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YouTube: Classical Cover of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” by Aston

cct — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:36:02 +0000

I love when people take something and make it entirely new! Especially when there becomes a classical version from an initial pop song. Can someone give me my choral version of Linkin Park’s “In the End” yet?

OK Go: This Too Shall Pass (Embedded Video)

cct — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:33:08 +0000

After reading the letter on Gizmodo from Damian of OK Go, I have decided to do a post where I embed this video. Major labels and corporations have this tenuous relationship with social media – clamoring for its attention while simultaneously doing crap-like things that dissuade the consumer from telling others what they like. Read the letter and learn about how you can’t embed YouTube videos. I’m a big fan of OK Go – one of the best concerts I’ve ever had in my life featured them. It was at a rinky-dink dive bar in Hollywood where they ran down to the floor and did a live recording. So here’s their latest song – This Too Shall Pass.

OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.

-cct

Original Song: Ruby Slippers

cct — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:41:47 +0000

Ruby Slippers

I wrote this awhile ago and in testing out my new guitar, I ended up recording a YouTube video of it. The song has obvious references to The Wizard of Oz and is about the idea of the yellow brick road as the road to life.

YouTube and Lyrics below

Ruby Slippers (cc.tran)

Ruby slippers on my feet
They cant seem to take me home
Howd I end up so deep?
To feel so alone?

Every time I seem to walk
The further I get behind
Every time I seem to run
Im running out of time

Am I buried beneath a house
On the yellow brick road?
Did someone write my fate
And I wasnt told?
Im not ready to be dead yet
Still looking out for home.

I wish it were as easy
As the click clack of my heels
That the road was drawn out for me
Like a used textbook deal

Am I walking on a winding
Winding road
Did someone take the street signs
And I wasnt told
I dont know anything yet
Just that Im looking out for home.

Am I made of straw
Unwound, wont ever get far
Do I have a mane
Flinch in the sight of – pain

I think Im made of tin
Need a new heart to begin
This ones battered and cold
Need a new one to find hope

Ruby slippers on my feet
Can you take me home

-cct

So Special: Music Video

cct — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:01:15 +0000

In all my zaniness, I forgot to post the music video I made for “So Special” – didn’t make any money for Equality California, but I still believe in the cause.

The video features photos from the Anti-Prop 8 Protest in Silver Lake I attended after its passing.