music? what is...

I alternate between really proud of the album and feeling like we could maybe have done it a bit better. Usually the latter is just when it's late and I feel all pessimistic. I do think we need to put a bit more thought into lyrics sometimes though. Like, say "frogs" which is a straight-up goofy song--intentionally--but really, that riff is damned good. If we had semi-serious lyrics for it, it would be a completely legit marketable song. The Heat is sort of the same way. I mean we were modeling it after Smells Like Teen Spirit obviously, but the thing is, the way SLTS works is that it talks about nothing while implying that it might, actually, be talking about something. Kind of like Backstabber, or Disintegrator.

Anyway, we're starting to move in different directions with our music now. We may start writing more things in the vein of Backstabber and Jellylegs, songs that rely much less heavily on gratuitously huge amounts of distortion. May even use an acoustic sometimes. GASP

In other news, I am officially having a love affair with Gretsch guitars. I love the twang you can pull out of a Corvette, and I don't know of any other guitar that plays as well as the Jet. Plus, the hollowbodies and the archtops... ohhhh.

Think I am going to write today. There is a Minus the Bear show, but it is probably already too late for me to get in with my CMJ pass.

need a small bass combo. not sure what to get.

am coming out of an insane few weeks. have barely had a minute to myself. tonight am making chili and just chilling out.

also, i guess i was right all along:



barack obama is the bat-man.

maine

Until coming back home this weekend it never really struck me how much more I feel like I belong here. In NYC I feel really out of place, like some dude who came and crashed the party--alone--and then sat in the corner. I am just not a city boy. Here in Maine, life moves at exactly my speed. Here in Maine I feel like everybody's got my back. Feeling like an outsider has been a huge contributor to my stress level out in NYC. I just don't really belong.

Having accepted that, I guess that I will not be living right in the city once I am out of NYU. Maybe someplace just outside of Boston. Boston is basically Portland but bigger, and with room for an actual indie music scene. I just can't imagine what living permanently in NYC would do to me.

goodburger

I think Goodburger may have given me food poisoning.

What a disappointment.

It is nice out today.

Probably going to start writing a lot more. Most likely they will come out in short story ish format, as I have no patience but a ridiculous imagination.

Until I'm through reading this Lovecraft anthology I have, it's going to be a lot of crazy shiz. If there's anything good, I'll put it on here, probably.