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Sunday, 02 April 2006 |
82 in fayetteville today. 81 tomorrow. i love the south!
yesterday i was at the mall, in spencers, and some 18 or 19 year old kid comes up to me and invites me to a party. i declined. then he asks me how old i am. i tell him, and he proclaims 'you're old!!!!'
i say, as sarcastically as possible 'thaaaanks! maybe compared to you im old.' and he says 'no, you're old.'
how do you go from hitting on someone to insulting them in .3 seconds flat.
so, to the kiddies at least, i am officially old.
maybe he was just looking for someone to buy booze for him.
silly kids!
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Saturday, 01 April 2006 |
so, this matisyahu character. i dont get it. if modern rock radio is ok with playing music so far outside the nickleback/3dd norm, then why not a whole bunch of other not so normal bands. the more i hear from him the more i dont get it.
can anyone explain this explosion of buzz to me. because i so dont get it...
acutally, he probably just has awesome label reps who wont give up....
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Tuesday, 28 March 2006 |
if you think you have what it takes to make it against the brainiacs on jepoardy, the test is online tonight at 8pm (for east coasters)
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Tuesday, 28 March 2006 |
i had a dream last night that i was set up on a date with ryan seacrest. and i actually liked him.
a sign that you've been watching way too much american idol.
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Saturday, 25 March 2006 |
oops, i accidentally spent 130 dollars at Kohls today. I'm trying to save money, not spend it darn it.
Went and got fitted for/purchased my bridesmaid dress for auts wedding this week. But its strapless so you gotta have a good bra. So I went to Kohls to see if i could find a good one relatively on the cheap (i was not paying 68 dollars for the one they had me try on at davids bridal)that i wouldn't be worrying about it falling down and having a wardrobe malfunction all day october 21st, 2006, and i did find one, and on sale too, but the problem is i found lots of other stuff on sale. 2 other bras, a cute camo skirt, a pair of bermuda style white shorts and a pair of cute sandals.
oh well. what good is having money if you can't enjoy spending it.
last week's guitar song was secret agent man, this week is i love rock and roll
i still suck, but i can piece together something that almost sounds like music.
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Tuesday, 21 March 2006 |
its been a week. i suck. ive been busy with playing catch up at work and at home and on laundry and on the guitar.
trent tuesday was awesome. the richmond coliseum was not very big, im pretty sure there wasnt a bad seat in the house. except on the floor where the silly kids were moshing and kicking each other in the heads. we were off to the side of the stage, and walked in during saul williams opening set. i only know of one or two of this songs, and was pleasantly surprised by how good he was. he danced all around to strobe lights and programmed beats and never once missed a beat. thats a lot of words to remember and not fuck up.
trent and company took their pretty little time getting out on stage but it was totally worth it once the show started. they did the first 2 songs from behind these mesh curtain thing where a spotlight was shining on trent so you could only really see his shadow projected onto the curtain. thats one sexy shadow. the light show was really good, really complex, as was the set list. im gonna lose some cool cred for admitting this, but i only knew about 70 percent of the songs they did. they went deep into the catalog. only 3 or 4 songs off the new album. i was really hoping for some starfuckers and the fragile, and got neither. but was very pleased that they didnt shy away from the hits like hurt, head like a hole, closer, terrible lie.
the show was really dynamic in terms of the set list and tempo and mood.
and the people watching was sooooooooooooo quality.
i dont know if im as smitten as all you guys back home, but i was most definitely impressed. more than worth the 3 hour drive each way and i am absolutely sold on the idea of seeing them again when they come to raliegh in june.
and trent being short is not a problem for this five foot four gal.
the whole time i was mezmerized by the guitar playing. how do you ever get to that point. i mean i know alot of it is just noise and distortion. and the amount of stamina it takes to do 5 shows like that every week.
no cameras allowed in,so no pictures ...maybe next time.
so tired.
time for bed.
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Tuesday, 21 March 2006 |
go here to see video of rob dickinson rehearsing with a full band
now if only i could get the damn thing to work!
from rehersals.com-which by the way is a genius idea
Readying his 'Fresh Wine'
By Mychael Urban
It's been a long time since Rob Dickinson put himself out there.
