Doing It

photo credit : cowgirl berlin

Do you know that among other services, Broadjam, the Internet music sharing company, helps Indie musicians get their songs placed in TV and movies?  Okay, it costs $20 a song to submit to an Opportunity and I’m guessing that less than .001% of submissions actually get placed but hey — I just gave it a whirl and submitted my song “Bones” to two Opportunities!  One call is for an FBI crime series and the other is for a horror film.

If you want a FREE download of my entire “Bones” song, please CONTACT ME and I’ll be happy to e-mail the MP3 to you.

No need to leave your e-mail address, it’s already on file for my eyes only here.  (Unless you’ve left a ficticious one?)   🙂

I’ll be interested to hear your interpretation of “Bones.”  I have one way I describe it but I don’t want to sway your innocent mind so I’ll let the song speak to you itself and if you want to come back and tell me what it says to you — please do!

Have a super-great day and if you have a dream, no matter how big or small, I hope you’re DOING IT too!

(And sweet dreams tonight.  Don’t let the bed bones bite.) 😉

Sunday May 10th 7:30 p.m.

That’s the date for my CD launch show / party!

One-hour show here in Austin,Texas.  No cover charge. 

Friendly fully-clothed guest musicians TBA.

Small cute auditorium beside a paradisical garden.  

Downtown, but ample (free) parking, (unless the place next door is holding a special event, but parking shouldn’t be much of a problem in any case.)

“I Need A Man,” CDs only $10.00.  (Cash or check.)

Jannie Funster autographs and hugs – FREE!

Further details to come.

(Hope I don’t puke on my uke.  Whoops – sorry Patricia, for that visual.) 

Photos of the actual garden walkway and the auditorium at the venue!

Does It Mean I’m Crazy?

{ Edit: as I just mentioned in the comments to Rhett, without knowing the song’s melody or feel, try to imagine my vocal delivery as part Madeline Khan, part Latka Gravas, with a bunch of Robin Williams thrown in . }

1.) I play it on my tricycle.

I play it while I’m watching my t.v.

I play it eating jell-o

and I play it while I’m talking to my tree.

I play it in the heat of day and when the night is cool.

I play it in the shower, in the bathtub, in the pool.

Does it mean I’m crazy ‘cause

I play my ukulele all the time?

——————–

2.) I play it while I’m coloring.

I play it while I’m doing arts and crafts.

And when I’m weaving baskets

I can even play my uke behind my back.

I play it for the voices having fun inside my head.

I play it for the people living underneath my bed.

Does it mean I’m crazy ‘cause

I play my ukulele all the time?

________

Bridge:

Sweet ukulele

Oh, the music I hear

Dear, sweet ukulele

Whenever you are near.

___________

3.) Here where they have brought me

all the doctors and the nurses are so nice.

They keep me medicated

and my rubber room is always clean and bright.

I play it in group therapy and everybody sings.

It doesn’t even matter that my uke has got no strings.

Does it mean I’m crazy ‘cause

I play my ukulele all the time?

Does it mean I’m crazy ‘cause

I play my ukulele all the time

all the time,

all the time,

all the time,

all the time…

——————–

(Well, does it?)

(Lyrics by Jannie Funster.)

And the ukulele song winner is…

Me! (Yes, Me – Jannie!)

Please don’t hate me (remember I have to suffer the perming-of-the-bangs every 3 months to keep from looking like something from Planet Gorpio,)  but… inspired by your creative energies, I stumbled upon my very own ukulele song idea and ran with it.

You guys shared some really really cool ideas for ukulele songs and I THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. The following Four Funstering Friends even went so far as to come up with entire song lyrics for this fest…  Feel Free To Read – Glenn,   Feel Free To Laugh – Doug Palmer (Lane Savant,)   Exit Stage Right – Snaggletooth and Ink Marks On A Blank Page – Robbi.  Robbi and Glenn actually submitted TWO whole songs!  Plus Jung’s Programme Notes – Miles and Deeper Issues – Dot  offered complete verses. 

But out of the big blue sky fell an idea I hope will work.  I’m still honing the second verse but I’ll post the lyrics very soon — maybe as early as Friday.  And I may even re-solicit your songwriting charms, as I’m not sure yet about the bridge.  

The finished song will of course, be lovingly show-cased on YouTube sometime.  Yep, with me singing it.  (Help us all, Lord.)

Anybody got a $20.00 good used uke for sale, non-plastic?   I can pay up to $9.95 for S & H.

Ukulele Me!

I wanna write a funny song about a ukulele!  A song that either asks or answers a burning question or is a cautionary tale — a.k.a. some raging motivation has to make me burst forth singing about a ukulele in the first place.

I already have an image or two in mind and tons of melodies to choose from.  What I really need is YOUR help, by way of a wafer of lyric or plot to jumpstart me.   And if one of your ideas sparks me and I use it, even if it’s only one line – you and I will share the songwriting credit 50/50.  Or, if I combine ideas from more than one of you, we’ll all split things evenly, as is common songwriting practice.

So bring it on, Funster Friends!  Ukulele me!!!  No idea too silly or seemingly inconsequential to be considered.

I won’t be posting again until  Monday, January 19th at 7:16 a.m. (Texas Time,) to give this brainstorm adventure top billing here on my humble site, so be sure to get your ideas in by then.  Feel free to comment as many times as your brain desires!

THANKS!!

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