the welsh assembly

IDEAS FOR ANOHER ALBUM

Sandeep

I wanna do the one about me going to England, when I saw the house, and I saw my friends
- “what house? Like in England. What house are you talking about. And when you saw your friends what were they doing” well the house is the second house we had in England and the third house we’d had in the united kingdom, because we had one in wales. But uh. It was in Blackburn Lancashire, and uh, yeah. We lived there til we uh moved to uh Chicago. And uh, basically, lots of memories, and uh, yeah. My last spot in England before I left and we were there for like most of my childhood. And it wasn’t huge. Have you ever haerd of a bungalow? “no. the word looks familiar.” Well a bungalow is something that’s only one story no basement or attic. “mm. so like a ranch. That’s what we call em. At least me” well yeah I guess. But uh, you wouldn’t find a ranch in England heh. “but that’s what that’s what asame thing. That’s what a bungalow is. At least that’s what you say” maybe. They might be different. They might not be entirely the same. I msure there’s lieka little difference. “its like a house right?” yeah. I just don’t like “you don’t like ranch?” the word ranch. Yeah. Heh. “heh. Heheh” and uh my friends lived down the street, and in the neighborhood, and in the town, like I went when I was seventeen and we saw the house “was that the last time you went? No. that would’ve beem awhile ago. When was the last time you went? Last year?” yeah. 08. but it was the last time we saw the house while we still owned it. So it was empty we had the key and there were still a few things of ours there .it was cool and weird. Because it was like empty the house was like falling apart the grass was like super long and there were like a hundred letters of mail in the front door cause they have letter boxes on british doors. “are those mail boxes? Like what do you mean by letter box. It’s the same thing as letter box right? You just call it letter box right? Maybe?” no. its different. “how, whats the difference” well, itsjust like a slit in the door. “oh so you just throw the mail into the door, we have those ,you –just stick the mail in the door and it gors on the floor. Right?” yeah that’s exactly right. And so we’d been gone so long that the floor was covered with em. “it was funny when you couldn’t type fast.” Was it really? “you hsuold lay back down cause I was cozy.” Hard luck heh. “hah!” anwayy so my friend sammy who I nkew since I was like 3, or 2, and he was like 2 or 1, he lived down the road, so like when I was seventeen Id known him for like.. fifteen years. And there were other kids in the neighboirhood, a guy named rahul and shivi and a few others, bobby, and a Hannah and …someone else… Sharon… and guggi. Yeah. So we met all those people. And guggis dad. So is that enough explanation? “yeah its plenty” k.

I wanna do something with this deganwys lost son thing
-“whats that?” what do you mean. “whats denawys” oh that’s a town “oh” in wales “well then uh what sthe uh deganwys lost thing.. I mean deganwys liost son thing” well its an idea I had about a story about me kindof or a story based on me about a kid who is from deganwy and gets like kidnapped and then returns when he’s like grown up and like he’s a slave while he[s gone and so like the struggles adventures friends and stuff lessons learned and how he kinda chosses to be kinda like how you chose to be during your process although not entirely the same like not entirely as benevolent but yeah. “cool” any other questions? Like it was supposed to be a story. Like a word story. That I would write out. And I kinda did the first thousand words. But I ahvent actually fleshed it out yet. “you’ve written this?” kindof. Like ive done plot summaries and then I did like the intro, but I haven’t actually started it yet “mm” like its almost too ambitious for me to do right now, because I don’t know the first thing about writing a story “hm” so icant really do shit with it, I can but I just don’t want to “hehe” because ive got like higher priority stuff right now. Itll take a long time to write, and I wanna like and I wanna use all sorts of details from my life. Maybe I’ll start again. But I was like doing it I November “of last year?” yeah basically the month I met you, if I didn’t hang out with you Id be writing the sotyr “you could still write it, you should, you should write it and finish it and uh, or maybe you could write songs” I might, like, I have a lot of ideas, “well maybe you could write like an entire album based on the story” like I did think about something like that, a movie, or a book, or a rock opera thing, not opera but, yeah, an album for the story, that was like one of my, kindof intentions. But you thin ki should do ti? “yeah definitely” why. You think it sounds cool? “yeah.” Like why. “well I mean, there’s a lot you could get fro mthe sotyr, and a lot of things you couldget out of it.” And you know I always wanted to do like a story on my life. Like in the last two ro three years. “wouldn’t this be it” kinda. This is more like, my story but with a liscense for creativety to you know not only be a story of my life, but like, a showcase of all the things I like too .all the things I think are cool, you know? “can you scratch my back, please?” kinda hard while typing. “please? Over to the left .yeah. ok!! Thank you” heh. “haha” so anyway. What else you got on this? “that’s all” no ideas about the sotry or anything “well its your story I don’t kwo what yoru stories entirely about” well I mean, what do you think would sound cool? “as far as makin the music for this story?” no “writing the story?” yeah “well you said you had all this plotted out and everything right?” kinda “is it anywhere that I could read it at” yeah. On facebook. Could show it to you now “ok. Show me show me! Show me the money” heh. “hehe” ok. I just like typing out dialogue. “I noticed” but you’ve gotta admit its kinda cool to read it “yeah its kinda like going back and forth on messaging or emailing” I think you kinda pick up on nuances on what you were saying. When you read it.

