today was my first practice with mayhaw and colin. this is mayhaw's new band, called THE SPOOKIES. we have a practice space, over by ron toms. we're sharing it with the woolen men. it used to be blitzen trapper's practice space, from around the furr times. it's like a little band apartment. it's rad ( Read more... )

yesterday i released real nights. well, online anyway. i need to rustle up an extra $150 or so before i can get CDs made. but i don't like sitting on finished projects, so i posted it to band camp. i'm really proud of this album. i think mayhaw and ky are too. i think we all kicked ass on it. it's not perfect in a technical sense (which i normally ( Read more... )

it's been almost ten days since i last updated, but it's been really boring here lately. i've been sick the past few days and my throat is still hurting like hobos. i've been working on the real nights album cover, and i think it's done. it's one of camille's photos. simplicity + colors + a free font = album cover. now that all the audio is locked ( Read more... )

catch up day! tuesday, i went to mayhaw's new practice space (shared with the woolen men) and recorded some demos. it's the same exact space that blitzen trapper used around the time they recorded furr. it's like a block from ron tom's. it's a great space. we had a lot of fun just recording vocals & guitar versions of 7 of mayhaw's songs. soon, his ( Read more... )

just got back from maui a couple hours ago. we were there 11 days. it was rad. i am glad to be home though. i missed my cats like SO much. alyssa and i weren't home five minutes before we drove to caitlin's to get chowder. so the entire family is reunited. someone take our portrait ( Read more... )

on saturday, i went to the nanner stand to see tiger house and bombs into you. both bands were rad. tiger house played a few new songs that were totally bodacious. "new york sleep" and "super moon" are my new favorites. but after watching 4.5 seasons of supernatural, i just can't get george as dean out of my brain. seriously. their personalities ( Read more... )

yesterday, alyssa and i went to her parents' place in gresham to talk maui stuff and eat burritos. kevin (her rad dad) showed me his new boutique amp, which is must say sounded pretty rad with his les paul. he and i watched CNN and bitched about republicans while alyssa tried on swim suits. did i mention we ate burritos ( Read more... )

alyssa and i took chowder to caitlin's apartment today. just for 24 hours or so, to make sure she can handle 10 days of him. caitlin has two other cats already, and chowder IS a bit of a handful but judging from the initial 15 minutes of chowder in her apartment, her cats seem to be taking to him okay. i mean, they were wary, but also curious and ( Read more... )

today i worked a ton on mixing the we shared milk's banana stand set. finished it. it sounds pretty good i think! now i'm caught up with the banana stand mixings. there's always more though. usually whatever i mix is from a show three or four months ago, so there's a constant backlog ( Read more... )

today finished up a first version of demo of a new song called "everything used to suck but now it's awesome." it's only one verse and a couple choruses, and the verse lyrics are mostly placeholder words, but i like the sound and feel. i found a great free synth plugin that emulates the prophet 5, which is a classic analog synth from the early 80s ( Read more... )