Islands

Caught the end of Islands's show at Mohawk last night. I'm not a huge Islands fan but what I saw of their show was good and I'd see them again. Plus I only had to pay $3 to get in because it was so late into the show. Once again, it is bad ass to live just a few blocks from some of the best music venues in Texas. Austin is dope.

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bike to emos... saw a real good singer la band keyboard player three piece Crash Kings... saw the The Bravery good but not spectacular... thought they were Euro but their not... got drunk at Buffalo Bill's with Aaron... met Matthew who brought me back... met someone from the apartments at the bike racks and drank a little rum... nothing good so I came home and started watching new Office episode... passing out now.

Centaur Marauder Recording Session 2

Last weekend we spent Friday night, all Saturday, and into Sunday afternoon recording in Montgomery. I think we ended up recording three new songs, "Deep In The Sauce", "San Fransisco's Burning", and "When You Speak." I also laid down some more lyrics to "Open To The Truth." Overall I felt that we were way more productive than last time. Also, Stephen wrote and sang most of the songs, which was freaking great. Actually I felt like I hardly did anything the whole time but back him up, which made things really fun and stress-free.





So we are starting to look for a solution to our crappy drums problem. We're hoping to find $750 just lying around, but until then we'll have to Frankenstein together a better kit. I'm going to try to sell some extraneous crap I have, but it might prove difficult. If only we could figure out some way to make money with music!


Over the weekend Stephen hipped me to the fact that Thrice's Dustin Kensrue's little brother is in a band called "Eye Alaska", which apparently is nearly as big as Thrice. I checked them out on MySpace Music, and they're not my cup of tea. Seems like there was a consensus that the lead singer is not cool, and that they appear to be a label-manufactured band. Very un-Thrice-like.

I just got through watching a music documentary show called 'Embedded' on Hulu. The show featured an L.A. indie band called Silversun Pickups, who I've never heard of before. Well, I was not that impressed with this band either. I did notice that their bass player is a girl, which surely adds to their popularity. I keep telling Grant and Stephen that we need a girl bass player but they say I'm crazy. No, you two are crazy. Two crazy homos.

I have also recently heard music I like. Enchanted Islands, the newest album by Beep Beep (Saddle Creek) is sooo great. I have been listening to this album relentlessly for about three weeks now. It's just so original, with amazing songwriting and guitar work. "I brush a pony's mane thinking of your hair drying in my arms." Need I say more? No, I need not.

New Song: Ghostlight

Here's a little taste of a song that's gonna be badass. We're getting closer to being ready to play shows and whatnot...

I'd also like to comment on the beef that's formed between the band and our engineer/producer/manager/PR agent/equipment sponsor/label exec, Grant. Basically, Grant comes over to our studio, manipulates us into wasting recording time by watching some horrible movie, leaves with all our audio files that are worth their weight in gold, and makes fun of the way I talk (probably). Let's just say he's on thin ice, and if I see him again he'd better have a joke to tell. A GOOD joke.

Ghostlight Concept

Engineering Our Rage

We made a little more progress last weekend. I feel like we've pretty much settled on Centaur Marauder as our band's name. I don't know, it just sounds bad ass to me and I enjoy saying marauder a lot. Actually when I hear the term 'marauder' used in daily dialog it always makes me chuckle for some reason.

Names of songs done or in production:

• Open to the Truth - basically done
  
• Cold Night of Winter - basically done
  
• Blood Red Mouth - basically done
  
• Garnet Reflections - 3/4 done
  
• Unnamed (half-step whole step song that Steve made up) - 1/2 done, needs lyrics
  
• Ghostlight - 1/4 done

btw, GRANT YOU'RE A BIOTCH!

R E C O V E R

Last Sunday night we saw Recover at the Mohawk in Austin, and they f*cking rocked. I really like their bass player, Ross Tweedy, cuz he moves around on stage real nice-like and brings tons of energy to the show. We need a bass player like that.


Stephen and I finished a new song the other day called "Blood Red Mouth". It's pretty good I think and close to what we're "going for".

So Thrice's new album dropped but I haven't downloaded it from iTunes because it doesn't contain the five bonus tracks that are on the physical CD. Am I the only one who hates having huge binders full of CDs and massive stacks of empty CD cases collecting dust in my closet? Raarrr! Not sure what I'm going to do about getting that album...

Last night I passed out on the couch after listening to the Black Flag channel on Pandora. I dreamt that I was somewhere with a young Henry Rollins, and something was happening that I don't remember. Probably something hardcore, but not in a gay way.

-tOM oUT

My Friend in a Boat

This is an old song that I re-recorded today in Cakewalk. Personally, I think this song is beyond gay, but people seem to like it so meh.

My Friend in a Boat

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