| My current favorite albums... |
[Aug. 4th, 2004|10:07 am] |
so, in response to Casey's request...this is what i'm listening to now:
Royksopp [Melody A.M.] - great to chill out to
Elliott Smith [Roman Candle] - just preparing for Basement on a Hill
Chick Corea [My Spanish Heart] - it takes a while to get into the "fusion" mode, but the melodies here are fabulous.
Morrissey [Viva Hate!] - got to love morrissey
Muddy Waters [Real Folk Blues] - early screamin and bendin on an out-of-tune guitar
Wilco [A Ghost is Born] - fantastic new album...it took me a while to think so
Ryan Adams [Demolition] - This album has a great pretentious, cold feel to it...he may be a narciccist (sp?), but i think it's great anyhow.
had to order a new sound card...then i can put up some new stuff, if anyone's interested.
well, back to work.
-joshua |
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| New Stuff? |
[Jul. 2nd, 2004|10:20 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  peaceful | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Sigur Ros ( ) | ] |
In fact, I just set up my new office with two Rode NT-1's in hopes of recording more cover tunes. The album will take its own time, but at least I can make some cover tunes available for the listening...and yesm I will try to provide you with downloads of all past material (as soon as my DSL arrives).
I just finished listening to Elliott Smith's B-side to the 45 released after his death, called: "A Disturbing Reality Is Now a Necessity to Be Free". That is one fantastic song. Now, I am enjoying the last Sigur Ros album on vinyl. Geez, there is so much great music out there!
Well, give me a day or two to get the web stuff at least partially updated. Things are looking good around here. I think I am out of that depression slump, now. Time to make more music now, I suppose.
Much Love,
joshua |
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| yesterday is over... |
[Jul. 1st, 2004|12:06 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  tired | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Death Cab for Cutie (Photo Album) | ] |
what an odd feeling. tomorrow, i will not see the same people that i have seen for 4 years. it feels good to move on, yet there is a sudden urge to check and see if all of my body parts are still attatched.
i had this dream last night that i don't want to discuss...still, it was very strange.
everyone at my goodbye party last night acted as though they would see me the next day. i acted the same. somehow, it felt better this way than imagining that they would all die before i would see them again. we talk about keeping in touch while arranging excuses for inreturned e-mails, in our mind.
it's too late for thinking. i'm a little sleepy. was that a horse asking me to turn down the music just now?
horses are so silly. |
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| Today is the first day of the rest of your life... |
[Jun. 29th, 2004|01:22 pm] |
yes, i quit my job and today is my last day. i am feeling so relieved! i mean the absence of the commute alone will save me about 12 hours per week. i am very excited about starting on a third album...i know, i've said this before, but this past year has been the hardest year that i've ever encountered. if not for the rediscovered love i have found in Jesus i would have definately become a member of the elliott smith club, if you catch my drift. anyhow, there will be an entire new website and third album if i have anything to say about it.
more to come.
-joshua
ps.
i will be reinstating the open forum... |
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| at work, again... |
[Mar. 15th, 2004|07:44 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | working | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Brian Eno (Here Come the Warm Jets) | ] |
so, i sat here with my media player on shuffle for the past hour (waiting for something worth listening to).
finally, eno comes on with "needle in the camel's eye".
ah, that'll do just fine.
need to wake up.
sesame seeds not working anymore.
coffee seems acidic at the moment.
been typing HTML for two hours.
never spend anymore time on my website.
a janitor's house is never clean.
fibinaci sequence makes a 13th chord?
CDEGCAB...oops there's a 2nd in there.
jammed with vinnie last night...that was fun.
couldn't remember most of our old tunes.
i miss denise.
i miss julian.
i don't miss smokey bars.
i sort of miss recording.
i should start again, soon...yeah.
well back to notepad and HTML. |
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| my head...oooh my head! |
[Mar. 4th, 2004|01:56 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  uncomfortable | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Michael Jackson (Off the Wall) | ] |
i'm at work and i have the same headache that i've had since some time last week. it hasn't stopped, it just gets milder sometimes. don't quite understand it, and it keeps waking me up at night.
anyhow, the show at millers went pretty good, i guess...i mean the response from the crowd was real good, and brice seemed to dig it. brice has got a real good voice and i dig on a tune of his called, "awkward". his band is called bwp. they have a website.
been working on some new ideas for future recordings, though i must say that life has been so impatient for time that i have not dedicated my heart to the music, yet. when it comes, though, i'm sure it will be pleasant...or at least i hope so.
saw the passion last week. i thought that it was very well done.
well, i had better get back to work...is anybody out there? please feel free to post. i feel a little greedy hogging all the web space. anyone have some favorite albums they are in to at the moment? i've been digging the new cass mccombs and this here "off the wall" from michael...greta stevie wonder tune on it. oh, yeah, got back into the beethoven late string quartets again, too. |
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| upcoming show |
[Feb. 23rd, 2004|03:24 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | sleepy | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Jim O'Rourke (Insignificance) | ] |
i will be playing a show from 930p-10p at Miller's in Charlottesville, VA on Saturday, February 28th. I will be playing before Brice Woodall. If anyone is going to be in that area or wants to truck down, it should be a good time.
Millers
109 West Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Phone: (434) 971-8511
Haven't played a show since the Elliott Smith blunder at Daily's in WV. Those who were there should know what I mean. This will be another solo show...just me and my tele. okay, i'm at work, so i had better go now.
oh yeah, the future...it's better we don't know. we know enough already to make bad choices, don't we? i've been looking for my mrlins...they come in a box of purple kifnits. some black coffee might do the trick.
vinnie's doing better. thank God. |
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| stress test |
[Feb. 13th, 2004|11:33 am] |
i thought it was peculiar that the first thing they did was have vinnie run on a treadmill. i mean, you go to emergency because you feel like you're having a heart attack, and they go "here, run on this treadmill for awhile."
(patient starts running)
"yeah, that's good...now, we're going to increase the speed a bit."
(increase speed)
"how's that feel?"
(patient collapses and is flung off the machine at the velocity of the speeding belt)
"uh...doctor johnson, i think you'd better come in here. something appears to be wrong with this patient."
(dr. johnson enters)
"looks like heart failure. what do you guys think?"
(patient starts to stir)
"i don't know...should we stick him back on the treadmill again?"
"yeah, but this time stick a cigarette in his mouth."
i don't know, i guess this is standard procedure. i just hope that if i'm ever admitted for a hernia, they don't ask me to lift weights.
it felt strange to see my kid brother hooked up to all these wires and stuff, while sharing a room with an elderly man who suffered from the same problem. he was asleep. i guess all that treadmill running knocked him out. here's to sunnier days. |
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| who loves the sun? |
[Feb. 10th, 2004|02:37 pm] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Beck (Sea Change) | ] |
so, i took a lunch...and lo and behold, there was sunlight beaming down from the sky, warming me...forcing a smile through my dry skin. yeah, this excited me very much, so i came back and threw on the beck "sea change" album. for whatever reason, it reminds me of warmer days. of a time less bothered by the death of winter and nightmares that it brought. the sun seemed to promise me that spring was around the corner...a re-genesis...a new birth, it would seem. time will tell. alright, enough of my rambling. people need to join this thing so i can stop regurgitating my whims. |
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| at work... |
[Feb. 10th, 2004|11:44 am] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | neutral milk honey (in the aeroplane over the sea) | ] |
plenty of work to do. feeling better than yesterday. plenty of work to do. distracted by the music. plenty of work to do. can't think of what to write nor why i am writing instead of finishing my work. plenty of work to do. i think i'll take a lunch, now. |
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