...my little studio of fun is almost complete.

I have a little bit left to do in here. I'm still not sold on the layout. 

We shall see what happens over the next couple of days. I'm just happy I can start doing some demo work for am.psych again.

...Steve showed me that there is place for guitar in techno...

 

This is just damn amazing. I mean, really. I can't stop watching it. I love the soundtrack already so this is a no brainer for me to watch. 

Kick back, and watch this kid's fingers fly.

...I was reminded of some fun I had many years back.

On the way to work, I got sick of the usual blabber on the radio that I have been listening to for many years. I plugged in the iPod as I am known to do from time to time and let it go to shuffle mode. I have a lot of music, it's a 120 gig iPod and it's over half full. I can go for quite a while without hearing the same song twice.

Tony, Terry, and Cal

This morning I was reminded of a time that was a lot of fun for me when a song called "Over my dead body" happened to play. A few years back, a local band out of Racine called "Snooky" needed a guitar player. They were committed to 3 or four shows still and didn't want to have to pull out of them and let their fans down. I knew these guys for years. Opened up for them when I was still in Lithic for MANY shows and the guys became good friends of mine. So, when Tony, Cal, and Terry were down on their luck and needed someone to step in... I did. I learned a set of about 8 or 9 songs and helped them out. In the end, Bill (amazing guitar player) ended up taking over and they kept on rolling.

While they are not playing together anymore, I still consider their music some of the most influential on my playing in am.psych. John has mentioned that he can still hear it in things I play from time to time.

...I learned some new stuff for the band.

Learned some new stuff for the band tonight. We'll be playing it on 4-15 for our show with The Dark Clan and Red This Ever at Club Anything. There is some special stuff happening that I'm not going to go about saying quite yet. But, I will say it's something I've never done on stage before. That's what made today better.

It's been really hard for me to find something today that made it better because I've had such an awesome 48 hours before it. Spent a lot of time with my lady the last two days and it has been quite nice. I want more of those days and nights. Being able to just sit in bed and talk until we fall asleep is nice. I like waking up in the morning like we did the last two days and just having her there too. It makes getting out of bed a pain, but it's ok. I know she'll be there again.

Until tomorrow, it's time to put the computer and keyboard away. My fingers are way sore from practicing about 4 hours tonight and they are yelling at me quite a bit... and by the way, if you dont have the EP yet, I put the link right up there for you to go get it. It's quite the steal up at amazon.

...I'm here with all of my people.

I have this mix of music I listen to when I want to be in a better mood. One of my favorit tracks is My People by The Presets. It's just got a vibe that makes me happy when I hear it.

Music does that to me. I get really emotional about it. Sometimes it is happy, other times it is sad, angry, or even frustrated. Seeing as I play guitar, I think I just get in to the music. The latest track we got back from the might Dan Clark for the next am.psych album just had be in total disbelief that we wrote something so mind blowing.

If you have kids, do like I do (or don't, I don't tell people how to parent)... turn off the TV for a bit, turn on the radio or pandora/last.fm and give the kids some culture. Have them sit and listen to it. My son now can pick up and recognize melody on just about any song we listen to. My daughter is always bouncing around.
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I'm probably going to take it to the next step and have them close their eyes and then draw what it makes them see... but then I might get called a tree hugging hippie.

oh, and if you get a chance, check out the band I'm in. We have a few shows coming up in April.... one of which we open for our friends @16volt .

http://www.vampirefreaks.com/ampsych

...I decided that I need to play my guitar...

...like a boss.

I think it's time to update the me-50. For two reasons, it's not mine, and guitar center just sent me a 10% off coupon.

I will play my guitar and it will sound awesome.