First Session

I know today is the day we make history, but yesterday I experienced one of those firsts...you know first as in first kiss, or first.... well you can fill in the blank. Starting at 8pm last night I started recording my first song. My boy Corry, aka Rocket, was in the studio singing and playing with this beat when I walked into the room. It was the Mockingbird beat by Eminem, and it happens to be one of the catchiest beats ever. So our conversation went something like this:

Flowz: Yo Roc lets make a song, NOW!

Rock: You 4real? Lets go!

--Break for writing--

Flowz: I'm done set me up in the booth

I walk into the booth for my first time in life. I thought I was going to be nervous but I actually wasn't. I laid my verse down in a few takes, and had a lot of fun with it. I was dancing around the microphone, acting all cool, and being my normal goofy self. There was not a hint of nervousness; although we learned that since I talk so low all the time next time we do something like this I am definitely going to have to up my volume. 

Corry went into the booth next and spit a hot 16 bars. It was great. He did all the producing too, and singing. Yes, we have him doing his t-pain/chris brown on the track. My bro is extremely talented. He even did the photoshop for the picture of me on here. 

Well, the whole process took about 4-5 hours because his computer is a baby. It couldn't handle all the things we where doing to the track, and it continuously froze on us. We remained dedicated and finished our project, which, I believe turned out great for a random idea, and seeing as it was my first time recording. I learned what I need to improve on if I record anymore songs with him, and still fun. 

I actually plan on putting the song on here once this fool sends it to me as an mp3 file. He gave me a long quicktime file thats about 10mb. I can't even put that on my ipod...UGH!!! Well, I have homework to do, people to vote for, and class to attend. Dueces.

Train Ride

July 10, 2008, 10:08pm

Thats the date I wrote the piece that inspired my blog's URL. I am a poet first and foremost. A writer who uses words to dictate my reality. I was looking at the description in my header and realized I'm not sharing to much of my poetry. I had another poem in mind to share, and even thought of a whole post just for it, but I decided maybe tomorrow would be better. So here's my poem entitled train ride.

All aboard for the midnight train
Destination, nowhere,
Wheels squeal as the train speeds on,
Towards the end of the line.

The track falls into an abyss
And my thoughts tumble after
Flailing helpless against the onslaught of the night,
Mares infused with the need to be released and roam free.

Two minus one equals me,
Yet divided I’m still whole,
What once was one can never be undone
Seeds bloom in the night or with the sun.

I hope you enjoy it as much I enjoyed writing it.