2008

Jul

New York Can Be Magical, At Ti…Posted with LifeCast

More Noise: Don’t Even Look At…Posted with LifeCast

Live Loren personality spamming from my iPhone.Posted with LifeCast

So now I’m thinking that it was a power failure that...

Okay, so the Blue Shift album is taking a long time. In the meantime, however, I have been sitting...

Watching a special about the Who on VH1. I didn’t ever pay that much attention to them but, I...

Our poor cat Moe passed away last night. He was having...

crickets

No action this weekend. Family-friendly July 4th weekend at an undisclosed location that rhymes...

Jun

Ok so after a period of us not getting much accomplished, a little movement in the last couple of...

Comments Added

I signed up with Disqus, so now you should be able to leave comments on the posts here. Hi...

Spent some time stomping around Red Hook this weekend. This...

Glacial

I got a couple more tracks ready for drums on the weekend. Milanetti and I spoke about the glacial...

Thoughts on Album Structure

Listening to Death Cab for Cutie’s “Plans”. It sort of has the effect of musical...

How Music Destroys My Life

It’s cheesy, but I keep coming back to the Wizard of Oz analogy. There’s Oz, in...

Blue Shift history - this is “Destroying the Ego” from our old album,...

May

Recording a click track. Ought to be simple right? But this song has three different tempos, and 3...

WTF? A military helicopter (one of three) circling in the...

Klinowski Writes Some Lyrics (or maybe...

No progress this weekend.Technical setbacks - screwed by PaceAP copy protection -I had to reinstall...

New song demo: “Take the Arrow Out”. This is a bit of a departure from the other Blue...

For the “random” part of this blog, the garbage...

Writing...

I don’t seem to have any control over what comes out. Its just like, the window opens and...

Our Method (so far)

One of the exciting parts of doing this recording is that this way of working is brand new for us. ...

This is Klinowski’s board mix of the drums he’s programming. This is a work in progress...

First Drum Tracks

Klinowski posted up his first drum tracks last night. Wicked.

The Blue Shift logo, attached to my leg.

The Line-Up

Once upon a time there was a band, based out of Toronto, called Blue Shift. Three of us have come...

We started by sending song demo tracks to each other. Here’s an example of one. Note that...

Making an Album

As I had mentioned elsewhere, I’m making an album with my old band, Blue Shift. We all live...