A Vote for Jagged Spiral is a vote for an Alpine Stereo System for Colin's Truck! Honestly, the man has a portable CD player connected via a cassette-tape-adapter-thingy! What's that? You haven't heard of cassette tape? Let's just say, he could use a new car music system from Alpine, and there is a simple, easy, (and free) way you can help!

Alpine has agreed to give Colin a brand-spanking-new car stereo system! We just need a few cool Jagged Spiral Fans to vote for our songs in Alpine's Rock The Dash contest. It's easy, just a couple mouse clicks, and no registration is required.

Simply go to http://www.rockthedash.com, use the remote to play the Jagged Spiral songs: "Let It Out" or "Not Enough Bullets", then click the "Vote For This Track" button. It's that easy. You can vote for as many songs as you want, every day until the end of May! If you're a real fan (or a psychotic, stalker fan...not that we mind) you can vote once per day from each computer you have access to.

Both our songs have been moving steadily up the charts! We just entered "Let It Out" and "Not Enough Bullets" two days ago, and they have already moved from their start at 320th place to their current location: tied at 126th Place!

The contest ends on March 31. If Jagged Spiral ends up in the top 5, BAM! Colin has a new car stereo, and our weekly trips to Chipotle can be uninterrupted by CD disk changes! Remember, less interruption while driving means less chance of Jagged Spiral exploding in a fiery crash while changing CDs on the way to our practice sessions!

So make it part of your daily internet-fix-routine thingy:

• check e-mail


• update myspace profile


• check www.vita.mn for cool things to do


• check/reply to latest blog posts at www.conradzero.com


• vote for Jagged Spiral at www.rockthedash.com

Jagged Spiral thanks you for your support!

Art Is Resistance
-Zero

Labels: Call To Action, Contest, Jagged Spiral

Come on out to Club Underground tonight to see Jagged Spiral perform live!

On stage!

They might even play some music!

Art Is Resistance
-Zero

Labels: Concert, Cool Event, Jagged Spiral, Minneapolis Event, music

While I find politics as distasteful as Emo music, and as boring as watching golf on television, it does give me an abundant supply of material to blog about.

Take votechooser.com for instance. Select your opinions on the issues that matter, and Vote Chooser selects the candidate whose opinions most closely match your own...

...except for one large detail.

Did you notice that only Republicans and Democrats are represented? There are other parties, you know. In fact, those who come to see Jagged Spiral perform at Club Underground tonight will get to hear me announce an entirely new and different political party! All the more reason to brave the cold and come out to hear some live, loud guitars!

Art Is Resistance
-Zero

Labels: Concert, Jagged Spiral, political, Politics

Ah yes, so this is what this blog looks like. I'd almost forgotten about it; guess you could say I've been away on vacation, the way some people go up to the cabin for hunting, or south to their summer home for the winter. For those wondering what I've been up to, you can check here:

http://www.jaggedspiral.com/

I did all of the code and 99.9 percent of the content. The band is gearing up for it's first CD release, two years of work entitled "Days From Evil". The songs are licensed under Creative Commons, which means they are free to download from the merch page, although you can make a donation through strategically placed buttons on the website. One new track from the album will be released each week, you can check the countdown timer on the website for the release date of each track.

The band is working on art for the Days From Evil CD and hope to have it done by the end of 2007.

Oh, and I've also been known to camp out here for some lengths of time:

http://www.adagioholistic.com/

I did all of the code and none of the content, and it is my first paid venture in web programming. Kim Hart is as close as Minneapolis is going to get to a spiritual healer, she makes frequent trips to South America for training on healing techniques, and her business, Adagio Holistic, offers all kinds of alternative medicinal treatments, therapeutic massage, energy work, etc. Check their treatments page for more info.

If either of the sites looks screwed up, shoot me an email.

So I think the vacation is over, and it's good to be home again. Hmm, seems this place could use a little sprucing up...

Art Is Resistance
-Zero

Labels: A Day In The Life, Cool Website, Days From Evil, Jagged Spiral

2007 - The Year Of The Spiral

http://www.jaggedspiral.com/news.html

Blog on,
-CZ

Labels: Jagged Spiral

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