yesterday we recorded four tracks for the new ep, which is yet to be titled. just guitar and drums, but it came together swimmingly. ben was pounding away like a drunk monkey and so i think it is safe to say that we are learning to play with each other! very exciting. today we are tracking mark's bass lines and we have some friends that are going ( Read more... )

i have been thinking that most of my difficulties would disappear if i possessed a decent drum machine. i am not thinking anything particularly fancy: just a 606! and i would even be happy with a 505 ( Read more... )

ah, i have finally come to that square on the great academic sidewalk that is clearly demarcated "completion". RS seems to be pleased with my work; he has released me to my more enjoyable preoccupations. we have arrived at a sort of bank holiday. i believe that i will be spending mine ordering tapes from 'best kept secret'.

rival self appears to have passed some form of sickness on to me. for all of his restrictions, i would think that he would have the courtesy to refrain from staying out late, but apparently this is not the case. i have eaten his shock tarts by way of retaliation. i think he stole them from juli, anyway ( Read more... )

i was reprimanded today by my rival self for leaving the apartment. although he was pleased that i located a suitable work ethic, he was disappointed that i had broken my promise. i'm just not a very subdued person, most of the time, and these walls are becoming somewhat oppressive. i have lots of new ideas and material and i would like to ( Read more... )

i have all but abandoned my paper and scrolled through journal entries for almost three hours. i have already eaten my allotment of bean burritos for tonight. the clock in my kitchen is ticking plaintively and i have one sentence.

"In Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Emma acts violently and erratically in an attempt to exert control over her environment ( Read more... )