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Apr. 5th, 2006 03:16 pmI just spent the better part of an hour disassembling an old bass drum, sanding it down, and repainting it. The spray job is spotty at best, but in my defense, the plywood frame is kinda splintered and falling apart, so it's the best I could do under the circumstances.
Now, in addition to having a drummer, we have most of a drum kit (snare, floor tom, kick), which is nice. I would consider us exactly one cymbal away from being a complete band at this point. My heart is fucking POUNDING.
I've been sweating the band stuff too damned much lately. The past couple of weeks have seen The Spook Lights evolve in my mind from a soon-to-be band to a full-blown OBSESSION. And the closer [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] and I come to realizing our dream, the more terrified I am of seeing the whole thing SELF-DESTRUCT... As a result, I've become more nitpicky with the details of our music than is probably necessary, which in turn has caused me to over-inflate perceived tensions between bandmates... The final result being that I'm dropping years from my life worrying about problems that don't even exist, except for in my mind. I have a tendency to do these things, you know. I can be a REAL FUCKING ASSHOLE at times.
The thing is, Ms. Malady and I have a certain aesthetic we're trying to bring to the band, and with that aesthetic comes a list of SPECIFIC details that define "our sound"... Am I going to come off as some kind of whip-cracking DICTATOR if I start insisting that we "stick to the formula"? Or is it acceptable for me to be a hard-ass in the name of FOLLOWING OUR VISION?
To help ease things along, Ms. Malady and I have started holding weekly songwriting sessions, just the two of us. She conjures up some riffs, then I try to wail some lyrics, then we hash out the song structure. If it works out, we do a rough recording and bring it to the band. This is going to be our way of keeping it all together, the way we see The Spook Lights in our collective brains.
We had our first session the other night, and things went swimmingly. [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] laid down a solid rhythm line, and I did my best to hoot and holler along. When the dust settled, we basked in the stormy afterglow, completely confident that we had just set the rock-n-roll world on fire.
"How was that?" I asked. "I mean, I didn't sound too much like I was trying to cop Screamin' Jay, did I?"
"Baby," she responded, "You are WAY too much of a honky to have to worry about that!"
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I'm still trying to think of a title for my movie... As soon as the external hard drive is on hand, I'm gonna get down to the nitty gritty, storyboarding the script and working on a few shorts to cut my teeth on the whole "auteur" thing. Here are my ideas thus far:
1) Pleasant Valley Rumble
2) The Desperate and the Damned
3) Twilight of the Vashion Victims
4) Product X
Any other ideas? I personally think these titles SUCK, so I'm always open to suggestions...
While you're thinking it over, watch THIS and become ENLIGHTENED:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cs1zZrk_q7s
Now, in addition to having a drummer, we have most of a drum kit (snare, floor tom, kick), which is nice. I would consider us exactly one cymbal away from being a complete band at this point. My heart is fucking POUNDING.
I've been sweating the band stuff too damned much lately. The past couple of weeks have seen The Spook Lights evolve in my mind from a soon-to-be band to a full-blown OBSESSION. And the closer [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] and I come to realizing our dream, the more terrified I am of seeing the whole thing SELF-DESTRUCT... As a result, I've become more nitpicky with the details of our music than is probably necessary, which in turn has caused me to over-inflate perceived tensions between bandmates... The final result being that I'm dropping years from my life worrying about problems that don't even exist, except for in my mind. I have a tendency to do these things, you know. I can be a REAL FUCKING ASSHOLE at times.
The thing is, Ms. Malady and I have a certain aesthetic we're trying to bring to the band, and with that aesthetic comes a list of SPECIFIC details that define "our sound"... Am I going to come off as some kind of whip-cracking DICTATOR if I start insisting that we "stick to the formula"? Or is it acceptable for me to be a hard-ass in the name of FOLLOWING OUR VISION?
To help ease things along, Ms. Malady and I have started holding weekly songwriting sessions, just the two of us. She conjures up some riffs, then I try to wail some lyrics, then we hash out the song structure. If it works out, we do a rough recording and bring it to the band. This is going to be our way of keeping it all together, the way we see The Spook Lights in our collective brains.
We had our first session the other night, and things went swimmingly. [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] laid down a solid rhythm line, and I did my best to hoot and holler along. When the dust settled, we basked in the stormy afterglow, completely confident that we had just set the rock-n-roll world on fire.
"How was that?" I asked. "I mean, I didn't sound too much like I was trying to cop Screamin' Jay, did I?"
"Baby," she responded, "You are WAY too much of a honky to have to worry about that!"
------------
I'm still trying to think of a title for my movie... As soon as the external hard drive is on hand, I'm gonna get down to the nitty gritty, storyboarding the script and working on a few shorts to cut my teeth on the whole "auteur" thing. Here are my ideas thus far:
1) Pleasant Valley Rumble
2) The Desperate and the Damned
3) Twilight of the Vashion Victims
4) Product X
Any other ideas? I personally think these titles SUCK, so I'm always open to suggestions...
While you're thinking it over, watch THIS and become ENLIGHTENED:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cs1zZrk_q7s
