May 2009
3 posts
obvi gonna be a follow up
so playing other peoples music is sweet and i really enjoy it. however, i feel like (99% of the time) if you dont write your own shit then whats the point? after becoming aware of the ENDLESS amount of ‘covers’ by turds on youtube/being around people who just play other peoples music, its like, uhhhh, get another hobby. not only is it fun and fascinating but it seems like there are so...
rekkid update
oh boi
so pretty much the final steez for this project is gonna be 10 songs and 3 extras(bside things whatev). im not sweatin the extra songs too hard although i do think theyre cool. i’m pretty much not sweatin any of this shit actually, its just been fun to do and i’m doin it whenever i have some free time or am bored. its definitely crazy the amount of shit that gets filtered down...
WORD
skoolz out yo. got good grades. got summer school. leaving for seattle thurs morning. recording steady for these next 2 days til then.
WORD
April 2009
1 post
omgee
IM PRETTY MUCH FREAKING OUT. LIKE ALWAYS.
art art art art art
ideas ideas ideas
time
care
people are so inspiring. that may be my biggest influence? life is just too cool. i love it so much. everything is so interesting.
YOU TUBE is so interesting. holy shit. being able to experience shit that i would have otherwise never come across is the best shit ever. puts stuff into that much more...
March 2009
6 posts
OWNED
me and heather ran the 10k yesterday and finished and did pretty well so i’m happy! yesterday was a crazy day but i’m back to bein a chillbo baggins now. holla atchya boiiiiiiiiiiiiii
dove
holypoop this bird that has given birth in our flower pot is the best thing ever. i just saw her and she has barely left her stoop in the past week+ but was off of her perch and i was able to peep her 2 eggs. i came up to the window and she flew back on them and snuggled up and protected them. jesus. so adorable/insane to watch and very heartwarming.
one more
ya, so me and rob have recorded a bunch of shit in the past few months. i have drums on 5 of his tunes, and i think theres a few more i’ll do stuff on. i pretty much have the last 3 or so of my songs that i’m gonna do as well. i have like 3 or so ‘bsides’ so far that i’ll prob. record when i’m bored or something. we’re also gonna revive a few of the older...
finally
so yea, all things going according to plan, i will be done w/ school next may. one more year. sweet. its been a long time comin, but i’m really glad that i’m on track and stuff. i think everything has worked out for the better, and i am glad that i’ve have been and will be readying myself to be in a much better position (in the grand scheme of LIFE) than i would have been in...
sabbatical OVER
i havent been blogging very hard lately, and i’m not sure why. just kinda fell off it and didnt care about it. whatever. i like to think of blogging as a sport. ok.
so i bought a rolling stone yesterday. i’ve bought like 4 in the past 6 months for some reason, maybe just to see whats goin on with the major retards of the entertainment biz, but there was an interview with bono. for the...
i'm in love...
….with music
big news right!?!? it never gets old, makes me feel incredible, and really makes me feel like i have a purpose in life. i feel VERY, VERY grateful to have an interest that is so deeply affecting like this. i can’t shake it. i’m at the mercy of it and that’s an incredible power. i have a feeling that i won’t be able to escape this addiction and i’m...
February 2009
17 posts
damn, wilco
well i knew i loved wilco, but this aol sessions is extremely pimpin
http://music.aol.com/video/side-with-the-seeds-aol-sessions/wilco/1916977
i can see the genius in the six man lineup now. for awhile i was like, do yall really need it? i was sold on the 5 man lineup bein the jam, and it still is very straight; but i can see whats up w/ the 6 man squad.
nice, wilco. nice.
lily pad
its ashame that theres some kinda hot reggae tracks backing lily allen’s terrible vocals. damn, she sucks. but damn she’s hot. how it goes i s’pose.
forreal rekkid update thing kinda
so i keep changing my mind everyday, BUT, I THINK what i’m gonna do for the ‘album’ jam IIIIS
have a little interlude at the end of track 8 which will lead into a kind of shorter chill/mellow soundscape kind of track that’ll transition into the last track. i just am still not exactly sure how i feel about this other song i have because while its cool, i just am too...
man,
so this andrew bird sounds cool, but what’s up with whistling? i feel like it straight messes up these songs. definitely some cool shit happening here, but its too quirky for me to completely perv out on and be obsessed w/. sorry.
