since i don't get to see radiohead live

i'm bootlegging thom yorke's solo work 'the eraser'!

take that you pompous,brilliant jerks!

the summer of sleeze

i think i've got the dirtbag look down. take that deon!

after an unfortunate accident, involving me riding molly's scooter in the house, i fell, busting open my leg. so now i've got a fat lip, track marks, and two bruised and scarred legs (i fucked the other leg up while moving the leslie at the studio) just add shants and i'm a total sleeze. if only i could grow a crustache.

i bought a bike yesterday. i'm very happy with my purchase.

girls with acoustic guitars...

... and pretty voices. there are too many of you. unless you're doing it for money. or popularity. then it's ok.

i'm in a terrible mood. my cat sliced my lip. now it is fat. fat lips remind me of one particularly terrible girl with an acoustic guitar and a (moderately) pretty voice.

grr

sexy nights and sexy days

the past few days have made life at the dismal rainbow shit resort (AKA my bedroom) a little less dismal.

the past little while has been terrible. a long illness, 2 deaths of people quite close to me, my father beaten while working(his shoulder was dislocated,(stupid drunks)unfortunate incidents, my mother's depression. and the terrible shit storm of trying to find a job.

but the days got a little bit brighter, because of good conversations, good people, long walks, fireworks and much needed sex.

monday night consisted of re-hashing the past with my brown note, and playing with roman candles. watching fireworks burst off of citadel hill is a beautiful sight.

tuesday morning was hectic, partially because of the unfortunate incident. i spent some of the afternoon at the hospital, because of bloodtests. i hate those things.
i rode a bike for the first time in awhile. that was so wonderful.

wednesday morning was utterly depressing, but i got to be the last person to see my brown note before he left again. for some reason that made me feel special.
during the lab, we recorded my version of a lovely radiohead song, featuring myself on vocals and on the hammond. that was even more special.

thursday was my day off. i got records in the mail, which was incredibly nice. some lovely ladies came to visit, and we went for a walk downtown. i dropped off a resume at rock candy, which he shoved in an envelope with a thousand other resumes. we shopped for bicycles, then enjoyed cookies at the coffee shop next door. later in the evening, i bought gelato and enjoyed it with the lovely ladies. we took in a show at gus' pub.

friday morning, i was late for class and wrote a make up midterm that i missed last week due to illness. we related cable shields to condoms. everything is better when it's dripping in sexual inuendo. lindsay was described as a 'music nazi' which i found funny, because everyone in halifax is a music nazi. it's pretty much a pre-requisit if you want to live here and have anything to do with music. after class i slept for a few hours, then made my plans for the evening. i got together with my partner in crime and drank a bottle of wine. afterwards, we took in a burlesque show. it was marvelous! guns, pasties, and a dead on jessica rabbit impersonation made me smile. after a few more drinks, we headed to gus' pub to see gilbert switzer. luckily we made it in time to hear my favorite gilbert switzer songs.
after the show, i got jen over her fear of christopher lloyd's character in who framed roger rabbit.

tomorrow i'm going to musicstop's new product review. i'm excited to see what i will be buying sometime very soon. anyone who wants to join, come along. starts at 10, i'll be there at 1.

goodnight

i got mail today:

captain beefheart's safe as milk
the pretenders don't get me wrong single
new york doll's self titled album (red vinyl, so incredibly sexy)

i like mail a lot. i should get some more.

amy v
1332 dresden row
halifax, NS
B3J 2J8

anyone new glasgow bound?

anyone driving/willing to drive me to new glasgow this coming sunday? i have some serious ass kissing to do, and i need to be there.

i'll give you money....

everywhere there's lots of piggies

does anyone want a big slab of salmon?
it's in my freezer. my room mates and i are not planning on eating it. and i don't like the smell.
someone please take it

booze,drugs and halifaxlocals:main killers of my brain cells

locals is deteriorating my brain. especially when people underestimate by recording abilities. i'm probably the least confident person in the world, but i'm GOOD at what i do. very good. i could kick all of your asses at creating a reverb room. or miking a drum kit. or fixing a botched vocal track.
the audio engineering labour market is just fine, thanks. maybe not at first, but i'm willing to take my chances, even if i have to create a market myself.

part of my struggle is completed

i've found a brown note.
unfortunately, it's just metaphorical.
but all the same, it causes me to lose my shit(metaphorically)
and drop my WHOLE FUCKING EXISTANCE
to accomodate it.
and i'm more than happy to do it.


but it has pretty eyes, so i think it's ok

top 20

i spent at least 2 hours on this list.
i'll quote jack black's high fidelity character, barry
'how can someone who owns a record store have no real interest in music?'
shut up barry. sorry i can't spout off my top 5 everything at the drop of a hat (unlike someone i know who made his list in all of 2 minutes!!!)

