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Song A Day for the Month of May: DESIRE - This son

Song A Day for the Month of May: DESIRE - This song is a pretty old song in the catalog, having been written back in 2006. The only reason it didn't make the Love Is Gone or the Rise albums is because, topically, it didn't quite fit the themes of the other albums. However, it fit Beautiful Crutch perfectly. I had actually release this song on it's own as a @kristoferdommin solo project song in 2013 as I wasn't sure what I was going to do or how I was going to move forward after the first album. We were in limbo, not knowing if we would get the rights to release our 2nd album or where everything stood. Life was at a standstill. So this was my first attempt to try and take things into my own hands. Once I knew that Dommin was going to be able to put out more albums, I took it down to save it for the album it was intended for. ⁠⠀
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It's probably the sexiest Dommin song in the catalog. But I added one distinct word which I hope elevated it, just a little. In the third line of the third chorus, I use the word "admire." Admiration is typically a quality associated with love, not lust. It channels a basic human desire toward something a bit higher and more meaningful, which I think as human beings we are always striving to do to separate ourselves from our animalistic tendencies. ⁠⠀
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A Song A Day For The Month Of May: I WON'T TELL -

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: I WON'T TELL - This song is very rare. In fact, I totally forgot that most of you don't have it. It’s not on any of the digital platforms. So today, I'm putting the song up as a free download at Dommin.net. The song was originally intended for the Beautiful Crutch album. However, with I Die, The Saddest Dream and Outer Space, the album already felt like it was running pretty slow. Adding this ballad I think would have just killed the energy too much. But I think it's a good song. Because it went so well with the Beautiful Crutch release, we gave it to our PledgeMusic subscribers exclusively. So I hope it's still special that they have had it for 4 years before everyone else and I hope they are okay with me putting it out today. The song was written at the same time and about the same situation as Making The Most and I Still Lost. So I don't repeat myself, go to the May 4th posting of Making The Most to learn about the situation. I guess over the years, other songs just beat this one out in terms of making it on an album. But the song expresses a beautiful sentiment and I really like the piano melody.⁠⠀
My favorite part, lyrically, is the bridge section which says:⠀
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"Love is pain. And through suffering, it is perfected, in hope resurrected from the death we face."⁠⠀
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It’s a bit of a clever nod to a Christian perspective on love and suffering. Essentially saying, our relationship is doomed by all accounts. But perhaps the pain we go through and the sacrifices that are made proves how much love exists and that proof and knowledge may be our saving grace against all odds.⁠⠀
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If you don't have it, I hope you go download it now. It will be linked in our bio for the next couple of days.

A Song A Day For The Month Of May - AWAKE: This is

A Song A Day For The Month Of May - AWAKE: This is one of the oldest Dommin songs, being written in 2002. I think it's safe to say I was probably listening to a lot of Rammstein around the time this song was written as evident in the drumbeat. But the lyrical content is pretty aspirational. As with most of the songs, they aren't meant to be preachy. I never write songs to tell the world how it should be. If there is any element of judgement or criticism in my songs, it's coming from within myself against myself. It's my conscience or my soul or that inner voice that tries to motivate and chastise. It's me telling myself, stop dreaming about what you want in life and start doing the things you need to do to make those dreams a reality. I wanted to prove all the naysayers wrong, everyone that told me I wasn't good enough. This why I sing the line "break the rules of our deniers." I remember when I was writing the lyrics to this song, there was a line from the Harry Potter books that grabbed me. In the first book, there is something called the Mirror of Erised (Desire spelled backwards). And when you would look at it, it would reflect your heart's deepest desires. People would sit and waste away in front of it. The moral being, "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."⁠⠀
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I think there is power in what the music does for each of us individually, whether it inspires or just makes us feel good. I remember feeling extremely proud when the producer who worked on the recording of this song told me it inspired him to quit smoking. I felt good knowing that a song that was created to tell me to get off my ass and live and go for something had the power to give someone else the nudge to improve their life. I'll never forget that. It makes what sometimes feels like a selfish endeavor a lot more meaningful.

