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hey you all. i assume you are all my friends reading this at this point. so don't expect anything too new. but maybe when i'm super famous i can be on that vh1 show about the current web sensations.

so why am i doing this? i've had blogs on myspace and facebook, and i did the blurty and livejournal thing talking about my feelings, blah blah. Well, I've found I enjoy reading the blogs of my favorite musicians and if my friends happen to write any. I never really wrote down honest thoughts, or if i did, i didn't really care to make them of interest to others reading them. So this is kind of for both of us. If my musical endeavours go anywhere, perhaps my 10 fans will read this and can further obsess over my hot bod. And for me, well, this gives me something way better to do than browse facebook. Also i figure this is a good vent for frustrations or at least a way to reason them out instead of wanting to break my guitar.

So what will be here? Well first of all, I'm going to chronicle the recording of the first Something About Horses album that we will be recording soon. And also ramble about things i like or hate.

maybe some heart to hearts lolz.

So you're probably wondering, the album, the album, the ALBUM?! Yes, THE ALBUM. No title yet. Taylor, our keyboardist, is a god-send because he pretty much knows everyone. Including a recording engineer who is doing this for FREE. We've been really fortunate to know a lot of people to keep our costs down for whatever expenses we need to make.

The idea initially, as most bands have at first, was to put out an ep. But, we started to pile on more songs, and extend our already finished songs, so this will be somewhere in between a full-length and an ep. Hopefully everyone has practiced enough so we can actually pull this off. This band hasn't had any major problems so far, and with my awesome defeatist attitude, i always assume something will go wrong. But, there will be an album. And yes, there will be a record release party that will be insane.

The list as of now:
Tommy Twine
Portrait
The Piece
Snow Score
Scrabble
Mountains out of Molehills
Jumoanji
Intermediary Idea (maybe as of now)

We all have a bunch of songs too we could always throw on.

The problem with getting this done quickly is that our music is HARD. I really don't mean to flatter myself with this statement. We challenge the shit out of each other. It's really part of what the band is about. ANYTHING goes with us, which is what I love. We're all here because we love music, and have the urge to always grow, expand, challenge others, as well as ourselves. There's no urge to be famous, or to write madd hitz, or to copy anyone. Too many people want to make it big, or copy whatever they've heard. Fuck that.

Usually when I write a song, it starts as a vague idea or emotion; "Angry, heavy, slow begining, fast end, disjunct, etc." And it mostly ends up entirely different towards the end. I think Tommy Twine is the only one of our songs I knew almost exactly how it would go before I wrote it. It is one of our best I feel though. Most songs encompass a lot of emotion, despite being pretty silly. I just dig humor. It makes me feel better. If I'm sad, I may write a serious song, but mostly I'll write an upbeat, funny song. It makes me feel better. Though I think there is a stigma about humor in music being a gimmick, or independent from the music itself. ie; once it stops being funny it's not a good idea anymore. This is true in a lot of comedy music. BUT, just cause something sounds funny doesn't mean it's not a good musical idea. Humor is an emotion just as much as any other.

I think I've been forgetting to laugh lately. I've been getting more and more frustrated with my music. Hating it, doubting my abilities, it's really not productive. I get crap sometimes for my music being weird, which is kind of an absurd criticism. I enjoy the avant-rock style.

In other news, I'm playing drums in another band tentatively titled "Hose Down," though looking for a new name. We should be playing shows in the next few months hopefully. It's more of a basic rock thing but we're experimenting, finding a sound. It's really in the baby stages, but I enjoy it a lot. It's a really different experience for me.

This post had no aim or focus. It's kind of like my music.

Check back for more news. I'll post some recording pics and videos in the upcoming weeks.