Someday little man

A year ago he couldn't say a word. Two years ago he could fit in a space between my palm and my forearm. Now he's waiving goodbye and ready to take on the world. I hope we taught him well.

Tape Op changed my life

So for those of you who know me, you may find it odd to hear i work at a bank.. that I sit in a cubicle and help people purchase homes and relocate with their companies. You might also find it strange to know that I haven't played my guitar yet this week and it is Saturday.. I haven't played with my band in a month either.. and if this seems all strange to you.. imagine how it feels to me. 

Earlier this month I started a new chapter of soul searching I would call it. I started asking questions about where I should be and now that i've done so much, where do i go from here? The answers have come in strange ways.. but they have come. 

The day after I didn't eat I received a quarterly publication that I had signed up for last year but never received. It's free so it's only sent out to random subscribers each quarter unless you pay for the subscription. I received mine.. and in it are the stories of engineers and producers from the music industry that were expressing their roots and what made them successful. As I took this magazine with me to work, to the bathroom, in the car, I still can't stop reading these articles. It's everything I've ever wanted to do. Record and produce.. If this wasn't enough a letter from my sister came in the mail previous to this. I had expressed to her some of my concerns about where i wanted to be in my life and who I was right now. Her opinion was I was trying to do what I wanted all the time and not listening to the higher power. I took this to mean I was supposed to be giving up my music.. to do "family life" -- turns out maybe the powers that be would have me pursue my dreams and talents and make something of it and quit using my family as an excuse not to do it. So I will.. Music Business and music technology.. 

its been good since i made up my mind and that tells me.. it's all what it's supposed to be.

Old Skool Monday 37337

It's super cool when bands that inspired me release albums around the same time. You think Beck, Weezer, The Foo Fighters would ever play a show together? It's been a while since my last update.. the problem has been that I usually blog from my now defunct iPhone. As of tomorrow this problem should be somewhat abated in that I got a decent bonus in my last paycheck at an old job and I should have the means to purchase a new one. In the mean time.. I picked up two new records these last few weeks that I find pretty interesting. Make that three.. Beck has a new record out. More on that soon as I have not listened to it thoroughly enough to justify writing anything about it.

 

This Alkaline Trio record could be the big one for them. There's a few tracks that are just acoustic renditions of other tracks on the disc so that could have been cooler. I still really like the production and feel of this disc. If you haven't listened to them, you should pick it up and try not to do it when you're depressed.

The Offspring's new record Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace is pretty rad. It has an old school sound reminiscent of Smash, which is pleasant to me due to the fact that Smash and Out Come the Wolves were my first two albums. I'll just say that he is sounding more like Weird Al and less punk rock but if you can get passed that, you've got a pretty good record. We'll ignore the Ace of Base that I had from somewhere in my CD collection.

Other than that I now work for the man at Bank of America, I'm a loan officer. So if you're buying a house, you call me, I feed my baby who has a mohawk. You like babies with mohawks.

I think sometimes, working two jobs, taking 2 accelerated courses, and taking care of a family and church responsibilities will kill me. Like that guy in Japan who just died working on the new Camry. He worked himself to death with 90 hour weeks. Nothing is worth that. So don't work so hard that you can't spend time with your loved ones. Don't cop out because it's hard or you won't ever have what you want. It's a clever game they play. Check this -- Viewzi.com is local grown and it's rad.

NEW MUSIC TUESDAYS!!

I love Tuesdays. New releases come out like the new =w= record, in red. I also realized I have had the Deathcab record for a few weeks and have yet to give it more than a 10 second preview. I have to say it's a lot less the postal service direction as the last two discs but I like it. He took a lot of the effects off his vocals. Still have some songs with the heavy reverb but for the most part it's a lot more natural with less, if any, synthetics. Great to see them back to their roots. Speaking of roots that brings me to the next album.


This album confuses iTunes because it is the third time they've released a record titled "Weezer". The weezer record is great. Would you expect anything less? To be honest I thought I would hate it.. I stopped listening to the =w= after Pinkerton due to creative differences. I know this is a shock to those of you who know I named my son Jonas after the song off the Blue record. This album shows a little growth (as in a lot) since Rivers is all married, graduated from harvard and living the good life. I still miss Matt Sharp now of The Rentals (also a great group.) One thing I noticed that is a little different for Rivers is he let someone else sing a song on the record. He said once and I quote "I write the songs and then get together and tell them what to play and that's pretty much how we write songs." This statement can't be completely true; the last record Matt was on is Pinkerton. After that there is a significant change in songwriting style with the band. Anyway, I digress.. good record. Get it.. BUY it. I don't buy a lot of music but you're better off enjoying the =w= and knowing you're giving your money to a high school drop out who followed his dreams to L.A. and then graduated from Harvard 10 years later.

I think he sees me.

We took Jonas to the zoo today for his birthday and it was mixed emotions. It was 95 degrees so.. needless to say the first hour was cool but after we got through the monkeys and a few birds the trail mix was melting and none of us wanted to be there anymore. 

P.S. the penguin exhibit sucks at the FW Zoo.

Put this in my house.

Torrential Tuesday