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: CHANGE - This i

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: CHANGE - This is the newest Dommin song out there. It was the last of the singles I put out in anticipation of the 4th Dommin album. The meaning is pretty self-explanatory. It's about feeling a deep need for a change. A change in friends, a change in scenery and surroundings, a change from the current trajectory of your life. ⁠⠀
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Musically, there is definitely a post-punk vibe happening in the first half of the song. I’ll talk more about what I think the two main influences of this song are in IG Stories today. I say “I think” because it’s not always clear where the influences are coming from. You don’t set out to create music that is derivative, but it usually is.⠀
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This photo was taken behind the venue called The Gibson Amphitheatre from when we opened for Nightwish in LA. I've seen about 3 or 4 shows at this place. I saw Danzig, a KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Radio show with several big radio bands and the Brian Setzer Christmas Show. It's the biggest indoor venue Dommin has ever played. And only a month or so after this, the venue was shut down and demolished. Do you know what was built in its place? Check our Instagram Stories today. UPDATE: OUR IG STORIES ARE HAVING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES SO I MAY HAVE TO POST THEM TOMORROW.

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: DAMSEL IN DISTR

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: DAMSEL IN DISTRESS - I thought these ladies on the floor was a good photo for this song. I remember how some of them, when they had their masks on had trouble breathing and felt claustrophobic. So when there was a moment between takes during the My Heart, Your Hands video, they took the masks off to relax and breathe easy. ⁠I felt bad for them. ⠀
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The original song was meant to have a bit of a late 1950's type of vibe, musically. I'm not sure that comes across at all in the final recording. I just wanted to write a Dommin song that I felt had a bit of a groove to it. ⁠⠀
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Lyrically, it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. And the original title and lyric line was "I want a Damsel Undistressed." But I know “undistressed” is not really a word. It came from the desire to meet someone that was happy. After meeting too many people who always seemed to be in bad moods, I just wanted some positivity and happiness in my world. There is a lot to be grateful for in this life and by being so sour, you're not only choosing to ruin your own day, but the day of everyone you come into contact with. I once heard someone say, “to act happy is a moral obligation, even if you’re faking it.” ⠀
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I think I agree with this, especially when it comes to people who’s happiness relies on you like your partner or kids. ⠀
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Eventually, it made more sense to say "I've got a damsel in distress, I get the feeling that she's another mess." ⠀
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To this day, I'm convinced that happiness is one of the most attractive qualities in a person, which usually implies that someone is also grateful. We're all allowed to have a bad day or to be mad at something justifiably. And I know there are some conditions that are clinical and therefore harder to lift yourself out of. But irritability and moodiness as a steady-state is not a vibe I enjoy being around. ⁠I don’t want games. I don’t want manipulation. I think it’s important to surround yourself with good, happy & encouraging people that will also tell you the truth. ⠀
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Have you structured your life in this way?⠀
Did you have to make some hard choices?
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Do you need to make some changes?⠀

Song a Day for the Month of May - WITHOUT END: Thi

Song a Day for the Month of May - WITHOUT END: This would often be the last song in our set. And it always makes me think of some of the technical difficulties we had in our earlier shows. We usually always had an intro to this song that we specifically made for live performances. The first trial by fire incident couldn't have come at a worse time. We were showcasing for Roadrunner Records in New York and during the showcase when this song was next in the set, there was a malfunction with Konstantine's keyboard, one which caused him to have to reboot, which when loading sounds and samples can take up to 2 minutes. And as he was supposed to start the song, I remember looking at him like...what are you waiting for? (as we all stood in an awkward silence) And he looked back at me like a deer in headlights trying to communicate "Houston, we have a problem" with his eyes, as the entire Roadrunner staff was watching. So, I started noodling around on the guitar...and needless to say it went on a little too long before we jumped to the next part of the intro. It was a pretty uncomfortable moment, and for a time, we thought it may have jeopardized our chances with Roadrunner. Konstantine felt awful. But he was always a champion, someone who when the pressure was on, met the challenge. Konstantine is like that. He loves a hard problem and is someone you can always count on to rise to the occasion. Similar things had happened a couple of more times. Usually it was a case of someone walking around on stage and tripping over and unplugging the power cable from the keyboard, causing the reboot to have to happen again. There were a couple of times during shows where we had to improvise in these situations. Eventually, it became a routine that Konstantine would excessively tape the cables to secure the power cable into the keyboard and into the power source. Often times, regardless of when we were performing, once soundcheck was done, the keyboard stayed powered on until our set was over. ⁠⠀This video is from The Key Club during the Sunset Strip Music Festival 🎥 @ndrewstuart

