Last night was the Annual General Meeting of the Manitoba Skateboard Coalition. (I’m a member and so should you be.) The coalition does a lot of great work for the skateboarding community here in Manitoba, organizing contests and events and representing the interests of skateboarders in the political world. They do good work.
Another thing they’ve done is put together a video/website with Travel Manitoba to present our province as a possible tourist destination for skateboarders. A bunch of my homies worked on this video and skate in it. Also all of the music comes from Manitoban bands, which is nice.
A little while back I wrote a song for a girl. I was going to release it as part of an EP entitled “Embarrassing Songs I Wrote for Girls”, but that probably won’t be happening right away so I thought I’d just release it now on its own.
The song is meant to be funny and sorta romantic I guess. I sampled the beginning of Taylor Swift’s “You belong with me” (that’s where the hilarious song title comes from) and messed it up a little bit. I thought the results sounded kind of like a Magnetic Fields song, so I tried to channel Stephen Merrit while I was writing the lyrics. I threw in the Bon Iver bit at the end because I needed an excuse to use auto-tune. It is so much fun to play with. It was really hard for me not to auto-tune the whole song.
Who is this girl? In the song I refer to her as “Internet Dream Girl” so she’s a girl I know mostly from the Internet. Let’s just leave it at that for now.
Did the song work? I suppose it served its purpose. See, this nice young lady doesn’t live in Winnipeg so I didn’t really have a shot anyways. I just wanted to… I guess let her know. She probably already knew, but now I know that she knows.
The song is a bit sappy but I’m a sappy guy. I hope you enjoy it.
