Handmade Soap?

Well, we have to do something before the next CD is ready!  And here it is… our own handmade soap!  I’m always looking for new things to make.  I came across soap making and thought I’d give it a try.  Come to find out, I got a really original recipe that people just love!  So we worked a little bit on a website and some other marketing material and voila!  Dream Cream Handmade Soap!  It’s a really creamy lather that just feels wonderful.  And that creaminess is what makes it different from other soaps.  Please visit www.dreamcreamsoap.com to get your bar of soap, and help us survive till the next CD comes out!  Thank you so much!

Dream Cream Handmade Soap

Song: Willie Mangle Blue Cheese

Here’s a song you won’t find anywhere unless you email us…

We’ll be putting it up on our myspace page this week too. So please check it out!

It definitely has that ethereal groove to it.

Here are the lyrics…

Willie Mangle Blue Cheese had green hair
Wore it in the night time by the phosphorous  shore

He looked up at the stars above
He looked down at the sand below
He looked in to his hand
This is all I need to know

This is all I need
This is all I need to know

Ghost Parade

Lyrics…

Somehow you find

Working inside

You walk in time

And you talk in psychedelic rhyme

That’s it!  The rest is all groove!

New Website!

Hey, we just finished our new website.  Take a look!  maheekatmusic.com

Song “Mr. Radio Man”

The tenth and final song on “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “Mr. Radio Man”.  It was written when I was about 19 years old.  Have you ever noticed that if you listen to a classic rock station for more than an hour your chances of not hearing Steve Miller are pretty nil.  He’s everywhere on the radio!  He’s Mr. Radio Man!

Here’s the scene that goes with the first part of the song… Imagine a 1970’s suburban house with the garage door open.  Complete with oil stains on the cement floor and old camping gear hanging from the ceiling.  A middle aged man (probably a Vietnam vet) tinkers about the garage fixing something.  And a transistor radio sits on his work bench.  The volume is low and it sounds like an AM station is playing “Fly Like an Eagle”.

The second part of the song is me waking up from this daydream.

Note: If you read each line from the right to the left it makes more sense.

Garage the in music his plays he
There happens everything ’cause
Garage the in
Mr. Radio Man

Flowers pick to likes he
Clowns you all at laughs he
At stare don’t
Mr. Radio Man

Child a like dances he
Things simple in believing
Man simple a
Mr. Radio Man

She pressed stop listening to the birds outside
Then realized she was focusing on the cars going by

She thinks and all she wants is not to

Song “Just Passing Through”

The ninth song on “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “Just Passing Through”.  Casey has a wonderful ability to create the soundscape effect.  When I hear this song it makes me wish I was driving and old van out on the open California desert highway, with the windows rolled down and it being over 100 degrees.  To some it may seem like misery, but to me there’s freedom in that.

All he wanted to be
Climbing up a tree to see when
All he had to do was fall
In Love

They will go gray
Asking what they said today but
You and me will be
In Love

Freedom mother me
Freedom smother me

And if all is lost on my search for truth
Then so be it ’cause I’ll be
In Love

Because I want nothing else but God itself
All of this and living
In Love

Freedom’s no luxury
Freedom’s necessity
Can’t you see?

Song “Stone”

The eighth song on “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “Stone”.  Casey wrote the music and the lyrics which go like this…

Stone has no name
Remaining doesn’t stay the same
Stone won’t complain
You can’t move them and remain the same

If you like I’ll drive a spike
The kind that you used to like
If you like the day is night
The taste is bitter like delight

Stone can start the day
Never moving what a price to pay
Stone is not alone
Every wise dog is looking for a throne

Don’t tell me about no guru
Don’t talk about no God at all
Don’t give me no solutions
Don’t tell me about a way to be
Just change the subject talk about me

Song “La Noche”

The seventh song on “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “La Noche”.  One of our only songs that uses a drum machine…. a nice simple groove with an open guitar sound.  Here are the lyrics…

I see my ma crying
I see a child laughing
I see the sky in all it’s glory

I see you and me lost in a world of reality
Lost in a world of reality
Lost in a world of reality

En la noche esta una lamara

I was going to scrap this poem after I wrote it because of the way it starts… “I see”.  So many poems start with “I see”, and all kinds of different variations of “I see”.  But the words fit the music so I kept it.  I also realized that “reality” seems to have so much more love in it than what I’d previously thought.   I was always trying to escape it rather than go into it and accept it.  It’s like going into the night at first but there’s always a lamp to light the way, and it seems as though it gets brighter the deeper we go.

Song “Velosity”

The sixth song on “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “Velosity”.  Yup it’s spelled wrong on purpose.  Don’t know why we did that but we did.  Here are the lyrics…

Pray for velocity, pray for velocity
I don’t want anything from you, I’m digging up my own
Wish you could be here now, digging up your own
No one can see you now, rate you on how deep you go
I don’t want anything from you, I’m digging up my own
And I pray for velocity, pray for velocity

In this song, Casey again wrote the beautiful soundscape groove.  He also plays the hypnotic lead in the middle of the song and at the end.  I wrote the simple, concise lyrics.  It’s about “digging in the dirt” as Peter Gabriel would say.  The dirt being a traumatizing past.  Also the lyrics reflect the old saying “If you’re busy minding my business, you ain’t minding your own”.  When I was digging up my own dirt and working through my own stuff, I learned to mind my own business and not to judge others (a lesson that goes on and on).  It’s also how I wish more people would dig up their own dirt and start minding their own business.

Song “Your Face is Your Butt”

This is the fifth song on the CD “God Has A Cadillac Too”.  I guess the title says it all for this one!  Well not really… it’s more about how people can’t sit still with themselves.  It’s harder than you think… to just sit down in a room for 20 minutes and just do nothing…. no meditating, no focusing on anything, just sitting.  The mind tends to wander and wander, thinking and thinking, daydreaming and daydreaming.  It’s extremely simple but harder than you think to sit and let yourself be.  Just be.

Here are the lyrics

With the lights down low
Sarah Vaughan on the radio
Little did you know
In the stillness your face will be revealed

With the lights down low
Dark Side on the radio
Little did you know
In the stillness your face will be revealed

With the lights down low
Santana on the radio
Little did you know
In the stillness your face will be revealed

With the lights down low
Bob Marley on the radio
Little did you know
In the stillness your face will be revealed

There’s a lot of crap to wade through before the peace comes.