PostSkrippt:
so i’m peepin a live performance of his now, and its actually pretty insane. whistling is still dark, and hes very dorky/proper so its...
rehash
just peeped that ‘masked…’ project i did awhile ago.
man.
i am really proud of that shit. judging it from an objective perspective now after being removed from it, i really think it has some amazing shit on in. this is shit i’m not even taking credit for; ill synth tones, dope samples, etc. I am just glad I did that.
word.
more record updates
so in my little archives right now, i have a bunch of different melody/rhythm/groove ideas, but are all kind of using the same chords, so i dont really wanna make 5 songs for this project that are thaaaat similar. so i’m pretty much just trying to make a singular really cool song and probably just do some ‘b sides’ or something like that just to get those melodies out there.
and...
first, second,
poets of rhythm are very burning. i havent really peeped it a long time, but hot damn is it funky.
secondably, i went through my hard drive and peeped all the projects ive started since i got the laptop/started messin w/ guitar songs and found a bunch of really cool melodies that i made up that have to be messed with alot but are really sweet i think! so thats awesome.
so,
i think i am goin to...
lil feat...
…rule. feel good melodeeez.
also, me and H goin to see the Bird and the Bee/Obi Best at the Barnes of Wolf Trap in March, boooyaaaa. long live the George family, right?
oh yea…
‘traction in the rain’ might be the pimpest crosby song. omg. so mellow.
oh yes…
this surf record i got from pops is really sick. i think its the vanduras. um, actually i just found their...
quickie
things i want right now:
a house where i can play music whenever and not bother anyone
that mixer w/ compresh/eq
a bass drum mic (and 2 tom mics)
cool
this wont happen
what you say? i’ll tell you…
me proofreading shit i write. i really need to though, damn.
ps to yesterdays rant
so listening to yohei yesterday made me accept some ‘everyday’ lyrics like i was hating on yesterday. i mean, i can obviously deal but sometimes that shit is really boring.
annuals is soundin pretty nice right now. their production is def. retarded and the compression on the drums/snare mainly is really crackin. the singer dood kinda seems like a tweaker though which is dark....
a quick few things
i’m pretty sure about 95% of the time i hate thom yorke’s voice. c’mon. you know its annoying.
really blatant, ‘everyday man’ type lyrics pretty much blow i think. not all the time i guess, but even still, why write about really obvious boring stuff? i am just really into weird slang, confused/double meanings and shit that doesnt mean anything or make sense.
...
list o jamz
so here it is, just a little track sheet for the new thing. i think i came up w/ the first melody in june, so i guess thats when this shiz started.
so,
Latent Natives
1) Holding Place
2) Viewpoint
3) Solid Foundation
4) Corsica
5) Body of Water
6) Powerful Deed
7) Repeat Offender
8) Sound Sleeper
i like it. nice and compact. no fluff (as always). it should be rite around 30mins....
blogsmogfognogdog
well i think i decided today that i think i am pretty happy and content with the little family of 8 tunes that i have worked out, and so i am (99% sure) gonna keep it at that for this project. nice g balls! nice!
yea, i am pretty down with this. i think i’ve gotten out what i wanted to do w/ some songs at this period in time and am just feeling good about the jams i think. its not A+...
yikes
damn, etta james off her rocker. doh.
ruh roh!
wassabiiiiiiiii
so i’m recording the guitar to ‘sound sleeper’ today. in fact, i just got the take! yippee! im gonna go back over and maybe do a thing here or there, but its all in time and w/ the full form and everything so i am syked! this tune is probably the most real ‘song’ that i have i think. it has a bunch of parts, diff. melodies and is 4 1/2 mins,...
name droppin'
so i think i’m gonna name this set of jams latent natives. ya, probably just those two words will serve as a title/name i guess. i messed with a kinda synthy beat over the weekend which was huge cuz i havent done that in a long time. i have thought of some other names of projects that will undoubtably happen in the future, so here they are.
next solo electronic singy jam (emphasis on being...
January 2009
23 posts
WatchHis middle name isn’t really Lee, but you better believe his first name is Bruce.
last post for tonight i swear
yea, just in general
who makes music (especially in a working band format) to not appeal to people? i am pretty sure that a subconscious goal of mine is to try and appeal to as many people as possible. i’m not talking about wack lil wayne shit or something, but am talking about just doing cool shit that is really accessible. i would still love to do weird out jazzrock stuff, or play coffee...
AAAH PT.2
progress
jamie mixing/doing something awesome with my music in the future
mind stimulation
more progress
BROTHERSPORT off this new animal collective is SO INCREDIBLE. it has so much energy and is so happy it makes me wanna barf happiness.
i know this is very spaztastic but i just get so excited about things i just cant help but freak out! whoot whoot!
aaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!
