folkart lullaby

well well well

2008-05-14T20:22:00.002-02:30

hello to one and all
here is the update if you are intrested , I guess

I'm happy and healthy , after alittle bout of the flu I'm back running on two feet again ,
I have some label intrest with my cd , so thats like really cool , I was contacted the other day , hopefully its all legit but I am going to play it by ear for now but its real cool to get noticed in that way .

been wrting more songs all the time , been writing alot of words , don't really know if they will become songs or just poems , who knows , time will tell ... but its all good

my myspace is like totally off the hook , passed 4200 plays today , thats mad , that alot of people been getting alot of postive feedback there too , even got a few messages in other languages , that I have no clue what they are saying , so thank God for that and for everything really
but most of all thank God for my love who looks after me and all my neurotic tendenices and makes me feel like i'm a man of some worth , thank you God for the beautiful gift that I have in her

well thats all for now
there is more but it will have to wait till later .
love always
Bobbie

"my hands upon your soft white skin,
my fingertips knew where to begin ,
counting the viens in your arms
just gravel roads to your country home
- -
where its safe
and warm
and know one will do me harm "

well here is that update

2008-04-29T09:36:00.002-02:30

hello hello hello

hope this update finds you all well ,healthy and happy , just as I feel today , After the last month of struggle and whatnot I am doing just fine again , but instead of looking at the negatives , I am going to tell you all about the postives ,

I have my first cd ready , its a cd of songs that I recorded last year , there are 13 songs and its just really cool looking and whatnot , just holding it in my hand makes me so happy , I knew I could do it all along , this is just the start , now I am going to have to start working on promotion of this cd and the recording of the next one all at the same time , bring it on , I can do it .

my myspace music site is flying along rather well as of this morning I was up to 3300 plays , thats alot of people , its cool that those songs are getting heard by some people , that makes me feel great too , I get e-mails from people all the time telling me that they like my stuff and whatnot , heard alot of comparsions to other artists and whatnot which is cool too ,I really feel greatful that people would take the time and listen .

but the biggest news of all is this , Amanda and I have gotten engaged , like thats the coolest thing in the world , am I right ? of course I am right , I did the whole 9 yards too , asked her parents for there blessing , I was super nervous too (its true but funny now that I look back on it ) and then I went out and picked out the ring myself , which apparetly is something guys just don't do anymore by themselves ,or so I am told , then I booked a room on the gold floor of the fairmount for the next day that we had off , now keep in mind the whole time this was going on I was stressing out , not know how it would go and wanting to make it all perfect , so then off we went to st.johns , the room was wonderful and at about 10:30 I popped that question , got down on one knee and the whole she-bang , the day before picked up two wine glasses and a bottle and we had a toast to out engagment and our ever true love , It all went perfect in my eyes , the ring even fit like a glove , excellent , I am so happy about all this it is not funny , Thank you God for the gift of love you have sent me .

I would also like to thank all the people who told me congratutaions in the last week , all the people that said the ring was nice , shook my hand or said good things to Amanda about us getting married , Thank you so much , I won't forget all those well wishes

Love Always
Bobbie

hello hello hello it's been a long time , but then again ...

2008-03-18T17:38:00.002-02:30

hello hello hello
to all those out there in internet land , how the hell are ya all going ? , Me ? , dare you ask ! I am doing just great , rockin out with my wonderful girlfriend , just loving every new day and watching it get better then the last . Whats a brother to do no less , stop listing to the negative crap and start believeing in all the good thats around each and everyone of us , thats what . believe it , cause its true , be thakful that you are alive and that there are people around you that care for you , Its a wonderful life I swear , if you want it to be , you just gotta open your eyes to it , thats all , took me along long long time to figure that one out .oh well .. making up for lost time now though .

Saturday night i sat down and figured out that I have enough full band songs as to make a 14 song full band demo , songs that I really care about , that I think are strong , stuff that could be epic , stuff that could be athems , stuff that is rock and pop and folk and country and metal and blues and everything rolled up into one and shot out from my cranium ( that is size 23 , I am told , lol ) as only I can do . I believe in these songs , so here we go again ,

here is the task at hand :
I have to find a bass player, a drummer and a keyboard player that are willing to record these songs , one that understands the beatles and zeppelin and queens and hendrix and gram parsons and all that stuff rolled into one , It maybe hard but if you think you can do it , drop me an e-mail or whatever , plus I am going on a hunt for some people now cause I wanna do this ..

anyway more later , I leave you with a pic of me and my beautiful love
your confessional chatterbox
Bobbie

well there you go ....

2008-02-12T21:14:00.000-03:30

thanks , thanks , thanks very much for that

I appraitce it so much

your a real winner

all my love
Bobbie

the set up , part one , new music soon

2008-01-29T01:32:00.000-03:30

hello hello hello
so tonight I set up the start of my music gear in its new home . and I got alot of it done but not all of it yet , but I am getting there , maybe i'll set up more after I make this post , I took a few pic's to show you the new place that it will all be coming from . down the stairs into dreamland the two lovers
anyway thats all for now
all my love
Bobbie

hey look what i found ....

