The First One/the Cracker

I once wrote a song called "First One". I named it that because it was the first song I ever wrote. Although this fact remained, I still feel it is some of the best work I have ever done. Perhaps because I was so new to the "process." The song is about a boy and a girl--simple enough. The girl is the complete opposite of the boy in most respects and feels like a relationship might damage her "purity". It is a somewhat biographical tale of a boy learning how to survive in a different role.

The First One. The fall semester at MTSU starts Monday and I am somewhat anxious to get things underway. LSAT Studies have dominated the last two weeks of my life and I need a little variety. With school of course comes work and friends. I love going to school in the summer---you don't learn anything.

For those of you that don't know my family, and me I call my daughter, "the Cracker". I am really not sure how this developed. A Keller Williams song may have inspired it, but I really believe it came from the vernacular of the house where we used to live. Brookes, Aakyah, and I lived with a good friend of ours, Cindy, a hairdresser with a knack for clutter, chaos, and good music. Anyway, she used to call everyone "Cracker-Ass-Crackers" and the name seemed to fit Aakyah (my three-year-old)...

...The Cracker has got a new favorite song. She has gotten into the new TV commercial featuring Parliament's "Tear the Roof off the Sucker (Give up the Funk)." Brookes and I made a film of getting down George Clinton-style earlier and I hope to have it posted to YouTube before the end of the weekend.

"We gonna tear this mother out!!"