the day the music died

harold edwin jordan, sr. rip.

hey there delilah

Hey there Delilah
What's it like in New York City?
I'm a thousand miles away
But girl tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Time Square can't shine as bright as you
I swear it's true

Hey there Delilah
Don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice it's my disguise
I'm by your side

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me

Hey there Delilah
I know times are getting hard
But just believe me girl
Someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar
We'll have it good
We'll have the life we knew we would
My word is good

Hey there Delilah
I've got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away
I'd write it all
Even more in love with me you'd fall
We'd have it all

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me

A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they've got planes and trains and cars
I'd walk to you if I had no other way
Our friends would all make fun of us
and we'll just laugh along because we know
That none of them have felt this way
Delilah I can promise you
That by the time we get through
The world will never ever be the same
And you're to blame

Hey there Delilah
You be good and don't you miss me
Two more years and you'll be done with school
And I'll be making history like I do
You know it's all because of you
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here's to you
This ones for you

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me.

found.

better today.

sometimes you just know someone is going to change everything.

seriously.

i'm one step away from elbowing someone in the throat. leave me the fuck alone.

what the fuck.

this has really been one hell of a week.

taking photos of text messages

what to do... what to do....

seems to be something in the air, or maybe the water, weird things are happening around here.

my new motto seems to be "when life hands you lemons, you just roll with the weirdness" because seriously, why does life have lemons, and why is it handing them to you?

i don't think i even had an old motto.

my experiment

i am going to drink a cup of coffee every morning for the month of february and see how i feel at the end. i'm going to see what effect it has on my body. i have a fairly high tolerance to caffeine. i am curious to see if the extra exposure raises my tolerance even more, or if i become more susceptible to it's effects. the last time i drank coffee regularly was in high school, so i am curious as to how the adult tolerance differs from a teenagers. at the time i stopped drinking coffee, it wasn't even a concious decision, i just stopped. and it wasn't even as though i felt i was addicted, i didn't go through any sort of withdrawl symptoms. should be interesting.

fucking sound guys

why do they all have this annoying tendency to point out the gear you have? "whoa, rickenbaker bass, sweet!"... "nice, deluxe memory man, wow, you've got 2 of them!"... "sweet, vox." it's like they're begging for you to acknowledge that they're cool because they work in a recording studio AND know about gear. i know what i have, you don't have to point out to me that you know what i have as well. even if you didn't, everything is clearly labeled.

updates.

so we went on tour. it was grand. we came back from tour, that was okay, good to be home, but a little sad because tour is so awesome. we've started recording "album b". i don't particularly love being in the studio, the whole process gets a little tedious to me. but i feel like we're being very productive this time. we're all working together, instead of one of us taking the reigns. and it feels good to all kinda taking on the producer role. and working with our friend behind the board gives us the opportunity to really experiment with what we need to experiment with, try out different stuff without worrying about running up the clock.

best of 2006

i realize this is old, and probably incomplete, but i never got around to posting it.
best things of 2006 (in no particular order):
31 knots - polemics
aloha
zookeeper
THE FOUNTAIN
band things
the coma recovery
casino royale
NO HEROES
johnny cash - american V
lamb of god - sacrament
mastodon - blood mountain
north atlantic
russian circles - enter
QUEST FOR THE HOLY TONE
shinobu - worstward, ho!
sparta - threes
tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain
twelve tribes
unearth - 3
darkest hour
tour
tour #2
little miss sunshine
vox ac30
original unedited star wars trilogy dvd
deluxe memory man

the fountain

the fountain was an incredible and sad movie. it is unlike just about every other movie being released these days. the soundtrack alone makes me emotional.

once in a lifetime

it's been almost a month since we've returned from our last tour.  readjusting is the same as always...  finishing new songs, talking about starting work on album #2 tentatively titled "Capital, Capital!"  i have a pedal i'm borrowing from a friend that i need to try out.  i had to perform a late night pickup of a drummer outside his girlfriends house where she had lit a small fire of his possessions.  plans to scale back the pedal board are in order, smaller board, fewer pedals, better music.   ... same as it ever was.

