Grad school, anyone?

Well, well, well, it's been awhile....

Wrote a lot of songs, but the whole song a day thing didn't quite take. Am quite proud that Seahorse vs. Lobster played a concert and we are looking to record a couple of EPs in the next month or so.

So, I started graduate school! It's an MFA in Arts Leadership program at Seattle University. The cohort is amazing--some of the most intelligent and talented people I have ever met. I'm almost done with my first class and am very excited to start taking Fundamentals of the Non-Profit Sector and Persuasive Communication in the fall.

I have a boyfriend, and a cat, and I go to the dog park on a regular basis, and I live in a barn and I go to graduate school...

Who is this new Katie Woodzick? I like her!

Drown with Me

Minnesota, land of 1,000,
2,000 lakes
You better take me to them all
To them all
To them all

There are ponds, lagoons, lakes and rivers
One thing's for sure, water takes me
Breaks me down, down, down
Are you gonna drown with me?
Are you gonna drown?
Are you gonna drown with me?
Are you gonna drown?

The Mississippi's pretty long
Then again, so's the Nile
You're gonna make me smile
Smile
Smile

There are ponds, lagoons, lakes and rivers
One thing's for sure, water takes me
Breaks me down, down, down
Are you gonna drown with me?
Are you gonna drown?
Are you gonna drown with me?
Are you gonna drown?

Yellow, Red, Black, Baltic
Beyond the sea
Will you be waiting for me?
For me
For me

There are ponds, lagoons, lakes and rivers
One thing's for sure, water takes me
Breaks me down, down, down
Are you gonna drown with me?
Are you gonna drown?
Are you gonna drown with me?
Are you gonna drown?
Are you gonna drown with me?
Are you gonna drown?

Recent Lyrics

June 6

Gold Stars and Scrabble Tiles

I don’t know why

I couldn’t say it to your face

I got really nervous

Remembering our embrace

We love each other, right?

Well if that’s the case…

Chorus:

I’ll tell you I love with you

With gold stars and scrabble tiles

If you reach across the ocean

You’ll find our love will stretch for miles

Because if I told you in person

And you wrinkled your brow

I might have put a bag over my head

Like my good friend Charlie Brown

So I sent my package in the mail

And now I’m counting down

Chorus

Luckily, you reciprocated

You said “I love you” too

I have to admit

I would’ve quit

If you didn’t feel the same way I do

Chorus

June 7, 2011

Perception is 9/10ths

It isn’t illegal to kill a praying mantis.

Cashews aren’t sold in the shell because the skin causes blisters.

Geese fly in a v because of aerodynamics.

Chorus:

Perception is 9/10ths of the law

Perfection is our flaw

I’m waiting by the side of the road

If you pick me up, I’ll carry your load.

Pigeons can fly up to 80 miles per hour.

The largest diamond ever found weighed 1.3 pounds.

Storks can be quite heartless parents.

Chorus

Roses have prickles, not thorns.

Ketchup has its roots in 17^th century China.

Cows aren’t the smartest creatures around.

Chorus.

June 8, 2011

Sick of Serendipity

Chorus

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

I’m sick of these serendipities

Holly Golightly shot her lover down

Then went out for a night on the town

A night on the town

Hey, Mickey Rooney

Is it too soon to see

Judy Garland never loved you

Why don’t you go play an old Chinese man

(Oh wait, you did…)

Chorus

Audrey Hepburn

What can I say?

You hit pretty big

Never faded away

Is Julie Andrews still pissed

About missing out on Eliza?

(Probably not, because SHE got the Oscar…)

Chorus

So let’s all go on a Roman Holiday

Maybe Cary Grant got carried away

With Dyon Cannon and LSD

I have to say that sounds good to me…

Sounds pretty good to a girl like me…

Chorus 2X

June 5

All This Almost

Chorus:

All this almost

We were so close

Touch my heart

With your hand

All this almost

We are so close

Soon I’ll understand

Soon I’ll understand

I will laugh with this

Clumsy boy who loves me

Through the darkest struggle

Laughter enters

Wash my hands with

Fresh cascades

From blue roses.

Chorus

This sudden, fresh country

Plucks and bursts

Rise to the unchanging sea

Laughter and laughter and laughter

Echoes into autumn

This twisted moon

Returns me to you.

Chorus

June 3 and 4 lyrics (just a start, more to come for both of these)

June 3

Second Mess

Can you write twinkle little star?

Then twinkle twinkle little star monster?

Now what?

And now a lonely song?

A lonely song?

Yeah.

Chorus:

And why

Do you second guess

Your happiness?

And why

Am I in this mess

With you?

June 4

Future Prom Queens of America

Future prom queens of America

Future prom queens of America

Future prom queens of America

Unite!

Put your ballet in the box

Stuff it in, stuff it in

Put your ballet in the box

Stuff it in, stuff it in

Life’s a popularity contest

And you don’t want to get into congress, no!

You know where the real power is?

Nabbing those prom crowns marked hers and his.

Songwriting 365

So, this is my brilliant and cunning plan--to write a song a day for a year (inspired by "A Daily Creativity Journal 365: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!") I will post the lyrics to this blog every day or so :-) Watch for exciting randomness!

June 1st: GunShy:

Let my light refract thru your prism

And I will take you prisoner

They say love is a battlefield

You and I will start a civil war.

Chorus (2x):

You don't need an alibi

You don't have to justify

It's not that you don't satisfy

You're just a little gunshy.

You need to loose and lose your inhibitions

And start focusing on our chemistry

Our elements will start an explosion

This may very well be World War III!

Chorus 2x

And now for the moral of our story:

(my psycho-sensual dark knight)

This is our Hiroshima, honey

Just light my fire and we'll be alright.

Chorus 2x

June 2nd:

Pink Elephants on Parade

There are lions on the run

Seahorses in the sun

Lobsters in the ocean

Giraffes with such devotion

And if you come quick

The image might stick

Of pink elephants on parade

Pink elephants on parade.

When I become more tech savvy, I will endeavor to post the rough garage band tracks as well :-)

barista wonderland

she was pretty

but not enough to be bothered

(most of the time)

she hid behind the espresso machine

imagining the steam

would transport her

to another coffee-soaked landscape,

filled with clouds of foam and wonderment

if Alice had been a barista

(she thinks)

the Mad Hatter would have been even madder

(with all that caffeine)

and the March Hare

would have demanded

a non-stop stream

of

upside

down

cafe

con

panna

and the white rabbit would dance in the whipping cream

Poems Inspired by Mystic Lipstick

I.

He starts to strum
and I do a double-take:
it's as if a young Gary Cooper
has taken a time machine
to us, here, in 2011,
stopping briefly
(in the 70s? 60s?)
to get guitar lessons from Bob Dylan.

I listen and my wrists ache
for no apparent reason.

My eyes burn with a warmth
that feels as if tears
are flowing backwards
heading home
towards tear ducts.

And all at once
the strumming is over.

And I see his worn
Adidas sneakers
exit into the blackness.

II.

there's the piano intro:
she leans into the microphone
(as if to tell it a secret)
she reminds me of
Clara Bow or Mary Pickford
when they grew up, perhaps,
after films had words

maybe they would sneak off
to sing in a cabaret
pregnant with a melody
tumbling out breathless
along with dark curls