Terminal Romance

After work yesterday, I took my semi-usual nap on the bus ride home and when I arrived, it was dang muggy out which prompted me not to arrive at the gym like planned.  However, I figured the evening shouldn’t be a waste so in my thoughts I figured I would pick up some groceries and then work on Troy’s ‘So It Goes’ song.

I first stopped at Future Shop to pick up the new Matt Mays & El Torpedo album “Terminal Romance” and noticed that My Chemical Romance had released a CD/DVD package of their Black Parade tour which I had gone to but missed the first 30 minutes.

I then went to the Superstore for some much needed groceries and felt a little ambitious and picked up some pad thai noodles and some sauce.  Natali at work had been raving about this pad thai dish she made and I figured it couldn’t be too hard.  Let me point out that 99% of the time, I am not adventurous when it comes to cooking.  I can’t be bothered with it.  I still remember Carrie bewildered that I couldn’t make Kraft Dinner.  To me, it was too much preparation (but of course, now, I realize, it’s super simple) and I couldn’t be bothered.  Anyhow, last night the 1% kicked in and I figured there wasn’t anything hard to making pad thai as it’s essentially a stir fry.

On my way home, it started pouring rain and I was stuck in the car with the new Matt Mays disc spinning.  Then a moment in musical history occurred and Track 5 (“Terminal Romance”) came on the stereo.  I was floored.  I couldn’t get enough of the song.  It was epic.  It was classic.  It was heartbreaking.  It had everything that I want in the music I write.  When I got home, I immediately went to the stereo in the living room and popped it in so I could listen to it again while unpacking the groceries.  I must admit that I had heard the song before last week in a live format at Bluesfest.  I was blown away by it then also and I didn’t know what the name of the song was at that point but I knew I had fallen in love.

I must have played that song thirty times last night on repeat.  I still can’t get enough of it.  I can’t remember the last time a song has touched me so much in my life.  I think when you start out listening to music, everything is so new so your soul has the opportunity to have those moments more and more because there is so much you haven’t heard.  I remember being fifteen years old and feeling this way when Aerosmith’s “Amazing” came on and the crazy solos come in at the end.  I also remember feeling this way when Earth, Sky and C by I Mother Earth came on the stereo at Carol’s place.  I was floored.  It changed my life.

The pad thai was decent.  The sauce definitely wasn’t what I was used to so I’m assuming I just have to try different sauces.  It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t what I was expecting.

I ended up grabbing a guitar and listening to Terminal Romance a few dozen times while scribing out the lyrics and figuring out the chords.  It amazes me how simple some songs are and how much work I try and put into my songs.  I’ve realized that I am going to perfect the three chord songs first and then branch out.  Terminal Romance is in the key of C and consists of four chords.  Beautiful.  In the end, it’s the way the song sounds what makes it work.

Vero ended up coming over after a long day at work.  The past few days have been killer and she’s been putting in some overtime.  She really loves her job though and that’s what counts.  She loved the pad thai.

We also talked about the inevitable video project we want to start up.  There have been ideas floating around but she always comes back to wanting to make a music video to one of my songs.  We talked about making one to 705 just for fun to play around with the video camera more than actually make a music video.  In the end, I think we are going to try and encompass a Northern road trip as the focus of the video.  So basically take all the sights you would see along a trip up North and crush it into four minutes.  It will be an interesting experiment and has probably been done by many others.  In fact, after we spoke about the video, I popped in the film “Into The Wild” for Vero and the opening sequence is pretty well our video idea so we had a good laugh at the fact that the video is basically done.  We just need to take the footage from the film!

Into the Wild was just as entertaining the second time around.  Vero really enjoyed it as I knew she would.  Vero has this adventurous spirit to her and I think she isn’t made to follow the path that society has given us plans to.

iplaying: Building a Boat – Matt Mays & El Torpedo (Terminal Romance)