show booked

our first real show since the ep.

Alex showed our ep to his club owner friend in San Antonio and the guy loved it and asked us to be the opener for a nationally touring act called Language Room.

A well recorded product is worth its weight in gold. Its early and I havent heard from the guys but this is my outlet for when I get excited sooo...

long night

i took two mucinex and experienced the longest most miserably awake night. Tossing and turning until I finally fell asleep around 630. Not sure it was the mucinex but it was awful.

What is it about late nights that feels so lonely and hopeless. My head races with things.

W T F

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/27/low.flying.plane/index.html

who is the bonehead responsible for this?? CoughCoughResignCough

dont get to the movies much

i am the worlds worst moviegoer. I am the guy that has not seen the movie that you think everyone has seen. Yet I also really enjoy great films from everything to cinematography, good acting, editing and just the whole medium itself.

so holy shit Into The Wild just gave me the best couple hours I have had in a long time. What a film. Its up there for me.

Sometimes good films are best seen at a particular time in your life. This is one of those for me. I had been throwing around some ideas and this turned a spotlight on some really important things on my mind.

Its one of those films that just sits on your chest when its done and affects other thoughts that come up later. The acting felt so natural and the ending (even though I knew of it) still kicked me in the throat. check it out if you haven't.

7 hours later...

well it wasnt a quick mixing session thats for sure. But damn the mixes are good. Travis texted all of us at the same time... he has access to the website where our mixes are located. This bothers me. But they wont be up for much longer. Here is his text:

"Hey man... Those mixes just took my breath away... Again and again. Jesus fucking christ i cant believe what im hearing."

we hope other folks share his sentiment.

final mixes tonight

were all listening critically and making sure we get this right. Tonight we make our final revisions so gotta make this count.

mixes

beyond my expectations....and theyre not even mastered yet.

holy shit...Pet Shop Boys

just rocked my face off....

see what I mean

laa 2.0

yesterdays practice was great. We are coming into our sound and writing some damn good stuff. The EP is beyond our expectations but I really wish some of this new stuff was fleshed out and recorded to go with it. We pretty much have an album's worth of material at this point and I cant wait to get more recorded.

vandalism

I had a dream I pushed over the leaning tower of pisa.

I was with Jared and I was freaking out that I had done such a stupid act of vandalism The dream was loaded with dread about the coming punishment I was sure to face from the Italian government. I was trying to wipe off fingerprints, planning my life on the run.

I woke up thankful it was all a dream.

Of course I dont know why the fact that the tower was like a weak telephone pole didnt seem odd to me.

album title

come on lets disappear

I had "dont disappear" in my head for days. I told Daniel and he came up with c'mon lets disappear. I said c'mon is too 80s rock for me. Come on looks better.

There you have it.

What went from a depressing catcher and rye-esque line ("ali dont let me disappear") to something that now has hope, a little fun and is going to give our graphic guy lots of room to play. I told him i had images of ice melting strangely. I meant Strangely I had images of ice melting. He said... hmm ice melting strangely... and ran off to his cave to work on that imagry.

we'll see how it goes.

we as creative human beings are truly greater than the sum of our parts. I get sappy when I think about it.

75

so lets say I am fortunate enough to live to the age of 75.

half of that is 37 years old.

This whole mid-life crisis, freaking out at 50 thing is bogus.

Mid life is more like mid 30s.

I am reaching the middle of my life in the next few years. I can only imagine the speed at which the other half is going to come.

I need to start saving for the porsche and crates of viagra now.

coming together

the drummer is working out nicely. We should be ready to actually play a show in about a month.

We have a new song we are going to open with that is just killer. This thing rocks the ever living shit out of me. I know it will do the same for everyone else.