I kept thinking about this song this weekend:
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.nquit.com/sounds/ThirdOption/FrostedMiniWheats/14ThirdOptionHalloweenInDenver.mp3″] Halloween In Denver by Third Option
It’s from the first Third Option album, Frosted Mini Wheats. I thought of doing that album, and thus created that act, when I had been beatboxing for an hour straight on the drive home from hockey practice when I was playing for UNM. I noticed the beatbox tunes would change slowly over time. I thought I’d invented something and I told my buddy Dustin how I was gonna make an album where each song just morphed into the next, and he said “oh you mean a trance record?” Dammit. I had invented nothing!
But this Halloween In Denver song, it’s funny that such a marginal thing that I never really shared with anyone is the one that’s called Halloween In Denver. That title is a reference to me being diagnosed with CF when I was 8. It was at a hospital in Denver and it was Halloween. They gave me one of those plastic jack-o-lantern buckets and I was going from room to room getting little Snickers from people with it. That stupid night and that stupid diagnosis has defined my life ever since, really a lot more than any “disease” or “condition”. But I didn’t write a slam poem that I did in front of thousands of people, or even a rap song or anything. It’s just this short tune jammed in the middle of 60 minutes of album, and what’s more it’s not a highly charged big epic thing either, it’s just a pretty melody that I like. But what makes me think about it sometimes is that that melody doesn’t seem like me to me. It seems like something that comes from outside of me, or maybe it comes from my essence, whereas a lot of stuff comes from the ego and personality that I built on top of that essence, shrouding the essence. Ironically, I probably built a lot of that up in response to the diagnosis, so there’s this irony around having a song that comes from the essence, who’s title refers to the diagnosis.
It’s like a subtle, sleek victory. Poision in the night that the enemy general never even notices, let alone resists.
I win!! 🙂
And now you win too, because Third Option (us) is giving away free stuff! GO GET FREE STUFF! 🙂
Aaron, I really liked this melody. I wasn’t back until late on Halloween; I had been in D.C. So it’s perfect to receive this a little late. It’s very much a match for the season. Tonight especially as we’re finally into the cold along with dark. Thanks very much. I think you are right on with the yin/yang, reflected mirror growth and battle with the Halloween in Denver. Love, Elaine
Hi Elaine! 🙂
You’re always off in the world!
Yeah it’s kinda weird how things work out sometimes!
– A
The little boy conquers the fear other people expected him to have, beats the diagnosis with his bucket of well-wishes instead of wallowing in it, and goes home a man who is strong happy healthy free.
And it is a pretty melody. If you sped it up and added more bass and kicks you’d have Dustin’s trance mix. But I like it this way.
Hi Elaine!