i am quitefreaking vacillating between having my next album be instrumental and not. i have a ton of musical ideas that could be album-worthy, but no lyrics and hardly any vocal ideas at all. i HAVE tried to write some pop songs with words recently, and i just am not feeling the lyrical side of things. i hate it all. it feels really forced. ( Read more... )

the last 24 hours has been nearly constant work. last evening--which seems like days ago now--i worked a small concert event at the convention center. it was an amazingly awesome latin jazz band. i can't believe i'm even typing those words, but it's true. but yeah, a super easy shift. BUT then i had to be back at work at 1 AM for the portland to ( Read more... )

last saturday i played at alyssa's parents' house party. it was just acoustic, but ky and margie came, so ky did some impromptu backing vox on several songs. those were also the best songs of the set. peep my setlist yo ( Read more... )

man, variations in the pattern has only been done almost two months and i already have ambivalent feelings toward it. i think the first half of it is more or less really good, but the other half of it...isn't. i dunno, maybe i'm still too close to it. but it's hard to tell what songs are just weak songs and what songs are good songs that i just ( Read more... )

here's a list of my favorite songs from the 00s, in chronological order ( Read more... )

here is the list of my top 6 all time favorite songs (not in order, because coming up with just six was hard enough ( Read more... )

dude, last night i went to bed pretty early (midnight) because i planned on getting up at 7 AM to go to the spookies practice space to record drums for my album. i woke up at 4:00 and couldn't get back to sleep because i was thinking about various things, like what i was going to play on the drums in a few hours. i never got back to sleep. i got up ( Read more... )

dudes, i am really excited about my new album. i am just about finished recording 6 out of 11 songs, and i am super happy with how they sound. i don't always think every album i make is my best one yet (see: crack house, the history of fishes, modernity leave, real nights), but this time i do. this is going to be my best album yet ( Read more... )

the past week has been kinda weird for me. last sunday, one of the dudes from my eugene/corvallis/dallas crew died of brain cancer. his name is greg white. he was a eugene dude, originally from dallas, oregon (yeah, not the crappier one) along with nate, jim fischer (my u of o roommate), aaron fischer, michael hurd and many others. i didn't know ( Read more... )

alyssa and i got back from our bend trip today. it was rad, as usual. it was our third year at the same awesome B&B, but unfortunately they're going out of business in two weeks after doing it for 13 years. sad. we're gonna have to find a new anniversary haunt ( Read more... )