Old Album Diaries

Who said OCD isn’t good?

Hey all
Just learnt that Lenore’s Song is now Grand Finalist for Sunscreen Film Festival. Of course, this is one step closer to the $10 000 prize money for us to film fireflies with. All thanks to your near obsessive compulsive bouts of voting.

Judging is on the 16th December 2007. I expect that I should be down there with my phone obsessive compulsively voting for Lenore. Apparently only audiences on site can vote. Drats. Can’t mobilise my internet minions….Roar.

Eaargh…most unfair.

In other news, my rehearsals for Peats Ridge festival is coming along nicely, along with the dry runs of gigs from home which I will be putting up on youtube as soon as I’m happy with it. More interesting bouts of home gigs coming up involving food and cooking materials. More soon.

Patience minions, I promise to make this worth your while.

Poisoned Music

How’s everyone?
A rather belated Happy thanksgiving to those who celebrate it. 🙂

I’m still in the throes of writing and talking to myself heaps. It’s fun stuff …especially when I have guests. It’s an effort to remember that most people are creeped out by the prospect of the self sufficient conversationalist…and I should perhaps stop that habit.

Anyways, one of my pet distractions has become playing with comic life when I take my breaks from my musical writings. Here it is…a remake of an old tale.

Hope u like. 5 pages. All pics again sourced from Master Google because your royal madness draws worse than elementary school kids.

Let me know what u think. Or you can tell me to stay with my music :P. I’ll go back to my lair now.

Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5

The Girl in the Dungeon

Hola all
drop in blogging activity as I return to the studios for a bit of a writing stint. I’ve had so many voices beseige me in the last couple of hours I’ve either been drugged or am going mad. Either ways, I intend to profit from it, which is write. write write.

Maybe the masterpieces I create will pay for my medical bills as I descend into my madness. Ahhh…the universe tends to work itself out.

So if you are curious at all this is where I have been spending the last couple of days. This is a pic of it in day time — me humble home studio. But I hate heat and light, especially when I write so….

*****HISSSSSSs……****

(pic has been substantially brightened using photoshop)

In other news, Lenore’s Song has won Gold for the Australian Cinematographer’s Society creaming some entries from Major Labels. Much Joy for the crew

Also rehearsing lots for a gig in Peats Ridge. Much camping and hippie living in store. Some sun involved…eek.

Lenore’s Song is being Dugg

Hmm…Just realised that Lenore’s Song is being Dugg. Thanks to

Help me send it to the top of the Digg Charts? Most original music videos that actually make it up there are from majors anyways, would be kinda cool to see it up there despite the odds.  🙂 *Dream…drool…* and then maybe I can garner enough to actually physically tour….or be on the way to anways.

In other news, this week is looking good to do my filming at the graveyard. Rain seems to have let off for now. So any last minute requests for songs and covers for the online gigs are still opened.

Meanwhile I’m back to the studio. I’m working on chrismas presents for you, dear minions. :). Don’t ask me what it is. I’d never spill.

Ok, go grant Lenore’s Song a vote now. thanks again

PS: The status of Sunscreen festival will be announced 5th Dec. thanks for the fingerwork  too.
PPS: Much thanks for the smarty pants comments in the previous journal entry. u amuse me greatly. 🙂

Incapacitated

Ahhh…the glorious feel of finally being able to sit up. A failed attempt at a Jackie Chan flying kick left me with a purple spud for my right knee cap, a sore bum and general immobility for a week.

Damn the treachery of gravity and Murphy’s Law.

Now I’m back in action, (semi anyways) and catching up with a backlog of emails. I’m also keeping a close eye on the weather so we can start filming the graveyard gigs and letting you know that they are up on youtube. Looking forward to a break from the wet weather. At least for a couple of days anyways. 🙂

There’s also the matter of a meteor shower I want to catch. So I do need the heavens to stop peeing. Apparently the some parts of UK and the US are going to get a helluva meteor shower show this year. Very Envious. The Leonids, u must go see.

In other news, Macaddict is doing a feature article for Lenore’s Song (for Jan 2007). This is of course brilliant news. They also ask pretty heavy questions that tickle my brain.

Sliding on another tangent, thanks for voting on Sunscreen Festival and telling your friends to vote. Hope for the best eh? Maybe we can get fireflies happening.

Jumping on, for those who have just joined me I can be found in the following realms

livejournal
myspace
yunyu.com.au
mperia

and from time to time, I can also be beeped on AOL at anansistings@aol.com

drop by. beep me. I’ll be another week before I attempt more anti gravitational stunts. So tell me a story. Entertain me.

Your Royal Madness
Yunyu

This is important

This concerns your continued entertainment spectacular from your royal madness, dear minions

So listen up. Listen Good.

Lenore’s Song has entertained you immensely no? Now we want to make another film clip for fireflies. The existence of this film clip depends of minion strength. You see, if we win this competition, we get $10 000 to make another film clip for fireflies this time, which I promise you, will be the mother of all entertainment from the realms of your royal madness.

So yes, go here.

1) Vote
2) Badger friends to vote,
3) Use your grandma’s email account
4) Repeat step 1

This is a call to arms. Fire away minions. Your Royal madness needs you very muchly.

