spending a couple hours in the studio tomorrow evening considering drums. what drum kit(s) to use for tracking which is slated to begin in either late july or early august. i have a sound/tone in my head of what i want the drums to sound like, but i am going in with an open mind, you just never know until you actually start hearing things that you can start to make intelligent decisions.

note to self: do not forget to put drum sticks in back pack tomorrow before heading out for the day.

over the coming weeks, i’m going to focus my random posting here to one particular topic, the next record. now with school officially over and grades posted (i got an A by the way) i have turned my attention to writing the next batch of songs for this new record, which is tentatively being called The Lighthouse Project. the name comes from a wonderful short story a dear friend wrote that i actually used in the last record’s liner notes.

i added a category to this blog called “The Lighthouse Posts” to help better distinguish these posts as more and more is written about the process.

i finished, and submitted my final project for this semester, early this morning (around 2:30 a.m.) — for those keeping score at home, i’m going to graduate school (Harvard in nearby Cambridge MA). I’m studying computer science, with a concentration in digital multimedia art. Yeah I already work as a full time senior engineer and technical architect (aka the day job) but i figured since the place i work for pays for post-graduate programs, i’d be silly not to start up.

so now that i’m finished, i will now actually have some spare time to really start working on music. i am going to be going into the studio this summer to start recording the next record, and it sure would be nice to actually have songs to record.

so that’s my story and i’m sticking to it.

was looking for an old record online, and came across this blog. i found it interesting in as much as the content was quite familiar, as it chronicled a lot of the late 1980’s and early 1990’s hardcore scene, especially that of Syracuse, NY. recognizing a lot of the flyers i just kept scrolling through until i came across this post. oh man, there are just some things you wish would just go away. i was part of this band called oversight. a really terrible yet hook-laden melodic hardcore band, we recorded a demo and a 7″ and then the vocalist decided it was too boring and we just dissolved. best thing that could have happened if you ask me. but now, to see this, almost 20 years later, i just cringe. i “played” guitars in this band and its nothing i would ever consider as part of my “portfolio” of work to be highlighted.

i don’t mean to insinuate that the music i produce now is more significant or relevant than the rubbish on that old record, its just so far removed of what i feel and believe music is now. yeah i’m still straight edge, always will be, and will always appreciate the things i learned from hardcore back in those days, but so much of that energy was mispent and misdirected it almost borders on regret. but not quite that far. its all apart of getting older.

so i’ve been battling a really nasty chest infection (no, not swine flu, oh for crying out loud, its as if the government didn’t have enough to worry about than to artificially create drama where non was needed) and i’ve been buried in grad school work. only have my final project yet to finish… and oh yeah, that crazy day job.

i did, however, start actually working on the next record, which is to say that i’ve dabbled with some guitar tracks here and there. nothing too conclusive yet and nothing to write home about.

as soon as i get something i want to post, i shall, through the usual sites (and through here of course)