(If you didn’t catch the allusion in the title, I’m parodying “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”) I’m not sure why I’m on such a Liam Aiken kick lately, but I have plenty of fun stories so don’t complain. One of my favorite memories from the stalking years (grades 6th-9th) has to do with his band, however.
They called themselves “Saint Levi”, and they were atrocious. That’s a bit harsh; the music was alright I guess, but the singer? It makes me shudder to even replay the sound in my head. (Fun fact: their singer left the band soon before they all broke up, so Liam took over the singing for the last two songs they posted. He was worse than the first guy) They had hundreds of MySpace friends however, something I attributed solely to the fact that Liam Aiken was a member.
I was constantly sending them messages, and twice, I got a reply.
MESSAGE 1: (Since I deleted my MySpace, I don’t have my original note, but it was something about accusing them of being serial rapists and not actually the real band. This was an attempt to get a reply. And it totally worked)
REPLY:
ha, i think you should be able to tell we arent serial rapists by the music, how many serial rapists are good at music? and that would be a little elaboarate dont you think, i mean come on, who would go that far out of their way and make songs and write stuff, and get fake images of people, ha, so the answer is, yes we are saint levi
i hope i converted you to out side, ha
saint levi
MESSAGE 2: (I know, I know, I’m crazy. I laughed so hard when I re-read this. I WAS SO DESPERATE!)
“Alright, so apparently you deleted my last try at contacting you, so I’m trying again-and decidedly being more G rated. Anyhow, I would really like some feedback on my songs, and since at least one of you writes lyrics (and the others give constructive critisism), I was wondering if you could go to mywebsite(yes, I have a website. I’m nerd. Deal with it) and at the top of the page you’ll see a link that says “songs”. click on that and it’ll take you to a list of my songs, so click on them to see the entire thing. If you could just, at the end, comment on them directly on the site or email me back(make sure you sign the comment), I would be really grateful. Thanks.
A fan,
Bri”
REPLY 2: (I love the first sentence)
Hey Bri, we’ve gotten quite a few e-mails from you and
we’re not quite yet super rock stars, so I suppose we
should respond. First off, we can’t personally judge
lyrics without music, and without some idea of the
notes they wil be sung in and the arrangement. Good
lyrics should make an audience connection or be
catchy. In our first recording (pathetic) we had no
idea of the lyrics to use and how to sing them. it
was right off the spot! Thats why our new songs are
different. Its hard to write songs without lyrics or
without music. So its probably best to do both at the
same time. Stay tuned!
– Saint levi
I’ve left all of the spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. I’ve gotten significantly less crazy, I like to think.
