Back to school..we are the leaders (anyone remember that old deftones song? or the video?)

so this 'break' has gone by real quick. what did I get done exactly? the answer is a bit disturbing. it doesnt matter though, I'm really looking forward to this coming semester. great things about going back to uconn:

parties (duh)
girls
shows
friends
my band
chillen
being awesome
rocking out
dancing
singalongs
ordering food
an abudance of food
no parental guidance
not feeling like a bum

so now its just me and greg which means no josh.... even though it wasnt so much where he lived, it was more of a place where he kept his stuff. and kept us up at night. by farting and snoring. so now I probably get his bed, and his space, unless we decide to have a 'communal' area although there's no television because josh took it with him. i could bring my 27 inch or whatever but its just too big to drag up to storrs only to drag it back in may. and me and greg are totally against media saturation, radio and internet are entirely enough. I have a tv tuner on my computer so if something HaS to be watched, it's good and possible. in fact I plan on recording 24 tomorrow. and every week after. because I'm addicted. heavily. but not watching the episodes one after the other is going to make it a different experience for me. if you wanna catch up on 24, hit me up I've got most of the episodes on dvd. its that bootleg shit I got off ebay for 12 bucks but for the most part it's watchable. still kinda pissed that it was a bootleg, the seller got kicked off ebay though.

so anyway with lack of josh, also brings a lack of strange people that would follow him around. you know who I mean. and I actually hung out with him quite a bit, although I've easily forgotten. And I should not. anyway the point is, king chug never really outstayed his welcome, and neither did anyone else josh braught over. and now there won't be plentiful random kids coming over on weekends. sad.

umm I've really got to get my body clock back on track. My alarm went off at 12:00 today but I kept hitting snooze until 2:30 pm. now I don't know what the record is for 'most times hit the snooze' but that's and hour and a half. that's pretty decent. it was awesome because every time I hit the snooze button i'd fall right back to sleep and start dreaming again. and each dream was like a full dream even though I'd only be asleep each time for like 9 minutes. its cool coz dream time feels longer than real time so It felt like I'd been laying there for hours.

yeah.

i felt it necessary to repost this.

the audio blog.............

SONAR4_video.mov (video/quicktime Object)

so I think I'm going to be moving my studio to SONAR 4. I need something that excels at audio track recordings as well as VST, rewire and such. the reason being that ableton live has some nasty copy protection and.. i'm not willing to reinstall it ALL over again just to get it back. the kind of work I'm doing (multi-tracking, recording guitars, vocals, adding samplers) probably would be best suited for a sequencer program rather than something like Live which is really for .. live performances and remixes of course. its a great program but I have this feeling that noone actually uses it to record like I do. maybe they do. but the program isn't meant for that I don't think. ah well. sonar looks cool. maybe it's just going to be another hassle trying to learn a new program.. oh well.

Yeah so I got my package from Musicians Friend the other day. I installed the pickups in my guitar, adjusted the truss rod, now it plays like.. well like awesome. I'm almost done with this new hardcore song I've been doing, don't know what I'm gonna do next once I get sonar installed; possibly just re-do it in there and change a few things, or re-write another of my songs.. haven't decided yet. if I even decide to use sonar..

So speaking of studio stuff, Reason 3.0 should be coming out soon. soon as in like spring. there's a few pirated betas floating out on the 'net but I probably won't bother with any of those for the time being.. its just that the new upgrades for the new reason just don't seem that compelling. a mastering suite? That what Ozone is for. that new combinator looks pretty rad though since it saves the effects chain you put on a synth in the preset.. woo.

then again it might just turn out that all this is rubbish and i should just get pro tools. Although I've heard that pro tools isn't the industry standard anymore.. although who said I ever followed what the industry standard was.

and my 24 dvd I won should be coming soon I hope. I e-mailed the seller today so hopefully I'll at least get a reply or a tracking number or something. he's all the way on the west coast so it could take a while.