not too much going on in the past month or so. lots of spookies stuff though. we played a show, and even though 3/4 of us were quite ILL, we rocked it. it was lots of fun. i paid for it the next day and felt the sickest and shittiest i'd felt in years. WORTH IT. a good musical thing is always worth it ( Read more... )

in the past three days, i recorded and mixed and mastered my submission for pdx pop now. it's "before i knew," which i posted a demo of in the previous post. DOWNLOAD MY PDX POP SUBMISSION HERE EHit was really fun distorting the shit out of everything. but even performance-wise, i don't think i've recorded vocals any quicker than i did on this. it' ( Read more... )

two days ago (on the 1st), i crapped out four new song embryos. just melodies and chords, with no lyrics for all but one song. i hadn't written any actual non-instrumental songs since november, so that was cool. the song circle at the practice space this week got my head back into songwriting mode i think. especially after seeing morgan from your ( Read more... )

so far, this year has been comprised of three musical projects ( Read more... )

last july, i got a bee in my bonnet about writing and recording top 40 style pop songs, but with tiger and/or ky singing them. tiger has such a cool sounding voice, and ky knows how to produce and record her, so i figured it would be a fun project. so i wrote and demoed a few songs and got ky and tiger on board...then i kind of got cold feet about ( Read more... )

this is a great pre-britpop song from 1990 by the lightning seeds:

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i recorded a cover of it waaayyy back in the last decade. okay, it was just 2009. whatever, fuck y'all.

hear my cover of a wimpy british pop hit that coldplay could only wish they wrote.

what's a crapshoot?

parf's favorite bands: AC/DC, aerosmith, metallica, ozzy/80s black sabbath. he also loves spinal tap but doesn't get that they're a joke ( Read more... )

a lot of stuff has happened in the past week, or so it feels like anyway. on saturday was the legendary first spookies show. i think it exceeded all of our expectations. it was definitely the best first show that i've ever played (aside from maybe my first solo mini-set at the cafe delirium open mic ten (!!) years ago). the place was packed, people ( Read more... )

lots of alyssa family christmas things happening in the past week. went to salem on saturday for a family potluck thing. alyssa got food poisoning from something she ate there. at 4:30 AM that night i woke up to a super loud thud, which turned out to be alyssa fainting in the bathroom. that totally freaked me out. luckily, she didn't have it too ( Read more... )

since the last post, i've mostly been doing one of five things ( Read more... )