February 2012
3 posts
juneafterdawn asked: What have the rest of the band said about the record? And do they add parts for live performance or just generally play everything you wrote?
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Atheist Grief
Warning: Long, self-indulgent post ahead.
Well, it’s official. My band, The Ready Aim Fire!, has finally released Atheist Grief. There’s a whole lot of emotions swirling around right about now. It’s been almost 2 years since I first started writing the songs that would form this record, and here it is, finally out there in the world.
Writing the record felt amazing and...
juneafterdawn asked: Would you say Atheist Grief sounds more like Strong Enough, Good News, or something drastically different? I guess what I wonder about most is how synth/poppy it will be.
December 2011
1 post
September 2011
3 posts
Ellipsis.
So I am now a substitute teacher for a couple school districts. I’ve heard that there aren’t enough sub jobs out there, but I disagree, because I’ve turned down about $500 dollars out of pure laziness in the past two or three days that I’ve been on-call. Okay, not laziness per se, but in an effort to get this EP done in a timely manner. Speaking of, it’s coming along,...
Laid Out
I was out of commission for the entirety of this holiday weekend with some physically draining illness of some sort or another, but shit, everything turned out as well as one could hope. Not only did I come out of it having read the entirety of The Bell Jar (finally) as well as with a good headstart on Blood Meridian and The Sound and The Fury, but I also got a good portion of the synths done on...
August 2011
1 post
Tonight, I hunkered down with a fresh 36-pack and finished my first reading of Infinite Jest, which has been taking up so much of my time and brain-space for the last 2 weeks+. This is my favorite paragraph of the night.
“It now lately sometimes seemed like a kind of black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for...
June 2011
2 posts
juneafterdawn asked: How's recording going?
May 2011
8 posts
ginadora asked: Get a display picture, you creep.
April 2011
7 posts
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
1 post
The Stigma of the Hour
I’ve been working on my senior project, which is basically me copying the styles of 10 prominent poets throughout American history in the hopes of gaining an understanding of changing attitudes towards death within the narrative of poetry. Blah blah blah. This is my poem based on the style of John Ashbery, who is a crazy poet that is outwardly opaque and almost nonsensical, mostly because he...
January 2011
21 posts
Drunk and officially excited for the EP. More drums tomorrow! I wish I didn’t grow up in the pop-punk era, my muscles would thank me. Ah, if only I could write songs at 90 bpm. Well, one is 87 bpm, but that’s the last song, doesn’t count.
Can't sleep, but I should. Blah blah blah,...
I listened to my solo record(s) for the first time in a while, mostly because I can’t sleep, but I like to check out the last thing I released when I’m finishing up a project.
First off, I hope I never go through such a dark time again. I remember being stoked to have so much to write about (I mean, 17 songs? Not counting the ones I didn’t release). But I’m glad I...