Lenore’s Song is on ABC tonight

To the dwellers of down under,
Lenore’s Song premieres on ABC’s Rage tonight. Whoohoo!
I think it’s the first 6 clips. Details here

For those not in the know, Rage is a music vid program that runs nationally in Australia on Australian Broadcasting Channel aka ABC. For an unsigned like your royal madness here, it’s kinda like a big deal. I’m over the moon my minions. Wheee!

In other news, the general non action is because I’m in tax hell. I hate numbers, they mock me.But these beasties must be vanquished.

Coming up: How you can help your royal madness to make a music video for Fireflies…anticipate some fingerwork

Also Coming up: Finally a gig announcement that will apply to all of you. Yes, even you who lives in distant distant Netherlands/US/UK/Russia/in the depths of the Australian outback

So while I battle numbers you can start with requests. It’s no big gig, just a keyboard/ a girl and a stolen grave at this stage.

What would you like to hear me play?

27 years

for those, like me, swimming in the unknown. I was going to make a journal entry but ended up with a song on a whim. As soon as I get my mic working I;ll be sure to whack demos up. everything in my demo land is breaking down….waaah

27 years
What will I make of these cross roads at hand
the sound of my cards falling way too soon
my cloudy castles are falling like sand
and I’m not on the mend

the dying of dreams it’s becoming clearer
is this the way that I must be
nothing comes close everyone’s way ahead
and I dream all alone

{chorus}
27 years to that mid life crisis
why does this feel like my world is ending
27 years to that mid life crisis
but I’m fraying at the seams

The pea-brained baffoon has got his big break
they scoff at my rants and call me a loon
I know that I am better, and will my chance sooner
before I break in 2

the party light’s dimming and the club dance looks cheap
where is that prince that will save my life?
the one night stand’s a flip
and the price paid too steep
I cry myself to sleep
{chorus}

they say I’m too young to whinge and worry
the world is my pie but I haven’t got a bite
too poor and unimportant to pay for a lover
and a sports car to run away

{chorus}
I’m lost in the woods and nobody has the answers
I guess this will all figure in time
my parents are human and in some cases
more screwed up than me
{chorus}

27 years to that midlife crisis
everything is clear and nothing is for sure
the walls are crumbling and I am changing
but I know I’m not alone
27 years….
blah {chorus}

It’s still work in progress. So if you want to tell me your nightmare version of your quarter life crisis. feel free. you can comment here or if you value your anonimity, send me an email at yunyu@iinet.net.au. Your royal Spiderliness might just weave your stories in :).

back to may lair. my muses send their lovin’
Yunyu

ps: thanks for all the artwork and fan mail dear spiderlings. I’ve been having a little bit of a downer the past couple of days (my self doubts and bravado alternate faster than a septic sine wave) so your kind words and feedback and fan art has really cheered me up and helped me write again. I’ll look into putting up a gallery for some of your works sent my way. 🙂

Brought to u by the letter V

Still the excerpts from my desk. I’m still promising this mother of an article about youtube and stuff but being that I’m in a musical writing binge at the moment and muses have me by my hair…and I have rehearals. excuses excuses 😛

But how’s everyone anyways?

I shall bid u a hello and good day with an excerpt of lyrics that I’ve been working on…. and no I don’t know what my lyrics are talking about yet. if you have a clue let me know…
here it is…* ACK!* being yanked by the hair by the muses.

Reveal your Vainess
Beneath your Velvet Visage
your Viral Verdicts
Unveils the Vagrant Visions of your God

We’re now the visceral
our vapid venemous veins
Vanquished your Venus
your Vintage Vapours
Veils our Violent Vice

Round you up you baby kissers
Round you up you plastic promise
Round you up we’ll pay for our peace
and then we will own you

Round you up you baby kissers
Round you up you plastic promise
Round you up we’ll pay for our peace
and then we will burn you

Did we grow vacant
then vascilate and vanish
when veering vices
vex and tax the volition in us

play vengeful victims
Forgot we void our voices
to play the imbecile
and wonder why the villian’s victorious

Round you up you baby kissers
Round you up you plastic promise
Round you up we’ll pay for our peace
and then we will burn you

Round you up you baby kissers
Round you up you plastic promise
Round you up we’ll pay for our peace
and then we we’ll rebuild you

{3rd stanza = I’ll think about it later}

…..

Coming up: when your royal madness is done with writing this piece amongst 5 others
– that mother of an article i have yet to finish.
– and how to get her Royal madness to play in your backyard. :). Yes….your backyard

Myspace is a lousy piece of pus filled CRAP!!

Dear all,

Myspace is currently crapping on itself and eating all my outgoing emails. I am not amused.

I’ve been trying to send out replies, I really really have. But myspace keeps eating it. Along with it any attempts to add friend requests. Feel free to add though, I’ll try and process the lot of you at the end of this week.

repeat: I am not amused.

Will try my luck again in about a week… if u need to contact me, her royal madness can be reached at yunyu.livejournal.com or
www.yunyu.com.au

cheerio. talk soon