Category: Life (Page 1 of 4)

Don’t Look Back

Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 12:58 / Lauree

The Star Signs-Don’t Look Back
now downloadable from Soundcloud in mp3 or wav:

Mick Chorba, Jim Becker, Rob Martin, Lauree McArdle, Ron Bechamps & John Williams
(the *band* name was Jim’s idea, to keep it TFC related)

created for the Teenage Fanclub Message Board tribute 40 Million Seconds-The Long Road to TFC

Featuring members of The Successful Failures, Taggart and Stars Apart. Recorded at FDR studios.

links:
http://www.fdrlabel.com/
http://www.thesuccessfulfailures.com/blog-wp/
http://www.myspace.com/thesuccessfulfailures
http://taggartrocks.com/
http://www.myspace.com/starsapart

In August, I got together with some great friends and we recorded the Teenage Fanclub song “Don’t Look Back”

It was for a contribution to the latest Fanclub message board tribute compilation and it marks the first time I’ve had the courage to record my singing voice. Mick, Becker, and Rob were great and we got an initial rough mix in just a couple hours in one night. The rest happened after I had to come back to Virginia and then Ron and John got into the mix.

It was a lot of fun to do and I’m glad I did it. I thought the hard part would be singing and recording it. Actually, it’s finishing it and putting it out there into the world for all to hear. I’ve always had an insatiable genuine love & appreciation for music, but it’s gone to a whole new level.

The entire tribute is dedicated to Tom O’Grady, who was a regular on the board. Sadly, I never had the pleasure of meeting him in person. A donation page is up in his memory that includes a link to download the entire tribute and make a donation to cancer research:
http://donateinmemory.cancerresearchuk.org/0000400

here’s another contribution from Wayne James and The Harry Evlar Experience-Sparky’s Dream, with a fabulous video:

medical appointments can be strange

Saturday, 26 June 2004, 21:50 / Lauree

y’know, you really have to give up all modesty and insecurity when visiting doctors for check-ups and tests, etc. You get all self-conscious and the like but really these people see everything all the time, and they’re used to it. Despite this, you can’t help but feel quite strange about it all.

music will save my life

Wednesday, 23 June 2004, 19:23 / Lauree

I still haven’t recovered from two nights of rock n roll.

was out at Galaxy Hut on Monday to see The Vestals and Grand Champeen. I hadn’t known about the Vestals until I found out they were playing this show. I checked out some MP3s and both recorded and live were a lot of fun.

Grand Champeen I knew about but never really had the chance to see them before…I’m so glad I could be there and didn’t sit at home all depressed and what not. Because no matter how crappy things are, music can take your mood to different places. thanks to Adam I indulged in a bottle of Bud, despite feeling sick to my stomach!!! but beer and rock must cure what ails me because I had so much fun.

so much so that I wanted to try and find a way to get to the show the next night in Baltimore when GC played with The Bigger Lovers. thanks to Tom, I was able to do just that!

Even with almost falling asleep driving home late tuesday night into wed morning, I managed to drag myself to work with less than 5 hours sleep.

damn, I miss the rock n roll lifestyle!

fireflies and cooler nights

Sunday, 20 June 2004, 2:32 / Lauree

the weather has broken a little bit.

it’s been really hot and annoying the past week,

but tonight there’s a lovely breeze, a ton of stars and of course the fireflies.

sittin’ alone drinkin’ a beer, just me, the fireflies, and the night.

100,000 Fireflies

Thursday, 17 June 2004, 3:40 / Lauree

ok, so maybe it’s just a hundred or so, but after the past three days of draggin’ myself to work and sittin’ in traffic both morning and evening (I estimate approx. 10-15 hours a week alone just sitting in my
car in traffic) to and from my job where I sit all day waiting for something to do (yes, I basically have a government office job). the same routine each day and night…

luckily, I have a new-ish housemate, Holly, who’s a smoker and spends a lot of time on our screened-in back porch, smoking and drinking wine. She calls us out there tonight to get
a view of the fireflies….

it’s amazing…it’s like a stadium when all the camera flashes are going off. if I could find a way to show y’all in a picture, I would. go get yourself a copy of the kid’s book, “A Very Lonely Firefly” and imagine
the last page of it at least 50 times that. in the meantime, you’ll just have to come over and
see for yourself. I could sit here for hours watching them.

I’m listening to Superchunk’s version of “100,000 Fireflies” since I don’t have the Magnetic Fields
original version.

by the way, do you know how happy I am that the damn cicadas are gone? I’ll take 100,000 fireflies over the 1,000 or so cicadas we had in our yard ANY DAY!