Saturday, February 28, 2009

working on new material

well we are now working on a ton of new material, it's fun, I am enjoying playing the songs we're doing now, like a stripped down sonicsaurdohjrfanclubunwound. Something else!

oh and ups is fighting me on my twin being smashed by them, a true delight, I figure if you insure something and it gets smashed in transit by a shipping company they should reimburse you the amount you insured the package for, amirite? I think so.

picked up this little vibrolux reverb amp on the fly and i love the cleans on it, quite a cool little customer!
Also thrilling is this Beaver Stuffing Kit, you know you want this!


currently listening to His Name Is Alive

pictured is Andy_Fm of said band. I loved their live show I caught in 2007, one of my all time favorite bands from growing up in Detroit.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Monday, February 16, 2009

reflecting on Larry, amongst other things

Given the current socio-economic climate and the brink of supreme destruction that seems to have everyone on the abyss of failure and greatness in one swift laser shot to the head, I find myself thinking of Larry. Larry was my father's best friend for many years, he was a substantial drinking pro who seemed to have ultimate knowledge on subjects like : Plastic Extrusion and Node Rocks. Plastic was his thing, oh and he excelled in fixing clutches on older chevrolet's, key to his existence overall other things was the Node Rock and Miller Lite or Budweiser. I was speaking of him last night to Sans and man, I forgot how amazing he was. I worked with him the summer I was 19 years old, I inhaled hefty plastic fumes and listened to My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth the whole time on my boombox whilst working with him, or rather while I watched him get drunk at work and I smoked cigs on the loading dock, I can't remember much else about that job, I was there but it's gone now. I remember him falling asleep at the wheel and running over two mailboxes, I swiftly socked him in the face to alert him to the goings-on. He also sunk lower over time to the level of stealing my sister's 10-speed, after which my father disowned him. The Node Rock, a detail I almost left out. Larry once kicked a rock outside of a kiss concert, my father says he was on lsd or something like that, from what I heard later at that same job, the rock floated in front of Larry and said his name, then it flew away. AMAZING! I wonder where he is now.
Larry, where are you now man?


here's a random picture of my band playing a show sometime in DC. lol, I forgot about this show, I thought we sucked but the live recording of it was actually quite nice.

I have been rocking out to Sebadoh and Versus almost exclusively for a few days now and it feels pretty good to me.


thanks for reading, thanks for the memories Larry.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

twin died, bandmaster wall

whoa bandmaster wall :D

the twin died in shipping, RIP

looking to get this right here in the future

Monday, February 9, 2009

shjips

I went to ship an amp, an exceptionally heavy amp mind you, and the UPS store had closed 2 minutes prior to my arrival. I think that sets the tone for today pretty well.

aside from that, Andrew Kenney of American Analog Set has a new ban, the wooden birds, I bet it's gonna be huge for some reason.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

party monster

this movie "Party Monster" is so over the top that I can hardly stand to watch it.

That aside, I had a moment today where I realized that a band I hated on for a while is actually quite good, sorry about that Lucero, you are actually quite alright in my book. I say this because I saw a movie that they did the soundtrack for and well, I appreciated it's subtlety, I am not sure how the records would sound.

I was thinking back on my first "Real" electric guitar today, a peavey predator probably from the mid 80's that my gramps bought for me, he hated electric guitars so in retrospect this was a big deal :D
thanks gramps!

this is my lion handpuppet

Don't hate cuz you can't relate.
I watched a lot of tv today for absolutely no reason, it was either the tube or sleep.
new tuning in play : EADFAE

I was watching newer dinosaur jr footage on youtube tonight, I was pleased to see "Out There" is being played, I always loved that song. I spent a good part of the day playing my jazzmaster as well.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

the weather being superb

the day being stellar, sans is knitting, I just sealed the deal on a pre-cbs bandmaster head with a nice cab looks like this :

mm-hmm, tasty like biscuits & gravy on a sunday morning. Band stuff seems to have sorted itself out for the time being and all is productive and flourishing. I shipped a box to grand rapids today, funny considering I have been there like 40 times in my life to ship something there 10 years after I left that state. I feel the urge to see a movie, not on demand for once.

the final 4 are not cylons at all


I got this record today:
Marnie Stern is exactly what I'd expect Wyld Stallionz to sound like only better, love this right now. Definitely goodtimes music with gratuitous finger taps all over the place.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

heavy amps = broken backs

well today has been interesting, I just had to cancel my band's next show and I am not feeling the best about, there was an all out weird conversation last night wherein I had to tell it like it is. Always feels like I am preaching, haha. The pastor of noise guitar.
Have you had Campbell's chicken corn chowder?
It's the rulingest soup I have had in a long time, might as well be homemade.
Sans and I consume it in mass quantities. Speaking of her, she rules!
I have been pondering amps a lot lately, my twin reverb is too much amp for me to really take to shows and I am thinking of going with another head/cab set up. I am milling around about 3 different heads, updates later.

Today I watched this Sonic Youth live footage on youtube
I love you golden blue


not sure how to embed them as of yet as I am just now trying to get into blogging anyhow.

Monday, February 2, 2009

2 posts in a row



instead of editing my earlier post I am going to add a few things with this post. Sans bought me this book and I love it.
and then there was this!

some stuff



new jazzmaster :P
and a new picture of thurston moore.
Picked up the jazzmaster recently and just fellin love with the matching headstock, it's sort of the coolest thing I have picked up in a long while.

other things:
I have had a migraine for a while and Sans made us some really righteous tuna salad stuff. Delicious.
I have other thoughts but for now I will leave you with this: You look at yourself in the mirror and wonder sometimes if that's really the way other people see you, as it is you are accustomed to your own perception of that view, maybe to other people your eyes look black.