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  • Redbeacon: Whatever You Need. Done.

    Redbeacon – www.redbeacon.com
    This company won 1st Place in last years TechCrunch 50 for best start up company. That alone builds trust for me. I haven’t actually used it yet, but the next time I need a service, which will be soon, I will. I recommend you try it for your next local service need and let me and them know about your experience.

  • A New Original Song “How to Say You”

    How To Say You by spickeringlr

    A little more “produced” than the last few, which have just been me and a guitar singing into a computer mic. It’s fun to screw around with garageband, and its also fun to mix it up sometimes, the way you do things, but this is still just a first draft. The vocals and guitar were only caught on one track which I want to split, and there’s things about the arrangement I want to change.

    How to say “You”
    How to say “Confused”
    How to say you
    How to stay confused
    When you walk on by
    When you wanna cry
    Break down and die
    Before another lie
    That’s when you scream
    That’s when you see
    THe bird and bee
    In harmony
    That’s when you walk
    That’s when you talk
    That’s when you’re shocked
    By a love that’s lost
    But sayin’ it don’t matter
    Just’s a waste of flap and chatter with me
    When all the World’s in spatter
    And the fields are hooked and laddered in greed
    That’s when you say
    I’m ok
    I’m always just a phone call away
    And the harder you don’t push back
    The more you wished you’d stayed away
    How to say you
    How to say confused
    How to say you
    How to say you
    And I wonder why
    When I’m walking by
    That the sky don’t cry
    That the walls don’t hide
    It would seem to me
    That its so easy
    Being who you wanna be
    Seein’ who you wanna see
    Thank God’s alive
    Deep down inside
    He’s our ride
    To the other side

  • Portuguese Lessons

    I’m going to go back over my Pimsleur Brasilian Portuguese lessons 1,2, and 3 again for a refresh. This will take about 90 days. I’ll mark each lesson I finish here, so as to motivate and keep me on track. Also as I learn new phrases or the proper way to say things from other people, such as Brasilian friends, I’m gonna write them down in my blog so that I may remember!

    • How are you feeling today? = Como você está se sentindo hoje?
    • That’s great! = Isto é ótimo!
    • I am feeling great! = Estou me sentindo ótimo! (ótima! if you are a woman)
    • Thank you so much for sharing this(that) with me = Muito Obrigado por compartilhar isso comigo
    • Who’s going to stop me from singing? = Quem me faz parar de cantar?
    • As I said I would do = Como disse que faria

    Brazilian Portuguese Slang:

    • “não dá pra rolar” – It’s not going to happen (i.e., as in a relationship) Ex. “Aaai… que tenso dizer não a alguém que agente gosta, mas tipo.. não dá pra rolar! =/”

  • I made a New Song Tonight called “My One Intention”

    Demo My One Intention by spickeringlr

    Posted via web from stephenpickering’s posterous

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    “My One Intention”

    I don’t want you to love me
    I don’t want you to hold me
    I only want things that can be true
    This faceless crowd annoys me
    It bugs and trys to destroy me
    I wonders aimlessly in the dark
    But since the inquisition
    Here’s my one intention
    To find out what the future
    Wants to bring

    Inside the heart of darkness
    I found a willing accomplice
    She said the jewels are in the sea
    We swam out to the ocean
    We bounced and loved the motion
    We sang the songs that set us free
    And when its time to leave her
    I’ll sleep alone and grieve the
    Magic in her eyes that free my soul
    Driving down to Bill’s apartment
    The place of our embarkment
    An adventure that requires that we let

  • Another Night, Another Song Idea, “After the Love is Gone”

    After The Love is Gone by spickeringlr

    They won’t leave me alone!!! I couldn’t even finish Saturday Night Live tonight with Charles Barkley for fear of forgetting it. And then I have this new thing, whenever I start a few lyrics I’m obsessed to finish the whole song. It’s a good habit, but annoying.

    Here’s the first draft of lyrics:

    After the love is gone
    After the love is gone away
    I need some place to hide
    A secret guide to another place
    With all that’s said and done
    I still remember the fun we had
    Tears and laughter too
    All was possible with you
    You taught me about myself
    That there is something else to find
    You helped me believe in me
    Encouragement to realize my dream
    Bridge:
    And though it feels so empty without you
    You gave me the strength to know what to do
    All the love you gave to me
    Allowed me to set my heart free
    After the love is gone
    After the love is gone away
    There’s a sweet sadness
    But priceless gift I’ve found a way
    Won’t forget your eyes
    They carried the bluest skies of faith
    Yeah sometimes I’m blue
    But I carry you in my heart always
    So after the loving’s gone
    I always will be strong though its through
    The fire’s still burning bright
    All through the winter’s night ’cause of you.

  • New Song Idea, Working Title “I Feel You”

    Man, it seems like every night, song ideas pop into my head that I feel the need to get out. It feels good to get them out, like if I didn’t they would fester and wreak havic down in my subconscious, cutting off my future creative energy. So really as much as a result, it’s about a process. That’s what Blake tried to get across. The creative process. “Don’t fall in love with your own creation.” And its really freeing not to. It allows you to have fun with whatever your working on.

    First Draft Lyrics,

    I Think I Feel You
    I hear you’re looking so fine on the cinnamon line
    I hear you’re peeling you’re heart away
    I want you so much but I’m feeling so rough
    From another wounded holiday
    When you come over tonight, ‘wanna hold you tight
    Don’t want you to feel you gotta walk away
    Looking through town feeling down like a clown
    But it was just another sad display
    {And once I did it wrong
    I knew the first verse of the song
    And once I had it all
    I gave it to a bum for whiskey and malt
    I know that you do, and I know that it’s true
    You’ve always had a funky retro soul
    I found out about him through the grapevine of friends
    And now I have no other place to go
    I want to see you again, you’re such an endearing young gem
    You give me hope not to dwell upon things
    If it works out just right, I’ll be leaving tonight
    And won’t worry what the future brings