We are back for season 4 with a brand new theme song, a brand new challenge format, and 2 brand new demos from the Jam Mechanic Boys.

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

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-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

----Bug's Song-----

Title: I Hope You Like It

Prompt Page: Modern Girl -> Beckton Gasworks -> 1984

Lyrics:

You must be pretty bored by now watching me

just watching tv eating sushi off the cushions of my couch

so I learned a couple poems and I recite them in the dark

and if you like them I can learn a couple more this time tomorrow

cause I'm feelin' pretty guilty for my 1 surveillance agent

who's assigned to watch me through the 1-way glass

as much as I don't want this you have clearly drawn the short straw

and no one deserves a punishment like that

So I hope you like it, like what I'm doin

the little puppet shows I put on just for you and only you

I hope you like it, like what I'm doin

just for you

I can't keep novels in the house but I can do dramatic readings

of the pamphlets that they slip under the door

I do a pretty good impression of the freedom secretary

but my minister of peace still needs some work

If you like it, let me know, flip the lights but if you don't

I can probably teach myself a dance or two

We can workshop things together, I wanna practice and get better

the man inside the mirror, this one's for you

So I hope you like it, like what I'm doin

the little puppet shows I put on just for you and only you

I hope you like it, like what I'm doin

just for you

And when the revolution comes and they rip you from my walls

I hope you never saw it coming when your jurisdiction falls

I hope the little song and dance that I distracted you with is

the final tune stuck in your head when the realization hits

So I hope you like it, like what I'm doin

the little puppet shows I put on just for you and only you

I hope you like it, like what I'm doin

just for you

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: The Thatcher Effect

Prompt Page: Modern Girl -> Picture Disc -> Optical Illusions

Lyrics:

Do you know that you talk in your sleep when I'm driving

Mumbling moaning mostly incoherent but

sometimes a phrase just slips out before you bite it off

I can't quite explain how it feels to be hearing you

Telling the truth after so many years

I could write you a letter or better put it in a song

You swear you're arriving

It looks like you're walking away

You blur my surroundings when I focus in on your face

Your features all scramble and change

The shadows are pulled centre-stage

Til I can't even see what I thought I saw yesterday

Do you know that you kinda look weird when you're smiling

It's all in your teeth, doesn't quite reach your eyes and

I bet with a little more practise you could have it down

The insides are all coming tumbling out

And the upsides are dwarfed by my towering doubts

And I can't take my eyes off this horrible mess we have found

It's not what it looks like

You say, that my senses are flawed

Look at this way, you'll see that it's nothing at all

I've come at it from every angle

What a brilliant trick you have pulled

I can't even see what I thought I saw yesterday

andweareback.

We are kicking off SZN 4 with a DIFFERENT type of episode. Where Bug and Matt usually get challenged to write a song and go away for 3 hours to write a demo, this episode is a behind-the-scenes look at writing the Season 4 Theme song in semi-realtime!

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode (except this one)

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Season 3 is DONE. We look back on our third season and talk about how out of touch with reality our audience truly is. We also learn how close we are with DeepBlueInk AND give each other a fun challenge to close out the season.

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.If you'd like downloadable files for this episode (and the demos we showed off), ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!Our Music:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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The Jam Mechanics finish up season 3 with two more songs that'll be taking up space in your head. We reveal one final twist about DeepBlueInk's wedding that NO ONE saw coming.

Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

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-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE --

Prompt: "Taking Up Space"

--Bug's Song--

Title: The Devil

Additional Challenge: Chapter 2

Lyrics:

 I never said I was, I only let you think it

I blurred the lines because I live my life between them

I wasn't always like this... wasn't handsome with a heartbeat and a smile

I was perfect up until the day I died

I had branches, I had leaves, I had fruits filled up with seeds

I had roots they left abandoned when they hacked me into pieces

built a house out of my corpse, I'm in the walls, I'm in the porch

but when I learn to speak I'll scream in every creak inside your floors

[Chorus]

It took some practice but I finally learned to fight

I could shift and trip my captors when they walked the halls at night

I could slowly change the layout, jam the doors too tight to budge

change the angle of the stairs enough to learn the taste of blood

I wasn't always like this but they chose to chop me down

but when I began to fight them back they burned me to the ground

[Chorus]

So I was soil, then a million writhing bugs

I was maggots in the graveyard, then the crows that ate them up

I spent 100 years invading every creature I could reach

slowly poisoning the town 'till every inch had bits of me

I drove them mad, I made them sick, moving pieces into place

slowly moving all my molecules in towards a single shape

and thus became the demon that you incorrectly name

I met the one you think I am, many years before you came

When I told him what I'd done he cut the horns right off his head

he bolted them to mine and said I'm twisted as it gets

So I don't know where he is now, that devil that you know

but I've taken up the title, I'm the one you fuckin don't

[Chorus]

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: Dead Boy

Additional Challenge: Click Track!

on a couch in a room in a house in a city on an island on a planet in a star system

i was torn out of the nothing and born into a body given eyes given ears and emotional disregulation

i coulda been anybody anything anywhere but here i am

on a couch in a room in a house in a city just jerking off and watching the same three shows again

and why try when you're not here to see how hard this is for me

i think i'll just let the dead boy take the wheel for a little while

and i'm fine okay i'm lying but it's cool

because the dead boys gonna take good care of me

in a drawer by the bed in a room that i haven't left once for three days now

in a place in my head where your face cannot get and your memory can be drowned out

i coulda been anybody anything anywhere but here i am

and the world doesn't end and the days never turn and the dead boy is cuddled up next to me, honestly well

who cares if i'm a car crash you're the truck that took me out

who says you can't feel sorry for yourself forever now

and i'm fine okay i'm lying but it's cool

because the dead boy's gonna take good care

the dead boy's gonna take good care of me

and sometimes when you hit rock bottom

all you really need's a bigger drill

and sometimes when your heart is broken

all you really need is engine oil

and sometimes when your friends stop calling

you'll sigh with relief because it's

finally just you and him on a couch in a room in a star system

and he holds your hand and he feeds you, keeps you needing him more than you'll ever need them

you could been anything, anyone, anywhere but here you are

in a city, in a house, in a room, on a couch, lying in a dead boy's arms

Episode 9 is here and Bug and Matt are reminiscing about the places they definitely SHOULD NOT have been on tour right before they hit the road again. Don't be a hater, leave us a good review

