Will be playing a three-song acoustic set on Friday, August 17 at the Q Center. It’s part of a benefit for everybody’s favorite GLBT Press, Gertrude Press! The tickets are $10, but (and I can’t stress this enough) you can buy a ticket without feeling obligated to attend. Seriously. Small literary [...]
OK, it sucks so far. But I got tired of working on it. And yes, I know some of the links don’t work. Tough shit!
EDIT: It’s come to my attention that “there’s not much color.” The color is coming, folks. Just as soon as we get that cover art…
Ha ha! No rush!
This is the eleventh of a planned eighty-part series on the mixing of Roboctopus.
Got some preliminary notes from Jeremy yesterday, and it was back to the drawing board on a couple of vocal effects that turned out, when played through decent speakers, to feel like your eardrums were shooting poison darts at your optic nerve. [...]
Besides the fact that this is a Bowie cover, does something about sound familiar to anyone?
Yesterday was the PDX Pop Now Concert at City Hall. Somebody asked me if I was going, and I said “Hell no.” I usually don’t feel the need to explain my summary dismissals, and so I didn’t, but my reasoning later struck me as amusing.
I said “No” in part because I was thinking, [...]
Right after we hit the answering machine’s delete button, I realized I’d be doing the world and this blog a favor by posting transcripts of the voicemail messages left by my friend Dave.
For those of you who were wondering what’s been on Dave’s mind lately, feel free to ponder the idiocy that led Hasbro to [...]
A week or so ago I was talking to Bubba and we were discussing what it meant to be “prolific.” Here’s the official DYM songwriting & recording stats, Bubba, including the output of Jimmy Kaufmann and Djerzi Rocket:
Songs Written & Recorded
17 - JK, Critique of Pure Treason1
13 - DYM, Intimations of Immorality
6 - DYM, [...]
At this very moment, Eloise is shouting abuse at me from the living room. “The line’s not that long!” and “I COULD’VE GOT A GIFT CARD!” Thank you, Swedish megastore!
In other news, it now looks like we’ll be playing the Grapedrink with four other bands. Here’s the line-up:
1. Lars Ballard, [...]
UPDATE: ACCORDING TO DJERZI, THIS IS NEXT WEEK AND NOT NEXT MONTH.
7/28/07! 8pm! We play the Grapedrink with Paper or Plastic and The Maybe Happening.
Check out how Grapedrink slags the Mercury!
This is the tenth of a planned eighty-part series on the mixing of Roboctopus.
Mix D is now in the hands of our favorite recording engineer, Jeremy. He’s “hard at work” and “listening intently” and will have his Angler of Death vocals recorded by Monday, July 30.
There were some relatively significant changes on a few [...]
I mean, c’mon.
In other news, The Buffy Omnibus is also awesome.
This is the eigth of a planned eighty-part series on the mixing of Roboctopus.
This will no doubt be the shortest-lived mix. All the levels are now set to the band’s satisfaction, and we’ll be sending this mix along to Jeremy for some pointers on frequency control and other high-end fancy-pants crap that I have [...]
This is the eigth of a planned eighty-part series on the mixing of Roboctopus.
The notes are all in, and surprisingly, there was only one point of direct disagreement.1
One: My background vocals on It’s Always Christmas. Some say “Yes!” and others say “No!”
I could go either way. As with most parts I come up [...]
I heard we were the 212th alternate!
2007 PDX Pop Now! Schedule
He once vowed only to “eat what I can catch and fuck,” which means that thanks to years of smoking he is now a vegan.
He refuses to read fantasy because of his contention that HE is the “real” Harry Potter. Oh, and because of the genre’s pervasive and persistent misrepresentation of the “actually quite gentle–I [...]
What aren’t we this charitable to deformed humans?
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okay i’m posting something. maybe this time it will actually go up on the blog.
I don’t know what you were googling for that brought you here, perhaps it was “time traveling gum couriers,” but you’ve managed to stumble ass-first onto the blog of Delightful Young Man.
Delightful Young Man is a group of performers who perform performances. To get a sense of what our live shows are like, please watch [...]
This is the seventh of a planned eighty-part series on the mixing of Roboctopus.
I’m still waiting for feedback from Djerzi and Pennystripe1 but in the meantime, here are some post-initial but pre-conclusive thoughts:
In the past, after listening to a collection of songs twenty or thirty times, I’d begin to form definite opinions as to which [...]
This is the sixth of a planned eighty-part series on the mixing of Roboctopus.
Mix B is now in the hands of the rest of the band. It’s getting close… after gathering the (no doubt invaluable) feedback from those jokers, I’m hoping that Mix C will be pretty damn close to final. Then we’ll [...]
