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It's just a tiny tune. Can I see your face? You have a big mop of hair in front of your face. Welcome to the Raw Impressions podcast, music related to my spots.
I'm trying to ask my son that. Are you putting your lotion on it? I'm doing my lotion every as much as you. You've got your lotion on your face.
I've got my lotion for my face. Lord, Lou has a... My ornament for my warts. Oh, I know.
Your skin is exploding. What's the thing on your face again? It's a... I don't know what it is.
I think I actually scratch myself at some point. I pay so much attention to the spot that sometimes I drive myself. I drive myself. I drive my thumb into my face.
I drive my thumb into myself. I drive my thumb into myself. So obsessed I might buy this on the lotion. Oh, Rosacea, you have Rosacea.
That's right. I was trying to remember what that... You've got a bouquet of Rosacea's. What the dermatologist said.
I remember that was actually very helpful though. And she gave you the lotion, this prescription lotion, which does actually really help when you use it. I'm pretty okay with aging, but these kind of like skin conditions, that's all new to me. When I was a kid, I was mercifully spared.
Mercifully spared. Lucky you. I was not. But now I got to pay.
I just won big zit. I'm just ready to pop at any time. But I'm fairly clear skin now as an adult, but I still get zits from time to time. It happens, but I just don't care as much anymore.
It's probably why. Yeah, I care more so I get more. You care less, so you get less. There it is.
A history of life, everyone. I don't think I'm gonna have time to get my bangs trimmed. I'm just gonna have to come visit you and pick you up in Los Angeles with these long, crazy bangs that are desperate for hair appointment. You really struggle with bangs and I just never, I'm like, you look good.
I mean, I don't want to. Because once they go, I actually don't know how... It's a maintenance issue for you. It's actually like they get in your line of sight.
Yes. They bother you. And I think it's a little bit of a sensory thing too. Because the way it touches and feels on my eyelid, I noticed bothers me.
There you go. Do it for you. I like to have them at least touching my eyebrow, not below and now they're below. And I don't know how Zoe Deschanel does it, but that girl is the queen of the long curtain bang.
I don't know. God bless you. My hair is in my face all the time. I've been performing at the arenas with my hair in my face.
Yeah, and you kind of... I've been not washing it because... Oh. When I wash it, it gets much harder to see through my hair, through the thicket.
I love it when your hair is washed out. It looks so cute. It's really hard to manage when I'm playing. Is it?
During a live performance, yes. It gets in my way. Maybe you and I can both make appointments at the lift when you're back and we go get our hair done from Jackie. Let's do it together.
Let's do everything that we can together in the time that I'm home. 100%. I'm everything from morning to night together for the two or three weeks you're home. I'm in a hotel room in Ashland, Oregon.
And right outside my window, there's a big California-style hillside right there. Those brown hill sides. Does it have little cute balls of shrub type things on it? Yeah, looks to be the case, yes.
Cool. And you're going to play a song first because it's tiny tunes Tuesday. Yeah, I was going to play a version of Garden, but I pretty much destroyed my voice over the last. Every one of these shows, I absolutely shred my vocals without any...
Without a care. Because you're giving it your all. I'm giving it my all. I really am.
I'm shredding my vocal chords. So I'm not going to do a version of Garden. So what are you going to do? I'm writing songs.
So I thought it probably would be a good idea to just throw some lyrics onto an idea that I have and sing it because I need to know whether it's a complete ripoff of something else that I've done. It could very well be a slight rearrangement of something that I've already recorded and released. Okay. Because I'm in the midst of writing it, I become enamored with the song and the song becomes my world.
And then you can become oblivious to the fact that you're just basically repeating yourself mercilessly. Yep. So I thought maybe you've got a good year for stuff like this. I sure do.
You know, you tell me that some of my songs aren't the same. I'm like, really? I thought they sounded really different. I'm fucking the same.
But yeah, so before that, I'm like, you know what? I should just start playing this stuff as quick as I can and close to it. Put it into form and play it for you so we can figure out whether this is something that I need to drastically alter to make it something a little more creative and more of a pleasant addition to my discography or whether I bag the whole thing altogether. Okay.
Anyway, I'm going to play this in my very familiar skip, my very firm. Oh, yes. I got to because that's how I write the best, has the most like locomotion when I write. Okay.