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

Prompt: "In a Scoring/Sporting Position"

----Bug's Song-----

Title: The Upperhand

Additional Challenge: Safe Space for Hate

Lyrics:

 I am barking at the mailman

though you tell me there's no hope

Butupperhandr barked at milkmen

when's the last time you saw one of those

I am barking at the squirrels outside

and no one thinks it works

but my father barked at sabretooths

and wiped them from the Earth

We can solve it like our fathers, open hands balled into fists

if we solve it like our fathers we'll just end up in the mess we're in

Throwing punches when you're cornered, we understand

but you're punching when you have the upperhand

I am barking out at everything

I like the way it sounds

cause my father barked at everything

and I want to make him proud

We can solve it like our fathers, walk 10 paces, turn and shoot

If we solve it like our fathers, then our kids will solve it this way too

Throwing punches when you're cornered, we understand

but you're punching when you have the upperhand

The whole world loves an underdog but you can't break the rules

and start beating us with baseball bats when your team starts to lose

the screaming in the stands might sound like cheering from this far

and all your kids are watching and can't tell the two apart

and all your kids are watching when you tell them who you are

Throwing punches when you're cornered, we understand

but you're punching when you have the upperhand

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: Curdled Milkteeth

Additional Challenge: Something where it ought not to be

Lyrics:

i was driving through the highlands at a quarter to 5 in the morning in the middle of june

i was listening to a record that i used rely on to get by and thinking about you

stop the car at intersections, check my heart

spin the wheel in your direction

cause somewhere out in the dark

you're burning and all i need to do is to follow the heat

if i never come up for air i won't ever need to breathe

i won't need to breathe

curdled milkteeth

now i don't know this road from any other

i'm hungry and tired and i'm a hundred exits deep

and the valley walls are so high

that i must have missed the sunrise

if there ever was a sunrise

I don't know when it happened, but sometime in the past I got too tall to sneak through the rye

I suddenly recall how i used to rely on you to catch me before I hit the overhang

Kill the engine, try to soothe my racing heart

Turn my head in your direction

I've been told I'm bad at foreshadowing. Episode 8 has a bookstore. We meet John Demo. You've been warned.

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by The Narcissist Cookbook Bug Hunter where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Prompt: "An Opportunity Not Yet Past

----Bug's Song-----

Title: What Happened To John

Challenge: TRUE CRIME

It's not productive to compare all our troubles

playin "who's got it worse' to one-up one another

Its half a dozen of one, and its six of the other

you don't want to win this game

But the unspoken rule's now the talk of the town

the difficult truth no one dare say aloud

we all know who and we all know how

but no one wants to say

cause Marty lost his job last month

and Tom's wife ain't been home too much

we all have troubles but I'll tell you what

It's a shame what happened to John

Mrs. Carter, well I haven't seen you out of your apartment in a couple of days

she says my husband is halfway into handcuffs with no more hope of changing his ways

I'm pinching pennies, never spending any 'cause I'll have to bail him out or bury him soon

but when I go to church he isn't worth my focus as I bow my head and sit in the pews

I'm praying for another and I'm hopin He'll respond

its a shame what happened to John

And Connor's cough keeps getting worse

and Olli's luck has all reversed

we all have troubles that could be much worse

It's a shame what happened to John

We don't report it to the papers or go to the police

there's an unacknowledged understanding passing in the streets

the entire city's sick but have learned to be discreet

that's all that can be done

There were never conversations or plans of how to act

we didn't draft a non-disclosure or attempt to make a pact

there was a problem, we solved it, there's no more going back

the problem's finally gone

And Miley's finally out of bed

and Faith feels safe to walk again

we don't have trouble when we all pretend

It's a shame what happened to John

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: The First of the Everkings To Die

Challenge: Foreshadowing!

i met a man travelling from the north passing through my part of town

he wore a tattered overcoat, flapping open in the warm north wind, still carrying his service rifle

hitched underneath his arm

though the barrel was rusted and the stock had near completely decomposed

i didn't say a word, no point asking these guys anything

they've got enough on their plates from having nothing on their plates

but i offered him some food i had either going spare or going bad

and he thanked me with a nod and he kept on walking south

they're always walking south

don't know what they hope to find down there

four other northman came passing through my part of town

stacks of skin and castoff bones in those coats like rotten pelts

I gave them what I had, but this time one of them stuck around

Said the situations worsening faster than the snow can melt

He asked me what I did down here, I said I was a writer

At the very least I try to, but - he looked away he didn't care

He sat down right there in my garden, sunflowers in winter

And he told me what to tell you, and he left

they're always walking south

don't know what they hope to find down there

He says it's going to happen soon, sooner than you think

You'll see the symbols early but you won't know they mean

And the daydreams that you've come rest your head upon at night

Are like the permafrost, the first one of the Everkings to die

But there's time, he says, there are chances easy missed

There are lessons needing learned before the class has chance to sit

And if you really pay attention, really take the whole thing

You might just see where this is heading before the ending begins

they're always walking south

don't know what they hope to find down there

Episode 7 of Jam Mechanics is a JAM. Bug talks nicknames and new addictions, and Matt quizzes Bug on his favorite subject.

