Author: wclarkhudson
Add It Up
If it still is a nonsolvable equation, multiply it by 1000 then throw the tantrum you wanted to have in the first place, move the decimal, and go take a nap.
We don’t want to hear or know about it, and no one cares but you if you solve for x, so shut down the computer, shut off the lights, and watch the cars pass by the street light in the window outside the hotel. We know you have a problem because of your erratic behaviour as of late. Should we talk about it?
Raymond Carver wrote a series of short stories called ” What We Talk About When We Talk about Love.” I started reading these in 7th grade and as usual, reread them until I couldn’t figure out what I was trying to learn from these stories. I was a kid, and I didn’t get the point. I am older and I don’t get the point. But I want to think about it.
If you’re not writing, you’re not thinking.
As important as that quote is, I don’t know who said it so succinctly, and although it’s out of context, I’m learning not to scoff at this because maybe everything is better out of context.
I haven’t been in love in nine years. Maybe 19 years if you count _____________ who I am not sure I ever loved. Processing the new information that I am seriously, inequitably madly in love with someone who I don’t even really care that they love me back is not my jam, and I don’t like it, but it’s the best I have felt in a decade of thinking I lost that part of my brain — I will never love anyone ever again, I’m totally broken, but I will live on despite the horror of this complete loss of ability.
And I don’t know who I am anymore because this has consumed my DNA — I wake up happy and hopeful, and I sit by the phone like a fucking lovesick puppy, and I don’t even care! I’m relentless and I can’t stop thinking about this person, and it doesn’t even matter if I get my heart broken as long as anything happens. I am tossing my heart and love and brains in to the air and I have no shame. I don’t think it matters to this person, but I want to be validated or shot down and blown up.
I want to feel something. Ten years of a superficial relationship results in almost as much despair when there isn’t anything there, even though you looked for it all your life. That’s what emptiness is anyway; that is how much you believed was there and was never anything but your expectation of fulfilment. When you try not to reflect, the brightness of nothingness is quite a shock. But it doesn’t hurt, and you don’t know why.
So I take note of this day right here. The days have been long and meaningless and agonizingly sad until I fell in love again, with no effort, no nothing actually, making it stupidly immature and certain to break my heart.
But when you get your heart back because of some girl or boy who stole it and is running around with it and you need it back, let it go. I am thinking that person needs it more than you do, no matter if you are loved reciprocally or not, there’s nothing better to know you have something to give.
Return to sender if broken. No hurry, but you have it, and I’d love to know what you’re going to do with it.
Lost
So I think to myself when I’m trying not to, and it happens more often than I would like to think to myself, but nonetheless I keep thinking.
I keep wondering where I went wrong. Not sympathetically, but hypothetically, what the hell happened.
Everything is different but it’s kind of the same that I thought it would be, but I never thought it would be anything and it’s not.
So where do we go from here? I mean, where are we going. Which way are we going to take next turn? Are we headed for a sunrise or a sunset? Does it matter to you, it doesn’t but maybe when you grow up, my words will mean something to you.
Maybe so; maybe not.
I wonder what would have happened if we were together. I try not to think about you, but your are always going to be right there, in my way and in every other thought, every other day.
Perhaps if I could turn days into triplets, then quartets, then maybe jazz—non-conformist chaos coming going far away, like the times and the lost days.
“Where are you anyway?
I can’t find you anywhere!” – “Lost” song by me.
I love my band
I’ve said it before, but I didn’t mean it. or I’ve said it before and I meant it in the moment and that I am neither ashamed nor ashamed.
Reasonable accommodations
We have to work to keep the lights on, gas in the car, rent/mortgage, food, pets, yeah and everything else.
Some of us have been underemployed or working scattershot jobs for inconsistent employers, those who are entitled to take your time when you have repeatedly suggested your own time, and gig jobs that make impossible demands, and on the brink of homelessness, we have to finally admit that as humiliating as it is, we need help because many of us have a debilitating psychological illness or disorder and our lives should not be under fire because we need a little help from those who aren’t quite as down on their luck. We aren’t asking for much: just enough to make it through the day and we seek an inkling of understanding and compassion that the majority of our American society cannot understand, thus we are treated as if we were liars; mere actors playing out a role while others whisper we are lazy or crazy.