The popular band he helped form and front, Catherine Wheel, released its final album in 2000, and prior to the release of his 2005 debut solo album, Fresh Wine for the Horses, Dickinson was a ghost.
Dante Marchi, a vocalist who backed Dickinson during a January showcase at CenterStaging, the famed rehearsal studios in Burbank, Calif., put it best:
"He's one of those, like, underground bad-asses that you hear about, and you never meet 'em."
Dickinson, however, is re-introducing himself to the world through Fresh Wine, a supporting tour, and CenterStaging's rehearsals.com; he agreed to have his band's preparation for the aforementioned showcase and tour recorded by 12 robotic cameras and 48 overhead microphones, then produced for the World Wide Web.
"Having yourself filmed rehearsing is a ballsy move," Dickinson said. "I mean, it's part of the nature of a performer that you don't necessarily want people to know where it all came from. You just want to be fantastic. You want to be glamorous and gorgeous and brilliant."
Rehearsing, typically, is anything but glamorous and gorgeous. But even Dickinson concedes that having a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the process has elements of brilliance.
"I can see how it's compelling," he said. "It's interesting because I have to separate myself as a performer from someone who is utterly compelled by things like this. I remember I saw a documentary on the making of Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, and it was absolutely compelling. So I can see how anybody who might be interested in my music would be fascinated with how it comes together.
"And the way rehearsals.com have got it set up here, we had forgotten about the cameras within five minutes, and we were back into rehearsing as we normally do. Once you're in the moment, and once you're in the thick of a song and you're trying to work it, and you know intrinsically when it's good and when it's slightly off, everything else just disappears."
Well, not everything. Certainly not Dickinson's desire to nail every aspect of his music's presentation.
"Other people like to just rock out the songs, like, you know, this and that," said Bobby Anderson, one of the guitarists backing Dickinson at CenterStaging. "But with Rob it can be intense. He wants things exactly how he knows how they should sound in his head."
"Rob is an artist who knows what he wants," said guitarist David Rolfe, who produced Fresh Wine. "He knows exactly what he's going for, which is rare. A lot of artists don't have the confidence that Rob has, and you spend a lot of time trying to bring that confidence out of them. Otherwise you're creating the artist. There's none of that coaxing the artist out of Rob. He is exactly what he does.
"A guy like Rob has very definite ideas about how his stuff's supposed to sound."
Adds Dickinson: "I don't collaborate. They just do what I tell 'em to do."
Then he laughs.
"I"m kidding," he insists. "I"m kidding. I"m kidding."
In a sense, though, he's not. There was plenty of give and take with his band during the rehearsals.com session, and he and Rolfe seemed to have an unspoken language boiled down to looks and nods of approval or disapproval. But when it's your name on the album cover, it's obviously your show.
"I"ve been doing this long enough to know when it sounds good," Dickinson said. "When I was with the Catherine Wheel, it was a very much a democracy, because we co-wrote some of the songs, and it was one for all and all for one, and we'd known each other since we were kids. ... These guys (his new band) have become my friends, but at the same time, they don't necessarily have a vested emotional interest in the material. At the end of the day, everyone packs their guitars away and goes home to their lives of doing other things.
"I realize that no one else is going to do this for me."
What Dickinson has done with Fresh Wine is avoid the traps that more commercially minded artists routinely fall into.
"When Bob Dylan sang to you, when the Clash sang to you, even [Led] Zeppelin in their own way, in their own fantastical weird way, you really believed that they believed what they were singing," he explained. "And for me, it's palpably obvious when a band is going through the motions and is, I don't know, trying to hit the marks, trying to go for the market, trying to fill the niche, trying to get on the radio, trying to do whatever. And it never rings true. It never lasts. I"ve been in bands as a kid that tried to do all of that, and it's a road to nowhere.
"If you commit to making music that you love and is true to you, it's very easy to make music. It doesn't become a battle. It just becomes part of you."
For Marchi -- a longtime Catherine Wheel fan -- supporting Dickinson is anything but a battle.
"It's a dream come true," he said. "What's amazing about Rob's record is it's one of those rare gems where you listen to the record and you go, "Wow, this is inspiring," I think one out of a hundred albums, or maybe one out of a thousand -- right now, in this day and age -- are inspiration records. He is actually a guy who made an inspirational record."
And a ghost no more.
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