Revisiting my new years resolutions

OK. It has been a while. I know. Look. Work is crazy so I haven't been able to do as much blogging here. If and when I am home I am probably doing something reasonably productive or trying to watch things on the DVR or the Deadwood DVDs Netflix sends me. Besides what gossip could you possibly get from this site anyway? Y'all know me. Jeez.

Anyway, lets get back to it. We'll start off by visiting an earlier post about my new year's resolutions.

The details are in the hyper link. Lets go through them shall we?

#1 Cook. A lot. Not just for me, but for Kristin and my friends.--------done. Almost every day now. I haven't gotten as adventurous as I should, but it has been helping the health kick tremendously.

#2 Become a better lead guitar player.----------this is the one I've been the most delinquent in. When I am making music at home I tend to be *making music* and not practicing. Shit. I gotta work on this fucker.

#3 Pick a concrete direction for Scream Bloody Virgin and finish a record.---------this got derailed in a more positive way. I enjoy the music I make for SBV but after a while making music in a purely solitary space is masturbation. I have shifted these energies to working with my esteemed friend Matt Lombardo on a project called Sky Burial. Some of you have heard a couple of these tunes from the "Seth Diamond February 2008 EP." You are going to hear a lot more about this project in the future. I am really excited about the potential and Matt and I work very well together. This is my primary non-Gods of Fire outlet right now. Pretending I'm in Skinny Puppy rules.

#4 Re-kindle some old friendships.---------Facebook is fun, no?

#5 Buy an HDTV.------done. After all the research I just threw enough money at my problem to make "features" irrelevant. It is 40" of pure awesome. And a PS3.------pushy, no? OK, done. PS3 was bought. And the Blu Ray version of Blade Runner.-----done as well!


#6 Pick a work out routine.-----done. NYSC has been joined, I'm actually going, and I do jumping jacks at home for an extra energy boost. I weighed myself today finally, it wasn't as bad as I had thought, and now I have a baseline for progress. Lets see if I can get down to my pre-day job weight. That would be sweet.

#7 Lighten the fuck up.-----I'm trying. Old habits die hard.

PS- Learn Sonar. For reals.--------I did myself one better. I bought a legit non pirated copy of the program and also purchased a 600 page instructional book. I am now a Sonar expert. Would like to continue moving up the ranks to be a Master, then of course, a Sonar Jedi. Sonar btw is the program I use for recording music on my computer. It is like Pro-Tools, which is a more commonly known DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).

I'll try to get a belated MAIDEN!!!!!! review up at some point soon as well.

Concert Calendar (the Helloween edition)

4/2 Steven Malkmus
4/6 Testament
4/8 Gods of Fire in Philly
4/9 Saul Williams
4/22 Megadeth/Children of Bodom/In Flames (early)
4/22 Tim and Eric's Awesome Tour (late)
5/1 Ministry
5/5 Lou Reed
5/9 My Chemical Romance
5/13 Kanye West
5/19 Thee Silver Mt. Zion
5/21 Dream Theater/Opeth
5/22 Gods of Fire at Knitting Factory
5/24 and 5/26 Firewater
6/11 Swervedriver
6/13 Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
6/15 Iron Maiden
6/20 The Cure
6/21 Polvo
6/23 Liquid Tension Experiment
7/10 At the Gates
9/21 Helloween

Shows (with Kanye added so people can stop accusing me of hating)

3/14 Iron Maiden
3/17 Van Halen
4/2 Stephen Malkmus
4/6 Testament
4/9 Saul Williams
4/22 Megadeth/In Flames/Children of Bodom/High on Fire (Early)
4/22 Tim and Eric's Awesome Tour (late)
5/1 Ministry/Meshuggah
5/13 Kanye West
5/19 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra
5/21 Dream Theater/Opeth
5/24 and 5/26 Firewater
6/11 Swervedriver
6/20 The Cure

Get out of my head!

OK, there is a new show on Fox called Unhitched.

Last week was the first episode. A man gets raped by an orangutan. Yes, there is a RAPE APE!!! They show him get sneak attacked and sneak raped!

This week? A woman gets asked out by someone who is supposed to be a young guitar prodigy but turns out to be a COMPETITIVE AIR GUITARIST.

Is someone tape recording my life (or reading this blog) and turning it into a sitcom???

Shows Shows Shows

2/17 Gibby Haynes (evening of Butthole Surfers with the School of Rock)
2/22 Austerity Program/Genghis Tron (unconfirmed)
2/28 Henry Rollins
3/4 Boris
3/14 IRON MAIDEN!!!
3/17 Van Halen
4/2 Steven Malkmus
4/6 Testament
4/9 Saul Williams
4/22 Megadeth/Children of Bodom
5/1 Ministry
5/19 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra and Tra-la-la Choir
5/22 Turisas
6/20 The Cure

Unreleased Feud vol. 1 "O Hannukah"

Thank you Larry for sending this over. This was the last professional recording of the Feud, done at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn with Nick Vernhes I think in 2002. It was recorded for a holiday record being put together by Jon Solomon for My Pal God records which never ended up seeing the light of day. Although this unfortunately never saw a proper release I think it is one of the best things we've ever done. Vicki from Heston Rifle played violin on the track as well. The sweet harmonies at the end are violin and keyboards harmonizing with each other.

Not much else to say except this is great but unmastered so turn it up a bit as it will sound a little flat at lower volumes.

Download the song here.

Facebook status messages

Just saw this as I popped in to check on my Scrabble game. It made me sad. Name withheld to protect his/her identity. Please note: this person supports a Bush white house...

{redacted} cannot believe No Country for Old Men got any decent reviews. It was one of the biggest POS he/she has seen in many years. I will never get those two hours back.