And I guess I wanna do something about the stay fresh Iceland thing

I think I wanna do something about qegs

I wanna do something about Wikipedia and free library shit

I wanna do some sorta dance stuff

I wanna do something about how one of my major goals in life has been to return to England, and how I got removed in the first place, or maybe just going to England, and like how big a deal that is to me

I wanna do something about how sweet it is to travel, like the adventure, like seeing new things, and being in amazing places, and meeting old friends, and meeting random people
- I kinda see this one as being kinda like uh, something that’s about just life, like living life, and like, I nthe moment, the best way to live basically, that a lot of peope kinda never do, but dustin hoffman seems to do it, like my favorite actors craig ferguson too, and I guess how I came from a conservative background, and how conservative people avoid living like this, like artistically creative and ri9sktaking and honest almost pure I guess

I wanna do something for how stupid it seems like for people to get paid so much money, for just playing like music and shit, or like doctors, or like how much you spend for college, and how like education has a price behind it, and how most people can’t afford it, so they’re forced into debt, which basically means education is inherited, which is kinda like a new monarchy, in the new world, which is something that they kinda tried to run from

I guess I wanan do something about how ive bene playing music for so many years, but ive never gotten paid, and how people are like youre good, but ive never tried to get a paying show, and how like for a couple years music kept me going, and how when I was a kid the only way I could get my thoughts across was music, because of all the racism and like parents not being home, kinda like just a communication form, but its also really natural too, so that’s good, it feels natural


I guess I could do one about how I like driving, like just being in the car, hearing the engine, and like feeling the engine, and how sweet it’d be to work on top gear, which’s a british tv show, like im not a huge fan of American people who like cars, but I do like that tv sow, and I guess through that tv show, I kinda enjoy cars

I could do another one about how I used to play soccer, about how we used to run around in the cones and stuff, and like, sometimes it’d snow someties it’d rain, but we had this sense of comradery and stuff, kinda like the military or something, us against them, and we all like gave our all for the teams, was kinda cool, and definitely something that I use a lot, like in daily life

We should both do a song about guilt, cause you’ve got your friend, and ive got my friend, and I guess we could tell our respective stories, cause that’s something we’ve been talking about, and there’d definitely be a lot of emotion behind it, and maybe it could be split into two different songs, but I mean we could easily do them together to

We could do one about the piano bar, about how we’re always there, and how we can play there forever, and how like we know everybody there, and like remember the kiss, where like I wanted you to kiss in front of your gay friends, and you were embarrassed but you actually did it, and that was pretty cool, cause I was impressed as hell, and it was pretty awesome