2008-01-24T21:07:00.000-03:30

hello hello hello

so as I don't have my recording gear set up yet , been wrting some new songs though , so I have been surfing the net as they say , with my spare time , been spending alot of time on you tube and look what I found ... you said you liked my version of firecracker , so I found ryan adams singing it jamaica , I have the dvd but haven't seen it in a while , but I love this version ,

so here it is
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anyway gotta get ready for work
all my love
Bobbie

so alive ...

2008-01-22T14:07:00.000-03:30

so hello hello hello

today is a great day to be alive , just really happy today , I have been playing the crap out of these two songs and I wanted to share them with you , I hope you are as happy as I am. thank you very very very much .

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I hope everyone is happy and safe and knowing that they are loved

all my love
Bobbie

these songs you can play with chords

2008-01-17T09:48:00.000-03:30

hi just took so pictures of some of the new songs that i am working on, the chords for them anyway , like cause i write them everywhere , some are written on an envlope in green pen ( where the hell did I get a green pen ? lol ) from like last week sometime and the other sheet is the inside of a christmas card on the left side that was blank that someone gave me at work , songs that I wrote yesterday when I should have been sleeping , there are about 7 idea's there , hopefully they will all turn into songs when they are ready , a few already have ...

so here are the pics

so there you go , the first pic is of my new guitar , that I love and there are so many songs inside it , sparks was written on this one , so was what am I trying to say ? just love the look of it , all sexifed and whatnot

Love
Bob

Tuesday Jan 15 2008 was a productive day

2008-01-16T09:35:00.000-03:30

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So yesterday I was so feeling up and good and whatnot , that I went into the music room and was gonna record some songs and whatnot , I started with covers just to warm up but one cover , turned into two and so on and so on,

so I recorded a totally of 8 songs yesterday , they are all pretty lo-fi and in the originals there are a few things missing , like the piano in sparks down the hall . I am happy with most of them with the exception of the cover of please forgive me by david grey , the song is so perfect in everyway that I couldn't get my head around it , or my voice for that matter , I think I was trying to hard .
the 3 songs at the end are mine , one called love I found written on the back of a sheet on the floor in the music room and its really old , emerald eyes was written the same day as kinda like a put down and have fun , waiting for mike to show up with his drums , like last year some time . I must have been listening to alot of matt good then cause thats what it sounds like to me . the other one sparks down the hall was written on new years day so its new I guess .

anyway here they are : ( in the order that I recorded them )
1.rescue blues-ryan adams cover -
2.its all over now baby blue -bob dylan cover-
3.firecracker -ryan adams cover-
4.gravedigger -dave matthews cover-
5.please forgive me -david grey cover-
6.love
7.emerald eyes
8.sparks on down the hall

so I guess thats it . warts and all . I hope you like them . now i;m going to sleep cause I am very tired after recording these songs and mixing them and all that junk in one day but what a day it was

love always
Bob

2 new "old" songs

2008-01-09T11:14:00.000-03:30

hello everyone

after the disaster of losing the new songs i decided to record a few older tunes that I wrote last spring with a few minior adjustments , mixing these bastards was hard and I was dropping tired but I got it done .

so here they are :
1. all my dreams
2.small town

so there you have it , I think I wrote these two songs when I was going thru a big springsteen faze , like around the time that I started this blog and came up with the name folkart lullaby . so I guess when you want to find the path forward some times you have to start at where it begain I guess .

anyway have fun
Bob

is at odds with the world right now

2008-01-08T11:07:00.000-03:30

hello

I just feel out of sorts today or should i say the last few days , it seems that i can't get anything done and something is sucking the life out of me . I don't like it at all . I have knew songs written and I just seem to no be able to make that long trip across the hall to record them , I just don't feel well right now thats all , maybe I need a vacation or something . anyway thats all i have to say right now , maybe later today I will go out there and record some but I do have to get some sleep ( seems like thats all I do ) before work

oh well

all my love
Bob

I love this song so much .......

2008-01-05T14:21:00.000-03:30

its the best , speaks to me so much

love
Bob

who is a folkart lullaby ?

