we can find a better place in this twilight
Hi, kids, yeah, long time no post, deal with it. With the upcoming Crimbo, New Year's, my Birthday, the Manson Concert, the beginning of the new school semester, then the And One/Ashley tribute concert, I'm going to be crazy, crazy busy this January/February. No big thing though, I like that.
I'm actually looking forward to getting back into school again. I miss classes; I miss classmates; I miss professors; I miss the Mint Building and the music department and being able to have Professor Kelly (when he has the time) review my personal projects. It's a really valuable resource.
Man, Sunday was the day of weird dreams. Everyone I know had some complicated, near lucid dream, except for me. I just had trouble breathing and couldn't sleep properly. Regardless, my mom got yet ANOTHER new cat, even though she just got our THIRD orange tabby, another cat saved from probable death, this one named Pickles - but the new cat, it's funny - I had been going around saying that I loved our cats...I have two in my apartment, Jack, the original, and Trevor, who was from the litter downstairs and who is a great reminder of the wonderful man that Johnny was before he passed away because of the stupidest reasons...but I don't know who reads this and I don't want to go into it, so I'll leave it there. In our lease, see, we can each have two cats per apartment. So when my mom rescued Pickles, she kept him downstairs in her apartment (she lives on the first floor, I'm on the third). I named him "Pickles" as a tribute to the movie Shaun of the Dead, where Shaun's mother calls him "Pickle". It felt right.
Anyway, my mom's been feeding these stray cats, of all different breeds, and I've been saying for about six months now how I've always wanted a pure, pure black cat with gorgeous fur and green eyes - and then one day, by the food my mom leaves out near the front door, wham, I see a pure black cat with green eyes - and I go up to her and she was tentative, but ended up falling in love with me. My mom mentioned seeing her before, but she was so skittish, she could never approach her. Well, eventually the cats found their way to our backyard, and my mom set up a nice insulated house for them and a bunch of food and water, and they all live back there - but my mom had a storm door/screen door installed on the back door to the patio/backyard, and Pickles would sit on a chair staring down at the black cat, who would stand there staring up at him. For HOURS. Finally, one day, I just said to my mom, "Look, it's cold, just let her in. They'll be fine." And really, she was. Pickles was more of a nutcase, just 'cause he's so in love with her. He'll try to act all amazing and fast and strong but has calmed down now and just lies down and kisses her and cleans her.
My mom originally called her Zoey, but one day I called her Erin by mistake, and bam, it stuck. So now her name is Erin, and although she likes going outside everyday (which I don't like, since it's dropped in temperature really badly here, but she WAS an outdoor stray before this, so you can't blame her, you can't really ever break that habit), she always comes back. I just want her to get over that soon, she's so gorgeous - and has those green eyes. Man. Ask and ye shall receieve if your karma is good enough.
Anyway, I'm gonna shift to some boring music notes, for those of you that care.
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Palecurve stuff:
The albums that I'm working on and releases coming up have been changed around a bit, so the schedules have been shifted. I'm still aiming to do a short tour during the summer of 2008 - I'd really like to hit Virginia or Ohio and do a show with Mark or Addison, or, go to VA, pick up Mark and bring him back here to record and do some shows up in my neighborhood and NJ and NY/Brooklyn/Manhattan. Mark, if you're up for it, lemme know. Also, I have mega massive shit to e-mail you about, so leave me your e-mail, aight? I dunno if it's the same as it's always been or not. It concerns production but also that collab we were talking about...I'd like to bring you in on something I've been developing.
So, here are the changes that have taken place.
The "Your Only Love Is Yourself EP" is now a straight-up album. It has too many songs to be an EP. I've whittled the tracklist down to ten songs, all of them named after the major arcana of the tarot, for the most part - with one major exception. So it's now just "Your Only Love Is Yourself". Now that it's an album, I'm pushing it back to master it more and do some extra production on some tracks...thinking summer 2008. Maybe earlier, depends.
The "The Thin Line" single is now going to be "The Thin Line EP". I've decided NOT to put The Thin Line on my now third album, Failure of the Week, just because it doesn't fit with the feel anymore. Ditto with a few other songs that were waiting to be placed on it but now don't fit. So the Thin Line EP will consist of TTL, a couple songs from the original FOTW sessions, some unreleased tracks, H's remix of The Thin Line, now titled "Crossing The Line" (and with vox - Mark, actually, I'm hoping you have that track still, 'cause I don't - so if you do, lemme know and send it my way?) plus two of my own remixes of TTL, a short club mix and HOPEFULLY Addison or someone else is interested in remixing it, even though I don't have the masters anymore. I might be able to put them together with the old FL demo tracks, so - if anyone is interested in remixing a palecurve song and you don't suck, please leave a comment or let me know.
