time passes, he szaide.

It has been awhile! For that, I am sorry, but hey, I’m packing and moving and, you know, finished college and stuff, so it’s been a busy time. Yes, in fact, I’m leaving the house i’ve been in for the last two years, the house that’s given you (and me) everything from some last minute vocals on Violence (like recording the vocals to Water III on the floor before I even had a bed, or Jesse recording the solos on Horrorvaccuine and Caesura minutes before jetting to the airport), to the new and improved Girlz EP, all of Honeybear, through to right now, beginning to write the future of Violet Mice. And what shall it be? Well, I can hint you on some song titles: Down On Crow, Life as a Man, Fruit of the Lord, Yearning for Blood, Birthed, and maybe even Wolves. Yes, some of those are old songs, but they’re getting the overhaul, the appropriation, the rewrite, the write. Whatever happens will be exciting, surely. I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE AND IT WILL BE.

anyways, back into the past to resume what I’m supposed to be using this blog for.

This first one here comes from the whole “sea of blood” concept, this song being thought of as the first song on the album. The album would have started with the sound of running liquid, then cuts into me singing “this is blood.” Somewhere, there’s an aborted (i guess) studio version of this:
6.14.08 (this is blood)

This next one is very ambitious, an attempt to but a story into a song word for word. It works great, I think, but I totally ruined it by singing it in an English accent. UGH! it’s hard to sound convincing reading without it though. But now it’s mostly embarrassing. I’m sorry (not sorry) to whose story I nabbed for the first parts. The last bit is mine. I think it’s pretty good. And if I was going to play “soft to the touch” in a different way, it’d be like this:
6.28.08 (Soft With A Story)

The next two are little noodles, the first on ukulele, the second on a squealing electric guitar. You’d never know it, but the electric guitar song is actually the first permutation of “it’s endless.” Now, that’s evolution!!

7.8.08

7.8.08 (2)