January 2008
everything listed out
1making a budget that works is really difficult. 2lisa had an interview with myemma this week. 3i need a haircut. 4i’m trying to get my jams on itunes. 5an aquaintance of ours from church passed away on monday. 6i learned how to properly use quicken last night. 7lisa and i are going to see her folks for the weekend. 8i currently am having issues at work. 9i’m trying to save money....
perfectly
i’m almost done with the german castro remixes i think. i need to work on the second jam a little more. it’s not flourishy enough. i took their death jam and stole their chord progression and made it a montage jam about hunting down the last of the deep sea beasts on a vicious arctic expedition. i haven’t thought of the title yet. i did make good use of the cowbell sound on my...
i drink your milkshake.
i think it’s sort of easy to say that there will be blood is paul thomas anderson’s citizen kane. have you ever seen citizen kane? it’s okay. it sits up on top of the top 100 films of all time and nobody ever says anything bad about it, and i can’t ever really help but wonder if that has anything to do with the legend and the myth around the movie, or the movie itself. i...
dear nestle candy,
please explain to me why whenever i buy a box of runts candy, you have to make about 80% of the box a mixture of banana and the slammin new flavor mango, easily two of the worst tasting candy flavors ever created. thanks, putay
rayban
skate or die, dudes. the show last night was all sorts of radical. my sampler isn’t broken, so that’s radical too. thanks to eric and paul for taking their shirts off and having a dance battle. everyone had nice things to say. and hugging shirtless eric post dance battle is both thrilling and terrifying all at once. i have to go listen to mr. oizo, put my jams laboratory back...
uh huhs, dude
m83 (finally) have a new record coming out on april 14th. check out their myspace to hear the new jam. honestly, their last record is the kind of record that i will always hold pretty close. it’s really amazing. if you don’t have it or haven’t heard it, you really ought to find it and listen to it. lay on the floor and just listen to it from start to finish. it’s a kind...
laid into the earth,
this morning i got into my car and turned it on and the radio was playing black cab by jens lekman and i suddenly knew that it was going to be a good day. don’t forget to come to the end tonight at 9pm sharp. i heard on the radio last night that there will be door prizes. i hope i win. i might be disqualified being a performer. i hope not. i like prizes. they’re neat. i’ve...
dear friends,
i’m playing a show on friday night at the end. it’s a benefit for WRVU 91.1 college radio in nashville. i think the door is $5 donation to the radio station, but i don’t think you have to pay that to get in. either way, the bill is jasmin, me, happy birthday amy and the velcro stars. i don’t really know if i fit into that so well, so we’ll all keep our fingers...
here we go
something you just can’t avoid.
ellipsis
from wikipedia’s article about the upcoming batman movie: “Ultimately, “there’s nothing that [is] consistent”, as his main objective was to frighten the audience.The challenge of the role put a strain on Ledger’s sleep patterns, finding himself unable to rest for more than a few hours each night.” from cnn.com: “Pills were found in the vicinity of the...
i know
there’s nothing better than listening to a bunch of workplace tough guy talk about making changes and dealing with conflict and how everyone else is wrong, etc. i’m keeping my head down.
well, kind of
the weekend was relaxed, mostly, but less out of just taking it easy mode and more because lisa was sick. i took her to the doctor on saturday because she’s had sinus doom all week and she decided it was time. she saw the same crazy old lady doctor that i saw when i had the staph-death, and she gave her the same speech about how terrible antibiotics are, blah blah blah. we left with a...
obviously,
i need a haircut.
sometimes the noise is too much
i’m really glad it’s friday. it’s sounding like the split i’m doing with german castro is going to get released on sound machine, which is cool. sullivan is pretty set on putting it out on 3” cds, so it’s mostly going to be impossible to play in nearly all cd players. so yeah. i’ve got that to look forward to. this weekend is offically the matt and lisa...
everything always
in true form, life never really stops. it always just goes on it’s own. i’m learning. everyday is a learning experience. it’s complete. i’m good at opening my mouth and breathing. i’m back on my list kick. i’m making lists all day long. i’m also spreadsheet city lately. google docs, people. it’s the future. i feel kind of lost right now. like i...
sil)
i’m going to go ahead and say that today has been the worst day i’ve experienced in a long while. for a whole variety of reasons.
