Q: Could you give a list of the songs that you primarily wrote using your murder your demon technique?
A: hard to define which ones exactly use it .... the idea of starting with junk was an idea i started toying as early as feb 2009 .... 15 minutes (nov 2009) probably uses it. but "rabbit snakes" is really the first time i really used it. (12.25.09) i was just so frustrated with not being able to decide what to do in a song, that i was like, ok .... what's the worst thing that could happen if i just say 'rabbit snakes' like this, right at the top? and then the song bloomed into all kinds of interesting things, including obscure dead-beatle conspiracy references. "dance the" was written probably on the same day, and absolutely starts with garbage, just the same way. "eat bread" also was written at that time, as well as "trees / everything" (this one uses major garbage in the second verse.) "i'm a diamond" (apr 2010) is a very clear example. starting in august 2010, i started writing a LOT more, and used that a lot. that's when i came up with the name for the concept ('murder your demon') and you get songs like 2010, the summertime, pretty much everything from aug 2010 (also recorded at that time). "i like." "modern woes". There are many many many more songs written from 09, 10, .. only a small percentage of them got recorded (it takes much longer to record a song than to write it, and i wrote way too much). in the second half of 2010 i probably wrote more than any other time.... ('dream of evil' came from that time, not sure if that exactly uses 'demon' technique because i don't think any of those parts were specifically deliberately throw-away.) in 2011 i made a big effort to try to write in a more 'normal' way, so there are not any examples from 2011. (well, maybe from early 2011 you have 'skip to my loo'). near the end of 2011 you have 'write a tune that really sucks' that was just a one-off. (also that is an example where instead of going into something non-garbage, it just ends instead. that's an alternate strategy). 2012/13 was all gathering and updating all the existing songs, so not too many new ones got started. but there was one random library session in june 2013 where i wrote several, just like the old days. "tuesday" is the main example (and actually kind of a tutorial on how the technique works)