perspective // part one

avoiding the pen like a plague, i've been running. afraid that when i pick it back up, it'll be all dried out and useless. i feel a little cheated and i don't know why.. the cold glow of hospital lights can turn a shadow into a wall; something i can't get past. you can't stop what's coming, neither can i. i think perspective could be another word for that belief.. perspective could be defined as the way you view something. but at what point does something stop being just a perspective? at that point, does it become the past just because it's inevitable? or is there something between the two? is perspective unique to the eye of the beholder, or is it universal? regardless, it's something i don't have much of anymore. i can't see past the next mile marker, and i won't pretend to anymore. it's hard to keep up when you're keepin' on, and my lady of the highway is strong. too strong, perhaps..

i don't know much of anything anymore. if i could just empty this cup.. you know i would if i could. if i only knew how..

face value

follow the gray horse to the wishin' well,
where does he go?
windswept, hear him singin' in the void,
"enemies are emptiness,
and ignorance is revenge,
on them,
on them,
on them,"

the holy noise ep

track list
001. further on
002. restless roads end
003. flatlands call
004. dear poet, survive
005. twenty echoes
006. motherless child

release date to be announced soon...

kickstartin'

check it out.. we launched this project tonight... help us raise money for the EP! the recording is done, we just need to master it and package it!

rec diary three

i can't remember when i last updated.. everything has been a bit of a blur since then. long, but eventful, days of recording and short nights of little sleep.. everything is moving along though...

...and by eventful, i mean that chris almost died while tracking some slide guitar, literally... we had been working all afternoon, and chris was complaining of weird chest pains.. eventually, while we were tracking some guitar on twenty echoes, the pain got so bad, we decided a trip to the ER was in order. scary stuff.. they had him in a bed with monitors hooked up to him in no time. a few hours later, they released him, with not much of an explanation as to what happened. he's feeling better now, but everyone is still confused as to what was causing the pain..

as of today, all the instruments are completely tracked. we started doing vocals yesterday i think. so far, two songs are completely finished, and we've started vocals on two others. earlier tonight, i started to feel like my voice didn't have much left in it, so we're taking the rest of the evening off, and we'll start tackling what's left tomorrow afternoon. excitement is setting in as we're getting close to finishing all the tracking. it's been a long time since we officially released anything, and i don't know that i've ever been more proud of anything i've done musically. hopefully we'll be releasing something online soon! more details soon!

rec diary two

day two of recording is over. got a lot done today as well.. lap steel is pretty much all wrapped up, and these songs are sounding siiiick.. jacob killed it on every tune. tomorrow morning, we'll be tracking bass and keys, and tomorrow evening we'll be starting on the other electric tracks.. so far, we've made good progress on 5 songs, and there's 2 more that are still in the early stages of recording, being held up by scratch guitar tracks, which i'll be playing catch up on tomorrow morning before everyone gets here, hah. all in all, we're way excited about the way everything is sounding, and i can't wait to get this EP out. more updates soon!

reflections

i miss the van. i miss waking up in the van. i miss the feeling of traveling with four of my best friends. the gas stations, the friends, new and old, townes and deer tick on repeat, the northeast, the winter, the snow, the tired eyes, the cheap coffee, the long drives, the short drives, the not knowing, the shows, the good nights, the HIGHWAY... i miss being conscious of the now within all that.

i miss you road, but don't worry, i won't stay gone too long.

rec diary one

recording has commenced! today was productive. we got all the full drum kit tracking done for 6 songs, and a good bit of my guitar tracks laid down as well. the drum sound is surprisingly big, for such a small kit, and the guitars are sounding siiick. still a little more to do tomorrow with random percussion, but everything is moving quickly and sounding great. really excited to start working again in the morning.. so tired though. so for now, early to bed, early to rise. more updates soon!

rec.prep

i've spent the day tuning our drums, dampening them, and getting them ready to be recorded.. also, making tracking charts so we know what we have to do for each song, testing pedals, going over guitar parts, and taking care of other general recording preparations. needless to say, i'm pretty excited for what's to come, and i think we're ready to make some good things happen. we have a large list of tunes we're hoping to track out next week, and i feel pretty good about everything. i've never worked with any kind of time constraints like this, but i think it's going to be a healthy challenge. hopefully, over the course of our time at the lake house, we'll have time to post some pictures, videos, and other updates. so many good things in the future...

for now, a 6 pack of shiner and bob dylan are rounding out my evening quite nicely.

mega

look what we found... this is from the drunken unicorn show, this past friday. enjoy.

http://www.megaupload.com/?f=6VDUZ3EC

studio bound

a big thank you to everyone who came out to help us celebrate at the drunken unicorn. righteous times. we're taking a break form the live show for a while to record... we're hitting the studio sometime around the 12th for a few days..

we're recording in a lake house, on lake knottley, way up in the mountains of north ga. it's a beautiful house. it has a huge living room with wood floors, and 25 ft wood ceilings, which we will be using as the live room. sounds incredible in there. we'll be working on the next ep, which we hope to have out both online and in physical form by late may, just in time for our next tour, in early june...

i'm floored about working in this house. it has a basement with a vintage pool table, a wrap around porch, and a nice little dock, all right on the lake. the sunset is amazing from anywhere in and around the house as well. plenty of space to relax during downtime... looking really forward to being productive in such a beautiful space. here's a few photos we took upon our first visit. everything will be rearranged for recording of course, but this room is amazing...

drunken unicorn/performer

we play tonight (friday) at the drunken unicorn on ponce. this is our last show for a while, as we'll be taking some time to do some recording, and start preparations for the next tour, which will be a 2 week stint in june up and down the east coast... come on out and have a drink or 6, celebrate a successful tour, the release of our documentary, and our feature in performer magazine, which just came out today! check it out at the link below... we play last, so there's plenty of time to get good n loaded, so come do that with us. it'd make us all smile.

check out the article here...

but check out the whole issue in PDF format here... there's a lot more pictures and everything looks way better!

okay! see you at the unicorn!

missin'

the van.

documentary

five weeks in the belly of a blue ox... this is what happened.

further on

before you go into the city,
know what you're tryin' to find,
and before you walk into the dark,
take with you all of your light,
and you shine it so bright when the highway goes dark,
the white lines are just guides,
moderation is for the monks,
and limits are for the limited ones,
so go baby go,
go on down that road,
the mountains will greet you and the wind, it will sweep you further on,
further on.