inspired by the wise words of jacob bannon

[penisxcore]

"My only criticism of the independent music world as a whole might be that nobody waits anymore. Nobody takes their time to develop something. There's always this mad dash. Some sort of finish line to create some sort of piece of art to get a release out to do this or to do that..." J. Bannon of Converge

Comments

[choadushouse]

I don't think you sound pretentious at all.
You're clearly just being very honest and diving into things as deep as you can (effortlessly though).
Of course I happen to agree with you on the majority of your statements and a lot of your feelings.
But, aside from that...

Is Corey a drummer???

Also, you called those promo pics?
Are they to go along with your book?
They seem to fit the synopsis!

[penisxcore]

thanks buddy :)

and no, corey is also a guitarist. but he went to Musician's Institute for recording and says he will be flying down here a bunch in the next few months. if you want to play and hopefully record some music with us that would be awesome. i cant figure out the amplitube software i got but im hoping he can... so we can all play direct in to protools and use whatever amp configuration we want with the software.

as for drums... theres a couple of options. but well talk about that.

and the pics are some of these prints im sending with my submission to publishers. im not sure if theyll actually go in the book but maybe.

[penisxcore]

by the way, corey is @slackkeyshred on twitter

[technologicque]

..but you have to admit, waking up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy is very relevant to our times.

(if you don't know, its a Ke$ha song.. popular at the moment) .. and I'm terrible at making jokes.

[penisxcore]

yep. its relevent to about .05 of the 1st world population. ;(

jokes or not, i like you anyways. but i have no idea who Ke$ha is

[technologicque]

lol yay! :D
and maybe you should look her up, i guarantee it's exactly what you love to listen to! :)

[592311]

Post-undergraduate depression/anxiety is completely normal; I think it really does help you grow looking back on it. For me, I moved back home with my parents and holy moly, I cried for quite some time. It's just the adjustment of it all - and beyond that, it's just an enormous change in your life. Stay strong (I know you will be). You have so much talent and shit lined up for you! :)

And ahhhh...these pictures turn me on. A lot.

[penisxcore]

yeah it seems everyone goes through a bit of it. i hope youre doing okay. :)

and thank so much for the kind words xoxo

[ww0308]

There are always sincere art movements that have a genuine bone to pick with the status quo, and there are always shallow and mindless art movements too, so don't fall into the old trap of imagining that All Good Art Just Died. If you keep fighting for it, you can find your way back to the good stuff.

Also, LA has a bottomless and fanatically religious reverence for youth, but be careful not to buy into that and get too hostile to the old crowd, since you'll inevitably become part of the old crowd at some point, and are already closer than you were before you graduated, were in high school, etc. And all the really effective provocateurs kept at it for a nice long time-- Frank Zappa, Ken Kesey, Angela Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Larry Kramer, Christopher Isherwood, even those burnout suicides Abbie Hoffman and Screaming Lord Sutch. Look 'em up on wikipedia if you're curious!

[penisxcore]

yes there are. and i still know sincere artists. i guess part of my deeper complaint is that im probably not a part of any "youth" movement anymore because i am getting older. a lot of those movements, especially that are grounded in music, are very regional... and since i dont live in the place i grew up, its harder to find out about the stuff that isnt already a bit mainstream/status quo. i do look around at times and have come across some really interesting scenes down here. for example, theres a thriving latino grindcore scene in southeast LA