I'm already hearing like five of your other songs. Sorry. I was just going to say I'm having a meter apocalypse fetish flashback. Go ahead.
Go ahead. Oh, no, the road has started. You're going to lead right to the song. I'm ripping off.
Oh, no. Let me get this one out then. I'm going to shut it and you play. This is it.
This is going to be the only performance of this song. Let on a mountain side where it's brown and dry. But so beautiful. Where we are still a mystery deep in the heart of we.
But I'm not the one. Be afraid. I don't need an answer every day. I have to say another.
Often it is best to drift away. Believe a string. Because I follow you. From the black to blue.
Down a mountain side. Inside a home. I don't need the answer. Every day.
You don't have to say another thing. Often you don't have to say another thing. Often it is best to drift away. Believe a string.
Or something. I can find. I don't need an answer every day. I don't have to say another.
It is best to drift away. But ever where we are. We're in the ring. Ever where we are.
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What's it sound like? Just give it to me, doctor. Give it to me. What song does it sound exactly like?
I don't think it doesn't actually. Once you started playing it. And I right away what I kept thinking is, oh, this has legs. Oh, good.
Because I really like the, I really like the melody. I like the melody and I started flashing out the melody and then I added a chorus and I started to become a little bit obsessed with it. And then I was like, oh. I think you're on to something.
I better just clear the, I better clear it. I better just do it now and clear it, you know. I'll leave the initial stage. It's like stage one.
Stage one. I will give you the check. I think that you can keep going. Yeah.
And I, yeah. It's really, there can be a really high vocal in it too. I didn't do it because I can't reach it, but it's like, what could be like? I don't need the answers every day.
You know what I mean? Like that? Yes. Yes.
Yes. I don't have to say another thing. I do. Which could be effective.
Wow. That would be really good. That's a great idea. I like that idea of a high.
Could you do a, like a switch off actually on the course. Yeah. But recording would be really simple if I did like a recording. It would be really easy to layer it and it would probably sound very rich.
Right. Wow. Yeah. So I mean, I was like, I should just, I should just put lyrics on this thing now because I can really fret about lyrics a lot.
I can really fret about them and spend a lot of time rearranging them. I'm like, I don't know. There's a amount of nuts on my window. Just fucking describe it.
Those lyrics are, they sound like you've been working on them for months. No, I came out. I did them about 10 minutes. Are you serious?
Yeah. Wow. I wanted to be ready for them. Wow.
I would never have guessed that. That to me, it seems like a labored poem. I mean, in the best way, it seems so thoughtful. So I think that also is a good thing.
That means that it flowed. It was like you were in a zone. It flowed. I mean, didn't you tell me that you wrote like some of your most popular songs like Furiously, Fast and Furiously?
They just changed you. I was doing a podcast with that guy from Touche and Moray because this guy, I don't want to describe the band, but they're kind of a punk, you know, emo band, really very passionate band. And the guy, Jeremy wrote a song that incorporated the chorus of brand new love and he kind of sings about brand new love. He very cleverly put them together and asked me to sing brand new love on the chorus part and it sounds really cool.
And he asked me in his podcast, he's like, I mean, if you changed those lyrics at all, or how did they evolve? And I'm like, they just came out one day, one day, July 4th, 1986. Wow. You know?
Yeah, I do know. I just came out quite well, almost, most of them I really sold and fired. All this, all this, all this, all this, kind of like that. I do love working on lyrics that I love, like, figuring out perfect lyrics for things.
And I did that a lot on the last full conclusion record. That's what I mean. I know that you can really get into it, you know? And so that's why to me, it sounded like something maybe you've been working on and fiddling with for a while.
I don't know what this song is about, so I just started writing and I think, I mean, I think I know what it's about. And it's kind of an important thing to sing right now. Yeah. I feel it and I think that it's got it.
You should follow it, follow that song. There's a line in that song you're just saying that it said something like we're in the ring, and it's sort of like the circle, right? It's like we come back. Yeah.
I thought of that just before we started recording. It's amazing. Oh, ring. I mean, I'm just trying to think of what connects us so deeply, not just doing that, but us to our family.
I mean, it's just amazing how you can feel. They feel thousands of miles away. It is unbelievable. That's the end because we're not going to do a half an hour right now.
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