Think something sounds awesome when you’re drunk, and then when you hear it sober it sounds like total ass???
My solution is to work on music sober, then have a few drinks. If it still sounds okay when slightly intoxicated, it is probably okay to keep working on.
This isn’t all the time. Just today.

Still working on that cover. Soon though. SOOOOOON!!!

Slowly but surely.

30 discs are burned, CD print tests are done. Final package designs are in the works. (Final CD art is the one on the bottom)

Tomorrow I print the art on the rest of the discs and finish the package design.

In no particular order.

Random good things

• For the first time maybe ever, I really like my job
• Catherine learning to make savory veggie tarts
• The San Rafael farmers market
• Sol Food continues to be awesome every time
• The food at AVA in San Anselmo
• I finally found good California beer this year (not as easy as one might think)
• Our new place is awesome. My work room actually has space for all of my stuff
• Getting to know Barron over this last year has been great
• Comic-Con 2008

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Music related good things

• Cex - Dannibal LP (The guy just keeps cranking out amazing work)
• Lustmord - Other
• Nine Inch Nails - The Slip and Ghosts I-IV
• Portishead - Third
• The Autumn Wind Productions mailorder
• Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Lost in Reflections LP
• Discovering the parts of the Black Sabbath back catalogue that I hadn’t heard before (Dehumanizer and the Tony Martin albums in particular)
• Sigur Rós - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
• Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
• Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
• Uruk-Hai - Upon The Elysian Fields
• Telefon Tel Aviv - Helen of Troy (I can’t wait to hear the rest of this album!)
• Autechre - Quaristice (Of the last 3 Ae releases, all of which I thought were great, this is the one I’ve been listening to the least for some reason, its still very good. Apparently the other material they released around the same time (call quadrangle maybe?) is even better. I need to track that stuff down.)

wip - Nature takes over by ~synpro on deviantART

wip-Nature takes over-2 by ~synpro on deviantART

wip-Nature takes over-3 by ~synpro on deviantART

I’ve been pretty busy with work and moving into a nicer place. Soon there will be something meaningful posted here again, just not right now. Other projects have been occupying all my free time.

I’m working on getting the first synapse.project tape together. Its gonna be awesome!

>I couldn’t be happier about it.

Am I the only one that doesn’t want Mogwai to make another Young Team type album? Seriously, I don’t get it.

I think this (The Hawk is Howling) is one of the best things they’ve done. I dig it way more than Young Team. This feels more cohesive than Young Team, much more grown up sounding. Young Team was cool because along with it’s epicness, there are points in it that you can totally tell it was made by a bunch of guys with a pretty good sense of humor… at least to me.

Young Team may have been a little more raw, but Hawk is Howling sounds a lot more inspired to me. Why would Mogwai want to take a step backward at this point? They’re moving forward, and every time they do it makes more and more of an impact.

Sooooo, yeah. There’s my two cents.