Hello and welcome to Raw Impressions. It's a 4-jacket. We're very happy to have you. There he is.
He's actively in life. In the day, I'm going to die. I feel like it's been a long time. I feel like it's been a long time.
You're interrupting. I'm interrupting. We're both interrupting. I don't know.
They don't really have a huge plan for today. I think Lou's got a song to play. So good luck with that, Lou. Um, I'm not saying anything about it.
But then that I guess we're just going to catch up a little bit and thank you so much for listening. I think he said thank you so much for listening twice. Mm-hmm. Well, you know, sometimes you've got to give your message multiple times to really...
Yeah, gratitude. It's like a... There's no end to thank you. Just think away.
Just think away. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
That doors will open in front of you. Mm-hmm. That's it. Yep.
Thank you. Well, thank you for joining us today listeners. We missed Mini Music Monday or Tiny Tunes Tuesday, whichever. But we're here now.
Couldn't figure out anything clever for Wednesday. Mm-hmm. Whoa. What?
What happened to... What happened to these days? What happened? What happened?
It's now Wednesday. What happened Wednesday? Mm-hmm. Well, we're here now.
I did record a song. That's... Yeah, I heard you sing in and that was nice. You were going over your song over and over again.
It's like... It kind of gave me a little bit of like pandemic flashback of being home together more, you know, when you were singing more at home. You've been gone so much. Yeah.
You haven't had our homework scheduled together in a while. October's just started and I have a schedule kind of laid out for myself. I would like to try one song every week. This week started at a weird time.
I was in Memphis and then I came home like a what? On Sunday night or Sunday? Yeah, Sunday. And then so I sat down and recorded a song on Monday.
Mm-hmm. And I kind of finished it on Tuesday. I started going back and listening to it to figure out whether it was good enough to play for you and for our audience. Thank you.
Thank you. Audience. Thank you. So I did...
So then I started a new song like yesterday. It's not really a new song. I don't really like write. Like I'm going to write a song.
It's like I'm going to finish a song because I have so many... I have all things... So many projects. So many things in different stages of completion.
Mm-hmm. But I did yank one out. I'm like it's time for you to be done with... Yeah, put it to bed.
That's not the song that's coming up. Is there a song coming up now? Yeah, it's coming up. The song was the A side of a lathe cut single that I did.
Mm-hmm. I went over to Mark C. Dorff and Monty's studio. They were my rhythm section and I did a song called Only Fading.
It's actually out there. But everybody wants to hear it. It's on fucking Spotify. Mm-hmm.
But I had a terrible realization about the vocals of the song. I listened to it recently and I thought, oh my God this sounds terrible. The vocals. The music is great.
Like Jake plays all this beautiful guitar in it and Mark and Monty are a really great rhythm section. So I was really psyched about the recording when I did it. Remember I was really excited. I listened to it a bunch and I was really like, this is really good.
This is kind of like old school sebadow, you know. And then I listened to it a couple of weeks ago and I was like, my voice sounds terrible. I sound old. I was like, holy shit.
Oh. I'm trying to like pretend I'm like, it's 1995. This is my new version. One, two, three, four.
You got the side eye. It's what you're known for. We're like a country without a border. Losing touch and I don't know what to do.
You know I miss ya. Last day in the short line. Couldn't ask ya. They say, all right.
From California. January dream. We're only fading. We're like a sunset.
I will be waiting another long night until a light breaks through. It makes me crazy. Angry, lazy. How am I hearted?
Living my mistakes. It doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense to me. We're only fading. We're like a sunset.
I will be waiting another long night. Until a light breaks through. We're like a sunset. You're not my baby.
Oh, I'm fogging. I will be waiting another long night until a light breaks through. Do you think that's a good song? Because I had this terrible realization that was a bad song.
And I was like, so I tried it again because I wanted to play it for you. And I was like, is this good? Is this like something, should I just let it go now? Or should I try to do it again somehow?
I was even just like, man, maybe this should be a dinosaur junior song. And then I'm like, I don't know. Because I just feel like it has something that I love about it. When I first came up with it, I was like, this is great.
And then I did the whole recording with Mark and Monty and Jake. And I was really into it. And then I just had this crashing realization about it. And I'm like, man, why am I so attached to this song?
And maybe I should let it go. But I put Jake's lead melodic ideas in there. I like that a lot. I brought some beautiful parts to it.
I know. He's such a good guitar player. I like the song. I mean, I like it a lot.
I like how you did your vocals in it. It was very kind of tender and that felt fitting for the song. And it's funny now thinking about how you recorded it before the single. It is more almost like poppy in your face.
And you know, like, hey, maybe that was it. I was just like, this is not the right fit. It's not a pop song. And so now I'm kind of faced with, do I do another version of it?
