Monday, January 27, 2014

Gunshot

I saw a Youtube video where this kid, this young kid who is obviously in way over his head, he is holding a convenience store clerk hostage. He has a gun up against the back of this ladies neck, she just worked there, you know? And this young guy, really just a dumb kid who thought it would be a good idea to get some money by robbing a store with an old lady behind the counter, he is pushing her out the door of the shop, and she is resisting him, not letting this little dude push her outside. You've really got to hand it to anyone who has the guts to push back against someone who literally has a gun on your spine. 

You know that spot right on the back of your neck where you get chills when your lover kisses you? That's the spot, but in this case nobody was kissing anybody. 

So this guy won't take no for an answer, but this old lady has seen some things and she knows the SWAT team is outside and she knows that those guys have psoriasis or whatever it is that makes your fingers itchy, and they love to scratch that itch, you know what I'm saying? So this Dude, this Kid, this Young Man or whatever you want to call him, he keeps pushing the old cashier lady around with his gun to the sweet spot on the back of her neck and finally they get outside and whatdoyaknow BANG!!! The SWAT team shoots him the second he walks outside. Just like that. Should have listened to the old lady I guess. 

Anyway, I sampled the sound of the gunshot that iced that Young Buck and I fiddled some knobs and pressed some keys and wrote a song that uses mostly the waveforms from that bullet. I don't know if Young Buck even heard it, but I sure did.

"Gunshot" by Kelly Taylor