October 2012
2 posts
August 2012
1 post
July 2012
7 posts
June 2012
6 posts
May 2012
6 posts
April 2012
10 posts
at the drive-in reunion footage
at the drive-in played their first show in 11 years last night in austin, tx. i would love to have been there. here’s some footage if you haven’t seen it yet.
March 2012
2 posts
gavrilo princip
ok i found this band because they covered a parlor mob song. then i watched this video and i kind of love it. the song is called “party on saturday night”.
February 2012
8 posts
electronic music
i created these 3 tracks at home and on tour with the parlor mob. i have a lot more. i don’t know much about styles when it comes to electronic music and what the genres are called and such, so i don’t know what you’d call these or where they fit in. i just like them. none are mixed (really mixed anyway) and none are mastered. they’re not really “finished”...
Mellotron
this is a video of paul and I working on a new parlor mob song. you might be confused to see me holding the camera, and paul pressing play on the computer, and keyboard sounds coming out of the amp with nobody playing them. this is a process called reamping which I find to be a brilliant innovation in recording technology. basically, I previously played the keyboard track, we recorded what I...
rambling
fuck the ratings; i read this morning that the grammy’s smashed the previous record for social media discussion on an entertainment event. and the previous record was set just recently; it was the super bowl. beating the super bowl is a pretty big deal. so what does this mean? people still give a shit about music? turns out everyone loves adele (myself included), lots of people give...
Louis CK makes good points a lot
The Hierarchy of Power by Bob Lefsetz
Hierarchy Of Power
1. The Act
We’re returning to the classic rock era. Wherein the acts dictated to the labels as opposed to vice versa. But the story here now is there are no labels. Sure, there are a bunch of Top Forty acts that are essentially employees of the major labels, in everything but benefits (they’re independent contractors!), but that world now has a small fraction of the action and...
January 2012
4 posts
December 2011
1 post
please stop panicking, liberal and conservative fear mongers alike, you’re giving the rest of us a bad face. your government really doesn’t care about policing your streets, arresting you and assassinating you, though it’s cute you have such a high opinion of yourself. they care about stealing ear-marked tax money out from under your nose, under the guise of a defense budget, so...
November 2011
3 posts
my mom is smart
this is a blog my mom posted this morning. i thought i’d share it.
Did you hear the joke about when life begins? Considering Initiative 26 on the ballot today in Mississippi, it would play well to revisit this comic sketch. Number 26 in MS is an extreme anti-choice scheme that would call a fertilized egg a “person” and would therefore ban abortion in the state, certain...