2008-01-05T12:53:00.000-03:30

he is I and I is he ,,

in other words i'm going out of my mind blasted on flu meds and whatnot and feeling just a sweet little feeling thinking about stuff in general , I'm this total dynamic person that has this compeleing need to write and to listen and to do all these things cause I can't sell insurace or have the displine to become a doctor or a teacher or whatever , the hopes that my parents had for me , oh well sucks to be them , sorry to let you down mom , lol but I don't fit the grid , you know that grid where all the quote - unquote normal people live . oh well I went from total happniess to flu/loss fucking feeling down to now feeling on top of the world again . and thats who I am and I'm happy with that , I go long periods of time with no sleep and then I sleep all day and i'm happy with that too . Its all part of it . I'm happy with it , really I am . Its kinda like the bus drove off and I stayed here . Its good though cause the grid looks really fucking borning to me right now .

so I just wrote another few to replace the others , some real lovelys lol

flying high over the flu
Bob

Super mother F**kin pissed , atomic style

2008-01-04T14:22:00.000-03:30

so those 8 songs that I had that I though were good are gone , someone threw them in the garbage cause they were wrote on a piece of carboard that came out of christmas gift . This sucks royal . I am very very very mad right now but because I know it is my fault . I should have took the songs back out into the spare room or maybe wrote them in a book or something . I just don't like writing stuff in exercies and stuff because sometimes i mix and match a verse from here and a chours from there , well so there goes the pop songs , or atleast 4 of them I think , Fuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

oh well such is life
Bob

and then there were 8 more ....

2008-01-04T08:48:00.001-03:30

so I have about 8 more songs and hopefully if I am off this weekend I can record them and post them on this mother , they are like pop songs I guess but not like britney pop songs , I don;t know what they are like , I guess I have hit a creative high these last few days ..

must be the coke (just joking)

all my love
Bob

chcek out my myspace music page

2008-01-01T10:41:00.000-03:30

it kinda sucks right now but its gonna get better and it has streaming audio of 6 of my songs

so cool beans
go to
www.myspace.com/folkartlullaby

and thats it

live and love with no regrets
Bob

p.s i'm am not in the serch for like minded players that are in the area , think I may be getting the rock and roll bug but It has to be about the songs , not flash and whatnot , maybe folk rock , but it has to be about the songs other then that I don't need them . So if you know anyone , drop us an e-mail here at the old folkartlullaby@gmail.com , plus i'm gonna keep my eyes and ears open over the next few months and I have a batch of songs now that need a bad situation to record them , some rock songs , so ballads , some new wave cure type stuff , some down home band type stuff and a lot of hendrix kinda stuff that is groove oriented , just to make the girls dance some . so this is my next big task. any help would be greatly appricated , still gonna do the folkart lullaby stuff every chance i get but I wanna get R N Thorn and the midnight conversationist on the go as well .

so lots of love

another productive day kinda

2007-12-31T15:48:00.000-03:30

so after taking a sleeping pill this morning at about 4:30 or so and almost passing out in the computer chair ( as it is the first one that I have taken in some time , they are super addictive and I don't like making it a habit to take them ) , I woke this morning at 10 I think , because of the pill the first few hours you are awake you are kinda not , kinda still have that sleepy feeling , like if you ever had that kinda sleep where you sleep for about 30 mintunes and you wake up all new and whatnot , kinda breezy , you get what I am sayin here . I picked up my guitar like every morning when I am off and started to play , then I had an idea for a song and went out in the other room to record it , so I layed down the acoustic and then kinda remebered a piano part that I had that would fit over it , ( I know none of my recording as of yet have had any but thats gonna change now ) so I tryed it and it kinda fit , but then on another track I just improved over the guitar part and I like that better , so its kinda like an instrumental or a coda or something , gonna record the other version with vocals later ,

so then after that I went out on the couch with my new guitar and caught 3 more songs or aleast two and the one that I was talking about before , so that was kinda cool too , hopefully I will get time to record them in the new year

anyway happy new year
Bob

A Happy New Year from a folkart lullaby

2007-12-30T11:17:00.000-03:30

Hello

This is a big Happy New Year wish to each and everyone of yours from a folkart lullaby . I hope this year all your dreams come true and more and now lets drop that ball , have a kiss and welcome 2008 . A new year that is gonna be the best yet .

Yours
Bob

2 new songs for a new year

2007-12-29T17:30:00.000-03:30

So I worked my way thru it and here is what I came up with today , the one song I recorded before the last post and the other one I recorded after the bout of blockage . So what did I write about , I wrote about the block kinda and whatnot , still like the song though , now i'm on to the next one , one that has the working title of pop song lol . So I've been up all day spending time recording and doing alittle photoshop work , even made a little cover for these two songs . So here are the links for the songs , download and tell me what you think . Hope you enjoy them and maybe I'll have a few more in a little while

1.Untitled number two
2.what am i tryin to say ?

the problem as I see it ..........

2007-12-29T13:05:00.000-03:30

oh my oh my

so you see I didn't believe there was such a thing as writers block but I guess there is , cause I'm blocked up like a mother-lover .I recorded a new song which I called untitled number two and I love the lyrics , the usual mix of longing and whatnot that are in all the songs that I personally love . and now I can't seem to find anything that I want to put in the next song which sucks big time cause I love the new song that I have on the chopping block right now , its reminds me of a mix of oasis and the beatles on an acoustic guitar ( not that it may sound like that but thats what I hear ) and it has a pre-chours and a chours , which is strange coming from the guy who will write songs with 5 verses and no chours (such as untitled number two ) , its total pop and I love it but alas no words right now , maybe I'll take the total oasis route and use nonsense words but I doubt it cause words mean so much to me . so thats it conflicted as usual

Love Always
Bob

and then there were two .....