Failure of the Week is, as Michelle has stated, my massive gargantuan baby/child of a project, and I promise, I will not abandon it like I have other album ideas and move on. This is now going to be my third album, since YOLIY will be my second, but FOTW is really the "proper" follow-up to my first album ever, Don't Tell Her Everything. Mark and I will still be producing it, it's just that the album now sounds different and has a different feel. There are also going to be two versions - one with the original "forehead kiss" artwork and one with new artwork. As to the differences between the two versions? That'll be decided later. As for now, the release date? "soon."
Finally, Your Only Love Is Yourself will produce a small single that I'll be selling on palecurve.com for only three dollars (that's 3 bucks), and giving out for free after various concerts/club nights in the Philly area. The single will be for the song "Miss Manipulation" and will feature the title track, a remix, a b-side and an unreleased palecurve song.
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Now, a chronological order of what's being released when:
* December 2007
- Scores Vol. 2: Another Sad Story
* January - May 2008
- Miss Manipulation (Single)
- Your Only Love Is Yourself
* Summer 2008
- The Thin Line EP
* soon.
- Failure Of The Week.
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Finally, for the curious, some tracklistings for these items. Please note that when it comes to my music, tracklistings are ALWAYS tentative, because I switch songs in and out at a whim.
Miss Manipulation
1. Miss Manipulation (Album Version)
2. Miss Manipulation (less than three <3attack version)
3. Transgression
4. D1 (Devotion to One)
Your Only Love Is Yourself
1. The Fool
2. The Heirophant
3. Long Walk Home
4. The Tower
5. The Lovers
6. The Priestess
7. Miss Manipulation
8. The Emperor
9. The Star
10. Your Only Love Is Yourself
The Thin Line EP
1. The Thin Line
2. The Living Shadow
3. Crossing The Line
4. The Thin Line (motion and grace mix)
5. My Portrait In Ice
6. MDM(A)
7. A New Life
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And finally:
palecurve.com will be updated before the end of the year.
it will feature a fixed discography, links to information pages on the different albums, and most importantly, the "music" section will open up. it's kind of like the "palecurve radio" section of the old palecurve.com site, for those of you that remember it. all songs in this section will either be streaming previews from upcoming albums, and there will always be at least two tracks for you to download.
palecurve.com music downloads for january 2008
nine inch nails - survivalism (palecurve's ultraviolence mix) - 2007
nine inch nails - in this twilight (velvet lemonade mix) - 2008
tweaker - it's still happening (for now, at least) - 2005
palecurve - blur destruct (unreleased) - 2002
lessthanthree - superfuck (from the upcoming album <3attack/heartattack) - 2008
I hope all of you enjoy the downloads. Feel free to send them to whoever you want, upload them wherever, do whatever you want. If you want the master tracks to the palecurve originals, let me know and I'll send them to you for remixing purposes. DRM free, baby. Fuck the industry.
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Last but not least, the following sites should be active soon.
youronlyloveisyourself.palecurve.com
yoliy.palecurve.com
failureoftheweek.palecurve.com
fotw.palecurve.com
ttl.palecurve.com
gothiclolita.palecurve.com
lessthanthree.palecurve.com
heartattack.palecurve.com
I will post the URLs here and on the site when they are ready. Go there, maybe you'll find something interesting.
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To close, some cryptic messages:
lessthanthree - broken<3 - 2008 - superfuck/transgression/sexypop/heartattack/codebreaker
the empress will return to her rightful place on her throne. but does she still want her seat by the emperor's side?
my 23rd failure of the week is not a failure, just a catalyst for my ultimate success.
sometimes things are just meant to be, no matter who dislikes it. you have to ignore what other people think or say and go with how you feel.
follow your heart; it never takes you down the wrong path.
it's beautiful to watch a friend grow and mature and come into her own and really become a woman. that is simply a gorgeous sight to behold and proof that the divine feminine is something magical. it's sad when you know that the feelings you once held for one another are fading and will disappear, but when you realize that that person will always hold a spot in your heart, it's all worth it.
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okay, really, last thing this time.
this is directed to a few people:
KRISTEN! I need to know five things you really want. Make a list.
COLURE! I need to know five things you really want. Make a list.
KIM! I need to kno...shit, you don't read this, I don't think. Fuck.
RO! Same thing as above!!
REBECCA! DITTO, MOOF!
