a halloween song?

okie dokie, well i have to write and record a "halloween themed song" in the next few weeks for a comp. hmmm... I've never really been that solid with lyrics or anything, so we'll see how it goes. i have been wanting to cover "The Time Warp" for a while...

Rarities volume two

available for download.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4360143

go get it.

While I am on a pictures kick

here are some of those shots i mentioned a few days ago from moments in asa history:

rehearsing with Aeych, sometime around 2000 i think:


playing the second and last aeych show:


recording Gretchen Ross demos:


rehearsing AandtheBKillers:


the electronics section of 65:


more to come.

Twins

occasionally, i come across a duplicate of myself. there have been a surprising number that i have seen, and i can't say that it isn't a little humbling to know that, no, i am not as unique as i thought. here are some pics, first, one of me, then, my twins:

Me:


Joe from "Bright Light Motion"


The Fat Guy from"Fat Guy Stuck in Internet"



there are a few more, people i have met and such, but i think i should get their permission before i vcompare their faces to me, or the Fat Guy.

taking a shower, going to the bank, recording new music.

those are the plans for today.

don't know what i'll record... hmmm... waiting for steven to get back to me on the AB tracks i did, shane will be at mill fest i think, so i can't try to sched something for today... i was thinking of covering "Infected" by the the, but i wanted to do it with GP. hmmm, tap tap tap...

i want to record an e.p.

maybe i'll make a minimal, D&B/Triphop/Folk thing...

idk. we'll find out later if i actually do anything.

in the bigger scheme of things

always worrying about the wrong things
and as much as i insist on over analyzing EVERYTHING
i fail to see anything.

i want to know ignorance
and serenity.

i want to kill everything until
i have my clarity
my MOMENT
when i say to myself from the back of my head somewhere
"asa, what are you thinking? don't be dumb".

but i am, dumb.


i am sick of the word "potential".

i am sick of people thinking i could be better than i am.

can't you see that i am already straining to just be this?





no coat no shoes.
and all things will pass i suppose.
and i can fade into the background.

i look forward to rest.
inexpressibly.

have been sick for three days.

scarlet fever or something. idk. sucks, though.

i was going to post some pictures

of various moments (ie: some pics from live events, with musician friends of mine, random things) but i didn't. take that.

AandtheBKillers

so, work has begun on finally recording an L.P. from AandtheBKillers. We were somewhat notorious (in our small circle) for recording lo-fi limited e.p.'s consisting of mainly four track demos and live recordings for a brief peiod, and never having decent sounding shit. Well, even though AB was pronounced dead last year, Steven recently proposed the idea of recording a new L.P., funny enough, i had been thinking about this for some time now (you may or may not remember the dirty version of "No More I Told You So" popping up out of nowhere on the AB myspace for a short time). A few months ago, i was fucking around in photoshop with some old AB pics and one of them read "AandtheMOTHERFUCKINGBKillers". I loved it. So, I started writing some new material, and rehearsing all of the old stuff. Later that week, I talked to steven (who is in florida right now studying audio production and all of that), and he had said that he too had been rehearsing AB stuff, for no apparent reason. I thought 'the time has come', or some corny shit like that, and then we didn't do anything about it. But, now we are. We are recording (with Jon, here and there) about 16 tracks (some new, some old) that will probably be wittled down to about 10 for an L.P. called... yeah, "AandtheMOTHERFUCKINGBKillers". The other six tracks? well, if they turn out decent, but not spectacular, I'd like to put them onto an e.p. shortly there after.

Despite it's simplicity, and my undying affection for trying to do more and more with music and sound in general, AB is without a doubt my favorite project. I don't know why. I just can't let it disappear.

So, in conclusion, the L.P. should be completed sometime in september, if everything goes well.
I guess I should be hammering away with my guitar and the computer right now...