2007-12-29T03:12:00.000-03:30

So howdy out there in ones and zero land

I wanted to start posting the lyrics to my songs on the blog but I figured that I was posting enough on here now and It would just get cluttered up ( like its not already ) so I have created blog number two . The other one is gonna just be song lyrics and links to download those songs I guess and no real view points from me and no ramblings or whatever .

so here is the link
folkart lyrics

I'm not say'in they are good but they are mine and I like them and being a lyrics guy when I listen to music , I guess that part shows in my own music

all right cheerio
Bob

p.s. Its almost the end of the year so have a happy new year whereever you are and I have a feeling that 2008 is gonna be a wild and wooly year for me and I hope it is for you too .

merry christmas from a folkart lullaby

2007-12-24T18:53:00.000-03:30

well hello everyone ,

This is my Christmas wish for you , I hope you are safe and warm , Happy and content, loved (cause you are!) , with people that care . I hope you have good health and a calm mind , I hope your having a good time this hoilday season . So a big merry christmas from me to you .

with lots of christmas cheer and love
Bob

"The Dream" and some quick thoughts on other subjects

2007-12-23T08:34:00.000-03:30

I don't really know how to start this one off so I guess I should just dive right in and tell the story of the dream . I had a dream the other night and its been just glowing inside me ever since , even though me and this person were never that close but we did grow up together , went to all the same schools and whatnot . So I had this dream where I was in a room with 3 chairs and Sean , and he was just sitting there drinking his drink and smiling that smile that I saw a million times growing up and it seemed that the moment lasted a second and forever all at once . He was so full of life like nothing had change as things do . Then he spoke and only said three words but it was so beautiful amd filled me with such a joy that I haven't felt since I was a child , He said " enjoy your life " and then I woke up and was smiling this big grin from ear to ear and if you know me then you know thats not like me and even now as I write it I still feel that joy and I feel in everytime that I tell someone about it . The message is so fundamental to Life but we never really do it . If your like me your always in a hurry , or worried , or feeling some form of heartache and we shouldn't , just stop for a mintune and think about all the good things in your life . No matter how bad it is there are still good things there too and usuallly more of them but we don't really wanna see them there .So this is the promise I have made , I am going to enjoy my life (and if you read the other posts below I really havn't been doing that the last few months ) but I'm changing , tonight at work I wore leopard skin ear muffs just to make other people laugh and did the pages in accents , just to make other people laugh , a part of enjoying life is laughing and most people don't really do enough of it .

So basically what I'm sayin is thanks , to whatever you want to believe in , or what it was but the dream change my head with 3 words and I don't know really what brought it on, but Thanks for the change that needed to happen , I'm have started to make the change already and I hope this helps you make the change if you need to too .

Also I want to give a big shout out to all the people who have downloaded my tunes and have given me so many kind words and incoragement . I have a few more songs on the choping block and I'm trying to get them done , but really thank you people , I feel a great love for all the kind words either on facebook , e-mail or in person .

Other than that be good to yourself
and "enjoy you life"
many thanks
Bob

5 songs and a cover

2007-12-22T11:54:00.001-03:30

hello everyone

I have some of my own songs for you to download and listen too , one of my mic's blew up before I started but like a good little boy I soildered on and here it is .

5 of my tracks and one cover , the cover is of twillight by elliot smith and the others are called

1.here tonight
2. home
3.kinda like a put-down
4.it's easy
5. have fun
6.twillight (elliott smith cover)

so just click the link ( the title ) and you will go to send space and then you can download my songs for free . I hope you like them , and please leave some feedback on what you think . I have a few more coming in a few weeks so check back if you like what you hear . I have to say I am very happy with the way the stacked vocal turned out on the elliot smith cover .

anyway
enjoy your life and all my love
Bob

two days off are very productive ....

2007-12-18T19:00:00.000-03:30

So here we are again you and me , my old friend

so I finally got two days off and other then getting the flu , things are going great . I recorded another 3 songs so hopefully the next post will have links to 6 more tracks for you to download , 5 of my own songs and one cover " twillight " by elliott smith . out of the five songs that are mine a few are old but were incomplete and I just added verses to them or whatever they needed . then went straight in to record them before the ink was dry . so there are mistakes in them and what not but the point of demo's are to develop songs and whatnot , not to try and get top forty hits , whatever , they are what they are and I love them and I hope that you do too , now that I am losing my voice from the flu and can't record anymore songs today , even though I have a bunch more lined up , I'm gonna take a hit of the nyquil and take a nap ,

till next time love
Bob

p.s. thinking of dividing the music into two groups , the standard stuff , i.e. the song song stuff as folkart lullaby and the other strange things recording it under the name RN Thorn and the midnight conversationists , ya sounds good to me

From one day to the next......