I feel like that I make even more fleshed out, but that kind of quiet sort of approach to it. Do I make a whole new or do I just let it go? I don't know. You could just set it aside for now and.
Yeah, I could just set it aside. Yeah, you don't have to let it go. You could just set it aside. It's true.
It's time I come later. That's right. Sure. Sure.
Anyway, well, thank you for playing that. I actually really enjoyed listening to the way you sang that just now. That was nice. I lowered it so much.
I lowered it like three full steps. I tuned the guitar down to C, which is really low. Technical, technical, technical, technical, technical talk. Anyway, I think we need to discuss what's going on with you, Madal, because you've had a lot, you are, I've got sick.
I'm going through it, you guys. She finally got visited by the COVID. She's alluded it. I've had it like at least twice.
You've had it twice, possibly three times. Possibly three times. But yeah, this is it. This is your main voyage.
Yes, everyone. I, COVID finally came for me. And I'm, I, it took a long time. This is my first time.
She's still contagious. So her voice is going right into your ear right now. You could do COVID. Yeah, you're going to test positive in 24 hours.
Yeah. Kind of kicking you around a little bit. Yeah, I've had a, I've had a little bit of a rough go. I've had kind of, yeah, it's been a challenging time.
As our dear listeners know, I have the other thing, which is like, you know, of course just looming in the air, which they all know because they listened last week. And that follow up appointment, I think is next week or something like that. I don't know because my brain, you guys, I have the brain fog and it's almost like some asshole sitting on my head right now and it hurts. He didn't get permission, but he put a big ass right on my head and it hurts.
And it's like weighing my brain down. Yeah, I've had a little bit of a rough go with COVID and I'm on Pax's COVID. Today is my last day. I've had kind of like, I don't know if you're like old school symptoms or people are still getting this, but I was reading about what's COVID like today and I'm like, that's not really not what I had.
They're like, it's like a mild cold. You might have to cough in the sniffles and I'm like, okay. You got the, you got the can't taste. I can't taste.
I can't smell. Yeah, you got that. You got some old school. That's what I mean.
Yeah. And then I did also have like really bad, shockingly bad, like back pain that comes out of nowhere that just seizes you and you're like, okay, so what is this? Is someone snapping me in half? I don't, I'm just laying here.
I'm kind of miserable. You guys have been miserable. I'm not going to lie, but I'm on the mend. Thank God.
The metallic taste in my mouth has been just truly horrific. I can't eat very much right now. I don't have a lot of an appetite. I have some of an appetite.
It's getting a little better, but it kind of doesn't matter. I'm like, because I can't taste anything. Anyway, I have COVID. So kind of a cool COVID though, because it came from Hendrix and this is my theory.
I'm absolutely correct. Hendrix went to see a band called Melp Banana at a club show in Boston. Hendrix was 13. I didn't know about this.
You know, when I came back home from, I can't remember. Tell me a couple of days ago, like, you went to Melp Banana, crazy cool, you know, Japanese band. So I think he got it there and then he probably blew it right in your face across the dinner table. And then I was, I was covered.
Whatever COVID I had was not that one. But you know, not to say that you have a cooler COVID. It's not cooler. It seems stronger.
It's a strong COVID. You know, I've been getting the kind of weak stuff. I just have a fucking headache. I have to happily take week.
Well, the headache is fucking worse. We tried to do the podcast last week. I was just like, what the headache? Man.
And I'm taking time on everything. And it's like COVID's like, do I throw down my headphones last week? Nope. What did you say?
Did I throw down my headphones last week? You did throw down your headphones last week. You had kind of like, I don't want to call it like a hissy fit. Can you say that anymore?
Hissy fit. I don't know. Is his he mean something? I have no idea.
But you just cat your dog. I have to take a sip of water, everyone. I'm deeply sorry. People like to send me messages.
Why are you doing that? I don't know. Because I am. So.
People send me listeners? Yeah, listeners send me messages. When I slipped coffee, they lost their goddamn mind. But enough about that.
So, if you're still around, thank you. After then. Again, thank you. After listening to the same.
I'm going to fucking think away. So, shit. I can't remember what I was talking about because my brain's so fucked up. You're talking about COVID?
COVID. COVID. Now I'm getting the stabbing pain right above my left eye. COVID.
COVID. COVID. Guys, it sucks. It's sucking for me.
Oh, so I had a dream. Once I finally started sleeping a little bit, last night of the night before. Before that, it was like full on and something. It was like, oh my God.
It sounded good. It was like, why do you sound? You're not coughing in your sleep? Yeah, you were sneezing away.
Nice and soft. Thank God. I really needed the rest. But the night before this one, this last, I had this really, like really, really, really, really graphic vivid dream that I was reagan from the exorcist, you know, the girl who gets possessed by the demon.
After we talked about the exorcist, did you bring it up and then we talked about it? I said, oh, there's a new exorcist out. You did? I did.