This is a web of deception and lies and my disordered is punching me to my most vulnerable darkest days and I don’t know what to do. I’m trying to wait for final approval from Uber but if I don’t, I’m trying to figures out how to work for Amazon Flex for theory hours per day. I have been an ACT SAT tutor for a year and haven’t gotten a raise. I lost my WordPress freelance gig and paycheck four days before rent was due. I have to rent a better car to deliver which isn’t exactly profitable. I make a good amount of money playing music but haven’t had time to try to book shows due to trying to find more work. I am a security officer (uncertified, unarmed) a couple times per month for another gig job.
I was asked to help with two new client websites and both have not had the time or the opportunity to reply to me and you can’t tell a client that you are available, so let’s go! Clients generally don’t care and being the lowest priority for them is absolutely how the food chain works.
My point is that I have been worried about my rent (and am dying to give my 30 day notice).
Every day this month I have worked jobs at a low pay scale and I have nothing close to enough. After renting out my bedroom, I still don’t have enough. (Mainly because I got scammed stupidly.) I am building a digital download store but I can’t do it fast enough and ascap wants my song information but yeah, I can’t get it done fast enough, need to book gigs, need to take care of everything, and I have digital art and drawings but I
I can’t get it all done fast enough.
Now I have to figure out how to get shot down faster. CANNOT GET IT DONE FASTER.
GUITAR AI ART
Drawings to AI ART i
AI ART ATTACK part ii
AI Band Art
Part one of a lot. In my quest to make rent, I’m selling these babies for $5 apiece. Please let me know if you want to get mini drawings drawn (is that correct?) and converted to AI images. A Gazillion different themes. Tell me what you want, I’ll generate it! Enjoy!
Lyrics to Luck and Trouble (2010) by Wendy Clark
blue
i keep on falling for you, as you creep beside the moonlight
if i could not speak, would you tell me what to say?
you shine the bluest eyes and the dusk retreats to twilight
i don’t mind my misconstructions smiling as you let them ricochet
i’m in love with this afternoon
how good it is – right here with you
then time stands still in this empty room
but how good it feels – to be with you
i readjust my gaze as you realign my eyesight
i woke up running too soon under the milky way
i’m joyous every evening as you pull back the daylight
i scramble to the calendar and plead again for saturday
i don’t take for granted that you have mistaken me for stranded
as you take my cigarette and hallucinate my greed
i beg you to not imply why this is where we’ve landed
as we’ve long stopped complicating who should take or who should receive
i’m in love with this afternoon
how good it is – right here with you
then time stands still in this empty room
but how good it feels – to be with you
actual size
it’s got a big red face that comes up clear
a two-tone ride that runs on fear
a bolt-on shimmy that hums in space
and a brand new suit that’s going to waste
a brand new suit that’s going to waste
it’s got throw-back padding that’s stapled down
a pinched-up liner that’s wrapped for sound
a cold blank stare whenever i talk
and thirteen names for the way i walk
thirteen names for the way i walk
and i want you to sew it shut
before it wakes me up
you won’t recognize
the fifteen seconds i close my eyes
and i’m drunk now that you won’t be actual size
it comes when everyone goes to sleep
the little red monster you let me keep
it starts real small, unfolds its legs
then i feel heat on the back of my head
feel heat on the back of my head
i want you right here
when it burns up the atmosphere
wrap me steeling tight
unhook your jaws and cover my eyes
and i’m drunk now that you won’t be actual size
now that you won’t be
now that you won’t be
now that you won’t be
so surprised
luck and trouble
i thought a shot another man in texas
i thought about the ones in tennessee
what’s the use in doing so much thinking?
when all i do is think of you and me
forecast on the frontier of your future
damn, these cigarettes are tastin’ sweet
what’s the point in doing so much coca-iane?
