seriously folks

"These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. For, of all the people convicted of rapes and murders in 1967 and 1968, many just as reprehensible as these, the petitioners are among a capriciously selected random handful upon whom the sentence of death has in fact been imposed. My ( Read more... )

This dude is quickly becoming my hero. I like the music, but it's less that than this: When you order his album, he goes and he records it for you, so every copy is different. Could even have different songs.

Dude makes me wish I actually, like, wrote songs and shit.

Thursday Tristero did the release party, which went off splendidly. After that show was over, as we wallowed in our own sweat and filth, we realized we had another show we'd forgotten about on Friday, playing for some girl's sweet sixteen ( Read more... )

Receive my heart, please.

Also, new word: twunt.

things left to record: zero
things left to mix: nada
album art to do: none

We have to check proofs for colors and stuff on Monday. After that, all this is over. The record is six songs, twenty-six minutes long, and sounds great.

We're having a release party at Dylan's dad's house on Thursday. E-mail or call me or something if you need directions.

things left to record: trumpet

So the Tristero EP is nearing completion. We got some great trombone tracks the other day. Things left to record: some vocals, two trumpet tracks, one cello track, one guitar track. The main hinderances now are lining up a solid trumpeter and finding a necessary guitar pedal that seems to have disappeared. Only slightly worried there. Everything we ( Read more... )

I wrote a new song. It's not part of the Stein/Paris thing (though I'm hoping to have the next one of those done by the time summer ends), and feels really great to have written because it is quite personal and that is not usually something I do well, or at all really. I feel like a may be entering a new fertile period. That would be good ( Read more... )

So here's to freaking out on Ambien jumping off the side of the staircase into the living room so your feet have such bad internal bruising you think your heels are broken and you have to use a wheelchair at the airport.