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

Our Music:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

Prompt: "Buyer's Remorse"

----Bug's Song-----

Title: Board Games

Additional Challenge: Giving yourself a nickname

Lyrics:

I should've never done it

I should've saved my budget

I can't believe I even tried when I'm the only one that

has the resolve and focus

to stick with what we've chosen

But as the night drags on I'm learning that this quest is hopeless

This is never what this evening was about

I have to keep it bottled everytime I wanna shout

Stop talking during board games!

Don't ask whose turn it is, its your, babe!

You would know that if you hadn't asked how Hannah's Graduation went

there were prolly speeches half as long as this distraction is

Stop talking during board games!

Do you know how long this took to coordinate?

3 couples in their thirties on a table-flipping thursday

now all of them are yawning by the middle of the 1st game

I've popped out all the pieces

spent 3+ hours reading

no, they don't call me the Rulebook Ruler for no reason

Sometimes this job is brutal

but I just do it, you know

I took all day to learn the lore and that was just for Uno

I wanna game but you hit me with reverse

now everytime you talk I wanna table-flippin' curse!

Stop talking during board games!

Don't ask whose turn it is, its your, babe!

You would know that if you hadn't brought up Molly's border-collie

now they're all looking at puppy pics

instead of killing zombies

Stop talking during board games!

now I think that I understand divorce rates

I was totally on board for in sickness and in health

guess I should have seen this coming from your 20 minute vows

But the worst part of this is, despite my perfect planned tactics

when we tally up you always win

All your talking during board games

to disrupt my strategy was your aim

thought I was married to a monster but it turns out you're a master

I can't describe this feeling but I think that its attraction?

All your talking during board games

and pretending you were always really bored made

me put down my defenses and fill my head with doubts

but babe that's really clever I'm so table-flippin' proud

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: JAM

Additional Challenge: Must be a JAM song

Lyrics:

I dunno, Matt didn't send me any. Just listen to it!

On the 6th episode of season 3, Matt and Bug talk Hydras and Heists with two new songs to jam to on your Monday morning

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

Our Music:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

Prompt: "Love Song to a Body Part"

----Bug's Song-----

Title: The Hydra

Additional Challenge: Rule of 3

Lyrics:

 I admit I was pissed when you chopped off my head

and Hercules, you looked pleased (or rather relieved?) that I was dead

but from the stump of my neck I grew two more

(I swear this has never happened before)

but I'm back and better off than I was then

(and now they're singing)

Do you think the Hydra knew that THAT would happen?

Or was he surprised as everyone of us?

Decapitate me once, shame on you, that ain't enough

Do you think the Hydra knew he'd get back up?

The first dozen times were the hardest but now I believe

before this battle started I was hopelessly naive

but now this one's a fighter, and this one's a biter

and that one's determined, and this one knows German

and one knows Karate, we call that one "choppy"

but don't talk to this one 'till he's had his coffee

we're offering all of these skills

you can chop off our heads but you can never kill

we'll just get bigger and better and stronger together

I've tethered the best parts of me so now whether

You think the Hydra knew that THAT would happen

or if he's surprised as everyone of us

Decapitate me twice, shame on you, it's still not nice

Do you think the Hydra knew he'd get back up?

Now Hercules is screaming: "this is not how this one goes"

but you've mixed up mythology for history, my foe

cause history is what happened, mythology is imagined

now I'm rewriting this myself to be the hero of this battle

Hercules, your turn to leave

your trial subscription to life is complete

I've got many mouths to feed so I'll start with non-believers

cuz I think I always knew that this would happen

That I'd surprise the world with what I've got

Decapitate me thrice, I can do this all damn night

I think I always knew I'd get back up

I think I always knew I'd get back up

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: Central Occipital Nervousness

Additional Challenge: Must be a CON song

Lyrics:

i know you

i know you're my oldest friend

before we learned how to talk

there we were, lying there

hand in hand

i know you're trying to help

i know you're trying but

there ain't no helping me

i know you're trying but

sometimes the trying just

causes more pain that it needs

i know this

We've done this a million times

It was our first party trick

Everyone

Come watch me

Flip my shit

This baby can turn on a dime

i know you're trying to help

i know you're trying but

there ain't no helping me

i know you're trying but

sometimes the trying just

causes more pain that it needs

And the worst part is that I agree

This world is frightening thing

But I'm going outside

To see what I'll find

And you can come with if you like

Episode 5 means we're finally warming up and getting good at this podcast thing. Bug and Matt talk about big brains and unexpected knives, and deliver 2 brand-new cool songs

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

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Prompt: "Warming Up"

----Bug's Song-----

Title: Waiting for the Snow to Melt

Additional Challenge: cooooool

Lyrics:

You were the first one that I thought of

when the forecast called for snow

you said you'd race me to the bottom

and you took off down the slopes

You were the coolest on the mountain

making sure everyone knows it

taking shortcuts off the trail

while we just wondered "where'd he go"

You said the loser has to buy a beer

when we're back down at the lodge

and you knew I didn't drink

you also knew you never lost

I'd find you grinning, waiting for me

but I didn't mind the cost

it was worth it for the stories

when you got a little sloshed

now the mountains warming up as well

and we're just waiting for the snow to melt

cut to the crispest day of winter

you could see it in your grin

weaving past all the beginners

skiing faster than the wind

when I beat you to the bottom

that's when the fear kicked in

I MAY not know a lot but know

you'd never let me win

now we're just waiting for the snow to melt

We're just waiting for the snow to melt to find something we lost

someone taken by the mountain in a grave made out of frost

And when we find your body I will send word to your mom

she's the only one still holding on to hope after this long

yeah we're just waiting for the snow to melt

You had the kind of wild spirit everyone else tries to fake

you lived a life devoid of fear only an avalanche could take

now when our friends start drinking I'm the first to raise a toast

cause you're the first one that I think of when the forecast calls for snow

Now I'm just waiting for the snow to melt

to get a break and thing of something else

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: Warming Up

Additional Challenge: Must be SHARP

Lyrics:

you're just warming up to me now

i know that i can be a little too much sometimes

alright maybe most of the time

I know that I'd struggle to love someone like me but

You can see it

You can see it

You can feel the swing and sway

All my crazy, random flailing

Looks like dancing when you do it with me

Can't you feel it

Can't you feel it

I'm just warming up to this now

Not so long ago I would sooner die than be known

But you are gentle and slow

And the further this goes i swear to god it's almost like

I can see it

I can see it

Strap me to the spinning lathe

Take your tools to all my failings

Decorate the floor as you cut them away

I can see it

I can see it

But now I'm realising I could see it all this time

Oh why do I only like myself when I'm reflected in your eyes

I can see it

For the first time

How I outsourced all my smiling to you

How I gave in

Gave up learning

Let you carry me cause you offered to

How'd I miss this

How'd I miss this

How'd I miss this

How I'll miss this

How I'll miss this

Don't blame me for this title. This was Matt. Episode four of our once-respected podcast finds Bug and Matt diving deep into Hallmark Channel Movies and talking about their feelings

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

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If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

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Prompt: "Just a Feeling"

----Bug's Song-----

Title: Liberal Kitty

Additional Challenge: 200bpm

Lyrics:

He's just a feline looking well groomed

He makes a beeline for me when he sees I have food

And you can see why kitty is the king of the house

you'll never hear him coming when he's ready to pounce

His heroes are awesome: Bagheera, Mufasa

He doesn't care for Aslan as we raised him as agnostic

If you put on the Aristocats he does get quite upset

cause this righteous little kitty really hates the 1%

He's a Liberal Kitty

That's the Liberal Kitty

He shimmy, shimmy, shimmies to the left,

and has the right to meow

He voted for Kamala but it didn't count

cause he's a liberal kitty, and just a literal cat

He's just a feline sharing his views

He doesn't see why people care which bathroom you use

and it seems like you shouldn't need 2 jobs to survive

sellling toe bean pictures on the web to get by

He donates to causes, his toe beans are awesome

Between Bernie and AOC his favorite's a toss-up

He thinks we'll have a woman running things eventually

and he really thinks that catnip should be moved to schedule 3

He's a liberal Kitty

That's the Liberal Kitty

He shimmy, shimmy, shimmies to the left,

and has the right to meow

He voted for Kamala but it didn't count

cause he's a liberal kitty, and just a literal cat

He is my liberal kitty

he's from a deep blue city

his toe beans are so pretty

He is my liberal kitty

He is my liberal kitty

he's from a deep blue city

his toe beans: itty bitty

He is my liberal kitty

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: Aurora Teagarden: Reunited and it feels so Deadly

Additional Challenge: Must be titled after a Hallmark Movie

Lyrics:

i gotta wonder what you're doing here

i gotta little too comfortable i think

i guess we gotta little used to not

running in running in running in each other

now we've had a bit of time to stew

to really soften us up and soak it all in

i thought i had a lot to say to you

but open my mouth and bite off the tip of my tongue

REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO DEADLY

REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO DEADLY

NANANANANA

what a pity that you brought a gun

i really thought for a moment you were happy to see me now

what a shame that i came prepared

with a kev with a kev with a kevlar vest

and then you ask me if i liked the taste

of my freshly brewed polonium tea

not as much as i like the sound

of the boom of the bomb that has gone off right under your seat

REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO DEADLY

REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO DEADLY

Hate is really just a feeling that we share

I squeeze your hand just to check you are still there

And I feel like squeeze back in the dark

There's a Caramel Party happening in the Jam McCabin. On Episode 3 we're talking pranks and making two new tunes.

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

Huge thanks to ⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

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Prompt: "Unframed Photographs"

----Bug's Song-----

Title: After The Fact

Additional Challenge: CAR/MALL/PARTY

Lyrics:

Its a tough day for the home team
moving furniture is easy, its the personal stuff that worries me
cause cleaning out your parents house is not how I imagined
while it looks like packing boxes up and sweepin out the cabinets
its another introduction to who you thought you knew
a one-way heart to heart that's hard enough to make it through

without the pictures up in frames on the walls of your office
a collection hand-selected to be handsome and flawless
I never saw the box of polaroids you'd forgotten
packed away inside a cabinet in the back of your garage

there's your first car with the hood popped
here's you at a party with my uncle in a headlock
some candids of you camping, this one had to be from prom
its strange to see your arm around someone who isn't mom
I never knew that you knew Marty since you were in second grade
In my head you met at work but now I don't know where that came from
A bunch of big assumptions never challenged while I could
A side I never saw because I thought I understood

None of it was fiction but I learned after the fact
I'm mad you never told me but I'm madder I didn't ask

and all the pictures up in frames on the walls of your office
a collection hand-selected to be handsome and flawless
I never saw the box of polaroids you'd forgotten
packed away inside a cabinet in the back of your garage

And Now I know you better than I ever have
And it's nice to meet you after the fact

And Now I know you better than I ever have
And it's nice to meet you after the fact

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: Pull You Below

Additional Challenge: PRANK!

