I'm a Terrible, Terrible Blogger
It's starting to seem like every time I post something I make some smart-ass comment about how rarely I update this thing.
I'm over it.
Updates since... god damn, June? This could get messy...
-I helped my good friend Steve out on his dream of making a heist movie. It helped his case that he appealed to my ego by offering to have me both act and write a lot of the soundtrack. My name is gonna be all over the credits on this one.
-After that finished eating up my free time, I finally decided to give up on staying in Shannock and moved again. Now I'm back in Narragansett, ironically enough closer to URI now than I ever was when I was going there. Maybe it'll help if I end up there for grad school.
-Speaking of grad school, I took Calc II in Providence to make myself more eligilbe. I got a C+. Not bad for someone who hadn't taken a math class in three years. Also, it gave me an excuse to hang out in Providence, which is something I have to start doing more often.
-At the beginning of August I went on the family vacation to Myrtle beach and finally got some use out of my dive gear. Photos are up on Facebook, since pretty much everyone who reads this is friends with me there.
-I'm playing shows again. Check the MySpace page for details.
-Yesterday I headed up to Pawtucket to check out the Machines with Magnets section of Arts Festival up there. A few of the bands playing there were familiar from my days at the Musician's Guild, so I showed up to see how they were doing. Sick Electric owned as usual, and I'm incredibly excited about their new album (due out in two weeks, or so they tell me). I also caught sets by Txocha Txocha (noisy like the deeper tracks on In Utero) and Lolita Black (whose drummer I now have a crush on). Nice Slice was also in attendence, and yes, they are nice (and make a damn good pizza).
-New albums from the Smashing Pumpkins and Matthew Good were in heavy rotation in my car stereo (at least until it crapped out). A lot of people have been leery about the new Pumpkins album, but then again Siamese Dream was basically Billy Corgan on every instrument except drums, and that was their best album. Zeitgiest follows along the same lines; Billy has finally given up on writing the next "Tonight, Tonight" and is instead focused solely on the rock. Only the final song keeps it from being a five-star album; every other song is an awesome return to form for a band I've sorely missed. Hostpital Music from Matthew Good is just plain awesome. It's a very acoustic album, which actually makes his newly-bitter lyrics sting even harder. He's currently on a solo acoustic tour, which just may make it to the States (he released the album on U.S. iTunes, and it has actually done very well). A man can dream, right?
-Jimmy Eat World has a new album due out next month. I haven't had a chance to listen to lead single "Big Casino" in any detail because my car stereo is shot, but I'm looking forward to it.
-In the next couple days, I'll be a wave-plating true Rhode Islander again. I feel like I'm finally crawling out of my cocoon.
That's it for now. See you in however long it takes me to write again. And maybe I'll start working on "Rhode Island Summer" again too.
I'm over it.
Updates since... god damn, June? This could get messy...
-I helped my good friend Steve out on his dream of making a heist movie. It helped his case that he appealed to my ego by offering to have me both act and write a lot of the soundtrack. My name is gonna be all over the credits on this one.
-After that finished eating up my free time, I finally decided to give up on staying in Shannock and moved again. Now I'm back in Narragansett, ironically enough closer to URI now than I ever was when I was going there. Maybe it'll help if I end up there for grad school.
-Speaking of grad school, I took Calc II in Providence to make myself more eligilbe. I got a C+. Not bad for someone who hadn't taken a math class in three years. Also, it gave me an excuse to hang out in Providence, which is something I have to start doing more often.
-At the beginning of August I went on the family vacation to Myrtle beach and finally got some use out of my dive gear. Photos are up on Facebook, since pretty much everyone who reads this is friends with me there.
-I'm playing shows again. Check the MySpace page for details.
-Yesterday I headed up to Pawtucket to check out the Machines with Magnets section of Arts Festival up there. A few of the bands playing there were familiar from my days at the Musician's Guild, so I showed up to see how they were doing. Sick Electric owned as usual, and I'm incredibly excited about their new album (due out in two weeks, or so they tell me). I also caught sets by Txocha Txocha (noisy like the deeper tracks on In Utero) and Lolita Black (whose drummer I now have a crush on). Nice Slice was also in attendence, and yes, they are nice (and make a damn good pizza).
-New albums from the Smashing Pumpkins and Matthew Good were in heavy rotation in my car stereo (at least until it crapped out). A lot of people have been leery about the new Pumpkins album, but then again Siamese Dream was basically Billy Corgan on every instrument except drums, and that was their best album. Zeitgiest follows along the same lines; Billy has finally given up on writing the next "Tonight, Tonight" and is instead focused solely on the rock. Only the final song keeps it from being a five-star album; every other song is an awesome return to form for a band I've sorely missed. Hostpital Music from Matthew Good is just plain awesome. It's a very acoustic album, which actually makes his newly-bitter lyrics sting even harder. He's currently on a solo acoustic tour, which just may make it to the States (he released the album on U.S. iTunes, and it has actually done very well). A man can dream, right?
-Jimmy Eat World has a new album due out next month. I haven't had a chance to listen to lead single "Big Casino" in any detail because my car stereo is shot, but I'm looking forward to it.
-In the next couple days, I'll be a wave-plating true Rhode Islander again. I feel like I'm finally crawling out of my cocoon.
That's it for now. See you in however long it takes me to write again. And maybe I'll start working on "Rhode Island Summer" again too.