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.

New stuff

I have an idea for an album title I really want to use:

Thousand Voices Exchange. Idk why, it just strikes me in a way. It is a book store in Glenwood that is either defunct or non-defunct, but it looks rundown as shit. It is sooo intriguing. Like, i want to explore it, but i don't want to because i'm afraid it will ruin the mystery of it.

There it is. ok, good.

Those other album names are just EP names I'm going to guess.

Human Fest 2 Times

Ok! We got a semi-official set list for Human Fest 2:

Human Fest 2

Or if you are too lazy to go and click the link:

Erik Thompson (Yours Truly): 1:00pm
Nathan Reeder: 1:30
Elsa Va: 2:00
Bonneville Dusky: 2:30
Unnamed Confederates: 3:15
It Really Is: 4:00
Tree: 4:45
Sons of San Arc: 5:30
Jon Jubilee: 6:15
The Gateway Drug: 7:00
Weathers Rest: 7:15
Omniscient Troubadours: 8:00
Love Grove: 9:00
The Alleles: 9:45
Ghosts of Guyana: 10:45
The Season of the Witch: 11:30
Dark Seas: 12:30am

Seems kind of weird Gateway Drug is only getting a 15 minute set while OT is getting a full hour. It's an injustice in my opinion, but who knows? It might be a clerical error.

So, I'm playing at 1pm when it will be excruciatingly hot out and no one will be paying attention cause they will all be skating or tubing. No problem, I sound better when no one will be listening anyways.

So.

I'm bored. Here are thoughts on the ever changing future of PDA...

Humanfest might be my last show for a long time, if not forever. I highly doubt forever, but you never know how these things are going to turn out. With (hopefully) employment and  a baby to take care of, getting gigs will be more hassle than ever. Unless I get this day job, then it might be a bit easier than anticipated. I definitely want to play at least a few times a year, but you know, I have terrible music and absolutely no ambition to do much of anything at all. 

This will probably just become a recording project. Wherein I just record and publish shit however I feel like. If something takes off, then whatever. Idc honestly. My audience is nil and will continue to be nil until the end of time. I'm the only person listening anymore, and even then I'm thinking, "Wow, I wrote this crap? Its crap!"

It is crap though.

But I feel like the songwriting is getting somewhat better. My words and lyrics are becoming not so cliched and stagnant. The scope of language is a magnificient thing, but we only use so little of it to convey such trite ideas: love, sex, longing, feeling good, sadness, revenge. It is hard to break out of that cycle in any meaningful way. Everything else becomes pretentious and impenetrable garbage, not through any fault of the writer, but because the audience has come to expect certain things from music... mainly songs that validate what you already think and feel. No one wants to listen to music that challenges their own beliefs-- that takes time and energy. Songs that sing, "I'm a hardworkin man/ I've paid my dues/ But my woman takes my money/ And spends it all on shoes" are going to be more popular than songs that express a desire to examine how your inability to confidently articulate your disappointment with life and your lover causes a cycle to perpetuate your present situation. How silence and self-loathing keeps this process in motion, and only direct, sympathetic conversation can actually change anything, instead of sitting and bitching and getting an excuse to hate people instead of yourself for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. 

That is the problem with a lot of music now a days I think, lack of self awareness. Everything happens to you, and that is the cause of your problems--- not the fact that you can't talk about it, or the fact that you are too chickenshit to change your station in life. It is eveyrone else hounding you. Bringing you down. It is really quite extraordinary that we are such an insular society, but we don't understand how the "self" works. This society is so up its own ass right now, we want everything now, all the advertising is directed specifically to the consumer, porn is as vast and plentiful as ever.. you can jerk it to literally anything, but we still don't understand why this world is failing. It is because, even though we are all connected and information is essentially free to everyone, we are more insular than ever. We care only about what we want and what we know, and we don't care what you know or what you want, because we have been trained to want only what we want. Confused? Me too. Everything is directed directly to you, so you believe you must be the deciding factor in taste and what is popular. So you seek out others who share the same ideals, you listen to the same music, watch the same shows, see the same movies and go to the same games. It creates this bubble of self-satisfation that deludes us into believing there are no other opinions, there is no "other" so whenever we encounter an oppositional belief, we go into defensive.

How could these people believe that? Our movies, music and television shows don't teach that, they don't allow that, and we are the majority! Democracy demands we are right. So we are right! That is why we look to celebrities whenever we need a spokesperson-- they are the faces of the movies and television we watch to affirm ourselves. They are the popular kids in high school that get thrust to the forefront whenever there is a tragedy, or whenever the body needs a head to express its ideas to powers greater than themselves-- because they are known. Celebrites are known, and even if they have no real experience on a subject, we look to them because we feel connected to them, somehow they understand us because they speak the words we want them to say. 

Where was I?

So, PDA. its future is up in the air right now.

Peace.

Human Fest 2 set list...

Wow I have not been thinking about this enough.. I really do not have a set list ready..

I know I'm going to probably play these songs for right now

Glory
Between Our Chemistry
Hole in my Head
Waiting for Malachai
Virus
Perfect Target
Faces
Hammer (new version)
Thinkin...
Song For Rhyleigh
Unsteady Hands

Maybe I had more songs than I realized... I don't even know how many songs I have in the works anymore...

I guess it all depends on how long my set is. Probably cut out Hammer, even the new version is weird and unwieldy. Definitely want to do thinkin.. if i can remember how it goes... faces is a maybe also. Perfect Target, I really like it, but it is also a weird song to play.

Going to have to think about this...

Damn. Cause I got some other new ones I want to try out, but they aren't even titled yet. I don't even remember which ones I'm still working on anymore.

Workings of an Idiot with nothing better to do

Here is a list of album titles I have in mind. In no particular order:

Self Satisfied Mutilation
Rat King, Everything Must Go
Mounting the Only Everest We Have
Sincere Apologies to the Going Away Party
Revenge of the Inexplicables
Permeate the Membrane!
Asinine Wall Hangings
Last of the Glenwood Bombardiers
Hey Buddy Ten O'Clock
Dart Lucky

I really like Permeate the Membrane! and Dart Lucky.

But first I will complete Sad Looking Rocket, and Subregion M will be an ongoing project, I will make EPs and what not during the process for that album.

Of course these are not indicative of what I will put out... these are just ideas for album titles, and hell I might even make some of them song titles in the near to distant future. Who Knows? Not me. I have absolutely no control over this.

Plans

None, but I do have an idea to make Sad Looking Rocket a bit more than an EP. I want to put up my more polished songs on the album. Like redone versions of: Between Our Chemistry, Glory, Waiting for Malachai, Hammer, and Gospel. 

Maybe. I have other songs I've been working on as well. Something that i might be able to turn into a actual physical copy that I could sell, or distribute around town. Probably not, though. I'm not sure what I still want to do with all of this.

Human Fest 2 might just well be my last show, ever. I hope not, but you know. Things are odd right now. I still want to make music, and I probably will for a long time. But getting gigs won't be my main objective until I can fully devote my time to it.

Maybe by then I will actually have a song worth listening to.