November 2010
29 posts
Hit me with Reality
This week I spent 5 days with some very awesome people. I haven’t been in the office since tuesday. I had time to play guitar, catch up on shows, eat great food, drink with old friends, have movie nights and long talks with my lady, listen to some records, play the annual thanksgiving football game with the guys, and have an overall relaxing weekend.
Now? Well I’m about to hit the...
bygrabtharshammer:
the gambler - fun.
i swear...
LML
Love my life.
Hey, 2011! Can you do me a favor and grant me some continuity? I like how things are and I’m fine with some bumps along the way. But please, can I live in the same place for the whole year? Can I go to the same school? Have the same job? Have the same girlfriend? Can I keep making music and enjoying it? Can my family stay happy and healthy? Can my friends continue finding...
RHYMESWITHBEAN: I wonder if this is a feeling you... →
rhymeswithbean:
I’ve been feeling pretty defeatist lately about my writing, which, over time, has also started to become the thing I circle around the most. I think part of this has to do with the fact that I sometimes consider it the only thing I’m halfway decent at doing, or if not decent, then the only thing…
Absolutely brilliant and poignant. Academia tends to stymie art as opposed...
FIVE PEARLS OF WISDOM TO REMEMBER:
1. Money can’t buy happiness but
somehow, it’s more comfortable to cry in a BMW than on a bicycle…
2. Forgive your enemy, but
remember the motherfucker’s name.
3. Help a man when he is trouble & he will remember you
when he is in trouble again.
4. Many people are alive only because
it’s illegal to shoot them.
5. Alcohol does not solve any problem, but then,
neither does milk.
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Watchriot-nrrrd:
Isaac Hanson reprimanding a complete douche for getting physical with a couple of girls who were kicked out of a show at Club Soda in Montreal on November 18th:
There were two young ladies who just got ejected for being drunk and stupid… And I don’t really want to do this, but I think it’s the appropriate male thing to do - I’m sorry sir, you in the New York Yankees hat, that was...
Three leaf clovers: sometimes i just want to act →
ok-thanks:
when i start school in january, i could be anyone i want. i’ll meet people who i’ve never seen before and they won’t know anything about me. not that i’m not happy with myself because for the most part, i am, i just think it’d be fun to forget about everything and be something or…
Can’t change who you are fundamentally. I’ve tried to be less heart-on-my-sleeve,...
I’m just not home much anymore. It is so nice to be in my room. But what can I say? I’ve been going out and doing all kinds of things, both fun and responsible. And spending my time with some great people.
It’ll be nice to have this thanksgiving week. No school and very little work this week. Thank goodness. Maybe I’ll be on more this weekend. We shall see.
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Life
Whoa man, just in over my head lately. I just don’t really spend much time relaxing these days. School is busy, Work is busy, New relationships are busy. I gotta say I cannot wait for this semester to end. These papers are just breaking me down.
That being said, I still read all your posts thanks to my trusty google reader. I love staying caught up as much as I can.
I’m back in the...
Started Recording
Then I hit a wall. I’m just too tired. I go back into the studio monday (finally!) but I still have papers to write and other things to catch up on. Just so busy these days. I’m gonna take the rest of the night off and watch movies with my person.
Something about generational studies gets me so fired up. I find most generational experts to be elitist and stuck up. Regardless, most writers on the subject will defend his or her generation to the death while lambasting the other generations.
The truth is, all the generations have had their missteps. They all have moments of arrogance and disgust. They all have been welcomed into the adult...
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This Is Why Jesse Lacey and Kevin Devine Are...
ATP: You have got the record coming out next year, and a release date scheduled in the US, but nothing scheduled for Europe. Doesn't the current state of the industry scare you, like you said, no one buys records anymore. Records will leak online and people have grown up nowadays where, for example, the new Killers record just came out and people will say 'Oh the new Killers record is out? Great! I'm going to download that now'.
KD: No.
JL: (to Kevin) Have you ever made a dollar from a record sale?
KD: No, never, but I'm getting a royalty statement from Triple Crown!
