today: did the yearly drive to see xmas lights with alyssa and her parents. we sure saw some lights. AND NO NOT PEACOCK LANE.

i think i am starting to love ham sandwiches. i've never really been big on ham before now.

tomorrow: shaky hands practice and three more days till i found out if my stupid xmas songs won any moneys.

what's an observatory

all you need is PARF.

it's still a work in progress, mostly the outro and the mix in general. but i was too excited to wait till it was finished to post. youtube video coming soon too. it'll be the cutest cat video ever.

there's nothing you can purr that can't be purred ( Read more... )

today alyssa and i got up early (for us) and cleaned the entire kitchen, living room, cat closet and music room. we spent all afternoon on it. there was so much stuff to toss out, but we also filled a box with tons of stuff to give to goodwill. the kitchen table is completely cleared off for the first time in probably years. i cleaned areas of the ( Read more... )

today was shaky hands practice. justin power came. we are a five piece once again (i say it like it was ever a five piece when i was in the band). he brought some drum pieces and added stuff to songs. he'll also be doing lots of backing vocals. i'm glad, because we need backing vox and i didn't want to have to do it. most of the parts are probably ( Read more... )

today i mixed the silent numbers' set from the banana stand. it was a pretty quick one. really clean recording too. i think i'm getting better at pumping these out quickly. i can't wait for the woolen men tracks. i'll probably spend more time on them cuz i'm biased ( Read more... )

more INFP musicians:

harry nilsson
syd barrett
sufjan stevens
jay reatard
conor oberst (ewwww)
james taylor
joanna newsom
kate bush
nick drake
jeff buckley
van morrison
stephen malkmus
beck
wayne coyne
regina spektor

i'm getting all of this from the loooong discussion on this forum. all NF types are discussed if you are an NF (and i think all ( Read more... )

when i started getting into music in 5th grade, my two favorite bands were nirvana and the cure. both robert smith and kurt cobain are widely considered to be INFPs by those who give a crap about that kind of thing. i wonder if listening to their music at a formative age had anything to do with being INFP myself. or maybe i was already INFP and i ( Read more... )

yesterday was pugs practice. it was fun. we played songs. then i played a bunch of zelda. i wrote a new song called "only in the dark." it's only the the second song i've written since april! once the pugs album is done, i'll write another ton of songs though.

what's a wendy?

yesterday i worked on the pugs songs a bunch. mostly mixing, but i also redid the solo on "draw me out." i still don't like it though--i'll have to redo it again. the album is sounding sick. all i need is more of ky's vox and that'll be it. DONE. shouldn't be too hard to mix either, since it's not as dense as most of my stuff ( Read more... )

today was shaky hands practice, the first with all four of us. stuff is sounding sick. "all you recall" and "slip away" really work with the wurlitzer. i was never a huge fan of "slip away" (probably my least favorite on let it die, although every song on that album is killer), but it is really fun to play. we also started playing a new (actually ( Read more... )