July I started this just before my daughter was born in 2000 and finished it — typically — two years later. It's about waiting around; I was thinking about Brian Wilson's "Busy Doing Nothing". It was also my biggest production number to date, with almost 40 audio tracks in addition to the MIDI. I really pushed the limits of a Beige Desktop G3 on this one! Play It

Bridgette Monet is an homage to my favorite 70s porn star (I Like to Watch, Bodacious Ta-Ta's, Stiff Competition, and most particularly, Sorority Sweethearts). Though I agree with Pat Califia's contention that we never get the porno we deserve, still, with Bridgette and the Calballero Brothers, we came close. Play It

Theme from As We Sow Filmmaker Jan Weber had a flash of inspiration and tapped me to supply a score for her moving and melancholy documentary As We Sow, which chronicles the disappearance of the American small farm. Think abandoned barns and wind-swept Iowa plains, plus the harmonica from Morricone's Once Upon a Time in the West. Play It

Green Glass Beads is my version of a children's poem called "Overheard on a Saltmarsh" by Harold Monro (see panel on right, and take a look at this painting inspired by the poem). Taken from a circa 1925 children's poetry collection called Silver Pennies, it's a primal memory of Carolyn's, who sings the part of the nymph. Play It

My Disillusionment was written many years ago for Desi Desi and Desi, though the Desis never got around to giving it a good studio setting. We used to play it at the A7 club in New York in sets that started as late as 6:45 in the morning (when we would still have an audience!) A fast and loud three-minute pop song. Play It

Sister Isabelle is a cover; Del Shannon wrote it, and it was a minor Australian hit for him in 1969. This version features Carolyn. Her dilemma: girlfriend Laura is becoming Sister Isabelle: "Does He need you more than I do?" This was recorded in my East 10th Street living room in 1994. Play It

Theme from the Hotel Triton was originally written as an opening theme for the Frommer's Travel CD series published by Macmillan in 1996. It was too long (at one minute) so they didn't use it, but I like it. Play It

High School Cello began as a MIDI tuning loop; I set up a couple of piano chords to play over and over so I could get my guitar in tune. The piano began to evolve; I was listening obsessively to a solo recording of Thelonius Monk doing "Round Midnight." Play It

Patio Boys is a detailed account of a night when Reagan had just been reelected (once fooled, shame on me; twice fooled...) and we were all drinking too much. It's not all strictly true; those who know me realize I never touch gin. Play It

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