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i never know how to start these or why i bother posting but i think i have this crazy idea in my head where we'll all be in touch and ill be able to see how everyones doing when we're in our 40s.
things that have been going on:
studio - http://www.myspace.com/rd311studio . me and ben have been working really hard on fixing everything up and trying to book as many people as possible. im hoping eventually to get to the point where it can be my job and i can quit hollister, not that i dont love it there. we've spent the last couple weeks converting this walk in closet filled with wood, coal, christmas decorations, bags of newspaper and shit into a vocal booth. we cleaned it all out and knocked out this cement step that got in the way. cleaned off the walls with wire brushes real good and painted the walls all black last night. we're gonna probably go over it again and hang foam everywhere and finish it up. im pretty excited about it.. even though im sure you're not.
band stuff - we used to go out and risk everytihng and take things in stride but we've learned better now and are instead taking what seems like eternity to sit at home and prepare everything out for an effective release. thats important.. because tons of bands (including us) go do shit tours and just waste their time and money but we want to prepare so that when everything (finally) happens it will be distributed well, and then we'll tour to where its actually worth it. in the meantime we'll be going back to New Jersey to meet with Richard Reines, the owner of Drive Thru, again to stay at his house for a few more days and play him the new songs that we've demo-ed out. i've been trying to take this time and write for the full length but i feel extremely under pressure. everyones got a million ideas and directions they want to go and i get calls from the man to make sure im writing.. it gets to be hard because i start being overly critical of everything because i know it has to appeal to everyone in the band, it has to be marketable enough for the man, and at the same time i have to somehow still maintain a sense of integrity when i mark it down as complete. when i started it was easy just writing whatever i felt like and playing it for my friends. if i felt like a country song that day.. thats what i wrote and i was happy with it. its not the same. im feeling very minor.
glasses - i had to get glasses. my eyes are bad?
birthday - my birthday is on the 28th. ill be 21. this scares the piss out of me and means my musical clock is ticking. i got about 3-4 more years to make it happen. nonetheless, ill be celebrating it on the 28th and you're invited to join me. its at Burgi's in the banquet room. i think 44 rsvpeed already but theres plenty of room. theres gonna be a shitload of free wings, beer, and im having 3 TVs set up with PS2s. 1 TV will have Guitar Hero 1 and two axes. the 2nd will have Guitar Hero 2 and two axes. and the 3rd will be for any homos who like DDR. wings, beer, and guitarhero. it should be fun.. please come.
got the new brand new album... yeaaaaah. already people all over the internet are talkin about how it doesnt live up to Deja. i can hardly even read it. i dont think it lives up either. Deja held such a place for so many people including me that i dont know why they'd think any album, brand new or not, would ever compete with it. the new albums amazing regardless.. and at the end of the day if people could stop comparing things, i dont know what more you could ask of a band then for them to continue putting out different sounding, amazing albums.
things that have been going on:
studio - http://www.myspace.com/rd311studio . me and ben have been working really hard on fixing everything up and trying to book as many people as possible. im hoping eventually to get to the point where it can be my job and i can quit hollister, not that i dont love it there. we've spent the last couple weeks converting this walk in closet filled with wood, coal, christmas decorations, bags of newspaper and shit into a vocal booth. we cleaned it all out and knocked out this cement step that got in the way. cleaned off the walls with wire brushes real good and painted the walls all black last night. we're gonna probably go over it again and hang foam everywhere and finish it up. im pretty excited about it.. even though im sure you're not.
band stuff - we used to go out and risk everytihng and take things in stride but we've learned better now and are instead taking what seems like eternity to sit at home and prepare everything out for an effective release. thats important.. because tons of bands (including us) go do shit tours and just waste their time and money but we want to prepare so that when everything (finally) happens it will be distributed well, and then we'll tour to where its actually worth it. in the meantime we'll be going back to New Jersey to meet with Richard Reines, the owner of Drive Thru, again to stay at his house for a few more days and play him the new songs that we've demo-ed out. i've been trying to take this time and write for the full length but i feel extremely under pressure. everyones got a million ideas and directions they want to go and i get calls from the man to make sure im writing.. it gets to be hard because i start being overly critical of everything because i know it has to appeal to everyone in the band, it has to be marketable enough for the man, and at the same time i have to somehow still maintain a sense of integrity when i mark it down as complete. when i started it was easy just writing whatever i felt like and playing it for my friends. if i felt like a country song that day.. thats what i wrote and i was happy with it. its not the same. im feeling very minor.
glasses - i had to get glasses. my eyes are bad?
birthday - my birthday is on the 28th. ill be 21. this scares the piss out of me and means my musical clock is ticking. i got about 3-4 more years to make it happen. nonetheless, ill be celebrating it on the 28th and you're invited to join me. its at Burgi's in the banquet room. i think 44 rsvpeed already but theres plenty of room. theres gonna be a shitload of free wings, beer, and im having 3 TVs set up with PS2s. 1 TV will have Guitar Hero 1 and two axes. the 2nd will have Guitar Hero 2 and two axes. and the 3rd will be for any homos who like DDR. wings, beer, and guitarhero. it should be fun.. please come.
got the new brand new album... yeaaaaah. already people all over the internet are talkin about how it doesnt live up to Deja. i can hardly even read it. i dont think it lives up either. Deja held such a place for so many people including me that i dont know why they'd think any album, brand new or not, would ever compete with it. the new albums amazing regardless.. and at the end of the day if people could stop comparing things, i dont know what more you could ask of a band then for them to continue putting out different sounding, amazing albums.