when all you do is run away from me
but – you were on my mind
cutie-pie – all of the time
but i never thought you’d leave me
in the space you left behind
once upon a time or two in tulsa
the satellite sank into the sea
what’s the use of having all this luck
when trouble stays up late waiting for me
but – you were on my mind
cutie-pie – all of the time
but i never thought you’d leave me
in the space you left behind
and so this anecdote is almost over
the lesson learned is a likely theme
what’s the upshot luck just to fall back down
then to get back up just to fall back down
when the story ends right here for you and me
but – you were on my mind
cutie-pie – all of the time
but i never thought you’d leave me
in the space you left behind
consequence
did you forget my name?
i notice everything hasn’t changed
did you forget my words
or were they tangled in my obscurity?
i cleared away the residue
anything and everything that happened to do with you
but honey i still stumble and shake
every time that i see you
if you could read my mind
you’d see my love is totally blind
if you could know what i mean
if you looked at me like there was no body else to see
i cleared away the residue
anything and everything i’m prone to misconstrue
but honey i still stumble and shake
every time that i see you
if i could be the one you wanted
then i could be the one you wanted
all of the time
baby, don’t look now
because we still haven’t figured it out
honey, nothing never, ever gets past you
and i am beginning to wonder now if i even want it to
i pulled myself together again
fell back as the story goes, the consequences never end
but honey i still crumble and quake
every time that i see you
if i could be the one you wanted
i could be the one you wanted
all of the time
if i could be the one you wanted
i could be the one you wanted
all of the time
distance
take everything you’ve learned so far and throw it all away
i would have told you long ago but you’re nine time zones astray
your lack of concern concerns me, but i think i’m doing fine
ambition doth escape me and i’m dying to make it mine
traffic here on sunday is much worse than you’d expect
waiting at a stoplight lets you sit there and reflect
keep your eye on the canvas; tell me what do you see?
take what you can get – you know that never bothered me
what more can i say to you to make a difference?
each step closer to you, i can feel the distance
stretched out on the grass i count the ways you wrecked my life
cut my dreams right down the seams with that jaded, rusty knife
waited in your driveway, in that old abandoned car
started home at sunset but i didn’t get too far
what more can i say to you to make a difference?
each step closer to you, i can feel the distance
home
up beyond these big lights in the miniature town
up over the hills – and the nights which allow
you were the only one and you were the only one
and i stood in the yard – smiled at the sun
way beyond these empty bottles in this place we call home
up over hills we still may roam
you were the only, the only, the only
i tell you i’m lonely, – lonely, i’m lonely
but i want to go home
i want to go home
because i don’t have anywhere left to go
up beyond these big lights in this mediocre town
up over the hills and the nights which allow
you were the only one when you weren’t the only one
stood in the yard – tied down the sun
way beyond these empty bottles in this place we call home
up over the hills we still may roam
you were the only, the only, the only
i tell you i’m lonely, lonely, i’m lonely
but i want to go home
i want to go home
because i don’t have anywhere left to go
i want to go home
i want to go home
because i don’t have anywhere left to go
up beyond these big lights in this mediocre town
up over the hills and the nights which allow
you were the only one when you weren’t the only one
i stood in the yard – tied down the sun
way beyond these empty bottles in this place we call home
up over the hills we still may roam
you were the only, the only, the only
i tell you i’m lonely, lonely, i’m lonely
but i want to go home
i want to go home
because i don’t have anywhere left to go
i want to go home
i want to go home
because i don’t have anywhere left to go
la carta
there was a time in the back of my mind
when i threw in the virtual towel, you said
with a scowl and my meds, it was all in my head
and i had every reason to smile once again
so i wrote down the words
’cause i needed to rehearse
and i left you a note on your microphone
often these lines in the back of my mind
rotate themselves into a blockade, you know
as you come and you go, it’s so easy to show
that it’s just that easy to care once again
so i walked down the stairs
’cause i needed repairs
and i left you a note on your microphone
i don’t care if you write me a letter
i don’t care if you play me a brand new song
what’s the point in dancing all night
if you don’t got no rhythm?
