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| Monday, August 22nd, 2005 | | 10:13 pm |
I pronounce this journal dead until further notice. | | Saturday, July 30th, 2005 | | 4:38 pm |
Rivers says: When I was in my mid-20s, after we put out the Blue Album, I had a huge inferiority complex about being a rock musician. I thought my songs were really simplistic and silly, and I wanted to write complex, intense, beautiful music. That?s why I went to Harvard ? to learn how to be a classical composer. And I started studying it, and I realized that I didn?t really like any contemporary classical music. And I very quickly started missing being in the band, and I wanted to go back to that. And since then I?ve gotten a greater appreciation for what pop artists do. Yeah, the music isn?t necessarily as involved, but the art itself is so much more multifaceted than just music ? it involves lyric writing, collaborating with other musicians, some improvisation, and the art of overseeing the persona of the band and who you are, how you act and dress, how you move onstage. All of these things are integrated into a very multifaceted art that moves a lot of people and is important, and relevant to our culture in a way that serious classical music isn?t right now. I do have a lot of appreciation for what pop artists do now, and see that they can have an important and beneficial effect on the world. ... so I read Rameau's Treatise on Harmony and make something new. | | Sunday, June 19th, 2005 | | 10:48 am |
I highly doubt the zine thing with Liz is going to work out, but we have all summer to look into it. Id' have to learn all the workings of a micro-business. Hell if I know anything about that. This summer promises to be highly productive... taking an online world issues course, (fainlly) getting my grade 2 in rca, getting all of the in-car lessons for driving, and I hope to god I can find a decent summer/ fall job. And yes, all the arguably unnecessary work I put into Black Tie Event this year will see a product this summer. Probably a 5-song demo/ep, definately the GCTC gig, and some excellent experiences in t-dot. Before I go study calc again with meg and then do box office at the fringe - congratulations on your future move to toronto, Acey, and your shindigs with Alex. I love you like a long-lost sister. Don't lose touch (see BTE when they play TO!) | | Friday, June 17th, 2005 | | 10:26 pm |
After a year of nonsense, I think I've finally found my footing. Liz and I started discussing doing a zine together, which I'm very excited about. Will talk more after this week of hellish exams and Fringe hijinks is over. | | Tuesday, June 7th, 2005 | | 9:12 pm |
Poetry chapbook is almost finished. I came up with an interesting concept idea that I developed while walking to/from school. The title is "hooked."... I finished a jazz/lounge version of O Canada for guitar yesterday, and maybe it'll get played on the morning announcements at school. Back to work. | | Saturday, June 4th, 2005 | | 10:09 pm |
Debbie and I had bubble tea today. We looked over potential chapbook poems of mine, and ruled out one called "if I were gay." I didn't think it was demeaning (and I didn't mean it that way at all), but it sort of was. I'll post it if anyone wants to read it. Also, Debbie agreed to help me out and bring her piano skillz to the band, which is going to be superfun/cool/fresh. ...aaaand I walk alot now. 4 hours a day. Debbie calls me a nomad. No, I'm just mad. hahahaha. | | Tuesday, May 24th, 2005 | | 6:35 pm |
Power corrupts, but so does weakness. Absolute weakness corrupts absolutely. | | Monday, May 16th, 2005 | | 9:19 pm |
Live journal is an official waste of time for me and will be postponed until further notice.(................................ ......................................) | | Monday, May 9th, 2005 | | 10:19 pm |
