*make a wish*

1. roller coasters

(originally the 12th track of 2009 album ‘tabula rasa’)
(between “surprise store” and “gingerbread house”)
(through-composed in summer 2007 and recorded in november 2007)
(at the 9th Street Studios / jonathan lennon’s favorite #!)
(merely an instrumental introduction)
(a musical shout-out to all other holy rollers)
(cue the beatles’ “come together”)
(lennon/mccartney track 1 of 1969′s “abbey road”)
(written by lennon for timothy leary’s aborted gubernatorial campaign)
(for a 20-year sentence handed down by the california courts for a 1968 marijuana possession conviction!)
(allowing perennial square ronald reagan to win the seat and launch his rise to power in the united states / over 40 years later and the meatheads are still winning this war!!!)
(but enough about the beatles…onto bigger ‘n better things!)

2. as good as it gets

(originally off 2009 album ‘dinosaurs’)

3. let it charge

(also originally off 2009 album ‘dinosaurs’)

4. iLife

(written/recorded in summer 2011)
(after watching the 2003 documentary “living with michael jackson” on youtube)

5. willful ignorance

(written/recorded in early fall 2011)
(after recovering from the wreckage of hurricane irene)
(after watching series finale of HBO’s ‘entourage’)

6. playing god

(utilizing a pick-tapping electric guitar technique which reminded me of ireland)

7. radiator ray

(written/recorded in spring 2011)
(dedicated to drummer extraordinare robert raymond fragnito and outdoorsman extraordinaire raymond kenwell)

8. newfound heroes

(written in november 2009)
(also includes slower version of ‘don juan rodrigo’)
(both heavily reliant on Emajor)

9. robert can you take me back?

(title based off coda of the beatles’ ‘cry baby cry’)
(as sung by sir paul mccartney)

10. who knew?

(written/recorded in fall 2011)
(based on my birthsign)

11. jinn genie

(not to be confused with 1972 david bowie single “JEAN genie”)
(took on an added poignancy after the passing of “aunt ginnie”)

12. make a wish

(written/recorded in fall 2011)
(in Emajor)
(imajor –> iVmajor –> iVminor)
(written while half-asleep)
(sung in your average falsetto)

“and it was just how i knew it would be…”
“you’re living at home, i’m sailing to sea…”

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