Video Newsletter IdeaI was thinking the other day that, while I send a monthly e-mail newsletter to the 600 or so people who are signed up on my mailing list, I don't do anything like it for the 2,200+ people who subscribe to my YouTube channel. I used to do a video blog-which I tried to make weekly, but it never quite got there-but ever since the ( Read more... )

UPDATE 2013-AUG-07 08:47 PDT
I've changed the order of some of the lyrics and changed one spot that I think needed it.

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I normally don't listen to Daft Punk that much, but their song "Get Lucky" has been on the radio a lot recently, and ... well, you know how it goes.

Getting Geeky, music by Daft Punk, lyrics by Eben Brooks ( Read more... )

This one is to the tune of an old Scottish traditional song called "Eppie Morrie". In case you don't know it, here's a link to Karan Casey's version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILU0RYhmCWI (Although the version I'm familiar with is the one by Sileas (pron. shi-LAHS) on ( Read more... )

The Hulk's Commute
by The Hulk

Sky make rain
Rain make traffic
Traffic make late
Late make mad
Mad make SMASH!!!

Smash make happy

This last week, I finished three songs, which I'll be playing at the monthly Geeky Music Show at Lestat's this weekend. One is a Buddhist song called "Rattlin' Bones"; one is a Firefly/Serenity filk called "The Man Dressed in Brown"; and the last is a song about a fantastic web comic (The Irregular Webcomic*, which I've mentioned before on this ( Read more... )

Too Much Skyrim Blues

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Number On a Page
Copyright © 1990 by Eben Brooks

I woke this morning and I could not see the light
Went through the motions, too unthinking now to fight
Feels like I'm dying, I'm living just to earn my share
I want to get away but no one seems to care

There's nothing we can do for you, my lad ( Read more... )

I believe that I have finished the "Too Much Skyrim Blues".

Too Much Skyrim Blues
by Eben Brooks, © 2012

I slept really badly. My back’s all twisted up.
Coffee is my best friend. I’m on my seventh cup.
And I don’t know why I did it. I’ve got too much to lose.
I guess I’m just an addict. Got the too much Skyrim blues.

( rest under cut )