Audio Post Leave a comment
How to Be A Hipster Leave a comment
Step 1, start a blog. Step 2, wear cool clothes. Step 3, listen to only the coolest music. Repeat.
The Greatest Myth of The Internet Leave a comment
The internet perpetuates the myth that, wherever its users may be, there is something more interesting happening or existing online. And, this is not entirely untrue. There may be something more important happening online, but, without question, the intenet insists that it is more important. The blazing screen demands your attention.
My Entire Tulane Social Experience Reduced to One Anecdote Leave a comment
It begins like this: I walk into a bar, or, better yet, I am walking down the main pedestrian walkway on Tulane’s campus, McAlister Drive. As I am walking, amidst a crowd of people, I see several people who I either know, know their name, have met before, or otherwise were, at one point or another, acquainted with. Some of these people I knew during Freshman year. Others I knew from various groups or clubs that I was engaged in, but am no longer. Some of these people do not remember me, or, their association of me, I find it fair to believe, is probably so faint and tangential that I can excuse their unacknowledged passing. Of others, though, I am less forgiving. They know my name; in some cases we may have even spent large amounts of time together in the past; and I know their name. And, yet, as we pass each other on this teeming boulevard, eyes meeting, if only for a second, there is but a glimmer of recognition on both our parts and nothing that could constitute any sort of mutual acknowledgement.
This, I am dismayed to admit, has become the paradigm for my social interactions at Tulane. It is a callous structure, leaving little room for re-acquaintance, rendering my life a dizzying parade of regret and painful reminders—”spurned”, I used to say.
I have been spurned!
Logo Leave a comment
Well, here is the proposed logo. Designed by my sister, I think it is a pretty good start.
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I Choose You, Walnut and Platinum Home Office Leave a comment
I’ve Changed My Mind Leave a comment
As I am allowed to do.
Since you are reading this, I will tell you what I have changed my mind about. I have changed my mind about making this blog an exclusively music blog. Though, I must confess that idea never originated with me. It was my mom’s idea. She, with all her maternal intentions, became (I can only speculate) quite enthralled with the idea of me having a music blog. She saw it, I guess, as some sort of opportunity for me to brand myself.
I have never been one for self-commodification or resume inflation. I have always wanted the record to reflect who I actually am, the “real” me, despite the fact that that sounds so 90′s idealistic. So, I am changing the record to reflect this epiphany. This is my blog.
A question that arises from this discussion is that of what, then, will be the purpose of this blog. It is my new intention that this blog become a record of my struggles. And, here, I do not use the word “struggles” lightly or unintentinally. My life, as every human’s life, is a struggle. Again, this word is not used in the Marxist sense either. I do not mean to invoke that trope. I hope it will suffice for this discussion to accept the propostion that life, in it’s most basic sense, is a struggle.
That being the case, I will not wholly abandon this blog as a platform for my music career. I am a musician and I do make music. But now I will open pandora’s box—the story of my life.
You will have to forgive me if I forget to provide the proper prologue to many of my confessions, revelations, and stories. These will be forthcoming on an ad hoc basis.
You will also have to forgive my lax style of writing. This is, after all, a blog with all of its propensity toward rambling.
And, before I do any more rambling, I will leave it at that for now.
Spotify, Where are all the albums? Leave a comment
Or, rather, to be fair, where are even most of the albums? Case in point: The Books. They just released their new album, The Way Out on July 20. But is it to be found on Spotify? No, of course not; They have but one measly song, “Getting The Done Job.”
If I try to imagine that this is some byproduct of label negotiations, this line of though is stymied by the seemingly obvious fact that they have only ever been released on the quite humble likes of Temporary Residence Limited and Tomlab, both of which are relatively small indie labels that I have a hard time imagining would have any problem working with Spotify. I can therefore only wonder.
No Need for Negativity Leave a comment
But the performance at LATEX was a disaster. I forgot to render the file at 48kHz, and instead rendered it at 44kHz, so everything was faster and higher-pitched and a good amount of the high-end frequencies were lost. Regardless, I can now say I have performed my work publicly, woohooo!!!!!
