Make Yourself
About Some
Of The Songs
(Comments by Brandon)
Pardon Me
I was in a bookstore, browsing through an old Life magazine, when I
saw a picture of what the article called spontaneous human combustion.
There
were an old guy's legs and shoes, perfectly intact...then, right around
his knee area, was just a pile of charred ashes. I was going through some
turmoil in my life, both
good and bad, and the image struck a chord, so...I wrote a song about
it.
You never know when the inspiration for a song is gonna hit you, so
you've gotta be ready.
Drive
Scott [Litt] had a big hand in arranging and producing this track with
us. The lyric is basically about fear, about being driven all your life
by it and making
decisions from fear. It's about imagining what life would be like if
you didn't live it that way.
Stellar
The lyrics were inspired by my lover, Joan English girl I met in France.
It's about love as a transcendental feeling, like free-floating in outer
space. It's kind of a
traditional song in that way.
NOwhere Fast
We've been exploring drum-'n'-bass here and there on stage, playing
little improvisational ditties in between real songs from the records.
José would
start playing a drum-'n'-bass he'd made up, I'd play my didgeridoo
to it, and songs started forming out of live things like that. That's how
"Nowhere Fast" was
written, through improvisational live jams.
Battlestar Scralatchtica
We have two guest turntablists on this one, DJ Cut Chemist and DJ Nu-Mark.
They're from Jurassic 5, a West Coast hiphop group, very good--amazing,
in fact. They're friends of DJ Kilmore and this track is a three-way DJ
battle. I don't know who wins, but we'd love to recreate it on stage if
we ever
get the opportunity.