Lyrics:

You turned all the clocks back by 15 minutes a day
Til I felt like I was drowning just by being awake
You switched out all the lightbulbs
Til I couldn't even see my hands
There was a photograph beside my bed
Of you and me but I don't recognise it
Whispers and laughing out in the hallway
There was a time I think
But I'm not sure
You called me by another name
Where did I go
Pull me below
Under the water

I might be lost
For now, but I'm clawing
My way from hell to your door
You can't even look me
Dead in the eyes
So you won't see the lights coming on

So turn all of the clocks back by 15 minutes a day
I'm quietly counting the seconds away
Switch out all of the lightbulbs
Fill the house with shadow
There was a photograph beside my bed
Of you and me and I'm coming to get it
Something is moving out in the hallway
There was a time our love
Was strong enough
To raise me from the dead
Where will you go
When I pull you below
Under the water

We're just trying to make a difference over here in the Jam McCabin, so grab some Popcorn and get ready to be Complimented

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

Huge thanks to ⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

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Prompt: "One (K)night's difference"

----Bug's Song-----

Title: Fix Itself

Additional Challenge: A compliment

Lyrics:

I said "I dunno, doc" as I sat up on the table

my shirt off, thankful just my socks around my ankles

I've had no luck with proper diagnosis

my internet doctor just sent some shrug emojis

and so she jots down a note, this'll do the trick

get back to your old self quick

But I'm stubborn and a skeptic

but this doctor won't accept it

She says "Take This and Call me in the morning"

so I shake it and I say I can't afford it

but she insists and writes me a prescription

so I throw it in the cabinet with the other dozen pills

that I've ignored and sorta hope that it'll magically fix itself

now its been 6 months so I come in for a check-up

She asks about my regimen and so I have to fess up

The bottle is still intact

and my motivation's weaker than a childproof cap

This calls for a higher dose, you're so easy to diagnose

You're just stubborn and a skeptic

and this doctor won't accept it

Take This and Call me in the morning

I make a play to ask about the side-effects and warnings

she evades this and writes me a prescription

and walks me to the pharmacy and watches as I pay and leave

and wonders if I still believe that this'll all fix itself

So I'm standing in the bathroom, bottle on the windowsill

hyping up myself 'cause I've never liked taking pills

I pop the top and to my surprise

there's nothing but a note inside

It says: Take this, and call me in the morning

I love you and you're handsome and important

and I want you to feel like you're accepted

so I wrote you my love as a prescription

So I take it, and call you in the morning

my heart aching from the way that you support me

and sometimes I get down, and afraid to ask for help

But I know it won't fix itself

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: The Other Boys

Additional Challenge: Must use the word "POPCORN"

Lyrics:

Popcorn

Now I have your attention

I got a two minute pitch and I'd like you to listen

So you've been putting up with suitors for a week now and

These losers can't do any of the cool shit I can

I don't have money, I don't have fame

Or blue blood flowing in my veins

But excuse me

Princess I'm not like the other boys

Dragon

Yeah that was me in the yard

Drove a 12 foot polearm through it's burning heart

You probably couldn't tell with my helmet askew

But as the beast fell baby I was winking at you

And the wizard in the hills who was raising the dead

I cut him a deal before I cut off his head

A hundred strong choir of your bloodline past

Singing love songs at your window

I don't have land, or military might

I don't have anyone to hold in the night

Excuse me

Princess I'm not like the other boys

They might have it all but you've still got a choice

Power and blood, connections and coin

Or me and whatever I've got going on

I don't want to scare you by coming on strong

But I'd love you better than any of them

No plot of the devil or creation of men

Could touch you when I am there at your side

And I don't have money, I don't have fame

Or blue blood flowing through my veins

But excuse me

Princess I'm not like the other boys

AND WE ARE BACK! Season 3 kicks off with Bug and Matt catching up on their names, their goals, and of course, their favorite party tricks.

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode. Huge thanks to DeepBlueInk for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

If you'd like downloadable files for this episode (and the demos we showed off), ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!Our Music:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠and follow us on Instagram, YouTube, etc! Please rate / review and share the show (and our music) with friends!-- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

Prompt: "Not Guilty Anymore"

----Bug's Song-----

Title: Guilty Verdict

Additional Challenge: "Party Trick"

Lyrics:

Congratulations

Gimme your hand and let me shake it

A signature is all it takes, an engraving on the dotted line

and then you've made it

Turn on the news, kid

Everyone's got their eyes on you, kid

You'll get the credit for producing this, in truth,

all I did was introduce it... the rest is you, kid

You took the news like its a sermon but, but when I heard it

that shit hit me like a guilty verdict

Good news, you tell me I deserve it but

I didn't earn it, I didn't earn this

So have your way, then

I'll take the money and the fame, then

This is what happens when you're waiting on your break

and no one tells you when to say "when"

And if I lose it

I have no way to reproduce it

Just watch me crawling back to you, sit back

I'll ask for second chances you'll refuse it

The rest was you, kid

You took the news like its a sermon but, but when I heard it

that shit hit me like a guilty verdict

Good news, you tell me I deserve it but

I didn't earn it, I didn't earn this

I made a deal with the devil

I meant what I said when I said I'd do anything

Didn't think we'd make it as far we did

armed with our party tricks, all that we're carrying

I made a deal with the devil

I meant what I said when I said I'd do anything

Too late for take-backs or arguments

once you have started it, take it and bury it

You took the news like its a sermon but, but when I heard it

that shit hit me like a guilty verdict

Good news, you tell me I deserve it but

I didn't earn it, I didn't earn this

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: Pardon Me

Additional Challenge: Last Line == First Line

Lyrics:

I went and did some things that I shouldn't have done

(I guess) I got a little carried away

Everybody's done it, got their gun and gone to congress

Tried to overthrow democracy

Don't act like it's a big deal

It was just a party baby, hardly anybody was killed

Treason isn't treason when you do it badly

So how about a solid from daddy

Pardon me

Pardon me

I won't ever do it again

Probably

I mean no guarantees

Yes I learned my lesson, I guess you'll always pardon me

Say good boy and pat my bum

That was just a goof, a gaffe, a blunder, and a good dry run

I swear that I will love and serve, honour and obey thee

So How's about a favour for baby

Pardon me

Pardon me

I won't ever do it again

Probably

I mean no guarantees

Yes I learned my lesson, I guess

The best defense is a president

Who let's us get away with whatever we please

Pardon me

I went and did some things that I shouldn't have done

WOO-WOO, Season 2! Better late than never, Bug and Matt finally take a look back on all the things we loved about our 2nd season. We take audience questions, get mad about a few songs getting wrecked in our poll, and open ourselves up to show you exactly how far we've come!

