December 2009
7 posts
Panning for Gold
I wrote this poem during a day hike last summer. I was surprised to come across it again today, while searching through some lyrics on my computer. After reading the poem for the first time in over a year, I was immediately taken back to that balmy summer. Scott was leaving for Brazil, Alex and I didn’t talk much anymore, and nothing was really going the way I had intended. I couldn’t find a job,...
Chris's mom makes wonderful dinners.
She really does. They were one of the highlights of the sessions for Life Without Consequence - the studio was set up in her house, after all, and every night she made us a lovely home-cooked meal, always hot and fresh. The record took seven days in total - one song per day, plus one for fixes, punches, and general auditory madness. It was an absolute blast to record; it felt more like hanging...
Bad Art
I started to write this a while ago, in November I think. It never really went anywhere, but even unfinished thoughts often have merit. I don’t want to reread it lest I feel the need to change things or delete ideas.
It’s at this time of year, with the falling of the leaves and the quiet coming of the first snow, that I like to observe the expressionless faces of the people of this...
I am from...
I am from the place where sugar houses line clean streets, where the way to get around was a big wheel trike, but never past the mailbox. I am from the place where aspen trees and cottonwoods and poplars are the tallest things around, except for the distant mountains that seemed as unreachable as the sun. I am from the place where parents fought behind closed doors as bluejays fly into picture...
the new ep - "Life Without Consequence"
The new EP, Life Without Consequence is done and all of us are so excited. When we initially set out to record, everything that could possibly go wrong certainly did. The DAT stunk, the click bled, the bass clipped, and we knew this was going to be a real challenge. Once we settled into the routine of weekly sessions, everything came together unbelievably well. We recorded and premixed one song...