b2b

among the things i missed while away on tour was my bike. i was pretty psyched to hop on the old guy to ride to work yesterday, i inflated my back tire, and while i was pulling the pump off the valve i tore the valve stem. a big wave of "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck" washed over me, b/c not only could i not ride my bike, but this is an unfixeable problem as far as i'm concerned, so i'd have to buy a new tube. luckily linda's bike was right there and ready to go, so i just hopped on that one. any bike is better than no bike. so it got some use getting me back and forth to work, it's a tricky fellow that one, doesn't shift quite right, and the left pedal axl is a little bent so it feels like your foot is kinda floating. needless to say, when i hopped on my trooper this morning on a fresh tube i was really happy. i didn't realize how dependant i'd become on riding... aside from getting me around in a speedy manor, it just makes me feel good to ride.

the grown-up game

the bummer of trying to be financially responsible is that you're totally broke on your way to getting there. though if i play my cards right, i might be free of credit card debt by the end of the year. i have a basic budget planned out, and next year will come an even more in depth budget to really curb my spending. the problem is this... there's definately a few good records coming out in october that i know i'm going to want to get. we'll see. but i'm 25 years old now, it's time to get my head above water and actually take care of things like paying bills. i'm at least current on my credit card bills and my phone bill now, getting there on a few others. and like i said... hopefully i'll get it all taken care of by '07.

whatever

regardless of the mason dixon line, if a state is in the top 50% of the country geographically, it is NOT a southern state. sorry virginia.

this is the last time.

the unedited, non-special edition original trilogy dvd set was released today.

and of course, i'm going to buy it.

but i have to be honest, i am really starting to feel like an asshole for buying all these stupid box sets. and i don't even have them all.

some cities are hard to book in

denver (doesn't anyone in denver want to actually book shows?). phoenix proper (unless you know someone). san francisco. el paso. dallas. if it were me, i would think that these venues, or promoters would WANT to book shows. it brings in more business. if a band has no guarantee, what is there to lose? 10% of nothing is nothing.

nothing feels good, it all feels shitty

i recently read a book called "Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo", and it was awful, except for a few small sections. i was so disappointed with it, i decided to write an amazon review about it.

"it started out extremely promising, discussing rites of spring and the origins of the term "emo". it made the important distinction that emo actually developed out of hardcore and punk. but very quickly turns into the worst written piece of fluff i've read in a long time. desperately grasping at ways to make his book seem relevant, greenwald consistently forces the same points over and over again told with simple writing and dumb similies. due to poor marketing, the book is aimed at fans of bands like jawbreaker, mineral, and the promise ring, while it consistently just lionizes media darlings dashboard confessional and spotlights "indie" label heavyweights vagrant records. if you love the watered down, emotionless bands, that the media packages as "emo" for the masses, then this book is for you. through about 2/3 of the book, i was convinced that greenwald was trying to make the point that highschool jocks that have virtually no interest in music are pioneers of a new musical movement. and 25 pages about makeoutclub and livejournal? seriously now, what point are you trying to prove here? greenwald is the journalist equivalent of the "emo" entities he spotlights. doing his best to make a name for himself while disconnecting himself from his roots, which in this case is quality writing. scattered, boring, tried too hard to be relevant, and worst of all, trying to cash in on a fad. i find it extremely disappointing (though not surprising) that someone found this worthy of publishing."

weeekend wrapup

the melismatics are a great band made up of amazingly friendly people. we want to go up to minneapolis to play with them, don't know when though. the pita pit is awesome, especially at almost 3am. my pita was scoffed at by my bandmates for being too mushy (hummus AND babaganoush), but after it's smothered with delicious crunchy veggies, there is no equal. also, the employees of the pita pit are most definately high all the time. my bike tires are starting to split and get nasty, i must've run over some glass or something... so now i need new ones... bummer. i'm tired, and need a nap mostly. this book i'm currently reading isn't very good, but i'm going to finish it anyway, b/c i'm stubborn like that. i like our new songs, they excite me, i like booking shows, but mostly i like playing them. i kinda wanna go back east to visit, i haven't been back in almost a year, i miss a few people.

takin' care of business

it's always fun playing this game:
OOOO! I got paid! Now I can buy stuff!
oh, well i owe this much on credit card 1.
ah, and this much on credit card 2.
oh yah, can't forget my student loan.
and band rent coming up soon. so there goes x dollars.
gotta pay for the car loan this month.
and i gotta eat...
okay... well i guess i have enough music for now. :/