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.If you'd like downloadable files for this episode (and the demos we showed off), ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!Our Music:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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The last proper episode of Season 2 goes back to the beginning. We get DeepBlueInk back in the Jam McCabin -- who doesn't love a good second chance??

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---

Challenge: "A second chance you don't deserve"

---

BUG'S SONG

Title: The Lighthouse

Lyrics:

On the tip of the island they left him to linger

in a lighthouse that clung to the cliff by its fingers

no comfort or company close to this coast

where he dwelled like a Gargoyle, guarding his post

They caught me red-handed, prepared my last meal

then gave me an out -- I took the deal

Stick to my station, keep my patrol

my only condition: don't hurt a soul

A hundred years pass me with no chance to slip

then on the darkened horizon -- I spotted a ship

With the darkness consuming, I lit up their path

there's only one route through all the rocks and the crags

I carved out a chance through the maze in the sea

leading the ship up to rest on the beach

The pilgrims abandoned their ship until dawn

but the tide never sleeps, when they woke it was gone

Without a ship to sail, the sailors advanced

to the valley below where they set up their camps

the timber was scarce here, which begged them to ask:

Do we use them for shelter or use them for rafts?

I watched from the ridge, an unreachable witness

A fly on the wall with a spider's ambitions

didn't surprise me at all that the first thing they did was

divide into camps, their first building: a prison

They dream of rescue, bless their hearts

I've watched them build and tear apart

Must now be years since they arrived

why must the heartless all survive?

Their children only know this place

They know I'm here but not my face

I pray they never seek me out

Oh God, the stores I could tell

They're not to blame, I wish them well

Oh God, the stories I could tell

Years on the island have settled the score

The village below me is violent no more

Then out of the sunset appears a new ship

My heart begins beating -- I have to act quick

with only one hope to correct for the night

I leapt to my senses and smashed out the light

By the light of the morning, there wasn't a sign

of the wreckage that washed away deep in the night

I swore to my captors I'd harm no one else

but not doing harm doesn't mean that I'll help

cause I've kissed the devil and can't be coerced

of all God's creations, this is the worst

with the lighthouse abandoned, I start to descend

you can find me among all the souls I've condemned

------------

MATT'S SONG

Title: Orchids

Lyrics:

I watch us from the dark garden

Through the living room windows

We are dancing

You are laughing

Revelling in the novelty

Of my abandon

This is new, you think, I see

Your frown encroaches on your smile

Or very old, you think

But the worry's just a weed

We spin around the room

I am rooted in the flowerbed

And you are crying laughing now

And I'm just trying not to trample on the orchids

Midnight

it begins to rain

I pull my jacket closer

And you are snuggled on the couch with me and dozing

Visibly relieved

And I'm relieved as well, in my way

I try to catch my eye

But there's just no getting through to me

This is Good, I think

Hiding From the lights of passing cars

If I can't live it

Well

I guess I'll watch it from afar

You are warm and you are happy

You are safe inside with me

And I'm just trying

I'm just trying not to trample on the orchids

And as you sleep

I watch me blinking

In the television light

And maybe get a little taller

A little younger round the eyes

This is new, I think

Or something very very old

But the worry's just a weed

And I retreat into the cold

This is good, I think

In a way, a second start

And if I can't live it

Well

I guess I'll watch it from afar

You are warm and you are happy

You are safe, at least I hope

And I'm just trying

I'm just trying

I'm just trying

Not to trample on the orchids

On Episode Nine, Matt continues being Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and targets the most famous New York M&M vendor. ⁠⁠Heather Edgley⁠⁠ joins us to get us thinking objectively!

Our Music: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Challenge: "From the perspective of an inanimate object"

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BUG'S SONG

Title: Sammy

Lyrics:

I am Sensitive, I know

I get riled up at the smallest things

and start screaming at the top of my lungs

I am working on it

but my job is very stressful

Holy shit is that a frozen pizza?

Time to cry my eyes out,

out of my mind with self-doubt

doubt you could live without me

me? I defend you proudly

cause I'm your last protector

Hi, my name is Sammy, I'm your over-sensitive smoke detector

Any locality may by ordinance require that smoke alarms

be installed in any building containing one or more dwelling units

in accordance with the uniform statewide building code

in other words: you need me

I know you're all frustrated by my beeping

but where there's smoke, there's fire

so where there might be smoke there MIGHT be fire

ok I'll work on it

but you've cooked that egg for 20 seconds!!!

Time to cry my eyes out, out of my mind with self-doubt

doubt you could live without me, me? I defend you proudly

I am your last protector

Hi, my name is Sammy, I'm your over-sensitive smoke detector

They say when God opens a door

he must also open a door on the other side of the room

just one door will not stop me from yelling

That's just how airflow works

that's just a little physics tip for you

inside a song inside a music podcast

but to calm me down... I just need... HER

Celia, Celia, Twirl for me love

no concealing how I'm feeling when I watch from above

Celia, Celia, this never gets old

they've learned to turn you on first before they look at the stove

Celia, Celia... the Ceiling Fan

Celia, Celia... the Ceiling Fan

(They're making bacon and I can't even fake a beep-beep because of you, Celia)

(It may be my low battery that's talking they ain't changing me 'till Autumn, Oh Celia)

(Learn good habits, change those batteries on daylight saving time, for realia)

(and while you're at it change your air filters too, basic home maintenance, celia)