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: DARK HOLIDAY -

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: DARK HOLIDAY - I remember when this song was created. Konstantine and I were in our little jam space. He basically had the two piano parts that composed the verse and chorus music. When I heard it, it reminded me of The Doors, at least the verse. And I approached it that way with the guitar, doing little bends for a bit of quirky atmosphere. The vocal melody came almost immediately but the words came later. The word "holiday" kept rolling off my tongue, but the song felt dark and not what you would associate with that word. So I went in the direction of a dark celebration. The lyrics ended up being about hedonism to the point of self-destruction.⁠⠀
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The song always seemed to be a fan favorite when we played live. And because it was such a unique sounding song in the music landscape of everything happening at the time, it was our hope that it would be pushed as the second single from the album, after My Heart, Your Hands. I still feel that to this day, it would have been a smarter move.⁠⠀
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Because it had that dark celebratory vibe, it seemed like The Nightmare Before Christmas was the perfect type of vehicle when it came to creating a music video. So Konstantine worked on sourcing art and people to do a stop-motion claymation type music video. Unfortunately, it never really got off the ground. But we did include some of the artwork as the cover of the new recording of the song we released in February 2020 called the Decadent Version. If you haven't heard it, check it out.⁠⠀
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This photo was taken on our first attempt to tour outside California in October of 2007. We played The Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Oregon.

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: VULNERABLE - th

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: VULNERABLE - this song comes from a place of really just wanting to be someone’s peace and sanctuary. In this song, the lyrics go, “I’ll let no harm or any trauma come to you” and then emphasizes, “not to you.” Meaning that I actually do expect harm and trauma, but I’m willing to throw myself in front of it. ⠀
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I’m not sure I could write this song today, knowing what I know now. I used to think love could cure all. I think it was more ignorance than ego. I didn’t have the understanding that I do now about how damaged the psyche can be and how the daily triggers can make people relive their most horrible memories. It takes more than love to soothe unhealable wounds. But I still think it’s a beautiful tune expressing a truly selfless sentiment, just wanting to take care of someone who is deeply hurt and has suffered for too long. ⠀

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: MY HEART, YOUR

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: MY HEART, YOUR HANDS - Undoubtedly Dommin's biggest song and the one that put us on the map. It was the first song on our independent release and the first song on our record label debut, Love Is Gone. ⁠⠀
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What may not be known is we shot 3 videos for this song. The first was our self-shot/self-produced video for the Mend Your Misery version of the song. After we signed our record deal, the record company wanted to make a new video. We pushed for them to give us the budget so that we could shoot it ourselves, essentially making a nice looking version of the video we already had.⁠⠀
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What ended up happening was hiring Dean Karr, a great video director with a dark and twisted aesthetic. But the end result was something nobody seemed to be happy with, myself included. The band performance shots looked great. And if I remember correctly, it was shot on actual film. What was not great was the storyline. The idea was to turn me into some sort of Batman type character, fighting crime in the underworld. I remember there were these actors that played a crooked business man, a prostitute and a drug addict. It had me capturing these people and sadistically torturing them. I remember watching one of the final cuts thinking...why am I hurting people who are already hurting and just down and out. It made me look like a total dick! Everyone else seemed to agree. So the video was halfway salvaged by trashing all the narrative footage and putting in our old video footage into the story line which is playing on the TV. So when I watch the TV, I'm watching the old video, essentially upset at what was happening to me. It didn't make total sense, but we tried make it work.⁠⠀
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Eventually, a third attempt was made on the video which is the one most people know. What was funny, was we were told that we were going to get to use this house⁠ in Malibu that had never been in a music video before. Since then, I've seen several music videos including Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi."