20. maria callas-la divina
19. jesus and mary chain- automatic
18. bobby vinton- mr lonely single
17. cat power- dear sir
16. stooges- raw power
15. pixies- doolittle
14. vaselines- the way of the vaselines
13. bela fleck and the flecktones- flight of the cosmic hippo
12. the unicorns- who will cut our hair when we're gone?
11. the clash- the clash
10. sex pistols- nevermind the bullocks(here's the sex pistols)
9. velvet underground- loaded
8. pretenders- last of the independants
7. tom waits- rain dogs
6. captain beefheart- safe as milk
5. sneaker pimps- splinter
4. arianne moffat- aquanaute
3. pj harvey- uh huh her/rid of me
2. radiohead- ok computar
1. portishead- portishead

my baby takes the morning train

i need a job. i have pretty much exploited my parents to the point where they have no money. at all.

i'd like a job where i pour coffee, but i don't have to wear a uniform.
anyone want to be a reference?

what an adonis(well, not really)

he's got a godly ray
bouncing off his dorky glasses

the wonderful banninator..

..has banned someone who has harassed me on a few occasions, and has been all things including creepy, perverted, immature, insulting, and well, pretty much an ass.

i'm feeling better today. i can smoke without throwing up.
today's a great day

sunshine lollipops and rainbows

this song has been in my head all day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv4PsQdlEeI
what a song/video

eek

recording quality IS important people. it is it is it is. unless the bad recording fits with the style of the music (which it usually does NOT) i'll turn off a bad recording before it hits the halfway mark.
although professional recordings are expensive, if you're even half serious about your band, renting a few mics from musicstop or buckleys is relatively cheap and will make a huge difference in your recording quality.

mic it nicely. for drums, mic the snare, the kick, the toms and the hats. or get 4 condenser mics and set them up as overheads, with pzm style mics on the kick. you'll get a nice sound that way.
mic your guitar cabinets. don't just use room mics. that's just plain silly.
direct input for the bass is good. same with keyboards and such.
vocals are important. depending on the style of music, use an sm57 or a nice condenser (sm57s are good for loud vocals that don't really matter if they're fantastic, condensers are good for more defined vocalists[jazz,pop etc])
record your instruments separately. do it do it do it.
mix separately too. get a good balance. effects can be added later.
if you really want it to sound great, get it professionally mixed. it doesn't cost very much, and you have final say in what it sounds like in the end. hell, i'll mix it for you for free! if it means the whining will stop. and shitty recordings stop.
renting the mics will cost you about $100. getting it professionally mixed, about $150. 4 people in your band: $62.50 each. $25 each if you mix it yourself, or ask me to do it.
why post this in my blog? and not somewhere like, say, halifaxlocals? because people are stupid jerks.

brown notes

also called 'jericho notes' (a reference to the biblical story) are the frequencies that cause a destructive reaction in the physical build of whatever these frequencies are targeting. such as in the biblical story, they played these 'brown notes' on some sort of wind instruments. it cracked the foundation of the wall of jericho and it crumbled.
during the war, armies attempted to use these brown notes as warfare. they tested every different note and variation of chords on every single instrument ever created. they were trying to find a note that would disturb a man's body so much that he would lose control of his bodily functions (including his digestive system, which lead to the name 'brown note') they were unable to find it.
mythbusters attempted to find the brown notes a few months ago, but the noises they produced did nothing but make their test subjects extremely uncomfortable.
i want to find a brown note. or a metaphorical brown note.

flames flames burning in my brains!!!

my scalp is on fire!!!!!

i watch tbs quite a lot, and i have noticed how many shitty commercials come out of atlanta based companies.
i had enough money to pay for stamps today, so i thought i'd write a letter to the atlanta based company that produces the commercials i hate the most: safe auto.

to whom it may concern:
dear safe auto,

i live in halifax nova scotia (that's in canada)
i watch tbs quite a bit. your commercials are on all the time. they're very affective, but in the exact opposite way than i'm sure they were intended.
your commercials are terrible. if i lived in atlanta, i would buy insurance from another company (progressive,direct etc) just based on your commercials alone.

i hope you strongly consider a new advertisment campaign. i don't know how much money you make with insurance. all i know is that i turn to another channel as soon as one of your commercials come on.

-amy vinnedge

yeah

i got high six times yesterday. every time i smoke pot, it reminds me of how much i hate it. there are so many better ways to become a zombie. i just woke up with a full disgusting stomach and no headache. i like drugs that give me headaches so i can get back to sleep easier. or ones that wear me out. again so i sleep easier.

a friend of mine from antigonish, who i affectionately call molly ringwald, moved to halifax. i saw her last night. she's still carrying the bag that i made for her a year ago. that made me feel happy. the burn on my arm is heeling and sort of looks like track marks. she asked me if i was was on smack. i thought that was hilarious. it made me think about the time she painted her arm to look like jared leto's arm in requim for a dream. the principle at our high school said she was promoting drug use and told her to wash it off. she's going to go to bearlys tomorrow night, and i'm going to take her to gus' pub on thursday. she's so phat, she's bringing her own bubbles. antigonish! potatos and fish!

i'm gonna try to saw a few more logs before class at 10.

so

i'm going to go see radiohead.
they're playing in montreal, and my room mates brother(who lives there) is getting my ticket on saturday. i bought a train ticket. booked a hotel room.
i'm going to go see radiohead.
and it's gonna be fuckin beautiful

i'm also going to get really drunk. that'll be pretty beautiful too i bet

bad hair

what a terrible mistake the blue was. man, 17 year old girls are crazy