I obviously haven't been posting much lately, but not for a lack of things to write about. Quite the opposite. School, sickness, the book, the album, the band... all combined to make September seem like an entire year in itself without two spare seconds for me to rub together.

School - Sucks. All the kids know this, and when I was a kid, I knew it too. While my thirst for knowledge has not waned, I find that classes and homework are keeping me from other things...

Sick - ...and being sick is not one of those things. Being Sick Really Truly sucks. Everyone knows this. Whatever I had hung on for a solid week and a half of misery, another week and a half of discomfort, and now (one MONTH to the day) it still manages to annoy. I'm sure there are worse things than being labled as a 'walking snot factory' but I'm just hoping it won't affect my vocals on...

The Album - Right. Drums are done. Basslines are half finished. The goal was to have all basslines done this week, Guitar and Vocals done around Oct 20th, and a final rough mix by Halloween. Like I said: Right.

The Band - Some guys go bowling, some get together to watch 'the game', some play poker, but there We were, meeting on Tuesdays after work: recording, arranging, cutting, pasting, looping, and critiquing, punctuated by the inevitible Windows reboot. We also listened to bands from Lamb of God to Blondie, From Motörhead to Ray (not to mention all the Ray Remixes).

For well over a year; just some guys who might just as well have been playing Dungeons and Dragons. In all this time, it never once felt like a band. Until last Tuesday. Strangely, we didn't get much recorded that night, just some rough tracks to use as placeholders. But we got several things done which made it seem like we were finally a real band.

We decided on a name
We listed a myspace page
We registered a website

But really, the first thing that made it feel like a real band (for me, anyways) was taking our first band photo.




...'But what of the Book?' you ask. Believe me, it tries my patience more than yours to not have the draft finished. I've learned that it writes itself, and everytime I put a date on it, it stops writing itself just so it can show me that I don't have total control over it. It can't be finished soon enough.

More to come.

Blog on,
-CZ

Labels: A Day In The Life, Jagged Spiral, The Demonslayers Handbook