felicitous nativity, 2008

Not that I really celebrate. but, this year we got a tree and decorated it with beads, feathers, shower curtain rings, and moose antlers. all the presents were household supplies. like a vacuum, a blender, pots and pans, a sewing machine. 'twas much fun. thank you, anya, for such a wonderful holiday.

glider update. a video of the screen taken with a video camera shows glider in motion.




december 22, 2008

glider update. almost a game now.

music is chuggin'. i'm gonna record drums to the rock tracks i've been recording.

i just bought a pxl 2000 (pixelvision). for those of you who don't know what that is, which will be most of you, it's a video camera that records video to audio tape cassettes. the resolution is 120 by 90, it's black and white, and it's awesome. they are hard to come by nowadays.

no progress on the vcr multitrack system yet.

after i put up "don't say yes when you really mean no!", i received an email from the creator of it. it was a friendly one, not an angry take-down-that-video-you-don't-have-rights-to-it message. i haven't responded yet.




december 4, 2008

happy birthday, anya! and thanks for all you do for me.

the hip hop show was really fun. i played with hunters, the giulio cetto experience, and the magnolia district. i shot some footage of hunters and tried to make it look as decent as possible even though it was shot on digital 8 with a small sensor, in low light. that means lots of post production to make it look anywhere near decent. here's a link to the first of eight videos that youtube darkened to ruin my color timing. enjoy. (they get better as they increase in number). i didn't put up any footage from my set because there wasn't that much to look at. the highlight of my set was definately when zack pallin (of hunters) scratched on a cd-turntable while i rapped and played a snare with my hand and stomped on the stage for the kick. the show forced me to finish the hip hop record because i wanted to have copies to sell. thanks you, anya, for helping me get to the show and make cd copies and printing. so the cd is available? not quite. all the audio is done, but there's a tiny bit of artwork still in the works. i strongly urge you to check out the goodnight caterpillar website. you can hear audio samples from every track on the cd.

new invention idea: i haven't built this yet, but i came up with a way to put together a high quality analog multitrack recorder. okay. vhs (remember those?) have actually really great audio capability. i've heard of people mastering on them, believe it or not. so theoretically, if you had multiple vcrs of the same model, one remote would trigger all of them simultaniously. stop me if you know what i'm getting at. ha, you can't unless you hack this website. so with preamps, you could record, say six high quality analog tracks, with three vcrs (assuming you chose a model of vcr with stereo sound). you'll need a mixer to monitor the sound, and of course, mix down to two track. it should work great but i have some concerns: maybe all vcrs, even of the same model, vary a bit in spin up time. if, for some reason, any of the tapes get out of sync, you're screwed. technically, if you used three vcrs, you wouldn't be getting six separate tracks in the way you would with an ordinary multitrack recorder, because it's really three pairs of stereo tracks, not six independent ones. therefor, you couldn't record track 1 (vcr 1 left channel) and then record track 2 (vcr 1 right channel). you would have to record tracks 1 and 2 (vcr 1 both channels), and then record tracks 3 and 4 (vcr 2 both channels). if i find a way to get multiple vcrs of the same model for a reasonable price, i'll totally build one of these.

new story. read it.

last news post, i said i'd put up "don't say yes when you really mean no!". i deliver. here's the first of seven videos. i received responses from the two possible actresses in question. one was from the video. one wasn't. seems jennifer dimitui is on facebook.

i think that's all the news. have a good what ever you celebrate.




november 9, 2008

first off, yay we won! !! !!! !!!! (the election). i was actually a poll worker, believe it or not.

glider update. i decided to recode basically from scratch. it's a lot cleaner now.

music news: okay. I'm planning to on finishing the hip hop album before the 28th for i have a show, and i would be great to do a cd release. the show is in stockton, ca. for details, click here! and... i'm also working on a rock album, in the style of azura (some azura songs are on it), birds have maps (some of those too), and new material. when it's done, i try to get band members and start a new real band.

and in other news, since i'm listening to the soundtrack of something very embarassing... once upon 1989, a video tape was released called "don't say yes when you really mean no!". it's an anti-drug musical based off of a play of the same title. it's definately a classic in my book. my friends and i would go hysterical watching it. anyway, the question always arose, in my head: where are they now? with a bit of research, my friends and i discovered a few answers to that question.

