firing on allllll fronts. all the good ones at least.

New music - I have a feeling that all i'm going to be listening to in the next week is Mastodon, Kylesa, Prince, Built to Spill, and Dan Deacon. I feel like I'm slipping into another metal phase, and I am feeling very positive about this. Maybe I'll have a Loud Rock show next semester?

My guitar playing has never been better. I'm writing hooks and choruses like nobody's business, and I just wrote lyrics to a song in about an hour, and I'm pretty proud of them. Here it is, working title The Silent Skies:

Seeds of promise heated hot by dawn

Wilted leaves, crackled to a crisp

Eyes frozen by passions untrue

Nothing will ever lead me back to you

 

Shades of thick blankness cement the dead

All fingers hammered with crimsoned sledge

Pooling crude, brightens my mood

No trace left to lead me back to you

 

Raw spark

Sets aflame

The Silent Skies

 

Heart-lit fuse

Ribbons of red

Phoenix arising

 

No apology no sincerity no idolatry

You crumble through my broken fingers

Asphyxiation, a metamorphosis

Hushed out into the timber

 

Tobacco plumes, grey and black

Outlined through dimensional foresight

Sealed off wounds bursting through

Lunar cycle of sin

 

Raw spark

Sets aflame

The Silent Skies

 

Corrupting muse

Inside my head

Turned toward the floor

 

Mind wiped, brain stewed

Recycled inertia all brand new

You can come closer

But there's nothing left

To bring me back to you

A month has passed, and as has been par for the course this year, lots of things have changed. I'm climbing some ghostly ladder, rung after rung after rung. Somebody tipped the can over, and all the sauce spilled on the ground. I could try and clean it up, but then if you try and use it, you're still using dirty sauce. So, naturally, you buy a new jar, pop it open, stir it a little, and heat it up to see if its to your liking.

If all goes according to plan, I will be attending five festivals this summer and paying for only one of them, the cheapest of the five. 

DEMF - actually paying for, but maybe only one of the days

Bonnaroo - paid for, but the transport/food/merch/camping gear costs will inevitably come

Rothbury - will volunteer = free ticket

Pitchfork - will more than likely get a press pass for, if not, purchasing a ticket

Lolla - will volunteer = free ticket

May will be a very crazy month show-wise, there's one every weekend, and there are 5 weekends. Mastadon, Dan Deacon, Animal Collective, Opeth, and Nine Inch Nails/Jane's Addiction. All of them are in Detroit too so I'll be doing some serious driving

What I'm looking forward to most of all is living on my own this summer. Interning, working somewhere close, writing a lot of music, and biking everywhere