2007-12-14T10:32:00.000-03:30

Well I have to say that I feel 100000000 times better about alot of things now , still conflicted about some but no so much and whatever really it will all pan out for you can't keep a good me down right dear reader . A dear friend gave me some good advice about somethings and you know it helps to talk to people about things . The out pouring of little words of kindness that I have received in the last few days from the last post have bounced me back into the stratosphere of joy again and I feel alright . Thanks everyone I needed it and I will try to pay it forward to someone else that needs it .

The great thing about this momentarily lapse is that it gives me a task to work on ... I have to figure out how not to take things to heart , some people are just mean disgusting people and you can change them at all , they are comfortable in there ruts of negativity , and they are only saying shit cause they are jealous . I guess really if you wanna look at it , when someones says shit about you , Its really a complement if you can read between the lines of it or if that's the way you look at it , its really the only way to look at it . Wow that's a Revelation to me in a way , cool .

so now I feel like I'm back on top

All my Love
Bob

as they say " in it " .....

2007-12-11T16:32:00.000-03:30

As the last few weeks or the last month really I have been feeling progressivly worse about alot of things and its just coming to a climax or what seems like one right now , so i'm gonna write it all out and then be done with it . I feel as if I'm the old borning saying that I'm standing on the edge . I'm stressin about Christmass like everyone else but that;s not the problem , Christmass seems like it just as well may be a 1000 years away , its my life in general that I think is just grinding me out latey.

For one the months of working in 4 different stores and working both nights and days has had a worse effect on me then I am letting on , even thought its over now I am still feeling the effects as I really don't know when to sleep and when to be awake and I feel like i;m in some kind of bubble , really days pass and It seems like there is no dividing point between them , no monday , no friday just a random movement of light outside and dark .

Also it was a mistake to go back on nights and I know that now , I can't deal with the overnite shift really and never could , I seem to not be able to sustain the realtionships that I need to surivie when all I do is eat and sleep and work . I don;t know that last time I did anything with my girlfriend and I really miss that grounding effect that she has on me . I feel the absence of the love that we share because most of the time I am truly not there , its no fault of hers , its just that I am burned out to the core .

Then theres the other things that have been falling apart around me that are just killing me , my car is falling apart and my physical health is failing in some ways that I have been finding displeasing to say the least .

I feel that old darkness that I fed on in my early 20's , that I used to get by then is all around me again .. I feel it and sometimes it scares me the most that it is kinda comforting , but I know the path that it leads down and I do not want to go that way again , I don't want it and I am trying to refuse to feed on it cause I know that it will only attract more darkness . I truly feel like i;m walking a line that if I fall to the other side I could lose all the good things within myself for good . Its so scary in this postion I feel like running but I know that doesn;t do any good either . I'm divided at best on the issue .

Plus theres the facts of the matter that I really can;t deal with the things that some people say about me behind my back (this is an issue that has been on my mind for a while ) wither they say them out of anger or jealosy or whatever , I just don;t know , It hurts ... maybe things would be better if I could let them go

as for all this there is some good left in my life to hold on to , even though i feel so dissconnted right now , I know things will change , I hope verena will be there when I do come back to life . I am starting to be more creative everyday and getting more done in these dept's , maybe all this rambling is just hiding the real issue , do I continue do these things that I hate just for a pay check or do I embrace the creative aspects of my life that make me so happy , this may seem like an easy choice but it really isn;t cause the feelings of doing these things I hate fufill tasks ( read making money) that I feel responsiable to do , I guess its just the english way ( to quote roger waters in a way ) , an example of this is ....

On Sunday I was feeling just bad in general and I went in to the recording room and recorded two of my own songs and a cover of twillight by elliot smith , I came out a 7 in the morning and I fealt great and today after one day of work , I am here when I should be sleeping , confessing all this stuff cause I just need to get in out ,,

I guess I have alot of thinking to do and a few hard choices to make

love always
Bob

Two Live Covers

2007-11-27T08:16:00.000-03:30

so here are two live covers that i recorded over the weekend . Two Great songs by two great artists/ bands

golden slumbers by the beatles , ya i know the beatles version is piano but came up with an arragment for guitar ( its just the chords with some sidetracks along the way ) , its just a great Paul song , and Music Arcade by Neil Young a little know track off of broken arrow with crazy horse , I just love this song

anyway its all live , done in one take then mixed and burned to cd with adobe audition with no real studio trickey ( no compression and what not )

so heres the link to download the tracks and if you like my versions then please go to a music retailer and buy the originals ( the beatles - abby road and neil young and crazy horse - broken arrow )

thanks
golden slumbers
music arcade

turning the tide into steam

2007-09-16T11:50:00.000-02:30

sometimes it seems that the sky has moved underground
with all the faith and love thats around
storm clouds in hollow man hole covers
destroying the beauty of your trusted lover

