webpage

i just finished talking to dhruv... and he is going to be making a webpage for the homesick collective. it's going to be fancy so it can look good on his resume.

after thats up and carl's cd is done, i'll spend a lot of time promoting all the music and hopefully a few people will read this. now this feels like im in high school again and i have a livejournal to share all the secrets i would never tell close friends with any internet creeper that wants to know. 

i asked sandy to prom and she said no cause jim is already taking here. i feel like my heart is being stomped on. i'm going to go listen to death cab for cutie.

firey firey pizza hell

Things are coming along very smoothly for Carl Creightons sophmore album. It's probably going to be called "11 North" or maybe "We Shall Overcome Someday" or maybe something else? But whatever it's called, it's some really amazing stuff and it's been nothing but a pleasure to work with him on it.

Spending a lot of time on the record/recording a majority of it at my place has allowed the following:

- Perfecting all the vocals

- Being able to say we recorded a lot of the vocals in a mattress fortress

- Adding strings!

- Recording the strings in the mattress fortress

- Me being able to twiddle around a little with some guitar parts

- Adding some AMAZING sounding harmonies

- Recording "party" noise and completely freaking out one of Glebs friend

- Adding accordian to basically every song

We just started mixing and it's coming along nicely. "Your Heart in my Pocket" features an ambient mandolin solo. That probably makes no sense, but you'll know when you hear it! "Christian Girl" has accordian, church-y vocals, egg shaker, and all sorts of fun. 

I'm super excited to continue mixing, and see how all these songs turn out!

Stay tuned!

~ Blake