laticia jackson became a body builder.
albert jones may or may not still be acting. there's some debate whether an albert jones in the movie, "proud" is the same one. it's not a rare name by any means.
erin grey van oosbree now goes by grey delisle. i sent her a message but she never responded.
danielle decker, i may have found. i'm waiting for a confirmation from her.
jennifer dimitui, i may have found. i'm waiting for a confirmation from her too.

no information, besides plays they were in and what high school they were in (which we know is chula vista from the movie), was found on paul blaum, daniel polese, john paul salazar, paul sorensen, kimme stephanson, or jodi wolters... yet. if you haven't seen this movie (and i know you haven't), i'm going to post a link here of the entire movie. until then, sigh, oh! nara.




october 27, 2008

new short film called rainy day. with the external headache, i went for the shallowest depth of field i've ever come across. with rainy day, it's like a pinhole camera.

goodnight caterpillar's website is coming along. listen to the samples.




october 17, 2008

design.




october 11, 2008

sorry to anyone who was interested in my hip hop project. they pretty much came to a hault. but, no more! i recently recorded some more tracks. the album will be done after i finish two existing ones and then add one more totally new one. then it's on to cover art... oh shit! i just realized i have a perfect cover: this picture! okay, all i need to do then is make some good lettering for the title.

on an almost exciting note, a couple dslr are finally shooting video. sounds great except for rolling shutter (jello-cam). the sensors send out a line at a time instead of sending out whole frames. if there is an motion of normal sugnificance, the image wobbles. lame. but, soon, i predict, dslrs will shoot video without that flaw.

triceratops magazine has it's own page now. plea$e buy one.




september 27, 2008

new (old) videos. i've been transfering old footage to my computer and then spiffing it up (or down). the two newest ones to add to the collection are here and here. there are more coming soon. one that's only on youtube is here.




september 21, 2008

like the photography section, the video section has also been made over. it's now in two categories: "short films", and "music videos" (hmm. i wonder if i should divide it again into the two afore mentioned categories plus "animated films". i don't know.). there are a couple new films there too. this post says "september 21, 2008", but i don't have internet access at the moment so you'll read this at a later date.




september 18, 2008

photography section received a makeover. there are new photos there, but many of the old ones are gone. i felt that the now-discarded ones weren't up to par.




september 16, 2008

film news. not mine. it had always bothered me that i could not watch metropolis in its entirety and in order. much of the footage was lost and there were multiple edits of what still existed. recently, a 16mm negative was discovered that contained the previously lost footage. in november of 2009, a new high definition release is coming with the old and new footage. hopefully they won't mess this up with freeze frames like in one of the old versions that i saw. and hopefully, the edit will be true to the original, but who knows.

my new film, tentatively titled "the external headache" now has a page of its own with screen shots. plus, i finally got 'round to putting up a dream sweeper page.




september 11, 2008

new film is on its way. brendan bellomo and i built a new video camera adapter. perhaps the most shallow depth of field i've ever seen. it uses a single element 8.5" x 11" fresnel lens, and a focusing screen of the same size. the whole system is a little over 5 feet long. that's huge. using a fresnel lens has it drawbacks though. there is a lot of chromatic aberration and other distortions. but the footage we've been shooting looks beautiful due to brendan's superb lighting job. the new film should be finished in a few months.

until then, amuse yourselves with this. i have more things to show soon.

i got three of five rolls developed that i shot recently. i hope to get the last two done soon and then i'll post some up. i'll probably sell my camera in the near future. developing is too expensive. if anyone's looking to spend a little bit of money on a minolta slr film camera, let me know.

hey. i have art up on campnorth. there's not much there that you can't see here, but you can leave me comments about my work there.




august 20, 2008

sorry for the lack of updates recently. my external disk, where i store everything useful, decided to, not call it quits, but call it molasses time. i don't know why the data rate has turned into a couple megs a second. luckily it still works, just in sloth mode. i got a new external with raid 1 so everything will be safe. now, its a matter of transferring all the data from the sloth to the raid, a very long procedure due to the slow transfer speed of the old drive. anyway...

on to good stuff: new writing, new pictures, new photos as soon as i get them developed (yes, they're film), new camera invention (still needs a bit of work, but imagine photos/videos with super super shallow depth of field. i mean amazingly shallow.), new other stuff (can't think right now).




