January 2012
5 posts
Job Title: ...
1) make songs ——— 2) ? ————> 3) make a living making songs.
2) google + last.fm + myspace + facebook + ilike + twitter + sonicbids + tumblr + photoshop + illustrator + final cut + winzip + buttons + crayons + markers + felt + construction paper + stamps + scissors + bubble wrap + envelopes + cell phone + webcam + gmail + wavelab + cubase + nero...
December 2008
1 post
DUDE: "So, what kind of music do you play?"
ME: (sputtering/muttering/stammering) “Well.. umm… it’s like, you know how — in high school — you had a really lousy band that practiced in your parent’s basement and you just kind of copied all your favorite songs and changed them very slightly to pretend like you have creativity and thought of them all by yourself? So, it’s kind of like that, only it...
November 2008
5 posts
SKQLCHHHEEEEKKKKQHKKEQKXH!
What was going to be a day recording demos has been abbreviated due to the fact that my hard drive has begun to make a shrieking/squelchingly hideous noise like bad brakes screeching in a high-pitched blender, so it became backup day.
Oh, the low hurdles! Oh, the inconvenient potholes! Oh, the poorly made Chinese electronics at a price that is certainly too good to be true!
Me am aurally illiterate.
Today was spent going through my entire record collection (and by “record,” I mostly mean hundreds of cd-r’s and dvd-r’s, since I had to sell most of my records and every cd when I ran out of money in college) trying to compile examples of what I would consider to be “beautifully recorded songs.” I am doing this for my benefit, yes, but more so as a point of...
Why I should not do an interview in person. e v e...
My brain is an abandoned storage shed with very little order; two chewed up Nerf football’s and remnants of a long-since abandoned possum den nestled amidst haphazardly thrown lawn chairs and rusty power tools all cloaked by threadbare blankets of spiderwebs.
My brain is a trusty old windmill on a calm summer afternoon and — in this age of nuclear power (and all other sorts of...
This is the louder, 2nd version of “them...
This is the very first version of “them...