plus minus
dave ramsey seems pretty interesting. sitting in that class listening to some of the other people there talk about how much financial ruin they are in was a little difficult at times. it’s amazing how money can take such a stranglehold on your life and your well being. i didn’t know quite how to react to some of it. i’m excited about learning how to budget correctly. i’ve...
keep keeping
list of things to do tonight: 1learn about saving money from dave r. 2finish revamping art for mavs merch. 3redo the aesthetically speaking art so it works with the plastic sleeve packaging. 4order cds and plastic sleeves for said merch. 5watch karate kid. 6talk to cal.
tickertape
asheville, nc
fantas)
for the record, i have always disliked the name makeup and vanity set. it sort of came around right before the first show i ever played with the protomen back in the day in murfreesboro. if i had a time machine and i could go back and meet the past me, i would tell the murfreesboro me to use the name magic mountain countdown.
obviously
asheville is a pretty awesome place. it’s kind of a hodgepodge of people and culture. everything there seems sort of uniquely plucked and placed. it’s like the little snowy village that your mom puts on the mantle at christmastime that no one is allowed to touch. i like being there. lisa and i met with the event planner at the biltmore and we got all of the info on how much and...
partly
as a young putay, i used to wake up every morning and listen to the big ship by brian eno. i remember laying in my bed with my little headphones on and just staring at the ceiling for a while with the song repeating over and over again. i could always get lost for a while with it.
i'm having a hard time choosing a candidate
i am, however, at work. drinking decaf (on account of the post work caff jitter that i’m trying not have anymore) and listening to yes. my mom would be proud of me. when i moved out of the house before college, i bought a turntable and mostly lifted my mom’s copy of yessongs and it warped my fragile little mind. after that i was down with the 15 minute jam. but really only if it was...
no, walken. no.
as the weather here gets progressively worse, i wanted everyone to know that you can now comment and add your two cents to all of the blah blah that goes on here.
stow aways
it’s work time again. back to work. it’s rainy out. i’m listening to explosions in the sky. they’re great. i’m moving onto interpol. it feels kinda interpol-y today. i keep second chancing them after i bad mouthed them in front of their label rep russell and he got all upset about it and told me that i need to go back and re-listen to them. i need to listen to the...
earnest b.
i’m pretty stuck on this german castro remix i’m working on. i had this idea where the whole thing would sort of sound like a death march that keeps building and sort of gets all unwielding and nasty, then hits a mid section where you hear the heartbeat and then builds back into death march until it eats itself. the castro dudes are doing a split with me where i remix their half of...
up
lisa and i have started a blog. before you go rolling your eyes, this was mostly at my suggestion for a variety of reasons: i try to keep the personal stuff to a minimum on tumblr. i don’t like whining on and on about all kinds of emotional, personal stuff because, to me, that gets super tedious and trite pretty quickly. i’ve never been engaged and all into this pre-married phase of...
99%
i’m a big fan of jared micah.
t) ime
there’s really nothing like listening to bright eyes in your office and forgetting about certain four letter words that like to hang in the air when your boss is there. i told him it was sad bastard music. the kids love it.
every living thing
i’m at work again. it’s monday. it’s at the end of the day. i’m here. but not here. sort of drifting out. roaming the halls. floating away. like there’s a giant magnet. like the sun. only magnetic. it’s pulling me out. i can’t see it. there’s clouds everywhere. but i know it’s there. and i keep looking. when i find you, you’ll blind me....
belong)
it’s sort of working again. we’ll see. i never get my hopes up.
don't burn the pizza.
2007 is the jam
i think the best song i heard in 2007 was probably what would wolves do by les savy fav. there were lots of other songs but that one i can listen to over and over again. honorable mention would probably land on plaster casts of everything by liars, safety bricks by kevin drew, stars by patrick wolf, and 100% by chromeo. my favorite record of 2007, as in i listened to the whole thing repeatedly...
i'm really glad our plane didn't crash
god bless jon arnold. he’s a good good friend. the trip home was really nice. it was bookended by some of the more frustrating weather/holiday induced travel doom that i’ve ever endured, but it was worth it. lisa and i made it home and back in one piece. the family is still doing well. everyone seems like their lives are pushing on towards a common spot on the horizon. i like going...