july 23, 2008

new things. video video art art art art art art




july 20, 2008

new counting system.

i'm helping with music for a play. i'm recording with my band. i'm planning many new things.

jims and bills.

glider update.




june 13, 2008

glider update.




june 11, 2008

a) i have a new invention thought up by mike hale of room for a ghost and myself.

b) i am doing sound for an episode of a chinese animated series.

c) is for cookie.

d) "the adventure" is taken by too many other bands. we seek a new name. fooey.

e)at your vegetables.

f)uck your fruits.

f)uck, you're fruits

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:)




may 31, 2008

the blow, the pills, the yak, the herb. music news! japhy riddle is in a band, which i touched on before. we's called "the adventure". also! there's now an it's day website (at the end of your current url, type it'sday). there isn't much to do there right now. i'll tell you a secret though. there is a hidden link to the macy's website because that's a funny thing to do. laugh laugh laugh?




may 25, 2008

new old films, kogo, bloc.

if you haven't noticed changes to bio, please take a look.




may 20, 2008

the big bang. there's the los link.

new art.

new film.

i don't have a camera right now so film/photography will have to wait. hence, i'm putting a bit more focus on music at the los moment. i'm still waiting for dslrs to shoot video and for me to win the los lottery.

it's a shame that the entertainment industry is such a capitalistic and non-artistic industry. to ensure that they'll sell a form of entertainment, that being a movie, a record, television show, etcetera, they have to dumb it down to appeal to the stupidest people. every time this is done, standards drop. all we see are these shallow money makers. just take a look at the films that are out right now, watch mtv and see how... oops. sorry. mtv doesn't really play music anymore. listen to the radio and hear how all the music sounds the same, it's safe, it's predictable, it's perfect for the most simple-minded people out there. films are the same way. there's no depth to them because if there is, the dumb people won't pay for them. so what happens is that all we see are shallow forms of entertainment and they'll continue to be dumbed down to reach a stupider audience to make more money. now when a creative person is born, they'll get inspired not by the great art out there, which is now becoming extinct or hard to find, but by this shallow entertainment and think that this is the way entertainment is supposed to be. when they grow up, they'll create something that's decent, lose their money, create something stupid, get rich and perpetuate the cycle. if you create entertainment that challenges your audience, and you somehow get people to like it, which is near impossible, you will be reversing this cycle. if the entertainment industry released films and television that targeted only the intelligent people, maybe simple-minded people would want to learn to keep up. that's what challenging your audience is about. a big mistake is to think that people are stupid and dumb things down so that anyone can understand. it's insulting and it lowers standards and it discourages the intellectual growth of our society. if you had people feeding you all the time, would you ever learn to cook? this is similar to what's happening. so i say, force your audience to make an effort. don't hand them everything. let them have to think to understand. blah blah blah. i'm ranting too much. i'm not trying to sound angry, but i truly care about this issue. this was just a stream of consciousness, but i would like to write a paper on this subject eventually.

p.s. don't ever buy bottled water. it costs more per gallon than gasoline, creates lots of waste, uses up resources, and is usually bottled straight from the tap.




may 15, 2008

a couple weeks ago, i recorded a demo cd for "the big bang". if i knew their website, i'd link to it. when i do, i'll post it.

i've been playing music with some people. uh oh, band starting. we'll see where it goes.

new art.




april 23, 2008

bio has been updated. see if you notice the changes.




april 12, 2008

new film.




april 4, 2008

missing anya.




april fools, 2008

a film from 1999 that brendan bellomo and i did has been remastered. see it in its final form hither. we also have some new music and some more new(old) videos on the way.

glider is progressing.

ha ha. finally birds have maps album is done. it got mastered. i started recording it in late 2006. what a long wait.

a jet riot is coming! a jet riot is coming!




march 27, 2008

i started programming a game. it's a remake of john calhoun's glider. click on this to see how far i've come.




march 24, 2008

the hit counter is not working because I'm running off a new webspace provider again. it's depressing seeing all zeros every time.

new photos posted. not all link.

fixed typos on a few pages.




march 19, 2008

new art. new inventions on the way. more camera related inventions. what else..? remastering old hip hop tracks to re-release as goodnight caterpillar. clips from gypsy concert series #6 are up on youtube.




