http://detailshurtmymind.com the comic. the music. the artists. Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:03:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When Gary approached me to write this comic, he gave me few parameters. The only thing he suggested was a boy-meets-girl scenario. I hate that type of shit. Romantic stuff ain't my forte. Since this is a work in progress, I'm still wondering how closely me n' ... http://detailshurtmymind.com/soundtrack/the-story-oliver-saria/ My sister's friends asked me to record this John Hiatt song for the first dance of their wedding. I recorded it in about a day in my parent's house. My sister Aya (who is also the background voice on the +/- cover) sang the harmonies and "have a ... http://detailshurtmymind.com/soundtrack/12-have-a-little-faith-goh-nakamura/ "Regret"...hm...I guess this was our attempt to cover an already great and well done song. We made it a little on the dreamy side...I like to think that we ended up with a very warm, glowy, homey rendition, with ukulele, reverbed glockenspiel, fuzzy and shiny keyboard bits, and candy ... http://detailshurtmymind.com/soundtrack/11-regret-the-invisible-cities/ Side by Side is pretty straightforward, it's there in the lyrics. It's about being alone with your memories and coming to terms with the terms of existence. It's about attempting to relate to others when you know they are transient, and trying to let them go when they die. ... http://detailshurtmymind.com/soundtrack/10-side-by-side-odessa-chen/ Sleep Music for Jeff was written to capture tenderness. To express how it feels when you first are beginning to love someone and you are first watching them sleeping. Maybe it's very late at night or very early in the morning and it's quiet. It's a lullaby. You can ... http://detailshurtmymind.com/soundtrack/09-sleep-music-for-jeff-odessa-chen/ This is a cover of my friend's band's song. I met the band +/- (Plus Minus) a few times over trips to New York. I first saw them perform in San Francisco a few years ago, and remember how their performance of this song just stuck with me as ... http://detailshurtmymind.com/soundtrack/08-yo-yo-yo-please-dont-fall-in-love-scrabbel/ There are three things that inspired this song- Bob Dylan. Highway 280. My Uncle. I was a late bloomer concerning Dylan's music, but I saw the light after seeing the documentary about him entitled "Don't Look Back". A few days after seeing the movie, I was determined to know ... http://detailshurtmymind.com/soundtrack/07-daylight-savings-goh-nakamura/ ok. For Watertown. ok. What I like about it is that it makes me remember that feeling of being young and not really understanding (or even caring maybe) what's going on around you -- just being drowsy and warm enough and fed enough, while the adults make ... http://detailshurtmymind.com/soundtrack/06-watertown-the-invisible-cities/ Over the years, I have really tried to get away from the typical verse-chorus-verse-chorus structure of most songs. I've been writing more music that begins in one place, and ends somewhere else alltogether. This song is a perfect example of that. Lyrically, it's a song of regret over a failed relationship, ... http://detailshurtmymind.com/soundtrack/05-nicotine-scrabbel/ Gary created this track all by his lonesome in his apartment in Brooklyn. It has a great Latin Playboys-esque spy-movie-car-chase-on-valium feel to it. He's composed a whole bunch of these little set pieces, with the thought that they might end up as inspiration for new Cities songs but some ... http://detailshurtmymind.com/soundtrack/04-silver-dollar-the-invisible-cities/