sometimes all the right things are wrong
and the weakest coward turns out to be strong
circumstance can be any turn up ahead
there are no sign posts on this road to be read

marriage is the apology of loves reckless-ness
she said on a stool at the bar
I just looked at the bar lights and laughed
you can take just about anything just to far

sometimes you can pray for whats right
in the middle of the day or night
theres always an answer there somewhere
but i bet its mostly saying no

can someone tell me how to unring this bell
all these pervese actions you can never tell
if its gonna pan out somewhere down the line
or is it just another room in hell you will find

i`m doing alright

when you read between the lines

2007-07-26T03:38:00.000-02:30

as i sat and watched the news the other day something very odd and funny struck me , its called the art of spin and hows its used in the news .. to some people this is nothing new but to others it may seem as funny and absurd to you as it did at the time to me .

so this was the news story - employment rate in newfoundland is up from so and so time ( i wasn't really listening at this point but this is where it sucked me in ) , and I took this as all well and good but then my brain kicked in ...

so i though about how they got these numbers and it struck me like 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag , of course the employment rate has gone up cause alot of people that didn;t have jobs* are or have moved away . Now this may seem like it has nothing to do with the employment rate at all but thats where you are wrong . the base number ( population of the province ) has gotten smaller therefore the same number of people with jobs divided into this base number will give you a higher percentage of employment , so nothing has really changed (the actual amount of people with jobs hasn't changed ) except I can't get those five mins of spin from the local news back , and you know now that i look at it the art of spin is everywhere ,

just makes me laugh a little to myself that people actually buy this stuff

* or in some cases as i know , many people that had jobs moved to other provinces for better jobs ( who could blame them ) and other people took there place or will take there place but this has no effect on the equation because one job is still one job , no matter how you cut it

so thats what i;m thinkin about as i turn 28 in a half an hour lol
your friend
Robert N Thornhill

I've been thinking .....

2007-04-26T02:13:00.000-02:30

well I've been thinking that I have to take a chance and I'm gonna do it now , so this is the plan . Right now , I've got the songs written and I have some of the stuff I need to record them but I need some other stuff as well , like a good condenser mic , so this is it gonna sell all my wally world stock and put all my eggs in one basket and do this thing , I've been thinking and it comes down to this , all this shit around me is just that , all the work stress , all the stupid shit , fuck it all cause there is really no risk at all . I have to do this for me . I've let this ramble in my head long enought cause all this work shit and whatnot , big fucking deal if I lose it . I can get it back but if I lose myself then I just might not get that back and thats really scary

just had to rant that off
now that I've written it , I have to make it real

your friend
Robert Thornhill

to all you liers , all you backbiters , Gods gonna cut you down -- " God's gonna cut you down " -tradional arranged by J. Cash

well well well .. thats just the way it is

2007-04-13T00:59:00.000-02:30

well today had a great beginning and a stupied ending but who fucking cares about that . concentraing on the good stuff and forgeting the bad stuff

so I got like two hours of sleep last nite but I was up at 10 this morning , that might not seem like early but if it is if you go to bed at 8 , so then it was up and down to the parents house to meet mike and hash out some idea's for the stuff we are gonna record , that went fucking steller . It was excellent , i'm getting more confidence in my music abilites and my singing , we hashed out some of the old band stuff and even hit on some new stuff . Its gonna kick ass , I just have to give it my all , not give up and be open . I also got to tell him that I was sorry for being an asshole when we first started playing together , but it seems that everything is working now so thats cool .

then came work , if someone doesn't get kill over there I don't know , man its just stupid what they have me and my people doing to make progress , and its not even really that , well I didn;t get half done of what I was suppose to get done but oh well , its some else;s problem now , hopefully God will grant my prayer and get me out of there .

anyway stay happy
Bob

some new pic's of me

2007-04-08T03:19:00.000-02:30

just screwing around with verena's digtal camera tonight and I think that I got some good pic's and I hate pics of myself so this is strange but anyway I posted them on my facebook but i'm gonna put up my favorites here too

so here they are

the first two are my fav's but who knows
anyway till next time
Robert

oh my god .. now that just makes me wanna jump out of my skin

2007-04-07T02:18:00.000-02:30

o.k. so tonight - good Friday no less , I had an epiphany. I watched the DVD for Neil young 1971 Massey hall - live and it was stellar . It just blew me away . I don't understand , it confirmed that there is a place for art in this world , if its only for a simple little moment in time or if it only exists in your bedroom or living room . Just for that moment . It just destroyed me , I can't explain it , it was like watching an exorcism , to be so free . You should buy this DVD forget the CD version , get the DVD . It just filled me up with so much hope that songs can change things , that they can make you feel , that it is not just plastic for teenagers to shake there asses and do drugs to . IT made me feel alive and I didn;t move off the bed the whole time , I was stone sober , and I felt high . It was fucking great . Just stellar .

