God, it looks terrible. I’ll be using teh Tumblrz to blog, you know, stuff. Stuff that people will see and subsequently like. They then will hire me to do things. And they will be my friend, and accept me as the beautiful flowered son of a bitch that I am. CSS comes before that. And Chablis.
Let’s just cut the shit, here. Danzig = Hilarious.
But Deaf Danzig? Shit would be furiously aglow with win. I beseech you: go to your backlog of Danzig, or just go onto YouTube, and find “Her Black Wings.” Then pretend he’s deaf. You don’t have to be stoned to appreciate this. You just have to not be an asshole.
I’m apparently back on Tumblr.
New branding, preliminary. Typeface is Interstate. Still working on making it “my own” without completely denigrating the integrity of the typography. Or making it seem xMETALx. Which is unlikely given this is Interstate.
This was one of the “Recommended for You” videos on my YouTube front page. The title is “Me singing Should’ve Said No by Taylor Swift.” Right.
Fail, YouTube. Fail.
I’ve done nothing with Climate in the past week or so. The reason? Anberlin.
This is the best band I’ve heard since I discovered Silverchair. I’m spending all of my time listening to this and re-energizing my soul. I’m in love.
I’ll be back to recording soon enough with new ideas.
Here are the songs I’ve been recording.
1. Moment is You (formerly Personal Effect, probably)
2. Rational Anthem
3. The Knifefight (formerly Hi, Travis)
4. Division Song (just the opening riff so far)
5. Stable Things
I want to work on:
1. Chaos Style
2. A new on in Bb (tent. called “This December”)
3. A new one in G# (tent. called “Fuck Your Yankee Bluejeans.” Not really.)
Progress is pretty good. I bought a 1TB FW800 drive to back everything up, but I forgot to take it home from work where it was delivered today. So one more day of risking losing everything should the hard drive crash for some reason.
The Knifefight is sounding good and I began trying to record a sonic technique I’ve imagined in my head for years and never really did w/ exception to Moment is You: very high guitar melody, abstract and patterned. The closest parallel I can equate it to is First Day Back by Braid, or some of the work Foals does. I love Braid’s interlude :20 in where the high guitar gives a second voice to the vocalist. It’s a bitch tuning my guitar to accommodate those high frets. Plainly speaking, I need a better guitar. I’ve had my Jagmaster Squire since May 2005. It won’t cut it for long. I’m too stubborn to change, I guess.
I decided on a typeface and some sort of design aesthetic for the new Climate branding. I want this one to be the one that lasts, the way that all good bands seem to. Think of Cake. Always Copperplate, always set high and large on the top middle of the cd cover. That sort of thing. A good brand will propel the promotional campaign and solidify and legitimize the purpose of the music.
I was going to sing tonight, but I wasn’t feel top notch. You know how it is. Some days you’re on fire, some you’re not. Tonight was a bit less frantic. I think in the coming days I’m going to see a breakthrough. I may end up putting The Knifefight, in some preliminary version, as a teaser. I’m tired of putting “DEMO” at the end of everything, and if I’m not satisfied with the mix to really, truly redefine Climate, then it won’t be worth it.
I look forward to designing for this, though.
I have a twitter (/climatemusic). I’m thinking about calling the EP/LP “Burn the Past.” there’s been a million names floating around. Afterglow. Burn the Past. Every Cadence. Every Climate. Love and Ambition. The more popular one was Forwards Fight, but I may actually let that sit until things are more established. The name Burn the Past, in itself, is contradictory. All of the material I’ve had is material that I’ve had for years. Namely Division Song, The Knifefight, etc. I did them under Suicentric. But going back and confronting my work, finishing it, and letting it out in the public is symbolic of moving on from the past.
I can’t wait to start making new music. I should just do that anyway.
I’ve been talking to close friends about this; I need to begin exorcising this material, getting it done, where I’m content enough to let it go, and then let it go. The work is good. My ideas shouldn’t just go to waste. I feel that if one person actually ends up enjoying the material, then the purpose of the material has been served. Who would I be to waste the melodies on just myself?
I’m just going to record, now. No overtalk, no waiting, no guilt, no fear. Go. Go. Go.