often the time as it creeps down my spine
as it seeps through the ceilings and it knocks down all the doors
as you come and you go, it’s so easy to show
that it’s simply that easy to care once again
so i made a list of the pros and cons
and i waited so anxiously for your response
i don’t care if you write me a letter
i don’t care if you play me a brand new song
what’s use in blaming yourself
when i haven’t done anything wrong?
i don’t care if you write me a letter
i don’t care if you play me a brand new song
what’s the use in writing the verse
when the words are all written wrong?
i don’t care if you write me a letter
i don’t care if you play me a brand new song
how many times have you believed yourself
when you know that everything’s wrong?
wrong
you’ve been acting kind of strange like you really just don’t care
you said you’d meet me at the pub then you never showed up there
i tried to call your house – a strange voice always answers the phone
whenever i go out on a date i find i’m all alone
well i don’t really know why i’ve been waiting for so long
all i wanna know is what did i do wrong
i got home the other night, found all my cds smashed it bits
i figured it was just another one of your epileptic fits
went into my closet, found that half my clothes were burned
matches on your bed stand baby, by now i should have learned
well i don’t really know why i’ve been waiting for so long
all i wanna know is what did i do wrong
what can i say to you to make you understand
what can i ask of you to make a reprimand
so you tell me i’m no good, and you don’t care anymore
so now i’m trying to figure out what the hell i’m with you forgiveness
well i don’t really know why i’ve been waiting for so long
all i wanna know is what did i do wrong
all i wanna know is what did i do wrong
all i wanna know is what did i do wrong
Lyrics to “Alien-American” by Tequila Mockingbird (2004)
From the Tequila Mockingbird sophomore release, hear/here are the words. Lifted from my band’s website.
Again (3:38) so what do you think it means the weather’s changed and how is your head well it’s prearranged and what are your thoughts on the politics around here well shit the optimism just fades too fast and i’m the first in line still you toss me back and i think it’s getting way too crowded in your head for me but what do think it takes to say goodbye when all i really gotta do is open up my eyes i’m falling again so what do you think it means that nothings changed and all the furniture has been rearranged and what are your thoughts on the spatiality damn this pessimism just stays around and if i am up then you kick me down and i think it’s getting too crowded in your room for me but what do think it takes to say goodbye when all i really gotta do is open up my eyes i’m falling again so when’d it go to hell and everything change because nothing here’s ever felt so strange and what are your thoughts on the bygones forsaken around here damn this optimism just was almost gone but still you come around and baby it’s never for long and it’s getting way too empty in your world for me but what do think it takes to say goodbye when all i really gotta do is open up my eyes i’m falling again
Cashed (2:45) it’s exactly like i imagined you never tell me what i want to hear it’s exactly like i thought it would be trapped inside my mind with all these things i fear beyond the mountains and the techno without the everybody ever known at last you realized but far too late someone took your brain and turned your heart to stone ‘cause i can’t get in to anything i can’t see out of this end i’m in and i end up where i’m supposed to begin the line i walk is far too thin i want to be your anti-hero never do you right but always true i want to be your less than zero i want to know what you think about you and me and me and you ‘cause i can’t get into anything i can’t see out of this end i’m in and i end up where i’m supposed to begin the line i walk is far too thin
UFO Intro (:23)
UFO (4:24) you always seemed light years away but i didn’t think that you would really leave that day this solar system has its ups and its downs and life on venus ain’t as cool as it sounds i can see clearly most of the time but honestly i swear i never saw the signs didn’t believe me when i said things could be worse than to be stuck here in this universe you said goodbye and then you headed for the hills you sold my car and stranded me with all the bills you left me for a ufo why’d you have to go i sit alone and stare at your moon rocks and cry can’t bear to watch star trek ‘cause it makes me wonder why i’m gonna build a rocket i’m gonna hope that it will fly maybe someday i’ll see you again in the stars above the sky gonna save my money and buy a radio tracking station gonna try my luck at newton’s law of gravitation you left me for a ufo why’d you have to go you said goodbye and then you headed for the hills you stole my car and stranded me your all the bills you left me for a ufo why’d you have to go you said goodbye and then you headed for the hills you stole my car and stranded me with all your bills you left me for a ufo why’d you have to go
