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April 1st, 2006 12:00pm


Looking Sideways And Smiling

I’ve been doing this site for a little over four years now, and in all of that time, I’ve resisted the urge to post my own music. But you know, me and my band the Raptors have been doing some pretty good stuff lately, and I want to share some of it with you. I’m really proud of this music, and I hope that you like it even half as much as the stuff that I normally post.

Raptors “You Make Me Smile” – With this song, I was trying to update the he said/she said dynamic of “Don’t You Want Me” by the Human League, but give it sort of an everyman “Jack and Diane” quality. Everyone in the Raptors is from the suburbs, and we wanted to write a song about the lives and loves of the sort of authentic, hard working regular people from back home. Who says the suburbs can’t be sexy?

Raptors “My Infinity” – When I wrote this, I was thinking a lot about how when you’re in a new relationship, you can feel this burst of powerful energy within you, as though you’ve been granted special powers by your lover. So the scenario in the lyrics here is something like, what if I had a girlfriend and she was this hot chick version of Galactus, and she made me into her Silver Surfer of love? How would a relationship change on a cosmic scale? This is the kind of thing that really interests me, so I decided to explore that concept in this song.

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