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Thursday, November 17, 2005

stupid

So - I don't know when the switch was made...

Typically, my friends know that when I'm getting screwed or whatever for no understandable reason, I get a little testy. However, lately some new friends of mine aren't understanding this. They don't let me vent like I used to be able to - Either they don't want to hear about it at all, or they think I'm yelling at them. In the past, my friends just either laughed, or just agreed with me, saying simply - "yea... fuck that!" and then life was good. I guess not anymore...

I'm having school registration issues - and I am NOT happy today. I guess there's nothing I can do about them until someone there contacts me, so I'm a little more calm than I was earlier, but I'm still fuming about this. I'm getting screwed out of classes as we speak cause of Columbia College's inept ability to make my life a living hell. For those of you thinking of going there - I say only this... Be ready to go through hell trying to register and talk to anyone about a plan of action.

So, I wrote a new song of sorts last night - it's a rocker! I'm excited when i write those, because I do everything on an acoustic guitar, and it's hard to hear it in its electric sense... But I have faith in this one, and when I have faith, I get excited.

I also wrote to the Smoking Popes to find out what equipment pedals and stuff they use. After doing much searching on the Duvall site, I found out that he uses a 100W Marshall Super Lead head... It's only about $1600 on sale, so... I'll get right on that.

They're the ones that have always had the best distortion to me - it's gritty and hard, but clean and crisp - LOVE IT! Believe it or not, I used to have a similar sound come from a Celestian amp by Crate that I somehow lost in my teens... Funny that the ultimate death metal sounding amp could sound so much like the Smoking Popes distortion - funny!

Class tonight, then a nice busy weekend coming up - man, it's gonna be nuts here people! Sunday I have given myself an ultimatum - I can either record 2 acoustic songs for lyrics to be done Thanksgiving weekend, OR I will have to record 4 songs over the same weekend complete with music and lyrics. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I will damnit... I don't care how crappy it is...

I gotta get outta here. But thanks for letting me vent (albeit my usual venting is much more R-rated for explicit language than anything you've read on THIS blog ;-P). Later!

posted by grey as mike @ 2:55 PM

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