What about your trip “oh in Tennessee god that was terrible” yeah I think that that would be good, you could talk about how your friend was just trying to get at you, “it was like not being able to do anything that I wanted to do, when I know that I was there to have fun with family and friends, and just ended up sitting around the house doing absolutely nothing” and it sounded like it sucked, “it did” and cause I couldn’t visit “mm hmm” and how like your friend was being racist or whatever, “yeah” and that’s what I was saying he kinda did that to get at you, cause he knew I wasn’t gonna hear it, “yeah” he was just giving you a hard time in any way he could. So really how good of a friend was he, “not very” kinda of a douchebag heh, “an asshole”

I wanna do something about how maybe I wanna start a company or something, like some kindof organization, where all my friends can get involved, and we’ll do cool stuff. You know how andy Warhol had his own thing. And the guy from the sex piostols did public limited. And then the guy from virgin started virgin. There’s a lot of companies and shit that you can do. And its important to get your friends jobs and help them out. Cause they need someone to look out for them. And that’s kinda like a hip hop vibe. But its also like a rock and roll vibe too. Like punk do it yourself. And also a bit of 60s revolution. As well as a bit of sikh. The first sikh guy looked at two religions and made a third one up. He… he looked at Hinduism and islam and made one up. So he was a free thinker and you’ve got Malcolm x and uh, martin luther king, mahatma Gandhi, nelson Mandela, john lennon, all these different people, standin up for people, and its kinda like a tradition I wanna follow in, that’s like where the impulse to work in parliament comes from, as well as this, kinda. Its also like partly entrepreneur too. Money makes the world go round after all. That’s where the hip hop vibe comes from. Cash money records. And helping out your community. And like the Indian community how they suck. And how I like want to build a new Indian community. Kinda like in the style of how hip hop creates stuff, and punk, political shit, and anyone who stood up for what they believe in. I come from a line of people who stand up in what they believe in. Indians freed india from islam. Sikhs did. They were the warriors. The hindus would send their sons to be Sikhs. And they were like speciallytrained soldiers. Like some sort of dojo with monks. So the idea is kinda to make a difference.

I could do one about how I want that friend to start that clothing company, “what clothing company” you know the one I told you about ni Colorado. “oh yeah” he does t shirts, or at least that’s what he wants to do “oh you mean the one that’s wants to uh… ok nevermind, I know who youre talking about. Cause I remember you mentioning it in the car ride” cool. Yeah cause like, if he did it, it could be cool, “yeah” and I could wear his shit at shows and uh he could promote me too .it’d be cool. Plus I get cool shirts. And maybe id be able to give him pictures and put them on shirts. Maybe he could make us band shirts. You know that kinda stuff “yeah”

How about hwo we need to do a record that has like real meaning to it, where like, we do songs that’re ambitious and thought out, we spend more time and we take more risks too instead of just in the moment. “yeah” cause like that’d be a song about taking risks. Risks thatre worth taking. But a risk none the less. See what I mean? “yeah”

Anita

My trip around the country I guess

Something about all the people I know that’ve died this year ( in the past year )

( dance stuff ) Me too.

The drugs that ive used

I could do one about how I used to dance. Like uh, basically how like the entire dance class was a huge family, that looked out for each other, and everyone had a big show, we’d watch each others backs and uh, help each other out when someone was stressed out about something.

The fear of being put under, “huh?” like when youre going to surgery youre put to sleep for the whole procedure. “and you don’t like that?” no not at all. Cause like youre being operated on and you don’t know what is going on you don’t know what could go wrong cause your asleep. Its like youre paralyzed for hours while people are just cutting you open. “kinda like a spider” yeah “biting the victim” yeah “and what else can you say about that” just like before you are put under youre perfectly normal youre just a little afraid because its before the entire surgery or whatever so you don’t know whats gonna happen then you wake up its like you cant talk you cant breath “crazy” and youre surrounded by people you don’t know or never seen before nothing youre familiar with “I had an experience like that. I’ve woken up in the hospital before” yeah. “that’s a good one”.