I think that covers what needs to have a cover.
Okay! I'm done boring you all with my verbosity.
To hell with you all!
I'm actually looking forward to getting back into school again. I miss classes; I miss classmates; I miss professors; I miss the Mint Building and the music department and being able to have Professor Kelly (when he has the time) review my personal projects. It's a really valuable resource.
Man, Sunday was the day of weird dreams. Everyone I know had some complicated, near lucid dream, except for me. I just had trouble breathing and couldn't sleep properly. Regardless, my mom got yet ANOTHER new cat, even though she just got our THIRD orange tabby, another cat saved from probable death, this one named Pickles - but the new cat, it's funny - I had been going around saying that I loved our cats...I have two in my apartment, Jack, the original, and Trevor, who was from the litter downstairs and who is a great reminder of the wonderful man that Johnny was before he passed away because of the stupidest reasons...but I don't know who reads this and I don't want to go into it, so I'll leave it there. In our lease, see, we can each have two cats per apartment. So when my mom rescued Pickles, she kept him downstairs in her apartment (she lives on the first floor, I'm on the third). I named him "Pickles" as a tribute to the movie Shaun of the Dead, where Shaun's mother calls him "Pickle". It felt right.
Anyway, my mom's been feeding these stray cats, of all different breeds, and I've been saying for about six months now how I've always wanted a pure, pure black cat with gorgeous fur and green eyes - and then one day, by the food my mom leaves out near the front door, wham, I see a pure black cat with green eyes - and I go up to her and she was tentative, but ended up falling in love with me. My mom mentioned seeing her before, but she was so skittish, she could never approach her. Well, eventually the cats found their way to our backyard, and my mom set up a nice insulated house for them and a bunch of food and water, and they all live back there - but my mom had a storm door/screen door installed on the back door to the patio/backyard, and Pickles would sit on a chair staring down at the black cat, who would stand there staring up at him. For HOURS. Finally, one day, I just said to my mom, "Look, it's cold, just let her in. They'll be fine." And really, she was. Pickles was more of a nutcase, just 'cause he's so in love with her. He'll try to act all amazing and fast and strong but has calmed down now and just lies down and kisses her and cleans her.
My mom originally called her Zoey, but one day I called her Erin by mistake, and bam, it stuck. So now her name is Erin, and although she likes going outside everyday (which I don't like, since it's dropped in temperature really badly here, but she WAS an outdoor stray before this, so you can't blame her, you can't really ever break that habit), she always comes back. I just want her to get over that soon, she's so gorgeous - and has those green eyes. Man. Ask and ye shall receieve if your karma is good enough.
Anyway, I'm gonna shift to some boring music notes, for those of you that care.
=======================================================================
Palecurve stuff:
The albums that I'm working on and releases coming up have been changed around a bit, so the schedules have been shifted. I'm still aiming to do a short tour during the summer of 2008 - I'd really like to hit Virginia or Ohio and do a show with Mark or Addison, or, go to VA, pick up Mark and bring him back here to record and do some shows up in my neighborhood and NJ and NY/Brooklyn/Manhattan. Mark, if you're up for it, lemme know. Also, I have mega massive shit to e-mail you about, so leave me your e-mail, aight? I dunno if it's the same as it's always been or not. It concerns production but also that collab we were talking about...I'd like to bring you in on something I've been developing.
So, here are the changes that have taken place.
The "Your Only Love Is Yourself EP" is now a straight-up album. It has too many songs to be an EP. I've whittled the tracklist down to ten songs, all of them named after the major arcana of the tarot, for the most part - with one major exception. So it's now just "Your Only Love Is Yourself". Now that it's an album, I'm pushing it back to master it more and do some extra production on some tracks...thinking summer 2008. Maybe earlier, depends.
The "The Thin Line" single is now going to be "The Thin Line EP". I've decided NOT to put The Thin Line on my now third album, Failure of the Week, just because it doesn't fit with the feel anymore. Ditto with a few other songs that were waiting to be placed on it but now don't fit. So the Thin Line EP will consist of TTL, a couple songs from the original FOTW sessions, some unreleased tracks, H's remix of The Thin Line, now titled "Crossing The Line" (and with vox - Mark, actually, I'm hoping you have that track still, 'cause I don't - so if you do, lemme know and send it my way?) plus two of my own remixes of TTL, a short club mix and HOPEFULLY Addison or someone else is interested in remixing it, even though I don't have the masters anymore. I might be able to put them together with the old FL demo tracks, so - if anyone is interested in remixing a palecurve song and you don't suck, please leave a comment or let me know.
