some thoughts:

• came out more religious than we thought. that’s in a big way cause the popularization of the ‘weird’ that we like to look into. we had to dig a bit deeper than before, and the result was going into older sources. some stuff ages a bit worse, and there’s only so much communism we can put into a CD. religion is more timeless
• the verses on Black Block are sampled from an a capella by Utah Phillips. google him
• the beats date from between 2007 to 2011. the CD was assembled from separate piles of beats and samples, and into an album, mostly in the last week of February 2011
• boyfriend is a cover
• electrohead is not a cover
• the sample on unapologia is real and not taken out of context. we actually considered recutting it to try and get him to make more sense, since he likes to change what his pronouns refer to mid-sentence, but figured that it’d be best left alone
• this is our longest CD ever and savannah is our longest song ever
• “message from our sponsor” is our second shortest album song ever and third shortest overall. “uncanny valley (radio edit)” is 4 seconds shorter, “uncanny valley (extended)” is 2 seconds shorter
• “uncanny valley (radio edit)” is actually too short to go onto a CD
• savannah is too long to fit on any CD format currently in use. it could fit on a DVD-A though
• “flaming sanken seven stamp my tote” was the most renamed song on the album. most were different onomatopoeias for that first line
• “message from our sponsor” made the cut to be on the CD by about 2 hours
• “a prayer for the nation of africa” is not a complicated audio hack. the speaker really seemed to not have been clear on the difference between a continent and a country
• despite being in almost every live show, this is the first time that Steve contributed audio to an album. he wrote some of the backing audio in “savannah” and “hate and rockets”
• i think the only sampled statement in the history of the band that i genuinely can say “i agree with this entirely” is the opening alan moore line in “black block”: “Anarchy is, and always has been, a romance.”

variation on a meme i saw. i can’t believe i spent 3 hours on this. it’s really hard to get a gif that animates cleanly on every browser, as i learned

in other words, you get a left and right song, can switch between them using the hardware (like a dj mixer), it does speed synching, auto-synching, and has a separate headphone output for the cues. and it’s neat and metal. and i think has one sticker on the bottom or something.

i’m switching to all ipad. this will allow vinyl, cd, cdr, AND laptop djs to look down on me.

tSS – this obedience (draft fragment)

30 seconds, includes the end of a verse, and a chorus. this “EP” is now at 7 songs i think. we suck at self-censorship

i disappoint almost 700 people per day. beat that.

Japanese glitch band. good if you’re into music that sounds like your broken cd player being assaulted by an 80s drum machine

“original by the swans?
don’t you mean original by the smiths that the swans covered?”

at first i think that this might be someone i know taking the piss at me cause of how much i hate the smiths. then 3 sudden horrific realizations at once:
– he thinks “how soon is now” is called “i am the sun” just because it’s the first line in the song
– …even though it’s not even the first line in the song, it’s “i am the son”
– …even though that’s not even remotely the same song as this. he literally just typed “i am the sun” into youtube because he figured that’s what the song should be, like it’s his prerogative to just name songs written by other people, found this, and then decided that this song is clearly a rip off from the smiths based on the title he made up for someone else’s song based on his mishearing of the first line

before i could properly RAGE though he deleted the comment so i couldn’t reply. ah well.

new shaolin will be an EP. it will be slower, more fed-back, and contain 4 new tracks and 2 old tracks. the old tracks will be “12 Hardcore” and “Sniper at the Edge of the World”.

current monday morning plans: deal with 4200+ spam comments on a blog at work and figure out why a machine rebooted 13 times last night.

anyways, this was the birth of a few of the song titles:

components – it started with the verse melody, played on bells. the melody was called ‘shift on contact’. it then became a random song idea called ‘v components’ (mp3)that finally became ‘components’ after more rewriting. the first line, “pieces of you”, came about from IMing elisa and saying “IM me back one word”, and her replying “pieces”.

death poem – a book title i saw

black heart event – in harvest moon, a black heart event is when a character begins a romance with you. the heart slowly turns red i guess. also, bush jr used the phrase “children had their hearts turned black” in reference to a school shooting

dukes of biohazards – pun

cattlecull – pun

nothing is right – half of a 2 song set, the other being “nothing is wrong”, that will be on “what came after”

slavation – pun

slivers of fakes – half of a 2 song set, the other being “flakes of silver”. “flakes of silver” itself came about cause of one of luiza’s early internet usernames: silverchip.

in the visible – pun

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i should post a link or two:
little kid stories
the end of the world