The Honeymoon (3:29) the honeymoon’s not the same without you but i’m remaining optimistic my love just ain’t the same without you but i probably won’t be coming home it’s true but it’s alright yeah it’s alright never could write a love song about you without it sounding too sarcastic used to think the world about you but my universe is so elastic but it’s alright yeah it’s alright the sun-bleached sand where we used to stay i want to move so far away we would dwell here most each and every day i want to move so far away those vacations we would take without you i once believed were so fantastic thought i touched the heart inside you found that it was made of plastic but it’s alright yeah it’s alright the sun-bleached sand where we used to stay i want to move so far away we would dwell here almost each and every day i want to move so far away it’s not a pretty picture but i needed to get a shot i tried to write our story without a broken plot the honeymoon’s not the same without you but i’m remaining optimistic my love just ain’t the same without you but i probably won’t be coming home it’s true but it’s alright yeah it’s alright the sun-bleached sand where we used to stay i want to move so far away we would dwell here most each and every day i want to move so far away so far away so far away so far away
Sometimes I Think (3:00) well i took the clock i took the lamp i took the fertilizer i locked the doors i poured the gas i lit the match i took the oath i bowed my head i breathed the fumes but you took my car you headed west and you were gone well freedom rang through my ears and choked back acidic tears i tossed away the hopes and the money and the years i was reborn i went to church i sought a rock where i could perch i was gonna get it if it didn’t beat me to it first i spiked the punch i punched my glass i blew a 3.0 i locked the doors i hit the gas i ran that light i slept in jail i called for bail then i got out but you took my car you headed south and you were gone so now i’m growing up and getting older and sometimes they say i’ve gotten colder around here i’m an anti-contender and i live near the park in a four-plex in uptown denver well sometimes i bleed from too much drinkin’ and sometimes i have just too much fun and sometimes i think about you baby if sometimes into you i’ll ever run…
Catching On (the stupid song) (5:36) well i’m finally catching on yeah i’m beginning to apprehend and i’m seeing it all so crystal clear that this surely ain’t no means to no end and i’m pulling out all the stops and i’m shaking here in the absolved and i’m dismayed at the failure i am it seems my car ain’t the only thing that’s stalled you’re so stupid how you could have been so dumb i was wondering that myself you’re so stupid how you could have been so wrong i was wondering that i was wondering that myself well i’m figuring the “what went bad” and i’m reckoning the reasons why because i’m sure that it can’t be me as i know i stand much bigger than my size sometimes i notice i’m way off the target occasionally i see i’m stuck in the trough whatever the matter i’m keen to the coolness so all you had to do was tell me to back off you’re so stupid how you could have been so wrong i was wondering that myself you’re so stupid how you could have been so dumb i was wondering that i was wondering that myself well i’m finally catching on yeah i’m beginning to apprehend and i’m seeing it all so crystal clear that this surely ain’t no means to no end you’re so stupid how you could have been so dumb i was wondering that myself i’m so stupid how’ve i could have been so wrong i was wondering that i was wondering that myself
