Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Jul. 2nd, 2008
I'm so tired. So much band stuff from recording, to touring blah blah blah. I don't even feel like I'm fully conscious. I can't really think straight. They're getting the cd mastered tomorrow. should be exciting to hear. I just hope there's no money confusion or anything, which there probably will be, or any other dumb shit for that matter.
I feel like I haven't got an actual GOOD night of sleep in well over a month. I wake up with my mind racing and feeling exhausted. When people talk to me I only catch like half of what they're saying no matter what.
Tomorrow's mastering, Thursday is show at Al's house/fireworks/party at Al's - Best night of the year. Then Friday(or Thursday night, who knows because I never know what the hell is ever going on with my bands immediate plans) we leave for our tour that will undoubtedly be a money wasting disaster. 75 bucks a night. over 100 to fill the gas tank. That's all I'm even going to say.
The guy at the T-Mobile store told me I'd have my sidekick in time for Friday. I'm calling it now that I won't have it.
I got my knuckles tattooed today, Rose Glen. I didn't get it how everyone does because the way everyone gets it makes it look like they have hand tattoos, and I don't like hand tattoos, so I just got it thin in cursive. I like it a lot, it's just not much to look at, just words, no shading or anything, just script. I'm glad I got it, it will constantly remind me of the best times of my life spent at Al's house with all my best friends, being total aliens to the rest of the world. Not my favorite tattoo because well, it's not really art,and that's why I get tattoos, but it probably means the most to me out of all my tattoos. It's also my first like "friendship" tattoo. Not like everyones "FRIENDSHIPS" that they get which are really general, only a certain number of people could get rose glen tattoos. So far it's: Josh, Bubby, Eric, Roe, Me, TT. Hopefully more to come.
I'm fucking exhausted.
I feel like I haven't got an actual GOOD night of sleep in well over a month. I wake up with my mind racing and feeling exhausted. When people talk to me I only catch like half of what they're saying no matter what.
Tomorrow's mastering, Thursday is show at Al's house/fireworks/party at Al's - Best night of the year. Then Friday(or Thursday night, who knows because I never know what the hell is ever going on with my bands immediate plans) we leave for our tour that will undoubtedly be a money wasting disaster. 75 bucks a night. over 100 to fill the gas tank. That's all I'm even going to say.
The guy at the T-Mobile store told me I'd have my sidekick in time for Friday. I'm calling it now that I won't have it.
I got my knuckles tattooed today, Rose Glen. I didn't get it how everyone does because the way everyone gets it makes it look like they have hand tattoos, and I don't like hand tattoos, so I just got it thin in cursive. I like it a lot, it's just not much to look at, just words, no shading or anything, just script. I'm glad I got it, it will constantly remind me of the best times of my life spent at Al's house with all my best friends, being total aliens to the rest of the world. Not my favorite tattoo because well, it's not really art,and that's why I get tattoos, but it probably means the most to me out of all my tattoos. It's also my first like "friendship" tattoo. Not like everyones "FRIENDSHIPS" that they get which are really general, only a certain number of people could get rose glen tattoos. So far it's: Josh, Bubby, Eric, Roe, Me, TT. Hopefully more to come.
I'm fucking exhausted.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Jun. 27th, 2008
I finally finished recording vocals today. I'm so glad that's over with, but at the same time I can't wait to write new songs already and look forward to a new record. This is how I felt when we recorded our EP too. This will probably be a reoccurring thing that will go along with the completion of every record we do.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately: I don't think I'll ever be happy with the stage I'm at with songwriting. I will like songs we write, I will probably always tell myself that I will eventually do better. I feel as if writing music is something that is never fully mastered. It's all about personal improvement and learning. I still feel like I'm learning how to write songs. If you get to the point where you think everything you do is great, then that's when you start to pump out soulless garbage. I will always be critical of everything I do.
Also, art is not a contest. I see so many bands and even fans of music really going out of their way to let everyone else know that they are well read/intellectual/deep/artistic/interest
The Smashing Pumpkins embody everything I would like my band to become. They have so many different style songs that no new material would really make anyone go "Wait, THIS is the smashing pumpkins???? this isn't right" They have songs where it's just Billy on guitar and vocals, songs like Disarm, aggressive songs like JellyBelly, Bullet with Butterfly wings, songs like Ava Adore using solely synthetic beats, Songs like tonight tonight, songs like The Everlasting Gaze that are down tuned, brutal songs.
That's just my ultimate goal is to always be pushing the band in different directions and always be reinventing our sound so that anyone that knows us will never say "HUH????" to anything we do, yet at the same time having it still sound like "Us". So that the natural progression actually becomes a part of "our sound".
I'm rambling, well it's not like anyone's really reading this anyways because Blogs are where it's at nowadays as far as, typing your thoughts down so that people can publicly read them in a journal-like fashion goes....
It's like 5:30 am, I have a show tonight, I should sleep.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately: I don't think I'll ever be happy with the stage I'm at with songwriting. I will like songs we write, I will probably always tell myself that I will eventually do better. I feel as if writing music is something that is never fully mastered. It's all about personal improvement and learning. I still feel like I'm learning how to write songs. If you get to the point where you think everything you do is great, then that's when you start to pump out soulless garbage. I will always be critical of everything I do.
Also, art is not a contest. I see so many bands and even fans of music really going out of their way to let everyone else know that they are well read/intellectual/deep/artistic/interest
The Smashing Pumpkins embody everything I would like my band to become. They have so many different style songs that no new material would really make anyone go "Wait, THIS is the smashing pumpkins???? this isn't right" They have songs where it's just Billy on guitar and vocals, songs like Disarm, aggressive songs like JellyBelly, Bullet with Butterfly wings, songs like Ava Adore using solely synthetic beats, Songs like tonight tonight, songs like The Everlasting Gaze that are down tuned, brutal songs.
That's just my ultimate goal is to always be pushing the band in different directions and always be reinventing our sound so that anyone that knows us will never say "HUH????" to anything we do, yet at the same time having it still sound like "Us". So that the natural progression actually becomes a part of "our sound".
I'm rambling, well it's not like anyone's really reading this anyways because Blogs are where it's at nowadays as far as, typing your thoughts down so that people can publicly read them in a journal-like fashion goes....
It's like 5:30 am, I have a show tonight, I should sleep.
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