest thing was that I didn't realize what song you were playing until those final notes before you ended. Lol
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