Failure of the Week is, as Michelle has stated, my massive gargantuan baby/child of a project, and I promise, I will not abandon it like I have other album ideas and move on. This is now going to be my third album, since YOLIY will be my second, but FOTW is really the "proper" follow-up to my first album ever, Don't Tell Her Everything. Mark and I will still be producing it, it's just that the album now sounds different and has a different feel. There are also going to be two versions - one with the original "forehead kiss" artwork and one with new artwork. As to the differences between the two versions? That'll be decided later. As for now, the release date? "soon."
Finally, Your Only Love Is Yourself will produce a small single that I'll be selling on palecurve.com for only three dollars (that's 3 bucks), and giving out for free after various concerts/club nights in the Philly area. The single will be for the song "Miss Manipulation" and will feature the title track, a remix, a b-side and an unreleased palecurve song.
---------------------
Now, a chronological order of what's being released when:
* December 2007
- Scores Vol. 2: Another Sad Story
* January - May 2008
- Miss Manipulation (Single)
- Your Only Love Is Yourself
* Summer 2008
- The Thin Line EP
* soon.
- Failure Of The Week.
----------------------
Finally, for the curious, some tracklistings for these items. Please note that when it comes to my music, tracklistings are ALWAYS tentative, because I switch songs in and out at a whim.
Miss Manipulation
1. Miss Manipulation (Album Version)
2. Miss Manipulation (less than three <3attack version)
3. Transgression
4. D1 (Devotion to One)
Your Only Love Is Yourself
1. The Fool
2. The Heirophant
3. Long Walk Home
4. The Tower
5. The Lovers
6. The Priestess
7. Miss Manipulation
8. The Emperor
9. The Star
10. Your Only Love Is Yourself
The Thin Line EP
1. The Thin Line
2. The Living Shadow
3. Crossing The Line
4. The Thin Line (motion and grace mix)
5. My Portrait In Ice
6. MDM(A)
7. A New Life
-------------------------------------------------
And finally:
palecurve.com will be updated before the end of the year.
it will feature a fixed discography, links to information pages on the different albums, and most importantly, the "music" section will open up. it's kind of like the "palecurve radio" section of the old palecurve.com site, for those of you that remember it. all songs in this section will either be streaming previews from upcoming albums, and there will always be at least two tracks for you to download.
palecurve.com music downloads for january 2008
nine inch nails - survivalism (palecurve's ultraviolence mix) - 2007
nine inch nails - in this twilight (velvet lemonade mix) - 2008
tweaker - it's still happening (for now, at least) - 2005
palecurve - blur destruct (unreleased) - 2002
lessthanthree - superfuck (from the upcoming album <3attack/heartattack) - 2008
I hope all of you enjoy the downloads. Feel free to send them to whoever you want, upload them wherever, do whatever you want. If you want the master tracks to the palecurve originals, let me know and I'll send them to you for remixing purposes. DRM free, baby. Fuck the industry.
----------------------------------------------------------
Last but not least, the following sites should be active soon.
youronlyloveisyourself.palecurve.com
yoliy.palecurve.com
failureoftheweek.palecurve.com
fotw.palecurve.com
ttl.palecurve.com
gothiclolita.palecurve.com
lessthanthree.palecurve.com
heartattack.palecurve.com
I will post the URLs here and on the site when they are ready. Go there, maybe you'll find something interesting.
============================================================
To close, some cryptic messages:
lessthanthree - broken<3 - 2008 - superfuck/transgression/sexypop/heartattack/codebreaker
the empress will return to her rightful place on her throne. but does she still want her seat by the emperor's side?
my 23rd failure of the week is not a failure, just a catalyst for my ultimate success.
sometimes things are just meant to be, no matter who dislikes it. you have to ignore what other people think or say and go with how you feel.
follow your heart; it never takes you down the wrong path.
it's beautiful to watch a friend grow and mature and come into her own and really become a woman. that is simply a gorgeous sight to behold and proof that the divine feminine is something magical. it's sad when you know that the feelings you once held for one another are fading and will disappear, but when you realize that that person will always hold a spot in your heart, it's all worth it.
---------------------------------------------------------
okay, really, last thing this time.
this is directed to a few people:
KRISTEN! I need to know five things you really want. Make a list.
COLURE! I need to know five things you really want. Make a list.
KIM! I need to kno...shit, you don't read this, I don't think. Fuck.
RO! Same thing as above!!
REBECCA! DITTO, MOOF!
I think that covers what needs to have a cover.
Okay! I'm done boring you all with my verbosity.
To hell with you all!