What its like having really nobody to someone is all you need. To one person. “oh to one person. Oh you mean not needing anybody” no. “what do you mean” like what its having noone to having someone. “so going from nothing to something” mm hmm. To everything. “really” mhmm “so basically… so basically about us” mm hmm. “interesting. OK. So you kinda felt like you had nothing” well as far as people who cared, yeah. “that’s no good. Well at least you feel like you’ve got someone now. And I say feel like because you probably had people before. Although those people might’ve been people who you could’nt have gotten any good from” no. example: a friend from Tennessee. “heh”.

“well how about your shitty home life” yeah “like how people just kinda fuck with you. I mean isn’t that kinda fucked up” mm hmm. “what do you think”like the whole insurance thing? How like my mom took me off the insurance because im not living there anymore? “did she do that when you moved out?” yep. “you mean like” Not like as soon as I moved out but I think a month after I moved out. “so not like when you moved out here” no. “like with me” uh uh it was before that it was like in mid july so like a couple months after I moved out. “interesting. I was leanin more towards how you got hit in the face with shit. And how like yoru dad strangled you and shit. And then your grandfather. You had alotta shit happen to you.” Yeah “and you could toss it all into one topic. Or you could split it up, go into more detail, but I think it’d be good just to do it all in one go” yeah “at least at first. You don’t wanna jump in and be all in depth. Like you never have to mention the word sex. You know?” yeah “but you could like allude to it. Like artfully. You know?” mm hmm. “like what do you think you should do” as far as writing about my past “yeah” write about it. “but which bits” like uh, how my dad was always drunk, he couldn’t take care of his own kids, he was never home, my mom was never home because she was always working or just going to school and then how my dad put a lock on the fridge so that we couldn’t eat until he got home and some of those nights he wouldn’t even come home, and how I basically … by the age of 3 I was changing my little brothers diapers, taking care of hi,, and feeding the dogs, by seven I was cooking breakfast and dinner, “and what else” it was like I wasn’t even allowed to live how a child should “but the remarkable thing is how much of a child you are now” hehe “I mean you don’t seem like all mature so you kinda made it through somehow which is cool, you know what I mean?” no “because like, sometimes people cant even laugh, youre not like an emotional cripple” uh uh “youre more like a very outgoing person, so you kinda responded to the challenge, and even though you kinda regret that they even made you do it, that you actually persevered, which is important on its own. Cause if you failed then you’d be a fuckup” that’s what my dad used to call me “yeah and uh, you proved him wrong, look at you now. Hmm? Youre more normal than most people I know” hehe “I mean its true. Youre pretty damn normal” hehe “so I mean that’s kinda like your bragging rights, I made it through and im still myself” hehe “you didn’t like have an impact on me, you know? I mean yeah you have memories” everybody does, its not like it can just go away, “but the point is, that you make decisions based upon what you think is right. You were responsible with your brother” yeah “and then uh” my older sister “when you went to uh, rehab, and you uh talked to your uh friend, you told her to get off the stuff” yeah “that was responsible too. You responded to a bad situation by becoming a brilliant individual. Ever heard of a guy called nelson Mandela” yeah “25 years in jail. And then he became president. Crazy huh?” mm hmm. Hehe. “youre like nelson Mandela” how. “because you were in jail when you were a kid. And youre anice person. There’s two ways to respond to challenge. And you picked nelson Mandelas way. Martin luther king. Mahatma Gandhi. All that shit. You took that road. Whichs pretty crazy. You know?” yeah. “do you believe it?” I can see it. “but do you like actually… believe it. Huh? Do you?” Yeah. “really?” mm hmm. “you use that word too much” haha. Its like my favorite word. Mmmmhmmm! wait which one yeah or mmhmm? “you know which one” haha.

Anita: mmm…. Heh. ( eating banana ) ( laughing with banana in mouth ) hahaha delete that. No~ hee hee . here

(drops bana peel on asndeep )

Sandeep” what the fuck


Anita: