Right now I’m recording the final songs for the second Teen Fortress album. This is my mic stand:
I have a text file with a great plan in it to get it done and released by the 12th, but BBE comes first and I think we’re mixing next week so there’ll be more waiting.
Tonight I wanted something new but still familiar so I reached for one of my favourite internet-assisted pastimes: needlessly updating my software to bleeding-edge releases or something.
Tonight’s victim was my media player. The latest build of Clementine (Windows Mac Misc Linux) has this for an analyzer:
If you choose Clementine, make sure you right-click on that hideous sidebar and change it to “Icons On Top”. That little-scale + Dot.AY release is super-rad also.
I don’t know much (anything) about Sam Hiti but if you were/are a fan of these Alien comics then you’ll probably like this:
I remember those Alien comics being terrifyingly fast and claustrophobic in the covered-in-aliens-and-dead-comrades-and-always-”making-last-stands”-and-perpetually-running-out-of-ammo. Death-Day reminds me of those comics. The pace is frenetic, the combat is ultra-violent and the writing is excellent. I love being thrown into a universe where things are kept from you until later, or where the plot relies on inference. I think this is why I preferred the non-chronological TV screening of The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya than the chronological DVD release. Oh, that and the massive climax (and the sexual tension).
As of writing there is a prologue followed by four episodes of Death-Day and you can order the book in a couple of formats from his store.
Alright, I feel like I spend most of my days and nights ripping on bands and music for not being good enough which makes me feel like a NEGATIVE CREEP (some kind of ’90s reference in there to stay current. Still with me? Alright:) so here is some stuff that isn’t by Dove that I’m bumping hard in my trunk (read: on my phone / at my computer / off my phone while I cook BNR).
Rackets are the fucking shit. Download this ↑ and then pay some money for this. Pay more than a dollar, though. Paypal and Bandcamp both take a cut. Then go here and watch the video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then this:
In the past I’ve ripped on $noregazZzm for being a bit stupid and not following my “NZ for NZers” rule or whatever, but that’s not quite correct because a lot of the time I can’t tell which voice is Lisandru and which is Joe. Anyway, their album is actually mean as. “Serval” and “Sex Overload” are my picks. Sometimes they’re a bit stupid (“And when I wake up I’m stuck to the floor, just want to go back to sleep so we can fuck some more” x 1,000 and that song about chads) but they are so pop and the production is the shit. And Lisandru has some kind of Outkast/Andre 3000 flow going on (esp. in “Sex Overload”) and I’M DOWN WITH THAT SHIT.
So, I’m going to steal the BVs from “Catherine Zita Jones” and I’m going to try to emulate the balls-out rock-tone of the guitars.
I guess just everything pop-as-fuck-for-life.