Also I have discovered ( or not really discovered ) but relearned double drop d tuning today . It was like my first guitar , not big blue but my other workhorse just looked at me last nite and said " I need new strings " so I did that . Then today it looked at me and said " I wanna be in double drop d " ( low to high Dadgbd ) . So here I am off to the races after about 20 Min's on the net looking at chords in this said tuning , gonna write some more tunes tonight ... I feel very creative .

In other news , my Mic's are giving me hell with hiss , when I mastered a few of my tracks it sounded like shit but I'm gonna run them thru audacity and see if that will take some of the hiss off them . hopefully so . Also this was a long week at work didn't get much creative done at home , recorded a demo for mike to get the feel of so we can record it ( kinda of a jimi ballad type thing , with little flowing things , still thinking about how the thing will fit together . )

Big news that Liam agreed to jam this summer so that's excellent , you don't understand how good this guy is on bass , he fits with mike perfect , they are rock solid together and its so fucking cool . They make me wanna do better .

So that's all the news that's unfit to print as they say
yours
Robert

p.s. " somewhere in the white house there is a prayer circle , but they ain't praying for me , they are praying for barrels , profits and countries to bleed "
... me

so there it is ...

2007-03-26T02:25:00.000-02:30

so this was a strange weekend , after working all week I was tired and all I wanted to do was sleep . Which in itself was funny cause this week wasn't that bad or busy. I guess bordom will kill ya just as quick as stress , right ? but there was some good news too . Mike the mad drummer and I have come to the agreement that we are gonna do an album's worth of material over the summer , so that kicks major ass. I've already started demoing stuff so i;m pretty syched about the whole thing . Also if Liam and Carl wanna join in thats cool , if not then thats cool too . I'm also demoing other stuff as well , folk shit ya know . I recorded a cover version of the song " the rescue blues " last nite by ryan adams . its pretty lo-fi but I like it . I just can't get the electric guitar fills to sit right in the mix but then again I need to go to carbonear and get my strat and whatnot cause the beater electic that I have up here is just not cutting it . I'm gonna post the song on here for download in the next few days so check back ....

other then that I have some other BIG news but i'm gonna sit on it for awhile .

till next time
Robert

Try as you might ...

2007-03-21T02:40:00.000-02:30

well what a day indeed !!!

Just another normal day then it all falls apart . Man why do people find the need to put pressure on me . I'm so angry right now that I don't even know how to get it out . I know I should not let this crap get to me but it does. I feel like I wanna scream . I will not under any circumstance narc on others or be mean spirited towards them . This is my line in the sand . I know I have been in the past and I hope that those people can find it in there hearts to forgive and hopefully forget the things that I have said or done to them . I was stupid and childish but God knows I'm trying to be better and its a struggle but I will not sell out my ideals or the way I was raised for a fucking paycheck . I'd rather be poor . Some people might say "oh well , I have to do this , or that " , whatever if that helps you sleep at night , that's o.k. . For me its not even a question , I'm not saving lives or anything . I had someone say to me months ago that everyone has a price , well guess what - I don't , I repeat I don't . I would not be able to live with myself if the only way I could get my kicks was by hurting others or by putting money on that high a pedestal that it overid the feeling and hearts of others or myself . I think in the old days they called people like that idolaters and its a moral sin .

Now don't get me wrong I like a good days work but the only person that I am trying to beat or better is myself , not the guy next to me , not the person down the hall , not the clock , - I'm trying to be a better person and like I said its a struggle . I guess if they don't like , oh well .
It just all doesn't smell right to me . My parents raised me with these ideals and even though for a long time I was lost out there , I find myself trying to claw my way back to them and with Verena's help , I am coming back to that place . Its a good place to be and to that certain person who said all this to me , I'm not mad at you , I'm more mad at myself for even letting those words of yours pass thru my ears . To tell the truth , I feel sorry for you . Your a sad little man , I guess that's what happens when you commerce is your only friend . Hope it keeps you warm at night.

cheers
Robert

p.s. check out my facebook

cutting tracks baby.....

2007-03-19T04:02:00.000-02:30

Well its been a productive Sunday nite . Recorded some stuff . I got alot done just need to add vocals now to one song and then I'll post it up on this here blog . i guess , got some good ideas on a few more as well so I just have to keeping banging away I guess . I'm really hyped about it right now . Feelin really good . That's all I really have to write about now ... oh ya I got a copy of Sony sound forge too to master my tracks when I get them done so that's cool too .

