Beatnik Turtle's Song of the Day

When's the last time you had two clarinets to rub together?

Matt Scholtka told us about his friend Pete that had all kinds of food allergies. Nevertheless, he always ate food that he shouldn't have which always caused him to run off to the bathroom. He did this without fail, so they started placing bets on what he'd eat. Unfortunately for Pete, Matt mentioned this story to Jason, who subsequently wrote a song about it.

One of the first Beatnik Turtle Twittersongs, this one was inspired by a Twitter post from Mur Lafferty. She had posted this tweet: "kitchen clean, fridge cleaned out. WHY do I keep saving food?" That prompted us to look into our fridge where we spotted several species of scary substances.

In 2006, Beatnik Turtle was not only working on The Song Of The Day, Randy and Jason were also working on the Indie Band Survival Guide., which got some tremendous press from Billboard Magazine, Reuters, the Associated Press, and the blogosphere.

During the time of writing it, all Tom Roper heard, week after week, was "it's almost nearly done!" since Randy and Jason kept writing, editing, researching, re-writing, re-editing and re-researching it. All this instead of recording music which was all Tom was hoping to do. So, he wrote a song about it.

Sometimes life corrects your faults and deficiencies on their own. And, after awhile, you find yourself becoming less unique and more and more...average.

Featuring the great Qadree Holmes on vocals, this song goes out to all Notary Publics everywhere.

This song came about when Jason was asked to notarize a few immigration documents for two recently married friends of his - one of whom was applying for U.S. citizenship. When they asked Jason whether he could notarize their signatures "to prove it wasn't a sham marriage," he informed them they were in luck - he wasn't only a Notary, he was the "Love Notary."

They laughed a bit at his comment until they realized Jason was serious about the concept making "a great song for The Song Of The Day" and found themselves stranded in his office with unnotarized papers in hand.

This week's song tells the story of a group of patrons of a pub who, upon learning that the pub is on fire, head to the cellar to drink all the booze instead of running outside. Recorded as part of our RPM Challenge 2008 album, Sham Rock, this is another traditional Irish song done in the Beatnik Turtle style.

For parents and kids alike, when it comes to the family vacation, this seems to be the eternal question!

To this day, when Ted says "Hi, my name is Ted," he has to bite his tongue to keep himself from saying, "...and this is my song about ants."

Back in 2006 our band started working on writing and recording music for our project, TheSongOfTheDay.com where we released one song for each day of 2007. As a result of this intense undertaking, our band had to take a break from playing live. When we returned in the Summer of 2009, Jason, one of our guitar players opened up his guitar case and realized he hadn't played his live electric guitar for 3 years. Instantly, John, our drummer, came up with this song.