yesterday delffs came over and we worked on some editing of the mastering mockup. i came up with a little transition between the first two songs ("flawed and eternal" and "shot down") because nick thought the abruptness of the beginning of "shot down" was too jarring. so i did a backwards swell with reverse reverb kinda thing. nick also wanted to ( Read more... )

today was an intensive pugs practice. we were rusty. we learned "nuke song" from missing briefcase. it's super easy. got some overdubs from ky ( Read more... )

today was a shaky hands practice. my first with mike (he and nick had already practiced with just the two of them a week or two ago). it sounded great with mike on a REAL wurlitzer electric piano. and you know how i feel about wurlitzers. they make me lush. mike's trying to get a farfisa to play on some songs too, but he could probably do ( Read more... )

yesterday was another thanksgiving thing with my dad's side of the family at my uncle joel's house here in portland (not far from our place actually). my uncle tuck, aunt shaela and cousin steve (yes, there already IS a steve arrowsmith, so i can't name a hypothetical child steve like i'd want to). i hadn't seen them for over 10+ years probably. ( Read more... )

yesterday was thanksgiving. me, alyssa, my brother and my parents ate at gustav's. it was supposed to be on the rheinlander side, but apparently the people who booked the reservation messed it up. we've been eating there on thanksgiving since 2008. i had an awesome prime rib. it was cooked rare and delicious. after that, alyssa and i drove to ( Read more... )

today i worked on a pop-punk "o holy night." dumb. actually, that one has a nice melody so it wasn't so bad. next i'm gonna do an electro version of "auld lang syne" then call it. i'll have ten songs then, and most of the well-known public domain songs will have been exhausted ( Read more... )

i've been listening to a lot of bruce springsteen lately (born to run, darkness on the edge of town and the promise). his original version of "because the night" kicks natalie merchant's ass. yesterday i went to the doc for my usual followup and replenishment of my zoloft 'script. i apparently lost ten pounds since the last time i was there in july ( Read more... )

not too much happening lately. some more tiger house recording last weekend. lots of TV watching (the walking dead, boardwalk empire, bored to death, glee, etc.). also, recording stupid christmas covers. they're deliciously terrible. i do take a perverse kind of pleasure in making convincing pop-punk ( Read more... )

we made corn chowder today! me, alyssa, parf, tessa and chowder!

almost every night i dream about my shoving-me-down-stairs neighbor in apt. #6. seriously. usually it involves us shaking hands, getting past our misunderstandings and becoming bros. my dreams are a cruel joke.

what's a climax?

yesterday was a pugs practice. we started learning "we all abide" from PDR. we got it together (though not TIGHT) fast. we also kinda started "pass by palestine," but we didn't feel like figuring out its weirdness yet. it was a pretty lightweight practice, but fun as always ( Read more... )