Marc’s journal for 06/11/08
I haven’t written a blog specifically for this website in as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, I’m spread very thin at the moment, so this may border more on “news” than “blogging”. Forgive me.
You might have noticed that there was some serious hubbub about getting my new album, Linda Lovelace For President, pressed. I thought that simply recording it was going to be the hard part. It took five sleepless days to get the album itself done the way I had to finish it. It was largely recorded on tape, just like many of my older albums, and is certainly one of the most schizophrenic things I’ve ever commited to plastic. The themes that were in my head during the recording were: tying up loose ends, orgainized religion and love for things that didn’t exist anymore. The organized religion theme was originally supposed to be the main outlook of the album, but Chris Zabriskie had written three songs for the project that I simply couldn’t improve upon. Those songs were “Born Vintage”, “I Hope They Call Me On a Mission” and “All My Drug Use Is Accidental”. I couldn’t be more elated to have Chris’s songs on a Marc With a C record. And here’s where things get surprising: those songs, plus my “San Diego Doorways”, “Satellite” and “I Tried To Die Young” were all slated to find a place on the second Lo-Fi Is Sci-Fi record. That’s not the say that Linda Lovelace For President is the dropoff point for songs that were axed from the next LFISF release, but more to say that it was a place where all of the songs that hadn’t found homes yet would decide to live. Songs like “Satellite” and “Debt Is Only What You Make Of It” had been slated for every Marc With a C album since 2004. It felt more like we were making a home for the orphaned songs that we still really liked. But with a catch.
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