I had a ton of fun for April Fool's this year.
I was driving on Wednesday and heard an acoustic emo song on the radio that sounded just like every other song (specifically the Dashboard Confessional stuff) and I started singing "This is my emo song..." to it. Well, that made me laugh and started my wheels turning and what came of it was Emic Coomer.
So, I changed my Eric Coomer MySpace to Emic Coomer and made it completely emo. If you don't know what emo is...well look it up on Wikipedia and check out Jonathon's blog.
I changed the picture from this:
I was driving on Wednesday and heard an acoustic emo song on the radio that sounded just like every other song (specifically the Dashboard Confessional stuff) and I started singing "This is my emo song..." to it. Well, that made me laugh and started my wheels turning and what came of it was Emic Coomer.
So, I changed my Eric Coomer MySpace to Emic Coomer and made it completely emo. If you don't know what emo is...well look it up on Wikipedia and check out Jonathon's blog.
I changed the picture from this:
to this:
I changed my influences from the broad spectrum of music I enjoy to a narrow list of emo bands and a few fun influences like Jeff Goldblum (for his glasses) and Michael W. Smith for his gorgeous almost-nasal-enough-to-be-emo voice.
I wrote and recorded 3 new songs in less than 24 hours and made one of them sound live--complete with pre-recorded applause, a cell phone (mine) going off, coffee and espresso machines, hecklers, and an uninterested audience. The lyrics and melodies incorporated every emo cliche I could muster.
I added a ridiculous bio which included leaving KNAPSACKHEROES!, being raised by an inner-city school teaching mother (pretty much true), not knowing my father but suspecting it might be Leonard Cohen (silly), running away from home at age 16 and getting a record contract at 18.
And the insane thing is that a ton of people bought it. Maybe they didn't read the bio...they certainly didn't realize the date.
Anyway, I had so many requests to keep the songs up that I added a new MySpace account at www.myspace.com/emiccoomer that is an exact mirror of how my page looked on Sunday.
So enjoy the crap. Oh and check out the top friends list as well.
I changed my influences from the broad spectrum of music I enjoy to a narrow list of emo bands and a few fun influences like Jeff Goldblum (for his glasses) and Michael W. Smith for his gorgeous almost-nasal-enough-to-be-emo voice.
I wrote and recorded 3 new songs in less than 24 hours and made one of them sound live--complete with pre-recorded applause, a cell phone (mine) going off, coffee and espresso machines, hecklers, and an uninterested audience. The lyrics and melodies incorporated every emo cliche I could muster.
I added a ridiculous bio which included leaving KNAPSACKHEROES!, being raised by an inner-city school teaching mother (pretty much true), not knowing my father but suspecting it might be Leonard Cohen (silly), running away from home at age 16 and getting a record contract at 18.
And the insane thing is that a ton of people bought it. Maybe they didn't read the bio...they certainly didn't realize the date.
Anyway, I had so many requests to keep the songs up that I added a new MySpace account at www.myspace.com/emiccoomer that is an exact mirror of how my page looked on Sunday.
So enjoy the crap. Oh and check out the top friends list as well.