Leslie's gone to Thailand tomorrow, doing heck knows what on the beaches. Actually I read a small article in the Metro about it. Non-stop party. Sounds like Leslie. But she's being really irresponsible about using her survival fund/ OSSAP money for it. Meh. It's guaranteed anyone here ( http://www.the-ziggurat.com) is a musician. I spread the love with my Like Spinning Plates remix, dubbed Broken Plates. I like wasting my time on projects like that. The concept piece in lit is starting up, and Keira and I so far have something to do with twins and replication and how creepy and ill-fitting it can be. Which reminds me, this past weekend was excellent... Saturday night, I went out with Bethanna and her friend Kate and got some nice threads at Value Village, then we went back to her place and saw the Spongebob movie. I was surprised at how Monty Python esque the plot twists were, even for Spongebob... The Weezer album comes out tomorrow, but you know what? Weezer died in 1997. I'll got buy the new NIN album. Trent hasn't lost touch with his muse yet. Or at least he's convinced me so. Lastly.. today I found 6 sides of Chopin and George Benson's 'Breezin' for a cool 4 dollars. Been getting into jazz alot lately. About time.... | | Wednesday, April 27th, 2005 | | 7:14 pm |
Today I learn that Jandek played live, once. And he's doing to do it again. Jandek is a reclusive, mythical musician who's been releasing albums under his own label, Corwood Industries, since 1978. He's never played a live gig - until 2004. A new goal on my "things to do before I die" list... see Jandek play live. | | Tuesday, April 26th, 2005 | | 10:02 pm |
My friends' bands are dropping like flies. My first week with Dave Shrier has been off to a decent start. I'm learning some standards, creating chord melody arrangements and generally trying to be a self-contained entity. This is the beginning of a long journey. I hope to find a way to direct you to audio files of my performances and songs, etc. | | Sunday, April 24th, 2005 | | 12:17 am |
| | Thursday, April 21st, 2005 | | 9:03 pm |
Tonight: emailed an array of bands, hoping someone will bite for a show in early June at Dekcuf. Yes, a return to Dekcuf. It'll be a fair bit different this time, however. Also looking at simply doing a show in the school caf after school sometime, with the Beat Preachers and Jaquie in the Kitchen... or Motown, who the heck knows? Canterbury bands. Lessons with Dave Shrier start saturday. Needless to say, I'm looking foward to having fun with that. Lastly, new music continues to flow in the basement. I finished a string arrangement of 'monarch butterfly.' But it's just all in good practice. I already think it's boring. new word of the day... Irotic: An ironic erotic act. Headless horseman getting head. Castrato running for the sex party. | | Monday, April 18th, 2005 | | 9:57 pm |
http://www.studiophalanx.comThis is my friend Matias' (and his visual student contemporaries') website... I implore you to check it out. I've seen Matias drawing crap since grade 5, so I mean, I'm pretty proud of him now. Can YOU dig it? | | Saturday, April 16th, 2005 | | 11:26 am |
Tea fumes smell like gasoline. | | Friday, April 15th, 2005 | | 7:18 pm |
Wrote an interesting script; going to barbecue lemon chicken tomorrow. Must figure out driver's ed... received a .wav file of Alex Petrenko saying "hi hi hi there, Mr. Perry." Ran into Joe this morning, told me to listen to Sigur Ros... or was it Signor Ros (makes more sense). Tonight I'm going to compose something special. I can feel it. | | Sunday, April 10th, 2005 | | 11:35 am |
"I suppose all of us?we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you?re not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you?re really busy. That?s the reason to sort of carry on. It?s kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I?d have a worse time doing anything else. That?s kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy." Jonny Greenwood | | Monday, April 4th, 2005 | | 10:06 pm |
Natascha said: "lately, I've been obsessed with just.. sound because not all music can be words or catchy or relatable to all your relationships and memories sometimes sound and melodies just are, they're life that you can hear and you totally capture that this music just IS it is a feeling, not an emotion collection it's very magical" I'm very relieved about this response, and I can't thank her enough... | | 9:39 pm |
Alex Petrenko's DJ name is now Landon. He told me one of his techniques includes sampling his voice to imitate drum parts he cannot produce on his computer alone. It's swell. | | Monday, March 28th, 2005 | | 9:19 pm |
The new Radiohead song, Arpeggi, is absolutely amazing. It inspires me. I got the studio drums to work in Cubase, so now my demos have semi-cheap synth rhythms. |
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