November 2009
23 posts
WatchI saw this video this video the other day and planned to post it with the adjoined comment, non sequitur. When my browser drew a red dotted line under the latter word, I assumed I had misspelled it because I rarely spell correctly the words of my own language, let alone Latin. I did a quick Google search of sequitur, and that brought me both to the correct spelling of the word (which it turns...
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“The sun has the attenuated autumn quality of seeming to be behind several panes...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Lowering the bar
I’m currently in the process of finishing up the last bit of procrastinated lyrics for the record and I’m completely stumped. I have been alternately writing, deleting, cursing, and staring blankly into a computer screen since I woke up this morning. There comes a point when one can become so familiar and up close to something creative that it’s very easy to lose one’s...
Dragons!
When I woke up this morning in the pitch black of the windowless studio my thoughts were as follows: What time is it? Dragons are fucking awesome!
I’ll elaborate on the latter.
For some reason, the full awesomeness of dragons didn’t really hit me completely until 8:30 this morning.
Dragons are like indoor plumbing.
I’ll elaborate on that too.
My whole life I’ve...
Studio: Day 3, Extreme Reflection!!
Cory is recording his bass parts right now and as much as I’m trying to pay attention and contribute my two cents because I feel obligated to, and because I have this sort of unceasing need to voice my opinions regardless of whether they’re good or even coherent*, but between Jay, Freddy, and Cory’s much more focused opinions, my two cents are worth about their non-metaphorical...
How to speak to drummers
Instead of that part where you go “do do dum-dat dat dat ding” go more like “do-kat do-kat bat ting” then “flot flot bam dat dat pat thum flum flang,” and make sure you get the timing right when you do the “blat-tu blat-toos” because if you don’t it really throws off the “bump bump ka-ting ka-tings.”
Got it?
Good.
Studio: Day 2
“It’s like sausage making: everyone loves the end result but no one wants to see what goes into it.” - J. Robbins
We’re about one-third of the way finished tracking drums, which is to say, today we spent six hours playing four songs. The workday ended about two hours ago so that J.— the esteemed producer who you probably know by name or at the very least by...
Studio: Day 1
As good an omen as any.
Now if I just had words to all the songs…
I Miss These People
A Wilhelm Scream
Living With Lions
The Artist Life
I didn’t update this blog much on this tour because I was having too good of a time with the above bands. It’s been barely two weeks since we finished tour and I really genuinely miss hanging out with all of these people. We spent 6 weeks circling North America and the fact that I couldn’t wait to meet up...
The Charm of 5:30 →
I don’t read poetry all that often, and when I do it’s normally something gloomy by Philip Larkin. But every once in a while it’s good to change thing up, to read something by someone who isn’t so insistent on reminding me that “death is no different whined at than withstood.” Enter this David Berman poem, The Charm of 5:30. It’s so perfectly and...
WatchOh. My. God.
Really puts the crappiness of Linkin Park in perspective.
A Pretty Good Morning
Big Trees, Big Bears
