I negotiate in my prayers.
“Dear Baby Jesus,
Can I please, please, please, please, please
have this..
I promise to be good.
Thank you.
Amen.
PS – You can take the cat for collateral.”
Kittah!
We’ve had her for a while now,
But let me introduce to you.
Tyra , the kitty.
Tyler named her Tyra.
But everybody calls her Kitty.
I call her KITTAH!
I never had a cat before, and I must admit,
I like having her around.
Especially when she purrs like there’s no tomorrow.
Plus the fact that I don’t have to go out and walk her.
She practically takes care of herself.
Bathes herself.
Plays by herself.
Cats are a perfect, lazy-person’s pet.
And,
She usually shoves her face under my armpit when she sleeps.
Hey, what can I say.
The pussycat loves me.
(grin)
New Song Added – Your Body Is A Wonderland
From time to time I go over the archives on this site
just for me to check for grammatical errors, coding mistakes
and sometimes more writing ideas.
Then I saw this post –> Click here
which was from two years ago.
And I saw in the comments
a song request from Kristine,
who was my “original music promoter” back in the day.
Your Body Is A Wonderland.
By John Mayer
I have played this music before,
but I never really got to polish it.
And also,
it is her birthday today.
And because I can’t send her gifts,
I thought of re-visiting this arrangement of mine,
see how it comes out and send it to her.
So here’s
Your Body Is A Wonderland
Mobile Player here:
All guitars and voices by – Ty Martell
On a different note,
There’s also one more thing I was wondering at,
as I watch a whole lot of TV and read a lot of celebrity gossips.
With regards to John Mayer,
I seem to always see him all over the news, in both Hollywood and the Music scene.
I have seen him play with great guitar players and legendary musicians.
I never really listened to his music, but I gather he’s pretty good
that he gets to be invited to play in major music concerts.
Anyway.
That wasn’t the reason why he got my attention.
The reason why I am talking about him,
is not about why he’s all over the news.
I am talking about him
because of the celebrity women he dated.
According to my research,
he has dated the likes of Jennifer Love Hewitt,
Vanessa Carlton, Jessica Simpson,
Minka Kelly and now Jennifer Aniston.
I mean, there must be something about him
that these women find sexy and attractive.
So I got into thinking,
we got a couple of things in common.
He’s a musician.
I’m a musician.
He plays guitar.
I play guitar.
He sings.
I sing.
Not as good as him, that’s for sure.
But I see that he gets noticed by these beautiful women.
So, maybe.
Just maybe.
If I play his songs.
Maybe just this one song.
John Mayer will also date me.
That would be fabulooooouuuus!
Wait.
I went a wrong turn there somewhere.
—
Happy Birthday, Kristine!
Mahal kita.
Padalhan mo ako ng Corned Beef.
I watch TV
A couple of days ago,
while I was on the verge of death with the flu,
I get to do one of my all time remedies of keeping my sanity.
I watch TV.
It is one way for me to realize that
there are a lot of crazy people out there.
Crazier than me.
And I should feel bad for them.
But that wouldn’t stop me from sharing with you
What I think about what’s on different TV shows.
So take a deep breath.
Here we go.
Band Name
A couple of days ago,
I was playing my guitar,
and my son was playing his Legos.
As much as how busy he was with his engineering skills,
he somehow managed to listen to the music I was playing.
I happen to be playing this –> Click here.
Something with a catchy beat.
Then he started drumming the table.
In sync to my playing,
he kept on drumming.
As we both finish,
he said, and I quote:
“Daddy, someday we’re gonna have a band,
I play the drums and you play the guitar.”
I said,
“That would be awesome!”
He said,
“Yeah, and the name of our band would be … Sun Break.”
“Sun Break?”
I asked.
“Why Sun Break?”
He answered.
“Because that’s the name of our band.”
“Okay.” I answered gleefully.
Then he asked,
“What was the name of that song?”
I said, “Maybe I’m a Leo.”
“Okay.” He answered.
“But we’re gonna name it Skeleton Maybe I’m a Leo.”
“Why?” I asked again.
He said,
“Because it would sound more cool.”
—
I rest my case.
So you heard it here my friends.
Here on denofmusic.com
This is where you first read about “Sun Break.”
The band of the future.
New Song Added – Whispering A Prayer
I was asleep on my deathbed
when this song started playing on my Mp3 player.
Whispering a Prayer
By Steve Vai
Now two things happened
as I realized how beautiful this song was.
First,
Since I have been sick for days, I had to check if I was dead.
The puddle of drool on my pillow confirmed that I wasn’t.
Second,
I have experienced another miracle.
I fell in love with this song.
It literally woke me and forced me to get up and pick up my guitar.
I always believed that falling in love with a song
the first time you hear it
is a miracle.
Now this is my rendition of the song,
how the music came out of me,
since it is impossible for me to play like Steve Vai.
I mean, come on.
He is a Guitar God who lives in an Ultra World,
And I am just a humble musician from Planet Bullshit.
So here’s
Whispering A Prayer
Mobile Player here:
Guitars by Ty Martell
I beg.
Yes I am a Begger
Not a Beggar.
A Beg-ger
Why?
First,
I have begged for this flu not to happen.
It did.
Then,
I begged for the medicine to work for the flu not to happen.
It didn’t.
Then,
I begged for the flu to be at least bearable.
It wasn’t.
Now I have consumed enough Kleenex that’ll wipe out an entire forest.
I have excreted so much snot enough to fill up the Hoover dam.
I have so much body ache that’ll humble the torture methods they got at Gitmo.
I am so sick.
Now I am just begging for death.
I’m sure there are less punishments in hell
than having the flu here on earth.
History. Today.
The United States made history today.
You know,
even though The States get a lot of ridicule,
mockery and negative impressions,
I got to hand it to them.
These people have HOPE.
Even when all is unclear, they hang on to it.
When all the hope I am aiming for,
is to make it through another day,
without losing my mind.
Oh and I also hope this medicine I took
will prevent this flu from happening.
What in the..
I took this picture of my Temp Gauge, at high noon.
What’s wrong with this picture?
Nothing!
Except that I am in freakin’ Florida!
47°F (That’s 8°C)
At High Noon!
It is not supposed to be like this.
But that’s not the issue here.
The issue here is that it’s cold enough that I had to wear a jacket.
And not just wear it.
I also had to zip it up!
Do you have any idea how inconvenient that was?
If it gets any colder, I am going to be forced to wear socks!
With my Flip Flops!
Oh, and God forbid… Pants!
New Song Added – Burning Flame
An old 80’s song by Vitamin Z.
Ever since I heard this song way back in the day,
I’ve always wanted to play it.
I think this is one of the coolest songs ever.
Except now that I have done it,
All the coolness effect went down the drain.
But then again,
Here I am forcing you to listen to my crap.
And the least you could do is pretend you took the time to hear it.
Have pity on me.
My throat hurts.
My fingers are sore.
And my heart is broken.
Burning Flame
Music by – Vitamin Z
Voice, all instruments and percussion arrangement – Ty Martell
**Man! I got to re-do this one.
The more I listen to it, the more I hate it.
I’m going to bed.
//UPDATE:
After 53 takes, this is the best one that came up. I gave up.