Monday, April 28, 2008
Where the pi divides
Actually, I only plan on deciding fades, pans and some effect bussing and that's about it.
Other than that, it's a matter of convincing Joe that the vocals are fine and if he were to redo them one more time, they would sound exactly the same and he should stop wasting all of our time.... well, that and figuring out if the bass is too far forward in the mix, and asking, "Where the hell is the kick drum?"
I hate mixing.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Folk Heros
*************************Travis Wrote**********************
hey fellas...may 10, club tav...well, i'll just let my good buddy M.A. tell you... "May 10th club tavern opening slot 1 hour four bucks. Thanks"
everyone'd better be able to do this (that $4 could be my ticket outta this hellhole)...that's why i called and told everyone about it and nobody called me back with any concerns or dissenting opinions; so i said "yes"...as i mentioned in my message; its a Saturday night, so that's all good...and i think the club tavern could be an excellent place for us...good exposure...
i should be to handle the flier issue for the 1st show...should we even hang fliers? opinions?
hit me back, dawgs (respectively)...
t
********************Joe's Reply****************************
Travis et al.
I'm sorry but i can't make it...i've got to watch saturday night live with the girlfriend that i haven't met yet...so find someone else to sing these stupid songs...in all honesty, i think i'm gonna quit this lame ass band anyways and dedicate my life to writing soap operas, and honing my bowling skills...i figure if i can marry some rich, mid 40's cougar, i can get all my soap opera mateial from our daily briefings, and then i can convince her to set up a lane (automatic scoring of course) in the basement...my plan is this...while she is asleep (by nine), i'll be a practicing so that i can one day make it on the pba tour...hopefully (i pray) i'll be good enough in a decade or so to make it on the tv finals...
strike!
(gutter ball)
Travis...nice work man...may 10 hey?...sweet!
we should mos def get an acoustic set on sate st. for that afternoon to advertise...best summer eva!!!
Joe
*********************Travis Replies********************
hey man!!! step off the "cougars"; that's my deal...(big cats are dangerous; but a little...). the bowling (so you wanna bowl, give the ball a roll), however, is all yours and you are to be commended for having a solid plan to get what it is that you want/need out of life...
i wouldn't mind trying curling...or being on Saturday night live...
well played, joe. well played. that lady with the cash and the "stories" is out there somewhere...
i look like hell today.
*****************And I Interjected***************
In the end, you know that only three people are going to show up for this show. Even the entire band won't make it. So yeah. Go for that unknown lady Joey Vochich! Chase that toboggin all the way down the hill even though winter's melted away.
Or we could all go out for some ice blocking? Eh? Am I right? No one does that around here.
A bottle of Southern Comfort, a block of ice, and a fine middle-aged lady with a fat wad of cash.
Sweet indeed.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Eco-newz
But then again, I don't get a lot of things.
Is this my pre-Earth Day post? Probably. I'm not usually near a computer on the weekends.
There's a pizza place that put up posters in their window advertising the sale of "special brownies" for sale at 4:20 on 4/20. These people are "awesome!", whomever they are (did I use that right? I've noticed I never do and now I'm trying to figure out the proper time to use who and whom.)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Tipping over the wagon
Alright. I updated the layout of this stupid site... it needed a fresh shave.
Other than that, I've been pretty busy getting my drink on and working. I've actually had to work this week. Even the crossword isn't getting done on company time. What the hell is that?
If I can, I'll try to post something compelling in the next few days. No promises though.
In the meantime, check out "Shotgun Stories" if you can.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Why do I make these "promises"?
We are still working on the "Acoustic Set" with the additional singer. The band decided that she wasn't going to work out for the electrified performances. It was nice to have that drama ironed out.
And then Danny said he couldn't play our upcoming show on May 1st at the Klinic at 9 P.M. because he has to work on Friday. He told me this on the phone last Friday afterknoon a few minutes after he told me he had stayed up late the night before playing Magic with his buddies. I finished off my second shift of the split in the afterknoon and called Joe and Travis to talk about eliminating dead weight from the band. I just get tired of explaining to him every time we have a potential show on a weeknight that we aren't going to be given weekend slots without first proving we can draw a crowd. We can't draw a crowd without performing for people in the first place... it's rather Catch-22. Joe said that I shouldn't talk to Danny and that he would discuss it with him and convince him to play this show. This will come up again. (The next weeknight show.)
I stumbled onto an Indie Band Survival Guide epublished by some band. I read through some of their advice and think I should make the effort to read rest of it. Any advice (good or bad) is still something to stimulate the mind.
Then there's also the idea I've been kicking around of a solo project EP. Last night I came up with a title that I thought would be awesome, but it's something I heard a little while ago that I had forgotten that I had heard about. So yeah... I'm gunna start working on that tonight. Writing a new batch songs that are slightly different from what Where the i Divides is doing. (less drama).
And I have a dentist appointment at 2:30... ha ha ha....
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
These things I think
That's cool.
But that isn't what cause me to remember that tidbit. What got me was something that's been chewing me up for a few months now--the term "expert". I put up a quick post about experts last week or something like that but that didn't help get rid of the anger. (That's what this blog is all about, making you read my anger and thereby taking it from me and making it your own.)
What's the big deal with the tree rings, you ask? It was the way it was phrased on the tele. "Scientists can determine..." as if one has to be deemed a scientist in order to understand these sorts of things. Maybe it's a little of my philosophical training that's coming through here along with my "don't tell me what I can and can't do" attitude that 's making an ocean out of a fishbowl but the issue is still there--the notion that if someone has training and skill-sets, they are then able to be labeled with a term. For instance, since I play guitar, I'm a "musician". Since Travis plays bass, he's a "roadie". But then, am I really a "Musician" proper or am I just a hobbyist?
Transfer this back to "Scientist" and apply it to someone with little scientific training (read: blowing things up in a lab) but curiosity and base understanding of scientific concepts and allow or grant them the time to explore these curiosities and suddenly, you've got yourself a scientist. Or do you? It depends...
(Hmm, this idea is still in the oven.)
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Yesterday was Travis' birthday. The jerk ditched me and our plans for sitting around to watch Nova's Deciphering Mayan Hieroglyphs so he could go have dinner with his ex. I told him that if he kept this sh&t up, he would have a new ex... his new Ex-Best Friend! So we'll see if he keeps ditching me to hang out with girls, let alone girls he's already run the entire relationship gamut with.
-Pablo Cruz
-The Little River Band
-Berlin
-Boz Skaggs
Don't ask me which albums they are (except for Berlin. It's "Fashion Victim"[Correction the album is Pleasure Victim, not Fashion Victim". I own that but I don't know where it is... sort of like my Wang Chung "Mosaic" disc.)
I also got him a DVD of Hare Tokidoki Buta . The description on the back read as though it would either be entertaining to watch or entertaining to mock and quote in the company of the uninitiated. (or it will most likely fall into the category of "WOW, this is unfortunately neither entertaining nor mock-able... and really boring!") And the only serious present was a copy of Annie Dillard's Holy the Firm. He will like that one.
And Lastly,
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Phoning it in without the phone
Some college student was found dead in her apartment yesterday a few blocks from here. There's this whole paranoia angle the local news-rag (you know, the thing that old people used to read back in the day to get their daily information) is trying to work over... "A Killer Stalks Among Us!!!"
Instead of dealing with that (or anything, like always) I'll just e-publish part of a poem without the authors permission... (not really)
i was thinking
about "ozzie &
harriet" beds...
or maybe,
a couple of cities over... perhaps,
something we could
do by phone.
hand-held.
a night on the town...
a month.