GOD
art is just the best thing EVER created. YESSS!!!!
no matter how hard i try to get into other things in my life and how i think i could live without it, art (specifically music) always reigns supreme. obviously other things are interesting, totally necessary and clearly inform art in all its infinite creations, but i mean SERIOUSLY, it is so incredible it just wigs me out! its so reliable...
kenny bloggins...
hahaha
VOCODER
o my lord, so i checked the new bon iver ep ‘blood bank’ and it sounds pretty good. same vibe and everything which i like i alot, however, the last of 4 songs is a COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS vocoder based acapella track. and by “completely ridiculous”, i mean OBSCENELY AWESOME. its incredible! obviously vocoder is totally absurd, but after accepting it after the first minute of...
big day
inauguration station 09 baby! hell yea….
so i had a pretty productive weekend up in fburg; i got the drums/shakers/main rhythm elec and acoustic guitars down on ‘powerful deed’ at robs parents crib. thats song #5 i’ve gotten started, and will be now working on tidying up ‘sound sleeper’ so that i can start tracking that as well, although it still needs some...
thank the lord!
there is hope everybody! no, i’m not talking about the new b.a.m.f.’in president, i’m talking about getting your once thought dead external hard drive brought back to life! my older h.d. failed and contained a bunch of random material on it. i wasnt too hurt over it cuz i had gotten everything off of it that was absolutely critical (i.e. some finished takes of some of the new...
the fuuutuuuureeee!!!
so after i am done with this collection of songs that ive been writing on guitar, i would like to start using the computer again to do some music stuff. i dont just want to use nuendo though, i think i need to really get into ableton. i need to be able to do songs live and in yo face! i would also like to get a looper. this will take a little while to get this equiptment together but i think it...
reoccuring dream theme
i cannot believe that music/noise exists. it is so incredibly awesome. why does it elicit feelings and moods out of us? an explanation of how these frequencies works does not suffice for this question. expression is so weird and cool. there are no rules, and that rules. everything EVER has just been made up by somebody else so you should do the same. live it up people!!!!
dig it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CslaDEc2PS8
ooooo back to school!
so today was the first day of the spring semester. BOO YA. i’m feelin pretty juiced. my school sched and work sched line up pretty straight, and i dont have any class on friday, and work on tu/th/sat still so i’m “loving life”. i got super juiced on my bikeride back from class tonight blasting the new energetic animal collective. damn. a positive mindstate is a positive...
good look brody!
as always, i can count on finding out cool stuff from ethan, and both these lil newnips are rad so check them out! i’m talkin to all of you out there! how many? lets see…ethan, mom, dad, nah not dad,…um, ok!!!
http://new.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_songsmith_mr_microphone_20.php
CURTIS MAYFIELD
see:subject
um, and now, dangelo too.
things 'n thangs
aaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!! so i am loving the new animal collective record, and because of this recent development i am also checking their previous lp and the subsequent ep from those sessions. jeez, talk about a burning cohesive vibe to a batch of tunes. wheeeeeewwwwwwww. also am checkin the old great white jenkins ep and this tune ‘fishing trawler’, and possibly the whole disc, is totally...
harrisonjam vol 2
and i’m back!
day #2 of the prework harrison recording studios went down today and was pretty cool again. blah blah blah i’m tired and will fill in later.
exciting!@)#$*(@#!!
p.s. to harrisonjamvol1
soooooo, im down w/ the take(s) i did for the song today and will keep them i think. ta da! i’m kinda already over the tune, but its still cool so its stayin i say!
i’m definitely feeling the limitations of a two mic setup w/o a real piece of gear to go through. the little maudio preamp is definitely straight for many applications, but it is not a nice/real piece of gear. so getting...
early harrison jamfest vol. 1
so i came out to work early today on a rainy day unannounced but i knew these chumps would be here!! muahahaha.
anywho, i recorded the drums for ‘viewpoint’. i’m pretty satisfied, although i definitely need get them plumped up in post production which will commence when i get home from here tonight! yippeeee
i used the normal 57 and the AT on the drums, but i used the two...
sci fi
so i peeped the new tv on the radio album today and was happily surprised. it sounds pretty rad in contradiction to what i thought i had heard and my preconceptions of what it was gonna be like.
pretty, prettaaaay good.
back on it
so i setup my mics and stuff today and did a lil recording. it wasnt very fruitful per se, but i do think i’m getting closer to the form of this song im workin on, so that make grant happy time!!
i did try out my new mic i got for christmas, an mxl 990 condensor. its sweet, it sounds straight and i think it has a noticable character change from the audio technica. being able to put two good...
rec's to peep
so ive only listened to a few tunes off this new animal collective, ‘merriweather post pavilion’ but it sounds aweeesome. this is an objective view as i like/hate some of their shit, so this one gets the thumbs up.
i need to get some more nina simone. she has some really cool stuff but what i was checkin was a lil too hokey/jazzy maybe? i think i need somethin more...
RECAP!@#!@$!!@!!
well good gracious, ive been on the move pretty steadily for over a week now and have finally had more than a day or so at my crib, so i’m gettin back to updatin’ da blog.
had a big holiday season. THE BIG TRIP WENT LIKE THIS: mom and dads, grannys, jane and daves, oma/opas, anne’s. THEN, i went home for the dentist/eye doc, then back to richmond, then we went to amish country...