Hey all
we changed the name of our band tonight to Dark Roads , after the title of one of the songs. Spiritually speaking, its the first song we ever played together that was just like "wow! we are going to be awesome!" and it continues to be one of the standard bearer songs. The whole thing is starting to come together. WE are stoked. We met tonight with Christian Groves, audio engineer of the stars (or at least our engineer anyways) and we gained a sense of purpose in the whole thing, and put a setlist together, and we now have our goals set up for ourselves and we are moving forward full steam ahead.
rock on!
More news as it applies. I have a feeling about this little musical trip.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Life is a Cacophony of Destruction and Beauty
So there is so much to report. Some of it good, some if it tragic.
For the good stuff, I worked on a film with Ben Myrick called Universal Sigh and we used a piece of muci by Ryan Adams - he did a cover of the Oasis song Wonderwall which was spectacular. We want to send the film to festivals, but obviously aren't going to be able to afford the huge sums of mon$$y Universal would have wanted for the rights, so I decided to cover the song myself and see if we could use that recording instead. I enlisted Audio engineer extrordinaire Christian Groves (the audio school he attended gives out two awards at graduation - he is the only student in the schools history to get both) and he did the backing tracks. I added a slide guitar part and did the vocal - we both produced the track. It turned out pretty good. you can check it out on my myspace page
On the note of music, another good thing is I started a band called Gravity Falls. It's going incredibly well. We are in pre-production to play shows and record. In the meantime, we'll be posting some of our practice space rehearsals and so forth on the band's myspace.
Some of my movie project stuff is going quite well, and things continue to take steps forward. It's such a long long road. Someday.
The bad news, is that I have a friend named Amy Wu - she is engaged to my good friend Dave Casler. She had 2 seizures yesterday and is now in a drug induced coma because they do not know what is wrong with her. A CAT scan shows nothing significant, so it is a mystery. Amy is young and beautiful, and was apparently healthy (obviously not though). Dave and Amy are incredible friends and I am in deep sorrow about this. Please pray for her if you can that her life would be spared and the doctors could figure out what the heck is wrong. Dave and Amy are part of the Virgian team that helped plant the Kairos church in Los Angeles. I spent 3 1/2 years with them, and my Kairos church family is a tight knit bunch indeed. My heart goes out to them.
Maybe more to come.. in another post.
For the good stuff, I worked on a film with Ben Myrick called Universal Sigh and we used a piece of muci by Ryan Adams - he did a cover of the Oasis song Wonderwall which was spectacular. We want to send the film to festivals, but obviously aren't going to be able to afford the huge sums of mon$$y Universal would have wanted for the rights, so I decided to cover the song myself and see if we could use that recording instead. I enlisted Audio engineer extrordinaire Christian Groves (the audio school he attended gives out two awards at graduation - he is the only student in the schools history to get both) and he did the backing tracks. I added a slide guitar part and did the vocal - we both produced the track. It turned out pretty good. you can check it out on my myspace page
On the note of music, another good thing is I started a band called Gravity Falls. It's going incredibly well. We are in pre-production to play shows and record. In the meantime, we'll be posting some of our practice space rehearsals and so forth on the band's myspace.
Some of my movie project stuff is going quite well, and things continue to take steps forward. It's such a long long road. Someday.
The bad news, is that I have a friend named Amy Wu - she is engaged to my good friend Dave Casler. She had 2 seizures yesterday and is now in a drug induced coma because they do not know what is wrong with her. A CAT scan shows nothing significant, so it is a mystery. Amy is young and beautiful, and was apparently healthy (obviously not though). Dave and Amy are incredible friends and I am in deep sorrow about this. Please pray for her if you can that her life would be spared and the doctors could figure out what the heck is wrong. Dave and Amy are part of the Virgian team that helped plant the Kairos church in Los Angeles. I spent 3 1/2 years with them, and my Kairos church family is a tight knit bunch indeed. My heart goes out to them.
Maybe more to come.. in another post.
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