!.Mastodon is opening for Neurosis in NYC in a week. After much soul searching and little math I've decided not to go. I have home heating oil to purchase on the off-chance that it might be winter or something. I'm deciding not to be pissed, and also if not being pissed means buying a Melvins t-shirt. I don't think it does. Shit. Fuck. Oil ( Read more... )

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I feel the my connection to my family dwindling each year. This year, my mother's immediate family is with us. I don't feel like I'm one of them. I don't share their interests or politics, and right now I don't share in their sense of welcome in my house.

In other news, Walk Hard: the Dewy Cox Story is fucking hysterical. I want to see it again ( Read more... )

So I just heard from the USAISAMONSTER. They had to remix the drums before mastering because of an idiot mistake I made. To be fair to myself, I could have corrected the mixes over the phone, probably in my sleep. There was periodic distortion attached to a couple loud ride-cymbal hits that were overdriving a Pro Tools bus I had set up to compress ( Read more... )

I just finished mixing the USAISAMONSTER's new record. For those of you who aren't nostalgic about Sr. Hi 2002, or don't know this band already from Beloit in 2003 (they still have the poster Neil Hamburger autographed), or don't know the band for whatever reason it is that people don't know bands, the USAisAMonster is totally righteous punks- ( Read more... )

Incidentally, I'm in love with Bruce's new record. It's not flawless: it has a poor mix, and the production leaves a lot be desired (the whole thing is too glossy, and plays down the band). However, the songs are the bestest, top-tier, heart-in-your-mouth songs he's written since Nebraska. They display such focus and superb craft; Bruce is really ( Read more... )

I don't think I've written anything of real consequence for the whole of this semester. That's okay for me, since this forum has never been a real outlet for me, but possibly bad for you. So by way of update: the band I am producing delivered a shitty performance in the studio, but I bought that microphone I wanted, which sounds great. Listening ( Read more... )

Recording? Anyone interested? At all?

Okay. To all the gear sluts out there (Andrew, I'm looking at you), should I buy an Audix D6 kick-drum microphone if I could get one for around $100 used?

Tonight, right around 8 pm, I was finishing a savory pasta and notmeatballs dinner, watching My Best Fiend by Werner Herzog, when, with almost no effort on my part, which is to say quite uncontrollably, I passed the fuck out. Seriously, I realized I was going down and was just doing my best to land comfortably before I lost consciousness. Now I ( Read more... )

My mamma's first love was a vile ex-marine. But the blood and guts in her heart could have washed Pilate's hands clean. Her lips were like an anvil, dropped from a cliff. The fall had almost killed him, and the that anvil hit ( Read more... )