Because dancing around a bonfire of shoes, that's why.

I recently wrote out a list of things I want to do with my life (i.e. things I would rather be doing than working my slimy retail job), and one of the items was "dance around a bonfire of disgustingly over-priced shoes while ululating." What a splendid idea!

These shoes cost $300.
These shoes cost $300.
These shoes cost $300.
LET'S BURN THEM.

My unhappiness in my job is growing steadily with every passing day. It's not a bad job, all in all--good pay, not too busy, intelligent boss, nice coworkers. It's the environment and mentality of the store that makes my skin crawl: trying to get people to spend as much money as possible on fancy shoes. I just want to create beautiful things and make people happy; trying to increase my average sale doesn't factor into that, in my universe.

The song I wrote for this week reflects all of that. It is a song that my boss must never hear! I just don't think that would go over well. In this song, I combine my frustration with my job with ideas of what I'd rather be doing.

Musically, it's pretty simple, the guitar especially, since it's just four chords repeated over and over, but I really like the way it sounds. I'm quite pleased with how the song turned out, in fact! The only thing I'm unsure about is that there are two "you"s to whom the narrator sings: one "you" is antagonistic and "one" is friendly. There's no explicit distinction between them, but I hope it should be clear that it's two different entities being sung at, rather than the same one, as that wouldn't make sense.

I should note that I've been battling a nasty cold all week and lost my voice for about four days. Every day and in every way I am getting better and better, but my voice isn't still in tip-top shape. So that's why I sound a little strained and brittle this week.

Next week is my first 40-hour work week, and as I discussed last week, I'm not going to try and write a song on top of that, so I'll be posting a previously-written piece. I recently "rediscovered" a song that I wrote back in high school that I really like, so I'll probably do that one.

I also have been meaning to write a blog post about musical complexity/simplicity/complexity-hidden-in-simplicity, so hopefully that will turn up at some point in the next week or so.

For the rest of my life, this is how I will react when confronted with a
pair of fancy, expensive shoes.

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