Anyways...

I've got some new ideas in store for the next EP, Sad Looking Rocket, and it will hopefully be a bit different.

For now, I've decided, that my EP's will be mostly sparse, skeletons of songs that I'm working on, and once I get a batch of 10 or so that I like, i will try to incorporate full instrumentals now that I have my bass back from Toben, and a cajone to improvise for a drumset.

That wasn't exactly clear: EP= sparse arrangements (if any); LP= full bandish sound (hopefully)

Next LP will be called either Casanova Nights, or Thousand Voices Exchange.

As for the Subregion M series of whateverthefucks, that is still a very distant thought.

That one might take a while.

Just sometimes

I don't know what to think anymore, like, I'm a man without a scene I guess.

Am I a musician, even? I look at all these guys play concerts and on magazines, and its just like, who the fuck are these people? Why do they dress like that? Do they all not shower?

Of course I'm generalizing here, but sometimes it feels that way.

This comes from a bad experience with the Sioux City Music Scene mostly... just a bunch of guys who are too big for their britches. They all walk around like cocks of the walk, but I assure you, they are cocks of nothing. I go up on stage, try to do something a bit different, try to play as well as I can. No one even cared. Some of the people that were just at pipe dreams were nice, but most (not all, some good guys out there) were just completely oblivious to me. They just look at me like, oh he's here? Fuck those guys, seriously. I put just as much effort into my music as you do, maybe even more. I freaking agonize over my lyrics and chords. Put hours into songs trying to find the right way to say things, trying to get the feel just perfect. Sorry I'm not some fucking savant that can take a bong rip, needle away on his guitar for 20 minutes and call it good.

Sometimes I do get a bit lucky, though, and some instant inspiration hits and I am able to get something down in about an hour or so, but mostly I've spent weeks, even months perfecting songs, and they aren't even close to being perfect. They are just as close as I can get them.

But, they all act hardcore and amazing, like the music they are making is going to set the world on fire, and it might, who knows? But it hasn't, yet, so don't fucking act like it or you won't ever make it. You have to have that hunger in your gut, that want, that desire to become something greater every day. But if you already think you are amazing? Then guess what, you have no drive to become better.

What do i know, though? I'm not even close to making it, and honestly I wish them all the luck in the world. I hope they do make it, because that is awesome. Becoming a paid musician is a dream job that a lot of people have, and I just hope they are smart enough to realize how lucky they would be... fucking douchebags.

Well...

Human Fest came and went, and it was... alright. I don't think I converted anyone, anyone who saw me play probably just thought I was some asshole with a guitar, and they are right.

But, everytime I play it gives me the motivation to get better and try to become a better musician and lyricist.

Which, idk, I might someday, but I probably won't.

I'm kind of a hack. Sort of.

Its just, I have all of these ideas stuck in my head but when I try to get them out there, it all becomes muddled and weird sounding....

idk.

Working on the album and some more concepts so keep aware.

Peace.

Live Album

Something different.

I will be playing my electric guitar at HumanFest 2, and i will play it as loud and as fast as possible with lots of gain and reverb.

I will try to capture this moment on my handheld recorder.

I will then sell it online at my bandcamp for free.

It will be called Pabodie's Drilling Apparatus: Unplugged.

Cause I'm fucking clever as shit.

Up and Running

Got the old 'puter up and running again, so this might mean my next EP will be in the works here soon.

Also, with the Human Fest in the near horizon, I might try and record it and release a live version of my music.

It won't go well, but that has never stopped me before! Except it has. Several times.

Forgot what I was going to name the next ep... oh yeah, Sad Looking Rocket.

Look for it within the next 3 to 36 months.

YEAYA

And there it is, I am under my birthname Erik Thompson, but it is me. I will playing my own vague version of stripped down folk/punk (or funk, as I call it). I'm going on at 1 or 2pm, I'm still sort of confused on the time. But I will be playing first, no doubt about that.

Humanfest Set list none-dates

This isn't upate, so much as a dedication to the idea of not doing anything important for something really important. I have no game plan, yet, and this shit is like 2 weeks away, if that.

I'm super duper excited though. If I'm still playing, I'm not sure.

Yay.

So far, I definitely think I will play

Between Our Chemistry (New Version)
Waiting for Malachai
Glory
Unsteady Hands

Pretty much all of Amateur Fashion so far, cept for... well maybe SkullCrusher. Definitely not Freak or Waterfall.

Maybe Freak. or Waterfall, just to do something different.

Virus
Werewolf
Song for Rhyleigh
Faces
maybe Thinkin...
Yeah, Thinkin... definitely
Perfect Target.

there is some other stuff in the works I might try to hammer out till then, but my new schedule isnt letting me get a lot of time in.