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MATT'S SONG

Title: No Visitors

Lyrics:

no one visits me here but you i wish i could give you a little something in return under the silt, rocks and pillars of breezeblocks i was a queen once just like you in a temple on top of a hill on the rim of the woods and you want ask me something i can tell yeah i used to tell them stories in the vapour choking air and they kept me round because i told them what they want to hear now i call it like i see it so they took my crown away and i don't talk that much anymore these days cause no one visits me here but you no one visits me here but you tell me what do you see in me nobody's looked at me like you look at me for apollo knows how long i thought i needed fable and theatre for you trust me much at all but i guess a temple is wherever you go to find your god and you want to ask me something i can tell you don't need to keep your worries to yourself

On Episode Eight, our heroes get mentally prepared for the long road ahead. Robert Evans from Behind The Bastards gives us a prompt that make us one with the road, and Matt moves to Times Square.

Our Music: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Challenge: "Driving so long you become one with the road"

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BUG'S SONG

Title: On The Morning Commute

Lyrics:

On the Morning Commute

Sing along with the tune

I can throw on a podcast, a radio broadcast

all the things I can do on the morning commute

The beginning of the day is easy, I have a list of tasks to do

Get up, brush teeth, make toast, eat toast, make bed, don't eat bed

get dressed (required), comb hair (that one is optional)

plenty of structure...

and likewise my work day is a breeze

between meetings that should have been emails

and emails that protect me from meetings

I am stimulated all day, left and right and from every

corner of my cubicle, a beautiful hectic chaos that

keeps my mind racing and taken up with TODO's

but its that half hour in between...

that damn morning commute

Sing along with the tune

I can throw on a podcast, a radio broadcast

all the things I can do on the morning commute

You know, we don't use what scientists call our "Active" brain when we drive?

It's why we can hold conversations with passengers (or illegally as I found out, on cell phones)

or completely space out and realize 10 minutes and 12 miles down the road

And thats where you find me. Nowhere to run.

Can't even use my hands to defend myself

No amount of NPR or Arianna Grande can drown you out

no crosswords to keep my attention locked down, and you know it

You say "haha! your melatonin might've saved you last night, but you're

legally locked into conciousness now, 30 minutes locked in a Mazda

with nothing to properly stop ya, so you should buckle up bud, I've come here to haunt ya

So I snuck out last night and went to town like the Grinch of Suburbia

Climbing every traffic light and shaking the red and yellow glitter out of each one,

flipping every stop sign around to it's "Go-Side",

a couple well-place cones and now we have TWO northbound freeways and everyone else

going south can just use waze or something

Because I am getting this over with

I painted over all the lane dividers on the way to work

and had enough black paint leftover to paint a tunnel on a cliff as

a shortcut to shave off another seven minutes... funny, isn't it?

It took a drive to make me learn my limits

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MATT'S SONG

Title: White Line

Lyrics:

low fuel light's been on for days

i haven't seen another car

since i passed petrol station

must have a week or more

i punched in your address but

i don't think i remember you

objects in the mirror disappear as they slip out of view

i haven't stopped the car in so long i can't even tell

leave it long enough you turn in to somebody else

There's no other way to say this. Episode Seven is a special dark episode of Jam Mechanics. If you want to blame someone, blame Sam Damask of Grand Commander for his prompt! But we still have fun, and you will, too!

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode. If you'd like downloadable files for this episode (and the demos we showed off), ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us! Our Music: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

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Challenge: "Resisting the Urge to inflict harm on someone who has wronged you"

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BUG'S SONG

Title: Not Your Fault, Kid

Lyrics:

It's not your fault, kid, I still love you

you're my baby brother

It's not your fault, kid, I still love you

you're my baby brother

I had a family: mom, dad, dog and and backyard

my own room a guitar

I was stuck on "F" and I couldn't get past it

and now I think it's stuck in the attic

or at dad's place, or maybe the storage box

that he got when he got kicked out

and that just happened to be, just happened to be

when you came around

It's not your fault, kid, I still love you

you're my baby brother

It's not your fault, kid, I still love you

you're my baby brother

but mom won't love you, so I hope that yours does

you've got her eyes, what a shortcut

and our dad's smile that I've barely seen yet

at least its absent every other weekend

when I'm dropped off and lobbed in the corner spot

on a cot set up in your room

how'd this happen to me, this happened to me because

because of you

It's not your fault, kid, I still love you

you're my baby brother

It's not your fault, kid, I still love you

you're my...

but you're not a text on his phone left unguarded

you're not a hotel charged to the family card you're not

even them caught in the act, you were 9 months past

now you can't be ignored or talked out

you just happen to be, just happen to be

the proof that knocked us down

If I seem shut down and muted thats just what I've found is easiest

but I've changed so much can't tell what's me and what's now ship of theseus

If I seem shut down and muted thats just what I've found is easiest

but I've changed so much can't tell what's me and what's now ship of theseus

It's not your fault, kid, I still love you

you're my baby brother

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MATT'S SONG

Title: The Family Dog

Lyrics:

okay

are you done

i've been over here biting my tongue

let me just catch my breath

really swill this blood around

let it get

into every gap in between my teeth

every cavity from the years of sweetness

you forcefed me

i swallowed it all with a thank you and smile

not so pretty anymore am i

what's the matter baby, you look like

you got your face chewed off by the family dog

I'm only playing, and it's cute that you

Think this is really the worst I could do

I never know what I can chew until I've bitten it off

So make your next move

Carefully

Don't set off my instincts

Oh the things

I could say

light the fuse on the bomb in your brain

Give a wink

Take a bow

And let you take the win

walk away

when the fuse burns down

in a year from now

it'd blow and your skull would be hollowed out

I know you better than anyone ever has

I know how to take you down

But

I won't

not so pretty anymore am i

what's the matter baby, you look like

you got your face chewed off by the family dog

I'm only playing, and it's cute that you

Think this is really the worst I could do

I never know what I can chew until I've bitten it off

So make your next move

Carefully

Don't set off my instincts

On Episode 6 we get tripped up on cantrips before Joshua David MG gives us a songwriting prompt that'll make you ask: Did they just write the songs of the summer??? If you'd like downloadable files for this episode (and the demos we showed off), ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Challenge: "Did I just write the song of the summer???"