JL: I've never made money off a record sale. I made money on a record advance, but that has to do with the industry. Companies investment in me, but I've never seen a return. For a band like us and Kevin to keep doing what we're doing is by doing shows. We used to tour pretty hard but by looking at Kevin's schedule, it’s like, his is completely relentless. I guess the point is, why charge a kid for a record? Give him an option, maybe. If he wanted to buy it at your show for $5-10, and getting the packaging, or wanting to buy it in a store. But if the quality of a music reaches a point online where it sounds as good as anywhere else, I mean, I don't like paying for records either; when it gets down to it, most of the time I don't. As long as kids keep coming to the shows, buying a ticket and wanting to experience the music with me, in a setting like this, then they can have it for free. They can give it to as many people as they want and that's fine with me. Why keep putting money from the actual piece of artwork into the hands of someone who really had nothing to do with it creatively, when we can share it with everyone. Then, hopefully, we make our living playing, which we all want to do in the first place.
KD: I totally agree. I think it’s going there, and I think they've been so slow and so pigheaded. It’s acting as if something’s changing where it’s actually changed. It’s interesting because I've met a lot of interesting people in this business, who have no clue of what is actually happening, but I think, from my perspective, that I don't sell enough records to make royalty checks. If I sell 10,000 copies of a record now, which is about what I sold for the most popular record I made, the most recent one. First of all that’s totally unbelievable, I'm sure that 40-50,000 people actually have it, that is, if i'm basing it off how many we have playing it on the MySpace every day and how many people come to the shows. There are more fans then there are people buying my music. As a start for me, I echo a lot what Jesse said. From my perspective, when I want to stop touring 200 days a year, because of my personal life; my goals changing or maybe I might wake up and stop liking music as much as I always have, it would be a decision because of those things, not because a kid didn't buy my record and downloaded it for free. Why would you buy it if you’re sixteen, living in fucking Cardiff, you don't know me personally and you had the choice to hear my record for free or pay £10 on iTunes. If you’re doing it for moralistic reasons, it’s nice, but people don't need to do that.
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Girls these days
imaginaryrawr:
are always talking about whether they’re a Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, or Miranda.
They should really be figuring out if they’re a Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, or Sophia.
[right now I’m a Blanche]
I’d say you are more of a Joan of Ark.
fireinyoureyes:
Me and the Moon | Something...
Three leaf clovers: It's a nice day for a WASP... →
lanibelle:
O.K., so it was a Catholic wedding, but nonetheless it was full of white people in ironed clothing in suburban Connecticut. I was a +1 attending with a friend so I didn’t know the bride or the groom. They both seemed lovely and were beautiful and I’m happy the wedding was everything they wanted it…
Can we just have you plan all weddings please?
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A Giant Moment
It’s been a few days since the Giants won the World Series, but I am still ecstatic over it. I wish I had the video Eric took of me in the bar in NYC. What a funny moment that was. I was watching the final outs and freaked out when they won it. Everyone else in the bar was mild, no one else was from the bay area or had anything close to the interest in the Giants I did. People did high five...
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Brother Weekend
So I’m watching my little brother Josh all weekend. We just got Toy Story 3 on blu ray and we have been watching it all weekend. In true adorable kid fashion, he has his Toy Story toys out while he watches the movie and reenacts the scenes as they go on. It is absolutely adorable.
Of course, every time he starts watching I get all into the movie too. Damn this movie is awesome.
I love...
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Weather
You know, people really love to bitch about weather. I just notice it all the time. I rarely ever do. I understand that it is frustrating when the weather doesn’t really cooperate with the seasons, but I don’t get why it is such a point of contention with people.
If it is hot, I put on the A/C and the fan and walk around in boxers and go swimming. If it is cold I put on awesome...
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New York to San Francisco
I’m here at JFK airport, having missed my flight that was going to take me to Long Beach and then home to Sacramento. I woke up this morning and ran late and underestimated the metro travel time. I was pretty frustrated, but my new way of thinking told me to be positive.
The only other flight available goes into SF tonight at 11, which means I’ll probably just stay the night with a...