dustbunnynation

I love vacations, and I seriously needed this one.

The Dust Bunny Project is currently on hold, as I've ventured five hours south to spend some time with my family, and watch my sister and cousin graduate. Be that as it may, I've continued working on the last of the new songs to put on to the cd, "Anywhere From Here" and "Making Sense", which are starting to sound great. My only fear is not being able to afford to get the album pressed, but Sami and I have come up with more than a few ideas on how to raise the funds to get the disk out.

(oh, and Sami is amazing. i don't know if you guys know this)

I'm working with www.thislousyt-shirt.com to get some Dust Bunny Nation tees up and out. The response I've gotten from the people I've shown them too has been wonderful, so we're going to start with one design and see how they move before going further with others. All proceeds will, of course, go towards pressing the CD.

Sami sent me a rough cover of the album. I love it. It's my desktop RIGHT NOW.

I started another journal to write all the things that don't fall into the "Dust Bunny Nation", i.e. journal quizes and random writings. It can be found at www.livejournal.com/users/blindigital0/ .

That's pretty much it. I'll update again when I get home.

.marcus

I promised I wouldn't vent here. This is for the music, not for my God-damned emo-riffic hopes and/or dreams and lack there of. But this is partially helpful to understand my lack of posts.

Happiness makes for poorly inspired music. You see, I've been working on about four tracks since the last post, but I was mostly content with my normally-low-self-esteem-whiny-over-emo self, and the one person who reads this will understand why. This is why I love God. He's good at kicking me in the teeth right when I need it. It's important. Depression makes for good music. I'll raise my glass and toast to that someday.

Speaking of raising my glass, the formerly named "... before I go cry again" has been completed under the new monkier "To You and All Your Friends". I've gotten good responses. Yay. We care. Honestly.

"We" being me.

I've also given a lot of thought recently of changing the name of the entire disk, which was previously "Playing With Sliders" to a few other titles I have floating around in my head. More on this later.

I hope to start accepting payments for the album by the end of June, should everything go well. Jerome Maxwell is going to be setting up in Dust Bunny Studios, aka my living room, after I take care of some family business in southern Oregon for the next few weeks. Then back to the studios, record three songs (ironically, they're the oldest of the songs that will be on the disk), and begin printing of the artwork, packaging and shipping. Mid-July? Hopefully.

Also I'm throwing around the idea of shipping the first 25 disks with three extra songs that are written and recorded, but just don't fit the feel of the album. Who knows? I probably won't, because I hate it when they do that, but the people who're already promising to purchase are the people who are motivating me to actually finish the disk. Ask anyone who knows me. I've been working on an album for three years, just never actually doing it. Thank you, Sami. I wouldn't have actually done it without you. Trust, I've got a special CD for you regardless if I do it or not.

Alright. I'm gettin way too buzzed on the scotch. Until I message again,
.marcus

Man, oh man, is my sleeping pattern destroyed.

I've spent most of the night working on an acoustic piece (just in the writing stage for now) called "'...before I cry again'" after a post Dani had made earlier in the week. The music was inspired at 7am while I was drunk because of the scotch I'd finished ten minutes before, while the lyrics come from a combination of Dani's post and the night that led up to the scotch. It's pretty.

I'll record it tomorrow.

.marcus

Okay, so I have ADD. Sue plz. I need the exposure.

I finished up two songs in the last couple of days, both of them older ones. One was originally called "It Kills Us" which is a sucky name, so it got changed to "Promises". The other is one that I was actually really worried about. "Shut Up and Go to Sleep" went over really really well in it's original form, and it had four tracks, three guitar and one vocal. I was afraid that all of my producing and tweeking would taint the song, but I ended up getting rid of certain things that were just filling dead air before (but they were doing it well), and replaced it with better writing, and more tone. The final was ten tracks total: four electric guitars, two vocals, one sample, one "ebow"'d acoustic, and two acoustics.

I am very happy how it turned out.

"Promises" was also one that surprised the hell out of me. After working on the damned thing for thirteen hours, I was (honestly) mixing down a song I wasn't really happy with. Luckily, my computer sucks, and decided that was a good time to crash. Saddened, I tore back into it, and three hours later, I was greatly surprised. The quality had gone up a great deal.

Both have been sent to Sami for her to listen to.

With that, I am damned tired. Tomorrow, I'm going to TRY and redo "Been Lucky" which I'm sure Maxxyne is not very happy about, but oh well. It must be done.

.marcus

Whew.

I took a few days off while Sami was vacationing to pretty much just lounge around and watch standup. Standup comedy is the greatest.

Anyway, I started writing what I'm calling "Words of Dust" (which I'm sure will be changed... I mean, come on... that's the lamest name I could think of), which is a really fun song to play. Tonight, to celebrate Sami's return, I finished up "Lookslikebeautiful".

I don't have much to say right now. I hope that's enough.

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.Marcus

Inspiration is a crazy evil thing.

It seriously strikes at the moment that you are farthest possibly from completing it.

I hit a road block with "Very First Love Song". After a week of working on it, I didn't think that it qualified spending time to make it worse than it was. Disgusted (and pissed from a really bad day involving the target of said love song), I got drunk and went to bed. I was at that happy warm spot in between sleeping and being awake when it hit.

It was perfect. I could play the damned thing and it would sound great. I trudged downstars, practiced it for about ten minutes, everything working out, and then I recorded the first run demo of it. "LookLikeBeautiful" took about an hour for me to write and record, and sounds way better than "Very First Love Song" does right now. I'm still going to work on the latter, and I sent "LooksLikeBeautiful" off to Sami to see if she thinks it will go well with the other works... hell, after how well "All Too Capable..." turned out, she's the first person I go to with new material.

(Thanks Sami).

Alright, it's 5am, and I'm no less tired. I'm sleeping.

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.Marcus

Hey.

Marcus here finally getting a space to post information about the upcoming album until the official site is up and running. So Greg, get to work.

As some of you know by now, I've finished the third version of "Oh oh oh", which was renamed "All Too Capable of Going Way Too Far", after a lyric from a See Colin Slash song. I know it doesn't mean much for the artist to plug his/her/their product, but I am really excited by the responses I've got from my little "preview circle." It's single quality, I think.

Tomorrow I'm beginning recording on one of the more mellow songs of the album, "Very First Love Song", and hopefully it will be as good as I think it will. It won't be as good as, say, Untitled, but hey, I'm doing the best I can!

Anyway, time to go work out some kinks. If you have any questions, email is a great answer.

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Marcus