To be truthful, when I started participating in this year's RPM Challenge, I was a little concerned
about running out of material and ideas half way through the month. After
Sheila and Mayron, I was considering whether to hang it up or no.
Then Kosovo declared independence. Yet another song idea! This tune is a
soul/trip hop kinda dealie (or an attempt at one), called "Taking Back
Kosovo"
Being that I'm ethnically half-Serbian, I was wondering if I should drown my
sorrows in that flask of slivovitz a co-worker brought to me from her trip to
Croatia, or nash my teeth at the world, once again, "siding" with the
Albanians.
Nah...whatever...
I just have these memories of watching my mom, a normally docile person in
her old age (God/dess rest her soul), squeeze the veins literally out of her
neck at the sight of the Balkans conflicts of the early '90's, screaming about
how noone ever says anything about the injustices the Croats and the Muslims
inflicted, but somehow, everyone piles upon the Serbs whenever THEY do something
wrong.
Mom, I love you, but...
1. The Serbs started it.
2. The Serbs kept...getting...caught. Red handed. Given the Serbian
nature of being blatantly obvious of their occasional hatred for their fellow
man, this should not surprise anyone.
Anyway, I was the Merchantile Mall McDonald's the other day, and wondered
what it would be like for an Albanian to have this conversation with my mom r.e.
the current events. The lyrics and the music came very quickly after that.
Hope you likes.
BTW, I threw every song I've put together for this challenge so far onto my
Winamp. The resulting playlist came to about 33 minutes and 14 seconds.
According to the RPM challenge rules, a completed album needs to be 35 minutes.
Or 10 songs Or both. At this point, I'm thinking I need to finish this project
by the 22nd. This should give about 3 days to resing parts, do a complete remix
of at least half the songs on my PC, master them all, get some artwork together,
burn a few professional quality copy of the CD, then send it off to to New
Hampshire prior to the March 1 deadline. I may need to do another song anyway,
as the final mixes of my songs may shorten them a little bit.
So, I'll meet my time goal, but I'll only have 9 songs. OTOH, maybe the
world will be a better place because of it. Who knows. Also, after I finish
this CD, I may do a little experiment with it. Hang tight...
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