{"id":1223,"date":"2009-10-03T23:45:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2009-10-23T00:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T05:26:22","slug":"a-new-song-the-darkest-hour-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/03\/a-new-song-the-darkest-hour-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Song &#8220;The Darkest Hour Comes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rookery4.aviary.com\/storagev12\/2213500\/2213892_7a2e_625x625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/rookery4.aviary.com\/storagev12\/2213500\/2213892_7a2e_625x625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n      google_ad_client = \"pub-9460716267036836\"; \/* 300x250, created 10\/20\/09 InContext *\/ google_ad_slot = \"1618796451\"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fspickeringlr%2Fthe-darkest-hour-comes\" \/><\/object> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spickeringlr\/the-darkest-hour-comes\">The Darkest Hour Comes<\/a> by  <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spickeringlr\">spickeringlr<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>*Click the down the arrow on the right of the player to download song.<\/p>\n<p>Actually its not completely new. I did a preliminary version a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/2009\/09\/23\/the-darkest-hour-comes\/\">week or two ago<\/a>, so maybe I should call this one &#8220;The Darkest Hour Comes 2.0.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But this sounds a lot better. I recorded the main tracks into my &#8220;DAW&#8221; (A Boss BR-1600) with its pre amps instead of into the Mac&#8217;s microphone, so the sound is clearer. Then I dragged the wav files into Garageband and added the loops and strings. I hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the words are actually not mine. It&#8217;s a poem by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimaddonizio.com\/entry.html\">Kim Addonizio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">VERITIES<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Into every life a little ax must fall.<br \/>\nEvery dog has its choke chain.<br \/>\nEvery cloud has its shadow.<br \/>\nBetter dead than fed.<br \/>\nHe who laughs, will not last.<br \/>\nSticks and stones will break you,<br \/>\nand then the names of things will be changed.<br \/>\nA stitch in time saves no one.<br \/>\nThe darkest hour comes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimaddonizio.com\/entry.html\">Kim Addonizio<\/a>, from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/index.html\">Poetry<\/a><\/em> and\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestamericanpoetry.com\/pages\/volumes\/?id=2006\">The Best American Poetry: 2006<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestamericanpoetry.com\/pages\/volumes\/?id=2006\">, ed. Billy Collins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393334163?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=seltalforfeao-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0393334163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kimaddonizio.com\/images\/OrdinaryGenius_medium.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kimaddonizio.com\/images\/OrdinaryGenius_medium.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0743257596?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=seltalforfeao-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0743257596\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/41JTM0YHP0L._SL160_.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/41JTM0YHP0L._SL160_.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Related:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/davidharrity.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/economy-and-tragedy-kim-addonizios.html\">Economy and Tragedy: Kim Addonizio&#8217;s &#8220;Verities&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Darkest Hour Comes by spickeringlr *Click the down the arrow on the right of the player to download song. Actually its not completely new. I did a preliminary version a week or two ago, so maybe I should call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/03\/a-new-song-the-darkest-hour-comes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}