[NOTE: Contained Within is the final version of "As Long As She Stays Kind," updated from the previous post]

Elliott and I danced around each other in high school for a very long while until we were both thrown into Monarch High School Theater and found our niche. I don’t know why Elliott was so into theater, and it was too early for me to know that the rest of my life (thus far only a few years, but no big obstacles on the horizon) would be dedicated to making stories that help people escape from the real, experience something new, etc.

Elliott and I grew closer over through theater and finally through Serious Bob.

Though The Bob deserves some credit for our friendship, the one memory that springs to mind when I think of Elliott and I personally was the one time he got to direct me in a one act play. It was called “Actor’s Nightmare” and he allowed me to play the lead as if it was just Dave Gonzales who had wandered onto the stage. This left many small-town-high-school-theater goers singing my acting praises. After I was cast in another one act and my lack of true acting ability was revealed, everyone kind of shut up about it.

So thanks, Elliott, for spurring a brief period of acting by allowing me to not act at all.

The Doric Order is what Elliott started calling himself when I spent years mixing Serious Bob’s third album. They were some pretty catchy home-recorded tunes that still live on, in my mind, for being honest Elliott.
Before any of the tracks that will later be posted here as “The Doric Order Demos,” Elliott would just plop down in whatever room we were all in and play us a song.

Damn, if I don’t miss that.

More importantly, every Doric Order song was about Elliott: Elliott’s love for (his soon-to-be wife) Kate, the strange relationship between Elliott’s step-mom and Elliott himself, there was even a song he wrote for me when I tried to quit Serious Bob after a heavy depression, a Citizen Nowhere album and months of getting nowhere on Serious Bob III.

Now, Elliott would like to make a career out of music.

I hate my own voice when I hear it played back, and a lot of Elliott’s vocal mixing here sounds like he might have the same fear. I’m assuming this is something that could be corrected with a little vocal training and hours in the booth (or, more frequently, a room with a mattress up against the door). Regardless, I am going to assume this is not finished and will not post it for download until I get the thumbs up.

But press play and fall in love with Elliott and Kate. It’s hard not to.

 Download link “As Long As She Stays Kind” - Elliott Goldbaum