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: FALLING INTO AS

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: FALLING INTO ASHES - I wrote this song with my friend and producer Lucas. ⁠⠀
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The more acoustic version or “Lounge Version” as it’s called on the RARE album of B-sides is the original version. I remember posting it to MySpace back in 2006 and I only left it up for about 24 hours. I immediately took it down when I saw that people had been ripping it right off the MySpace music player.
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When we were thinking of songs for RISE, we toyed with the idea of turning it into a full on rock song. I think it came across pretty awesome and seems to be a favorite among Dommin fans. I took the electric piano sound used in the Lounge version and put it through a distorted guitar amp. I think it sounds pretty cool. ⁠⠀
What are your thoughts on this song?

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: THE GIRLS - I c

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: THE GIRLS - I consider this song probably Dommin's best production in terms of sound quality. This is the song that initially convinced our record label to give the green light to our 2nd album. It was one of 3 songs ⁠that we submitted in order to move forward. But I think what probably stands out the most about this song is the video. I usually try to tell a story with videos, but Konstantine is always coming up with interesting ideas. He talked about one where we throw a GoPro camera around. We did a bunch of tests to see how it might come across. I had never seen anything like it. So then it was figuring out where we could do it. I don't remember what the other ideas were, but Konstantine knew a way we could get access to the roof of a building in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. I've always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with Los Angeles. I grew up about 20 minutes east of Los Angeles. I hated going into the city when we had gigs because it was dirty and there was too much traffic. Parking always sucked. Los Angeles is an interesting city in that, a good amount of people that live in the city, aren't from the city or even from California. They are from around the country and around the world that are here to escape or to "make it." And that makes for an interesting group. The majority of people that are born and raised here, seem to move out to the fringes of LA into the north or east valleys or toward Long Beach or Orange County. So it was always with a bit of hesitation that Dommin was presented as a LA band. But there is a lot to love about LA and Southern California more generally. It has a rich history and there is no shortage of things to do. It's one of those things where you tend to think poorly of a place when you're there, but when you represent it to the rest of the world, there is a sense of pride. I felt like this video represented that pride with the city skyscrapers on one side and the expanse into Hollywood and Santa Monica on the other. To this day, I'm proud of this video. We only had two worries making the video...getting caught and the camera getting tossed over the edge.

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: I DIE - This wa

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: I DIE - This was probably one of the hardest songs in the Dommin catalog to finish. Konstantine would always play this on piano. And I remember I would sing the opening line, "You're not alone..." and I would hum out the rest of it. But that's all we had for the longest time. I have very specific memories of this being played over and over again at sound checks throughout Europe in 2010 and on pianos that sat in hotel lobbies across America. Eventually, I came up with the chorus words, "I die..." But that's as far as I got for a good while. It seems like this is how that song came along, a couple of words at a time. ⁠⠀
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A while ago, Konstantine and I put out a YouTube video of us playing this song. We were in suits and it was in black and white. We wanted it to feel and look very classic. It was put out as sort of a teaser to the song. But the truth was, it's all we had. I was worried that we would never finish it. Because what existed was so cool, everything we attempted didn't improve on what was there. It made it very hard to complete. Just the piano line alone would stop people in their tracks and make them listen. ⁠⠀
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When I was preparing the songs for Beautiful Crutch, it was exactly where we had left it years earlier, but I knew I wanted to include it on the album. At this point it was either going to be our shortest song ever, or never be completed. It needed something else. And we had toyed with the idea of the song just going to a completely different place. So when I sat down to really make it happen, that's exactly what we did. The whole middle portion of the song departs from that singular chord progression. Eventually the second half of the chorus came to me as well. I'm pretty proud of where we ended up. However, I do feel like I could do a much better job at recording this song today. I've toyed with the idea of a re-record.⁠⠀
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Photo: somewhere in Europe 2010

