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Wrought in Hell There's this

Wrought in Hell

There's this old songwriter's joke that goes something like this:

Pat goes to see Mike at an open-mike night at some bar or other.

Pat: Hey, Mike, whatcha been doing?

Mike: Just writin' songs.

Pat: Yeah, that one was rotten all right, but the first one was pretty good.

See what you have to understand is that Mike, like most singer-songwriters, affects a kind of hillbilly accent on stage to give his material a little extra authenticity. Get it? Writin' sounds like rotten in the singer-songwriter accent.

OK, so I'm no good at rotten jokes. I spent today on rotten songs, though. Rotten songs is way harder than it ought to be. Songwriters write in hell.

Here's another one:

Q: What comes first, the words or the music?

A: The advance.

Hmm, I got my priorities all screwed up. Anyhoo...

"Regular" blogging to resume when I hit rock bottom again.

Posted by Dr. Frank at December 3, 2002 07:12 PM | TrackBack