Okay. So I don't know if you put it into my brain or what, but I had a very graphic dream that I was, I think her name is reagan. She's the girl who gets possessed by a demon or the devil or whatever. Is there just more than one demon floating in there?
I don't know. Another Satan. Satan? Satan?
Is one person or one thing? She? As far as like Christianity goes and which is what the whole movie is about. Sure.
So, which is the basis. There's one. It's the devil. It's okay.
It's like there's one God and then there's the devil. Well, the devil decides to take over this poor little girl and the priest come to get rid of it. The exorcism. The exorcism.
And exorcism, right? And I have seen the movie. No, that's, I believe this is the, that's the, where the immortal line, your mother sucks cocks and hell comes from. Wow.
I don't remember that line. Could be long. I hope John Brannen, are you listening to our podcast yet? Because I know he loves the exorcist because he posts about it often on his Instagram.
The front cover of the very first negative approach, seven inch is a still shot from the exorcist. Exactly, exactly. So, great movie. Can I ever see it again?
Absolutely horrible. Haunting is, as you know what, so, but oh gosh, you guys I'm so distracted. All right. So my dream.
I was the girl. I was possessed and I was like literally in her body looking at the priest, the old priest. Whoa. Yeah.
You dreamt you were Reagan. I'm just putting it all together. Yeah, Reagan or Reagan or whatever. Ronald Reagan.
Reagan. Good guess. Anyway, so is it Reagan? Okay, whatever.
We're going to go with it. So, yeah, no, I was literally in the movie and he was like, you know, whatever, putting his hand where he was trying to shake some holy water and some holy water on me. Anyway, he was trying to get rid of the exorcist and he was exercising the devil. For Pete's sake.
Okay, so I woke up and laying there and my first thought was, oh my God, the stream was a message. COVID is in me. I have the devil. I, COVID is the devil and packs love it is the priest trying to exercise the demon.
COVID is the devil. COVID is the devil. Paxle is the priest. Yes.
And he's fucking working hard. Like I can feel the drug fighting such a good fight for me. Like it feels like it's having to fight hard. I'll say that.
It's like, okay, we got to go another round. Oh, another round. God damn it. So yeah.
And then my sister and I, Abby, I was she was texting me and saying like, how are you doing? So I told her about my dream and she said, you created a meme and she sent me this hilarious picture from the exorcist of Regan floating in the air and then the priests, they're like trying to, you know, whatever hit her with holy water and they showed COVID on top of her and Paxle over the priests. And she's, anyway, so I'll put that up for the picture for Ron Preschins and anyway, let that fly motherfuckers. But yeah, so it's battle.
It's battle we're getting through. Man. Fighting the fight. As he is negative.
I don't know. She's her man. She's her man. She's great because maybe it's because she just moves so fast.
It's like, you know, it's like no one, nothing can ever catch her. Right. She's always moving. Because are you supposed to be like 15 minutes in front of someone's face to get like your face full of their viral load?
Yeah, that's amazing. She's like, somehow she sidestepped your load. She's like, I'm never ever still for 15 minutes. Yeah, it's true.
She's not like cuddled in your lap. You know, like you're not breathing on her for like 10 minutes. I am also wearing a mask at home. So obviously I'm doing my best to protect my little buddy.
I'm glad that COVID is visited. I'm glad that COVID did the rounds with us, excluding Izzy, but she's a little. She's fast. COVID's not going to get her.
I'm glad that you finally got it because there's been a lot of buildup to this. Three years. It's been pretty tough. I do think it's like when you do face it and it happens and you move on.
I mean, I think it's kind of a rite of passage, you know, something that's that happened when, you know, in 2020, the specter of doom and gloom and this like hypersensitivity. I'm glad that now that it's gone through our house in the last few weeks, I'm glad that we have the October to look forward to in a good holiday season. You know, I'm feeling good about that. I think you're progressing really well.
I'm really glad we got the Paxilovid because I do think you're very sensitive and that COVID, I usually my flus and my COVID was pretty mild, but it's not the same for everybody and that's why it's scary. And so I'm glad that this, I'm glad that we passed through this. I'm glad that you're on the, I think you're almost on the other side. I think you're almost on the other side.
Definitely. I can feel the progress and I just want to say a thank you for the reaction to last week's episode. I'm going to say this without getting too emotional. So I received many, many, many messages and I guess I'll just say thank you.
So thank you for them. Thank you. So that's, they've all been seen, they're appreciated. I haven't responded to you.
I've seen it. Thank you. Um, yeah. Okay, you too.
Um, it's about time to wrap it up. I just do for the rest of the day important things to do. Um, Adele, Hommend, Lou, he's got plans. Yeah.
Okay. Thank you for, um, are you so good? I think he's got to do for the rest of the day. Important things to do.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the rest of the day. I did.
Thank you. Thanks.