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: UPSIDE DOWN - T

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: UPSIDE DOWN - This song is one of the newest Dommin songs floating out there. I've had a demo of it recorded for a while, probably before we put the Rise album out. However, it never really fit anywhere. But even though it was written over 8 years ago, I think it seems to be more and more relevant as time goes on. I think the lyrics speak for themselves. Anyone watching TV or spending time on social media probably has similar feelings from time to time. Sometimes I can't believe the things I see or read. You think to yourself...who are these people? Who raised them? Do they hear themselves? Do they own a mirror? Are they as disingenuous as they seem? God only knows!⁠⠀
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I would probably put it in the same universe as Dark Holiday or The Flame in terms of its quirky vibe. It's also a bit of a proud moment for me, as a lot of these newer singles are, because they are reflections of my ability to record, mix and master my own music. Before, I had to rely on producers or mixers. And with every song I do, I feel like I'm getting a little better and putting out songs that sound okay. I'm learning and still have a lot more to learn but I'm making good progress, I think. ⁠According to my Spotify statistics, it is the most played Dommin song on average.⁠⠀
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Is there anything in particular going on that makes you feel like the world is upside down?

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: THE VICTIM - Th

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: THE VICTIM - This was going to originally be about "Show Me." But I changed it due to a comment I read on Facebook asking about this song. ⁠⠀
It was recorded with the batch of songs we made for our Mend Your Misery album in '06/'07. It just didn't make the final cut. However, early when we were self-promoting, we were told by a DJ that played unsigned bands in Phoenix that he liked this song the most. We only played it live a couple of times. Musically, it felt very similar to Next Day Apologies.⁠⠀
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This song comes from a frustration I had with a few friends I used to know. They had this mindset that all of their failures and problems were caused by the world/society or whoever was the enemy of the day. There was no self-reflection. It was bewildering to me. I just couldn't identify with the idea that my failures were because of someone else, and I had no shortage of people that shut me down. But I still didn't blame them. I saw it as fuel. ⁠I still do.⁠⠀
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The first verse talks about a girl who got pregnant while still in high school. You would hope that such a wake up call to reality and the responsibility you have for an innocent life might make you shape up and even give you a sense of purpose. But as consistency would have it, she viewed her situation as another example of the deck being stacked against her. The 2nd verse talks about another friend who dropped out of college several times and didn't do anything but smoke weed all day. He was flakey toward his friends and found himself alone with no direction. Both of these people seemed totally blind to the contributions their own choices made.⁠⠀
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I can't relate to that worldview. I often look to myself first as the possible source of any problem. And even if I was a victim, seeing myself that way has no benefit.⁠⠀
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This pic is from @downloadfest in the UK. The stage felt very big for what we were used to and 11AM seemed very early to play. But we were just happy to be there with fans front and center.

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: OUTER SPACE - T

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: OUTER SPACE - The last song on the Beautiful Crutch album is one of my favorites to listen to. So far, it hasn't gotten old for me. I wanted to challenge myself to write something uplifting. It's easy to write depressing or angry. It's much harder to write something that feels good but doesn't come across cheesy, for me any way. Or maybe uplifting or feel-good is the wrong way to put it. I wanted to write something that felt transcendent, something that feels like those moments when you know the love you feel or the thought you are having is other worldly, beyond the basic. The feeling is not primal. It's about those moments when you realize that you are more than a biological machine with preprogrammed behaviors. You are an individual with free agency and connected to something greater.⁠⠀
The music came first. When Konstantine and I would be jamming, he would play this twinkling piano melody and I'd play the chords over top of it and sing the melody before there were words. The music felt like it had this soaring quality to it. So I think it naturally made me think of things that were above the mundane. So I think the words and the melodies successfully match to create an overall feeling that makes sense. The verses almost sound like you're at church.⁠⠀
I thought it was a great way to end an album that was ultimately about love.

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: I STILL LOST -

A Song A Day For The Month Of May: I STILL LOST - To me this song really captures the sentiment of defeat. And when I wrote it, I wanted to make sure there was no silver lining. I wanted to make sure it felt exactly how I was feeling at the time, that I did everything in my power that I could possibly do, and yet, I still failed. Sometimes things just aren't meant to be. It was written directly after Making The Most which was on my May 4th post. Lyrically, it's one of my favorite songs I've ever written. We didn't play it that often live, but it would make the set occasionally. It seemed if we had enough time in our set, it was either Love Is Gone or I Still Lost. Those two songs were almost never both played unless it was a headlining set where we had more than an hour to fill. I Still Lost usually won that toss up. I used to love it when we would play it live and we would make the bridge portion really quiet and empty with just a clean guitar and a piano. It felt like a real intimate moment before we would kick back in with the last chorus. ⁠⠀
Did you ever get to hear us play this live?

