oh dude.
ohhhhhhhhhhhh dude.
shit's about to get real.
how real? REAL REAL.

MAGIC!

AGGH! swedish people from all over the past few decades have me out-hooked, out-synthed, out-rocked and out-experimented to an almost infinite degree. good god. note to self, move to sweden. drink their water. lots of it ( Read more... )

and a little over twenty-four hours later, i feel much better thanks. while everyone else i know got tore up from the floor up, i went through like a gallon of apple cider, watched "ferris bueller's day off" (and then "death wish", which was made surreal by the side-effects of the cold medicine) and slept for like fifteen hours. i laid down the ( Read more... )

why am i sick today? is this some sort of karmic retribution for me not having a reasonable halloween costume? yeah, maybe i could have stepped away from the guitar long enough to go whip something up... i'm sorry, i really am! but i guess i'm paying for it now. all i want to do right now is flee to birmingham, play scrabble with my sister (while ( Read more... )

so maybe i should've put more time into nothing the differences between a bunch of piano pieces for today's theory quiz.. *ahem* well, at the very least, me and my professor sat around in his office and dissected old madonna (wtf!) performances for like an hour after class. "look at how she commands the crowd!" my grade can weather a nick and/or ( Read more... )

everytime i walk into a guitar store, there are certain songs that i can count on hearing some jerk fumbling through in the corner on a guitar he can't afford. "stairway to heaven" is the first thing that leaps to mind, and there's a lot of that one song by kansas that everyone knows too. there's a piano store by my dad's house and as i drove by it ( Read more... )

newest addition to my list of things to do before i die:
MEET DAVID LEE ROTH.

best. frontman. ever. bar none.
i want to sit down, have EXTREME tea with him, and figure out how he ticks. we'll talk shit about hagar and discuss technique for doing aerial splits.
and he's jewish! who knew?!

and once again i find myself awake at five-thirty in the morning, fresh off of a productive early morning (and night, and afternoon) of recording stuff. this has become the norm as of late and i really don't mind that considering that i do so love to make music, but i should probably stop running off of vault and ritz crackers at some point in the ( Read more... )

by hook or by crook, i will make my heroes proud soon.
on my own terms, in my own time.

kevin shields
david bowie
brian eno
those friedberger kids
neil young
my parents
my spaniard homeboy, ben chapman

danny's gotta do what's best for danny.

the past is the present the future is mine

okay kids. what should i be for halloween?

"pirate" would be too easy because my goatee makes me look like one every day as it is. and "the artist formerly known as prince" would require a total absence of dignity, even though he is a bad-ass musician. (purple rain was awesome, for the record.) i don't have enough purple in my wardrobe for that ( Read more... )