Apparently my diction leaves something to be desired as there have been several requests for lyrics for all the tracks. Wish granted! You can click on the Lyrics category, or when you go to each individual song post (click on the name of the track in the left column) there’s a link to the lyrics at the bottom of each song post. Thanks for the suggestion.
Well, the last couple of days have certainly been exciting. Needless to say, we’re getting slightly more attention than normal for the latest track - 1000 A.D. - courtesy of kottke.org, Marginal Revolution, and MetaFilter as well as many other cool blogs. Thanks to everyone who posted, commented, listened, etc.
I thought now might be a good time to introduce some of the new inductees into the Sugar Fix Fan Ecosystem (it’s small, but I’ve decided it’s an ecosystem nonetheless) to some of the other tracks that haven’t gotten as much press:
Thanks to everyone who’s written about, or visited the site. Hope to have more new music soon. 
Recently I lost an hour reading a comment thread that started as follows:
“I wanted to ask for survival tips in case I am unexpectedly transported to a random location in Europe (say for instance current France/Benelux/Germany) in the year 1000 AD (plus or minus 200 years). I assume that such transportation would leave me with what I am wearing, what I know, and nothing else. Any advice would help.”
The suggestions ranged from funny to serious, and ludicrous to ludicrouser. Nonetheless, I spent the next two days worried that I wasn’t prepared for this eventuality. (Yes, I know there’s something wrong with me.) After perusing many of the suggestions on the original thread on Marginal Revolution as well as the side thread on kottke.org, I realized the only way to deal with this was to put this collective intelligence to music.
This song was kind of accidental. I have several others in the works, but this just sort of popped up on the piano as we were about to leave the house. I jotted it down quickly (correct… I’m unable to memorize 4 chords) and I kept obsessing about this thread so the only logical conclusion was to put the music and topic together.
I did my best to capture as many of the best comments as possible but 3:26 isn’t a huge canvas. I’m particularly sad that I never figured out a way to mention how bad the people must have smelled, or my plan to get rich selling soap.
I’ve gotten a couple of requests for the lyrics to some of my songs. So here’s the first set, for the latest track — 1000 A.D.
VERSE
Where the hell am I
And what’s this bump on my head
I’m sure not in Kansas
Could it be that I’m dead
It’s my standard nightmare
Of sudden time travel
Back a thousand years in Europe
I’m gonna unravel
Gotta calm down
I’ll be fine
I’ve got skills
I’ll use my mind
VERSE
I can read and write
And almost no one else can
Two years of high school Latin
Now I need a plan
I’ll sell boiled water
Better yet I’ll boil some wine
I’ll make a mint selling brandy
They’re all drunk all the time
Gotta calm down
I’ll be fine
I’ve got skills
I’ll use my mind
CHORUS
But it’s harder than I thought
These people aren’t so dumb
And they don’t understand a thing I say
Before I get rich
and discover electricity
I’ve gotta find some food and a place to stay
VERSE
I can do math
Right here in my head
I’m like a walking computer
They’ll hire me instead
Of making me a slave
If I could help them with their war
I’d invent the Haber process
Give them guns and bombs and more
Gotta calm down
I’ll be fine
I’ve got skills
I’ll use my mind
CHORUS
But it’s harder than I thought
These people aren’t so dumb
And they don’t understand a thing I say
Before I build my castle
and invent indoor plumbing
I’ve gotta find some food and a place to stay
VERSE
I’ll reenact every movie
in the form of a play
Luke will be Jesus
Leia’s Mary Magdalene
Every song by the Beatles
I’ll re-sing as my own
I will get satisfaction
Cause it’s mine and not the Stones
Gotta calm down
I’ll be fine
I’ve got skills
I’ll use my mind
CHORUS
But it’s harder than I thought
These people aren’t so dumb
And they don’t understand a thing I say
Before I change history
and discover America
I’ve gotta find some food and a place to stay
I’m starting to get thin and waste away
I’m sure I’ll find some food and a place to stay
Haven’t posted a new song in a bit. I am working on several at once but things are a little slower going since work started up again. I have one track done except for the string quartet. I am not shitting you — a string quartet. What kind of a pretentious jerk thinks he can put a string quartet in his song? This kind!
Don’t judge me too harshly. There are at least 3 others in the works as well (songs, not pretentious jerks), including my first cover. Scary! I’ll keep plugging away and post when I have something listenable.
After a few short months of plugging away at this music on the internet thing, we’ve gotten just a tiny bit of attention (but it’s attention nonetheless).
The posters over at the Facepunch Studios forum enjoyed Rule 34.
Daniel Pinkwater (one of my favorite commentators on NPR) used Victor’s a Dictionary in his weekly podcast.