Song a Day for the Month of May - NEXT DAY APOLOGI

Song a Day for the Month of May - NEXT DAY APOLOGIES: This song originally appeared on our independent Mend Your Misery album. It always was a bit of an odd one in the catalog of songs, feeling upbeat with major chords and a bit of punk influence. The meaning of the song isn't tough to figure out so I won't go into that here. What was always funny, is that when we would play this song in the very early days, people would call it "The Christmas song." So when we shot the video, we thought we would play up the idea by shooting the video around Christmas when people had their holiday lights on. ⁠⠀
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With this picture, I just imagine the photographer saying..."Okay guys! Thumbs in pockets!" That didn't actually happen. But it's a joke that can’t help but be made. 🤣

Song a Day for the Month of May - THE SADDEST DREA

Song a Day for the Month of May - THE SADDEST DREAM: I often say this is one of my favorite songs I've ever made. It's never been played live, and there is a good chance it never will. But never say "never," right? ⁠⠀
I get choked up every time...I did when I was recording it and nearly every time I rehearsed it. It is probably one of the oldest Dommin songs that exist. And I wrote it after my grandmother died of pancreatic cancer. It's that experience near the very end, when someone is in hospice care; they can hear what you say, but are in an almost dream-like state until their body finally gives up. I just thought about how my grandmother might be feeling, unable to communicate her love for her husband and kids and grandkids, living in limbo. The song took on new life when my father passed in much the same way. I figured when I made an album about love, which is essentially what the album "Beautiful Crutch" is, I had to include this song. The end still gives me chills, the idea of the soul's yearning to be free from the body.⁠⠀
Is it okay to have those feelings about your own song?⁠⠀

Song a Day for the Month of May - BEAUTIFUL AS A

Song a Day for the Month of May - BEAUTIFUL AS A STRANGER: What does this picture have to do with this song? This was taken in Melbourne, Australia, the birthplace of this tune. Two things happened that day in Melbourne. ⠀
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1st, as myself and the guys were sitting in this artist area in an open bar backstage, there was a beautiful girl that was catching everyone's eye. Then she started speaking, and the things she was saying made that beauty quickly disappear. So I thought it would be funny to make a song that had the theme about beauty being only skin deep and how it says nothing of character which often can enhance or in this case, take a way from physical beauty. In fact, in many instances, when you see evidence of good character it can make someone more attractive, I find, even physically. ⠀
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The 2nd thing that happened was I saw Queens Of The Stone Age take the stage. Now I don't remember what the song was, I just remember this driving rhythm on the floor tom of the drums. It was their opening song, and just the sound of those drums, how massive they sounded and how deep they sounded stuck with me. Nothing sounds cooler than live drums mic'd and amplified through a huge sound system. And so, over the course of a year, that song slowly came together from the seeds of that driving rhythm and the idea that sometimes the fantasy or the mystery is better than the reality. #melbourne #qotsa #queensofthestoneage

Song A Day for the Month of May - TONIGHT: A song

Song A Day for the Month of May - TONIGHT: A song full of double entendres, "Tonight" was our "light" song, a party-song, if you will, where all the deeper more meaningful elements were partially obscured by an uptempo-beat and catchy chorus accessible to the masses. It wasn't created with that in mind, but that's how it was viewed when it was about to be released. ⁠⠀
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The video was a whole other story. After having spent a fortune recording two videos for "My Heart, Your Hands", our whole story line video we wanted to create for the song was replaced with a simple performance video. We wanted to create a high school party atmosphere where drinks and drugs were being consumed and I, your humble frontman, was also one of those drugs. But in place of that idea, video director Paul Brown had this idea to play with light. This photo shows what the set looked like before all the flashy post-production. The amount of times we got ourselves tangled in this web of lights made for several hilarious moments. Check out the Instagram Stories for more info and photos.

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