Shades of Grey (4:48) i thought you were right there in the crowd so i pondered these things to you aloud i thought you were right there in my sight i was sure i knew my day for night i thought i hold you in my hands so i ran and vanished in your lands i thought you were right there in my wake but once again that’s my mistake been breaking down myself over you when i noticed you had better things to do you stole all my friends away i didn’t need ‘em anyway i’m really not myself today the blue and black fade into grey i thought i was almost finally there till you came and caught me unaware i thought i was on the chosen path now looking back that’s such a laugh i’m a little more stupid than i look i couldn’t give you more than you’ve already took you stole all my friends away i didn’t need ‘em anyway i’m really not myself today the blue and black fade into grey and maybe you’ll be all alone when i’ve broken everything i own tangled in the elements i’ve torn but you’ve seen me far worse off before been breaking down myself over you when i noticed you had better things to do you stole all my friends away i didn’t need ‘em anyway i’m really not myself today the blue and black fade into grey
Couldn’t Anything (3:37) i couldn’t think of anything to do so i gathered my pens and wrote a letter to you it said baby don’t free your thoughts of me just yet i ran down the block and crashed into your sister i asked for your number she said it wasn’t listed she said maybe you should spend some time thinking ‘bout what you’ve done well i don’t want to think about the things i don’t remember and i don’t want to consider where i could have been if i hadn’t ever i couldn’t think of a way to respond so i went to your house by the church near the pond and tapped on your door and sang my song so resolutely baby i could see in the window you were watching the game and suddenly i started to feel pretty lame mama always told me to turn back when your reaction is insane but i won’t go on and on about the things i don’t remember it’s never crucial anyway to these predicaments i render i couldn’t think of a damn thing to write so i went to the kitchen and poured a whiskey and sprite poured gasoline on the candles you gave me and watched them burn i called up your house and got the machine i looked at your letter at the spaces between what it said and what the hell did it mean now i don’t know what i did to upset you i can’t even recall when i ever met you and everyone has told me think hard about my conduct being true so i wracked my thoughts for an hour or two and i realized what i said to you that night i blew from town i said “i’m probably not coming back for you” but i won’t go on and on about the things i don’t remember i know i’m only limited to what i want to see
Good About You
I’m cautiously slinging our new songs and hoping you keep an open mind and use a decent sound system. I will probably skip the whole promotion, one sheet, press release with each because it’s too much when you’re already cautious.
Meantime I am refinishing another song, I was already plotting a short film for it. And thinking, sometimes you’re adding music to video, and other times you are adding video to music. Or maybe you’re doing both.
“Good About You” isn’t a reflection of anyone and should be interpreted cautiously; is the perception only in your mind? I am sure there’s something good about many people.
I used to write music that I thought would mean something and now I know that you can find meaning in anything. It doesn’t mean anything, though.
Let down your hair and overthink stuff with me. #music #video #wendyclarkband #denverbands #nowplaying
Download here and thank you for your support!
https://tequilamockingbird.bandcamp.com/track/good-about-you
Latest Videos 2023
Getting Away With It (Electronic Cover song) by the Wendy Clark Band
Getting Away With It (Electronic Cover) live by the Wendy Clark Band at the Englewood Tavern. Video by The Englewood Tavern. The Wendy Clark Band is: Andy Sweetser on drums. And killer fills. Chris Coward on bass and vocals (both scripted and not). Wendy Clark on the guitar and vocals. Please visit http://wendyclarkmusic.com Filmed by the Englewood Tavern. Edited by Wendy Clark.
5450 studios in Broomfield, Colorado. Gluten free, no MSG, and no animals were anywhere near us during this production. Video starring Wendy Clark and Michael Mayhem with Mazey, Andy, and Chris. All rights and lefts reserved. Copyright 2022. Lyrics and download: https://tequilamockingbird.bandcamp.com/ Thanks for listening! http://WendyClarkMusic.com
New Blues
By Wendy Clark
Performed by Wendy Clark (vocals and guitar) and Chris Coward (bass) of the Wendy Clark Band and ¡DOS LOCOS!. Engineered and produced by Jim Roberts. All rights reserved. https://tequilamockingbird.bandcamp.com/track/new-blues
60 Songs by Wendy Clark. Recorded by Jim Roberts at 5450 Studios in Broomfield. Released 6/29/2021.
Recorded live:
Wendy Clark on vocals and guitar.
Chris Coward on bass guitar.
60 Songs (Wendy Clark Band original) live at the Denver Beer Co
Download: https://tequilamockingbird.bandcamp.com/track/60-songs-acoustic-live-studio-2021