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i'm done.
in more ways than one

cant remember what ive written in here, so im just gonna go....record is done. D-O-N-E. mixed and mastered it on monday and tuesday. track list ( Read more... )

for my philosophy of death and dying class i had to keep a daily journal of three things i was thankful for that day, three gifts, and it should have been the easiest thing but i didn't do it so now i have to sit here some time before monday and make up three months worth of things im thankful for. you figure it out ( Read more... )

added keyboards to the record on sunday. long day, but stuff sounds 10x better. only mixing left before it's completely finished. might add harmonica to 2 or 3 more songs that day. Michael Bellar, a real cool guy, played all keys (piano, fender rhodes, hammond organ, accordion). he's Art Garfunkel's keyboard player, which is cool. also a member of ( Read more... )

finished editing my first ever short film tonight. probably no good but im really crazy about it right now. it's called Speed Of Sound. "wrote" it at work last wednesday. my buddy matt stars in most of it. met a girl from new jersey on thursday named Alison. she came down to visit Kerry. i got to hang out with her, see Eternal Sunshine Of The ( Read more... )

should i buy tickets to see Damien Rice? show is april 17th. keep in mind i have no money. still leaning toward it. comments? concerns?....

played a show tonight at the cafe zog. you heard right. cool, funny show. lots of song debuts. set list, in no particular order ( Read more... )

Asked why he recut "Mississippi" for Love and Theft and produced the album himself, Dylan replies, "If you had heard the original recording, you'd see in a second. The song was pretty much laid out intact melodically, lyrically and structurally, but Lanois didn't see it. Thought it was pedestrian. Took it down the Afro-polyrhythm route - ( Read more... )

is it an epiphany when you remember something you knew all along and forgot, or should have known all along, or thought of once then believed without thinking? what kind of deal do you make when you slice the skin of your palm then shake the hand of the muse: unrelenting voice that makes no promises, but more. for me, writing songs is like ripping ( Read more... )