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We Are 4, but Who is 67?
Saturday, January 16, 2010 @ 9:14 PM
Hello world.
As has become a far too common occurrence as of late, I must start this blog off with an apology for missing the previous week's blog. At the very least you should be happier with my excuse this week than a few weeks ago when my excuse was the nebulous "come on, it was the holidays!" This time though, its because we were neck deep in recording demos. I believe that last weekend was entirely taken up with recording my guitar parts. It went well for the most part. We of course upon many of the usual problems that we always encounter but you don't need them details. I did have to do something that I've never really had to do before and that was invest hours upon hours in my attempts to write a solo worthy of the dark masterpiece that it belongs to. It took a lot of effort but I finally at least got one I'm happy with. Well, except for the fact that we haven't actually recorded it. But hey, I'll be able to pull it off, don't you worry! Its very fiery. I think you'll like it. Though, quite naturally, what has eaten up the most amount of time the past while has of course been lyrics. Lyrics have never come easy for me. Ever. I think one of the hard things for us more so than other bands is that for the most part, I handle the lyrics instead of Julio. As you might be able to imagine, its easier for a singer to know what will work with their melody and voice and it matters not just syllables but also cadence and phrasing and even vowel sounds. So as you can imagine, there's a lot that has to go into making the lyrics the write lyrics. Cause not only do you have to take into account all of those things I mentioned but also make the lyrics not only make sense but also have some sort of depth. It takes a while to say the least but hey, we're making progress. However, it is worth pointing out that despite all the work we're putting into all of those, sadly, these songs are not for you to hear. Yet. Someday sure but that day is probably a good while away. So you'll just have to keep waiting and waiting till the time is right. Or hope we slip up and "accidentally" play them live :P
You'll have to forgive me if my memory isn't quite with me tonight. Its been a long week as I just outlined above. Let's see what you may have missed in the past little bit. Well, let's see if you can maybe give you a quick recap of the things that have happened in the past two weeks. I finally got around to seeing Avatar. Maybe its just cause I'm a little kid on the inside but I was just in awe almost the whole time. Just about everything about it was perfect. The technology on display was of course awe inspiring and seeing it in IMAX 3D is just like nothing that I have ever experienced. After the movie was over, real life just felt so flat and colorless. It was just straight up magic. And unlike some have said, I didn't find the actual content of the story itself to be as uninspiring as people have claimed. It was grand and epic and emotional and it was everything that you could hope for as far as I'm concerned. Now if we can maybe get James Cameron to find away to take his original footage for Aliens and turn that into an IMAX 3D experience. Or maybe convince him to make a nice grim, dark action movie next. If somehow you haven't seen it yet, I would suggest you go for it. I suppose there's a chance if you have a cold, dark, cynical heart that you might not enjoy it but I have a feeling that a large portion of you will enjoy the hell out of it! And see it in IMAX if you have the chance. It is so worth the extra $5. Trust me.
Have you perhaps heard of a movie coming out in February called Shutter Island? If not you should look into it. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Leonard DiCaprio. If thats not enough to get you excited you clearly haven't seen The Departed (and if that's the case, well, you should try to fix that). Well, I was excited about this movie so I figured I should read the book. And I did. Let me tell you, that was a damn good book!! Very well written and very clear and understandable but yet still incredibly twisty and unpredictable. Do yourself a favor and make sure you don't look too much into the movie on sites like Wikipedia since at least on the Shutter Island (film) page there, they give away one of the biggest twists right in the first couple sentences. That's not cool. So if you're a reading type, feel free to pick up the book and experience a wonderfully written mind f%&* or wait for the movie since yeah I haven't seen it so there's a chance it could be bad but I don't really see that as being likely . . .
I finally got around to picking up the last few cds from last year that had somehow alluded me so my research is complete and I shall be soon making my epic top 100 list of the decade's best cds according to me. Unlike some lists it won't be a list of the most popular cds, or the most influential, or in any sort of way objective. It will be 100% my crazy personal opinion. I've put together my top few but after that it gets rather murky and convoluted. Every time I throw on something I haven't heard in a while I always end up being so impressed and forgetting how much I loved that cd and it just makes it that much harder to get any sort of ranking to this. Don't lost faith though, I shall get it all sorted out. Not that you necessarily care about my opinion but thats too bad cause you're gonna get it.
Is there really anything else that needs to be mentioned? Not really. I mean, we're minus one bassist but whatever. We'll find another one. Do you know a bassist?
Patient 67
P.S. Here's two things for you watch if you like geeky things like I do: This & this. (if you're sensitive about language, you might want to refrain from clicking especially the 2nd link) |
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