Lovin life
Robert

p.s. check out these links - people worth reading about :
Woody Guthrie
and the carter family Two examples of where folk music started ..

a waste of a week

2007-03-14T18:20:00.000-02:30

well its been a week since I last posted on here and it seems like it was kinda of a waste but not really . I did come up with some plans . Trying to get some recording stuff arranged for the summer .Seeing that this will be the closest time when mike the mad drummer will be back in town . So thats really cool , I'll have to work up a batch of electric tunes for then .Plus I've been thinking that I should try to organize somekind of loose group of people that write songs - kinda like a support group for local people but I don't know really how to go about it . So if you have any suggestions , I'd love to here them . Maybe I could help some people that wanna record there tunes out - seeing I do have a mulit-track , cakewalk sonar and some good mic's . I'm gonna have to put the word out . Other then that I have been writing in my journal and with my guitar but I really need someone to kick me in the ass to get into the demo process . Well I'm just gonna have to get out there and do it right ? I'm not gonna let it get me down none .

anyway till next time
Robert

p.s. thanks to you guys for posting on my site . It was very ecouraging , lifted my spirits today

whats in a name ???

2007-03-07T12:12:00.000-03:30

Well I guess some may or may not be wondering about the name ,folkart lullaby .Well it came out of the blue when I was getting a Gmail account but after a little though , It totally fits my perspective on alot things .

Well first there is the word folkart . check this out :

folk art wikipedia

art that's made not by professionals but by common people .That really fits me cause I'm not a professional at all , actually I dislike anything that smacks of professionalism . I like rough edges , I guess . Also it states that folkart reflects traditional values , which I agree with as well . Things that it seems that we have moved away from . When I was young I was taught that you helped you family and friends and that you tried to be a good person in general . Is that what we really see on a day to day basis anymore ????

Then theres the word lullaby , so check this out :

lullaby wikipedia

what is a lullaby's purpose its simple and soothing . Something that everyone needs.
Everyone needs somewhere or something to cast off the residue of modern life . Also I don't think to make any change in this world better we have to do it thru loud violent methods . It can be done with soft hands and a soft heart . Just think about it if everyone changed one little thing a day that no one would notice , ( example , cut someone some slack on there actions , not gossip as much , tell someone they are doing good things or they are a good person , or just smiled alittle more ) . How much better every ones day to day life would be . I have been guilty of not doing these things as much as everyone else but I'm gonna try to make a change . So I guess that's what a lullaby is a simple soothing dream but one worth having ..

Till next time

like a stray scratching on your door again
Robert

going against the grain ... open contract to myself

2007-03-03T10:35:00.000-03:30

well I have come to the decision that I have to go against the grain and be myself ( only took 27 years to figure it out ) .I have to be strong and put myself out there . Sure people are gonna try and tear me down but so fuckin what . Big deal it doesn't change who I am . Like I have this internal dialog with myself thinking that my songs and lyrics are no complicated enough or clever enough but there me . I like simple , there was a time when I though stuff had to be complicated to be good , to prove what you know , to prove that you are something but that's not true .Everyone has their own way and I like simple . Plus this day and age , look at what is out there and most of it isn't sayin anything . Its escapist jaded diversions . There have to be some kind of idyllic innocence left and that's where I wanna come from , not sayin its gonna be that way or maybe I'm sellin myself short (Verena says I do this all the time ) but that's what I'm gonna strive for ...

your faithful friend
Robert

P.S. I am going to record some stuff this weekend so in the next week or so , I will be posting some Tracks up on this thing ..

just to put a face to the name

2007-02-27T03:30:00.000-03:30

well my girlfriend ( Verena ) took some pics of me and my little demo studio tonight , nothing fancy but it puts at face to the name I guess ...

sittin' here thinkin'

2007-02-26T05:44:00.000-03:30

well here I am listening to a poet of the common person , Bruce Springsteen and it got me thinkin about life , hard work and commerce .Here with my mind being fueled by the hazy effect of a sleeping pill and nicotine ( which I had given up) . I'm thinking that the people in this world that do all the real work get no pay or thanks for it .Now I know this is no surprise but there has to be some factor in this work to even it all out , there just has to be . I don't know what it is , maybe its god ( if that's what you believe ) maybe there is redemption out there somewhere on the road , or maybe its in our hopes and dreams . In things that no corporation can take away , unless you let them . I know all about it , I work a night job and its so soul crushing when you see some people skate thru and others honestly struggle everyday . I know that my next statement is not going to be shocking either but the corporate world doesn't want honest people for promotions , they want the liers and the cheats , so they can lie and cheat for there team.

Am I right ? - just prove me wrong . ...
now I know that there must be some big business out there that rewards honesty ( the exception that proves the rule ,as they say ) but I've never heard of it .

Anyway this post is not suppose to be about whats wrong with it but in the things that are right about it all ..
Well I guess if I'm writing this then I must consider myself a somewhat honest person cause if I wasn't what would I care right ? Some of the fans of Springsteen must be drawn to this as well . I guess I can take comfort in that . I guess there are about a million ideas in this post for some songs ...

intro...

2007-02-25T04:29:00.000-03:30

well lets see ... The purpose of this site is to post some of the tunes I have wrote and talk about them a little bit , to talk about up - coming stuff in the life of this folk art lullaby and also I'm gonna use it to talk about other artists and things in general that give me inspiration . so thanks for your time in coming and reading my blog . hope you have some fun