Oh yeah baby, here’s a fun one. David Hyman called me up a few days ago and asked if I wanted to do a birthday song and video for Liz’s (his lovely wife) birthday. That was a no-brainer, especially after all of the good material that Dave gave me (thanks also to Dana Smith, my lovely wife, for pitching in some useful tidbits). Here’s what I had to work with:

• she loves pizza
• she loves howard stern
• she’s madly in love with artie on the howard stern show.
• if you said baba booey (like they do on howard) to her that is the funniest thing in the world
• liz loves to sleep, sleeping is one of her greatest joys.
• she can watch magnolia (the movie) thousands of times
• she, as a child, lived on roller skates.
• she was also, briefly, in a gang.
• she loves broadway musicals
• she hates cleaning up after her husband
• you could tease her about being a club chick now as she loves going to the club.
• she can break out in old crazy irish songs as if she was an irish gal.
• she was approached on the street to do a kleenex commercial, and was able to cry in 10 seconds. it aired nationally.
• she’s the best jew in berkeley, and she’s not even a jew.

Here’s the song and video, enjoy:

MP3 to download:

When my boy had his third birthday, I thought I’d forgo hiring an entertainer and just do it myself. I procrastinated and procrastinated until there were just 10 days left. I finally sat down and realized that it wasn’t too hard to write songs for a three year old boy. First off, I wrote a song about my musical persona, Crash Lightning, with just two lines of lyrics. Piece of cake. Then I wrote a song about my kid and how he likes to poop. No brainer. The I wrote a Halloween themed song. Not too hard. Finally, I ripped off Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” and made my own version, “Master of Mischief.”

Okay, now I’ve got my daughter’s seventh birthday in just five days and I told her I would write some songs. Dude, seven-year-old girls are way more complicated than three-year-old boys! There’s the “High School Musical” obsession, the clothes obsession, the art obsession, the new earring obsession, and the draaaama. Gotta step up my game. My problem is I only have time to write one song, but I’m having trouble narrowing down the subject matter. Can anyone give me some advice? There’s something in it for you if you help.