Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand
by krisis
As much as i’d love to stay and chat you all up all day, i need to be in the recording studio in a (futile) attempt to finish up all of my projects and pass the class with something higher than a D. If my attempt gets to be too bleak i think i’ll just quit and record my new demo while i’ve got the keys in my possession. Sound like a plan? I’ll update you from the computer in the studio. Ciao.
by krisis
Another new song just sorta showed up half-formed and tangled in my head, which makes for three in the last two weeks. They’re all very strummy and slightly discordant, but none of them wander too far afield from “Relief,” which was obviously the establishing song for my sound this year (since it’s both of those things). Of the three so far, only one of them feels “complete” – which can be a function of the amount of work i put in, or of if the song even can contain a complete thought within its structure. Even if this new one doesn’t pan out, i get the feeling that i might be visited by a few more sometime in the near future
by krisis
I can only hope that this endeavor will finally launch my career as a rock star so i can leave school, make a miserable second album, and then get a journalism job just on industry credibility. I just need to build up my cred, yo.
by krisis
Other than my sudden realization about my new musical project today was incredibly dull. Waking up for a 10am class is only marginally less hard than waking up for a 9am class, especially when you want to drop it rather than walk to it. I conceived of the EP in public speaking class, which could be renamed to “learning things that i consider to be general knowledge,” and played around with the idea for the hour break i had before my next class. Blah… if my days were all like this i’d have thrown myself in front of a moving bus months ago. I’ll try to be interesting in my next post, i promise…
by krisis
Also conceptualized so far (in addition to guitar and voice) is: bass and piano on “Crashing,” electric guitar on “Punk,” and a multitude of extraneous tracks on “Under My Skin.” The challenge with UMS is to keep it from sounding too busy, as there are way more than eight tracks of audio in what i want to add to it. This is so exciting! I wish i could go down to the studio right now, but the building is locked. Hmph. I should probably be shopping for my electric guitar sometime soon, eh? Perhaps… i have no patience for anything…