Thursday, December 3, 2009

BWBD

Old BWBD pictures from late 2008 to early 2009.
God is nowhere. (God I'm fat in this, not photogenic at all.)
Ray ray.

I like this one a lot, it was in a auditorium, and although it was the best sound system we've ever used (really, it was nice), we still had a buttload of technical problems.



Ryan's old pedalboard, back when punk rock was simpler.


Halloween performance.


This is my bass Robespierre, she sometimes looks like this after performances.

Ray doesn't like shoes very much.

The crew, and a pixie shooting out of the frame.

Had to put at least one of me singing I guess.

Michael Myers briefly pausing his homocidal spree to rock out.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Brendan #1

You may have noticed that I have just instrumentals playing on this page, ("Something Against You" might be an exception but to me it counts) well, its a soundtrack after all...

I figured that this page does not need lyrics to explain anything, I'll do that for you.

Instrumentals do not need lyrics, they are a title, that's all you need to know about them, nothing else, just a quick idea and you fill in the rest, I love that about them.

The scene here fills the ideas, the music sets the tone, and besides when you take away the singing you here the music clearly, perfect example, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", if you listen to it without the singing you hear things that you haven't before. Like the chorus effect (reference video demonstrating the sound)-


-oozing into the end of the second bridge after the chorus that goes into the guitar solo, have you ever noticed that before? I love it, these little details in songs that make you wonder if Kurt Cobain deliberately turned on his chorus pedal at that moment to capture that sound or if it was completely unintentional.

Its all in the way a musician hits the strings, or turns on a pedal, or plays something barely noticeable over all the distortion but would leave a huge gap if not done right, even when we do not quite know what it is.

Details details details.

Maybe I'm just compulsive.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Everything zen, I don't think so.

No new adventures recently.

Just letting you all (or probably just you) know that I'm still alive.

Believe It Or Not I Care's first show, though can be interpreted a marginal success through the volition of people actually being there, and the comparison to the turnouts that other bands have had (case-in-point Nirvana's to a room-full of chairs) was in fact not in our own hearts. We will get better though, it has been a while since any of us has performed live, so we could only get better, right?

Furthermore we always appreciate constructive feedback, I personally do not like to hear that I was good if I wasn't, honesty is key to our improvement.

But the noise, I like the noise, don't tell me that we should get rid of the noise, its staying until I see fit.

A tip for the day; if you come across a word you do not know, either through someone using it or you wanting to use it, look it up immediately, expanding your vocabulary is cool you know.

I leave you with this.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Animals, animals, and animals, and animals.

Making flyers, this one is going to be a collage.

I like to use Ernst Haeckel's work actually for a lot of it and for a few reasons:

(1) I love the style, its reminicent of old museums and biology books which I love.


(2) Its public domain, all of it, so its all online and easy to access with no concerns about copyrights.
(3) Its large, highly detailed, and easy to cut up.
I know he's a racist douche, but his art is still great, so it seems only fair that eveyone has unrestricted access to his work. Maybe this will be his way of giving back for his codswallop theories about "polygenism".

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

And the sky was all violet.

I think I want to be a writer, I mean aside from the whole music bit, something to do on my downtime I guess...

Not sure what kind, probably not a novelist, but short stories would be fun.

This Saturday were playing a show at the L'KEG Gallery, come check us out.

http://www.lkeggallery.com/

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Honey, let me think.

I like the image of two angels screwing in the atmosphere
But lets fold those tests into swans
While my dirty mind thinks about that [doing that here]
You tell me theres nothing at all.

And for a few seconds I felt amazing
Like tasp or something in my neck
And I can't help but feel like theres something I'm forgetting
Oh well, oh well, what the heck.

Flora, fauna, I take no pause...

Eat them all.

Let the tigers come at me with their claws.