Five Minute Memoir, a podcast produced by MWS Media and hosted by Matthew Wayne Selznick, has just released episode six: Chris Miller, podcaster, developer, and citizen media advocate, describes the idealism, commitment and duty he’s witnessed among journalists — both “professionals” and bloggers, vloggers, and podcasters.
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Matthew Wayne Selznick continues to add to the online archive of his recorded music with four new songs on the Music page.
All of Matt’s music is available to download for free in unrestricted MP3 format — donations are encouraged!
Check out “The Game of Love,” “Icarus Wises Up,” “In The Afternoon,” and “It Just Goes To Show.”
Words: 10-13-1991
Music: 10-13-1991
This mournful, quasi-country ballad was another of the artistic by-products of the soap-opera year of 1991. It didn’t see too much live play when on my perpetual, intermittent coffeehouse tour… but I like the way it turned out when I finally recorded it. Seems to have a kind of Rolling Stones / Faces vibe (if I do say so myself…!)
The lyrics say it all… end of the road!
Well, we used to share something
Seems like a long long time ago
Now it feels so cold and empty
Our love’s packed up and set to go
I did everything you wanted
I tried to keep my doubts inside
I tried faith, and I had patience
Told myself you had no reason to lie
I guess that’s why I’m feeling sad
I thought you
Were the best love I’d ever had
I guess it just goes to show
You said you thought we could survive
I wonder what it is you think we have
I know what I thought we were
But you’ve got to do more
If you want it to last
Last time I fell in love
I said
I’ve had enough
I guess that just goes to show
That’s it
We’ll say goodbye
And we can kid ourselves
We can say it’s “just for now”
Take back my things
Give you back yours
And stand beside ourselves
Before we walk away somehow
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Words: 12-20-1990
Music: 02-12-1991
Pretty self explanatory… you might fight each other all day — it might even carry over from the night before — but eventually the only way to really get that frustrated anger and furious energy cleared away is to take it on on each other’s bodies. Carnal combat, perhaps.
Written for a doomed relationship (which also partially inspired “1991″ and “Glass”), this song didn’t really see the light of day until it was brought to life by Running Erin. This version was recorded live in a bar in Redondo Beach, California in the early aughts.
In the afternoon
Night will be here soon
Dark to match my mood
Laying here with you
In the afternoon
It always turns out
Whispers become shouts
Never sure what it’s about
Still we never go without
I want you
In the afternoon
Loving you is never dull
In the morning we want to bash
Each other’s skulls
With the setting of the sun
It’s time to make love
The media files on this page are provided for your enjoyment — you can listen, and even download the MP3 files, and not pay a dime. I encourage you to share them with friends, provided no one changes or sells the files, and that you attribute them to me.
If you do enjoy my music, I hope you’ll become my patron by compensating me whatever you thing the experience is worth. I recommend $0.99 if you download this song, but you can pay whatever you like.
When you pay for music on this site, you declare yourself to be a patron of independent creative endeavors… and you literally contribute to my livelihood. That means a great deal, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
In The Afternoon by Matthew Wayne Selznick feat. Running Erin (live) [1:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1411)Words: 12-11-1994
Music: 12-11-1994
Written for Kris Shine after he broke up with (or did she break up with him?) a long-time girlfriend. Either way, it was a tough thing for him… I had the feeling he was torn between feeling released and feeling lost.
So this song… which ironically, he never heard. Further irony… the girlfriend in question ended up with me some six years later. See “A Day of Mornings” for how that turned out…
The droning guitar line that runs up and down the high strings owes a little to REM’s “Seven Chinese Brothers” and U2’s “The Electric Co.,” even if it doesn’t sound much like either one.
Recorded in a giant coffeehouse in Long Beach, California in the nineties.
Breathe out a sigh
It’ll let you let go
Free yourself inside
All while you tell yourself
There’s no making yourself whole
Turning of the tide
And you feel like you’ve been
Stranded on the rock
Took you long enough
Learning how to swim and now she
Wants you to walk
But maybe you wanted to fly
You’ve always wanted to fly
Maybe now’s the time to
Teach yourself
Take to the sky
All those other lives
You shaped yourself to
Just to see a smile
How much of it really spoke of you
Or was it all a lie?
Now you’ve got the time
Get to know yourself
Forget the unknown why
All around is sky
Like an invitation
Allowing you to try
Haven’t you wanted to fly
I know you wanted to fly
I can see you
Against the sun up in the sky
The media files on this page are provided for your enjoyment — you can listen, and even download the MP3 files, and not pay a dime. I encourage you to share them with friends, provided no one changes or sells the files, and that you attribute them to me.
If you do enjoy my music, I hope you’ll become my patron by compensating me whatever you thing the experience is worth. I recommend $0.99 if you download this song, but you can pay whatever you like.
When you pay for music on this site, you declare yourself to be a patron of independent creative endeavors… and you literally contribute to my livelihood. That means a great deal, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Icarus Wises Up by Matthew Wayne Selznick (live) [3:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1320)
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