I love it when the younger version of myself hooks up my current self. In this case, I made my friend Jason Croce a CD of my old songs in 2004 called NEW MILLENIUM DEMONSTRATIONS. This CD is a treasure trove of lost The Brake Lights material that includes a great 5-song demo I recorded at Clay Creek Studio with some old friends as well as demo recordings of songs that comprise the MUSICAL NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND & BEYOND!!! album.
I will post some audio as soon as I get a chance to convert the files into MP3′s. I will make the earlier demos available for download and the same can be said for MUSICAL NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND & BEYOND!!!
This is an extraordinarily busy time of the year for me but I am also working on some new drawings that I plan on posting very soon. Keep your eyes and ears peeled!
Like most years ending in odd numbers, 2009 was a fun year to exist within the space-time continuum, but hardly represented the universal paradigm shift of human enlightenment so many of us are awaiting.
2010, with its aesthetically-sound round numbers and new decade-bringing ways, will be another difficult year financially, politically, and socially for all of us human critters circumnavigating our courses through the labyrinthine machinations of modern life. But I’m still excited, if nothing else, to just exist.
Less talk. More rock in 2010!
This year, I plan on:
- Cutting down our own trees and chopping them into firewood
- Traveling to Buenos Aires, Argentina to see my friends Jonah and Katrin
- Purchasing some drum microphones to ease the recording process
- Becoming financially solvent and responsible
Among other things. Time gets away from us and the next thing you know, it’s 2011. However this year marks a personal shift in which I’ve become more comfortable with my surroundings here in Vermont – more acclimated to the culture, my job, my friends – more in tune with the harmonies of this wonderful place. That said, I think I should take more pictures this year too.
The Brake Lights, 2007
I started The Brake Lights as a band of revolving friends in the New Jersey and Philadelphia area sometime in the autumn of 2007. I had sold my drum set and bought a Telecaster, and started writing songs between shifts at Whole Foods.
It was the summer of 2007 when I moved to Vermont. My girlfriend and I bought a nice little house and some land. We planted some little gardens and brought our pets with us. I became a husband; she became my wife. I am now planning the construction of a sustainable recording studio on our land. Anyway, here are some places you can listen to my recordings through the years:
Muxtape
Myspace
Facebook