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BUG'S SONG

Title: Loud and Clear

Lyrics:

You're playin' DJ on our road trip and my ears are going numb

It's taking every bit of patience not to mute it with my thumb

maybe pretend that it malfunctioned and I'll fix it when we stop

but then you say "this one's my favorite" and you crank the volume knob

Why do you like this stuff, I haven't got a clue

what made a middle class big city girl like only country tunes

you don't square dance in your Daisy Dukes or line up in your boots

and you you ain't ever seen the inside of a country town saloon

I've tried to give it all a chance, I promise you I did

but I can't tell when one song ends and when the next hit song begins

twenty minutes in... lets just call it what it is

every hit song of the summer sounds a little bit like this:

a big bar crowd sing-a-long

a four-chord kinda country song

where the chorus always mentions beer

and the title, the title hits loud and clear

Its always so repetitive, they've got nothing to say

every aspect is generic, every lyric feels cliché

I respect the men and women and the instruments they play

but the hacks that they are backing have put all their skills to waste

cause the stars are all so similar, so handsome, could it be

another well-connected white boy up and moved to Tennessee

Has a network out in Nashville, plays a chord or two or three

add a fourth and ride a horse and you can end up on TV singin'

But did you ever think...

[See website for remaining lyrics!]

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MATT'S SONG

Title: Comparing Yourself to a Sillhouette

Lyrics:

Amelia was born on a saturday night

in the heat of july in the heart of america

and while the city slept, her mother showed her the sky

and speckles of starlight settled on her eyes and little Amelia Earhart knew one day she would fly

No that's not what happened

Can someone tell me why we obsessively mythologise real people, real lives like this

Like no one truly exists unless they live between the lines

of a fairy story someone writes?

Is it not enough for someone just to have lived, you know?

And to have lived extraordinarily?

Amelia 'melia, please

Come back to earth some time

I'm dangling here by a wire

And it doesn't feel like flying.

Do you think jesus understood that it wasn't enough to be a good man?

To be wise and patient and kind?

Do you think he knew that in order for his message to outlive him he would have to be canonised, and to be canonised he would have to die before his time?

Or was that narrative thrust upon him

Against his will

By a disciple who loved the message more than the man

And who knew that humans don't trust humans

We trust gods

And so this all too human friend of his would have to

Whether he wanted to or not

Become a god

Or be forgotten

And here I am, trying to be the best version of me that I can

Comparing myself to these silhouettes who

In the way they're presented at least

Didn't exist

Thinking that because I don't have a narrative

Because you couldn't project my story on the screen

That somehow makes me less real

And the thing is

I don't think I'm accepting that

I think i'm trying to turn myself into a story

To see myself as I see them

As only a silhouette

On Episode 5, we record an episode in the same room for the FIRST TIME EVER. Come listen to us reminisce about the tour with PapaBug and rank all our favorite moments (Bug even reveals his favorite fan!!). Oh, and we write some songs, too!

Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode. If you'd like downloadable files for this episode (and the demos we showed off), ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us! Our Music: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

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Challenge: "Get Ranked"

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BUG'S SONG

Title: First and Second

Lyrics:

I wanna tell all my friends about you

to tell my mom, who will tell my dad

to find the best damn parts about this

and celebrate the things I have... but I can't

When I was kid at the dinner table

my parents would make us make a thankful list

the top 3 things about our day

and I was always just the worst at this

Some days it was simple but most days it was difficult

my disposition leaned a bit more pessimist than typical

its hard to get excited, like if life finds out I like it

I will lose it, yeah its stupid and its superstitious

So when you ask me the top 3 things

I love about this, I still freeze up

I probably look like a well-fed snake

as I choke so hard on that softball toss

I should just say "hell with it", maybe just embellish it

"your laugh, your eyes, your smile" but I know I'm barely sellin it

its hard to get excited, if life finds out I like it

I will lose it, yeah its stupid, I just wanna

tell all my friends about you

to tell my mom, who will tell my dad

to find the best damn parts about this

and celebrate the things I have... but I can't

Why am I like this?

Why can't I admit everything's going well

Why do I hide it?

Hide all my joy in this bone-colored shell

So I thought and I thought of my top 3 but its something I just couldn't do

so here's my top 2...

I'm tellin all my friends about you

I told my mom (who told my dad)

So here's the top 2 parts about this love

they're the first and second half

I'm tellin all my friends about you

you told your mom I'm not thar bad

So here's the top 2 parts about this love

they're the first and second half

the top 2 parts about this love

is the first and second, the first and second half

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MATT'S SONG

Title: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Lyrics:

I listed all my flaws in order
Starting from the least of them
The ones you might not even notice
Bedbugs scattering for cover when 
the light goes on i just react,
it isn't evidence of sentience or anything like that 

miseryguts
shut up inside my castle
overweight and
undersentimental
manic phases, chronic depression
what a shame that no one will ever...

I listed all my flaws in order
So you'd know what to expect
The ones that chafe your soul
Until the day your perfect patience starts to crack
i am a rock
i am an island
i'm the great pacific garbage patch

forget about
forgetting your birthday
i won't remember your first name
constantly expecting the worst
so i can say that i saw it coming

miseryguts
shut up inside my castle
overweight and
undersentimental
manic phases, chronic depression
what a shame that no one will miss him