Friday, March 28, 2008

Since everyone else is rambling about shit, so will I

Well, I am reading this shit occasionaly and it jogs my memory concerning certain things. My musical goals is to learn how to physically record (plug which cord into which hole basically) and crank out an EP worth of material armed with a case of beer and a weekend to myself. What I wish to do this summer is simply that.

That which will emerge will probably be dirty sloppy and angry as fuck. Really I have no talent or skill but that hasn't stopped a ton of other people before. It'll be beautiful just creating something for the sake of creating it. Those shall be my musical goals!!

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

somthing written again

Akron/Family. I need to see them.
Even though nobody reads this or ever will, listen to them. Its a fucking religious experience. Its a lightning bolt to the chest and a phonogram of information.
There's an immediate undeniable interest in their sound. It is somthing old, but it is somthing new. It's all about influences. It's all about context.

They couldn't work this well in any other time frame with any other sound. This is also why the Beatles can never happen again. This is what made me want to make music this year more than anything. Not to copy their sound, to drag it through the mud, but to use it as an influence. I want what they have. They have the immediacy of experimentation and improvisation in ambient noise, that can be channelled through any emotion, and they have the solidarity of structure, and of melody and song itself. Sure, things i make will sound like it at first, but its all relative. You've got to copy somthing to know whats going on sometimes. I dont want to copy things, and if i do, i want to do it right in the right context. I want to design the perfect situation, and the perfect sound for the perfect time in my life. I just can't devote one time in my life to making music now.
In the meantime i feel like stating main influences in things i want to make in organized noises:

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Akron/Family
Animal Collective
...Trail of Dead
Bodies of Water
the Beach Boys
Nirvana
the Besnard Lakes
Caribou
Queens of the Stone Age
Do Make Say Think
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Gorillaz
the Good the Bad and the Queen
the Kinks
Mogwai
Neil Young
Panda Bear
Red Sparowes
A Silver Mount Zion
Sufjan Stevens
Wilco

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Resolutions

Im promising to myself to have a show by the end of summer. I plan on bringing somthing musical to Ferney with which to write songs with. I guess some recording device would be handy, but not necessary. Im finding weird inspiration in strange places like sitting on my ass and watching Tim and Eric, to self pity, to being absolutely stressed out. When everyones out at Foo Fighters, i have no choice but to channel it creatively, even though i didn't actually write anything.
I wan't to write my angry shitty fast music now before it's too late.
I was going to write somthing here about my perception of punk (not that i think punk is fast and angry), but i don't think i've developed my thesis enough. I expect it to come out as i write it anyway.

Monday, March 3, 2008

a copulent hogarth

From now on im going to capitalize my "I"s.