march 7, 2008

new art and more new art to come as soon as i scan. and speaking of scanning, brendan bellomo and i are in the process of attempting to make a scanner camera. see you soon.




february 1, 2008

new art. i'm spending a lot of my creative time doing that now. some of it is hanging in a coffee shop right now.

i had a recording session with old and gray recently. pick up some cds from him. he is also throwing a weekly location-varying concert series. it's called "the gypsy concert series". it features old and gray and other acts. i sometimes accompany him for these concerts.

new sculpture, new inventions (check out language).




january 11, 2008

all drawings now link. more photos link. + other minor fixes/improvements to site. started new invention page for the language i'm working on. it'll be up soon.




january 9, 2008

first off, i'm now living in santa cruz in a converted church with friends of mine. my san diego living situation fell apart, but that wasn't much of a loss.

okay, on to site things. more pictures link in the drawings section now. i'm about to add a few more things to inventions. like the language that i'm working on and some ideas for various things. very descriptive, huh?

my 35mm adapted camera keeps getting better.




december 8, 2007

new section: sculpture.

and i'm finally starting to get the photography section going.




december 3, 2007

new film yet again.

new art, but i haven't scanned it yet. why did i type that. i guess to show that i'm not completely unproductive.

new language. what? yeah, the alphabet is really neat looking. that's about all i've developed, along with the some experiments on sentence structure, and rules about the categorization of words. for instance, all nouns that are non-physical objects have a certain ending or beginning letter (haven't decided yet). every letter has the purpose of not only making a sound, but also helping to define what the word means categorically. let's take the word "spoon". we'll say that it is a noun - "no letter added". we'll say that it is a physical object - "no letter added". we'll say that it's a tool - "t". and used for food - "f". and it's curved - "c". then we insert vowels in some manner to get something like this "tofic". 12 12 12 (ha ha ha). okay, to tell you the truth, i'm making this up on the spot, but these are some of the ideas that have been rattling around in my head. the spoon example was stupid. but i'm hoping to devise some system so that by reading an unknown word, one can already get a glimpse about what it means. it's like when we read an english word and then notice its latin roots, and go "ah, i get it".

there's probably more news but i just got vanilla raspberry frozen yogurt, thus, my priorities have changed...




october 25, 2007

that new film is up. yay. yo.

damn it. it seems that more and more people are developing 35mm adapters. it makes me feel less special. in the near future, dslrs will do 24fps hd video. that will make my adapter seem weak in comparison. until then, i'll post some new photos and videos of my system with my new f1.4 lens soon. it looks pretty laljax(slang for "good") now.




october 24, 2007

great. i move to san diego and it burns down. at least the area that i'm living in (la jolla) does not have to evacuate. okay, the website is now version 3.5, the .5 being that now it is running on a different server. and i'm running on a different computer. i got an apple macbook pro (2.2ghz intel core duo, blah blah blah). i'm running windows on it too because i couldn't cope without sound forge, my mastering program. if you want to run windows on an apple, i highly recommend parallels desktop 3.0 for mac. it just works.

okay. what's new? a worked on a new video for my friend/roommate anya's art class. she asked me to help her film people running through the woods carrying ribbons and then getting killed. a typical day. we're cheap so we bought vhs tapes instead of ribbon. they have a lot of "ribbon" in them. great, another film with tape in it. my life is so repetitive. every film i work on has analog tape in it in one form or another. once i compress the film, so you can download it in less than a week, i'll provide you with links to see it/download it. it's really short though. like a minute. right when i got home from the shoot is when my f1.4 lens arrived in the mail. oh, well. next film i'll be able to use it.

music. so highway rival (name to change, possibly to "this fair city" (i like it)) tracks are done. i'm not sure what the status of that record is. jason charles franklin, the singer of that band, recorded a solo album with me awhile back. it was all acoustic and he said that eventually, he'd like to record a full band electric version. things changed and we scrapped that album except for one track to be used on the electric album. we recorded the new "full band" (me on drums and bass) one and it sounds great. i recommend giving it a listen. a few tracks should be up on his myspace soon. as for my own music, not much has been going on. i'm still writing rock songs here and there and working on hip hop.




september 25, 2007

moving to san diego soon.

new videos: ana, goodnight caterpillar - snail in the wrong shell, a cinematic representation of incrementally increasing beats per second.
new writing: doctorshop quartet.
new place to hear it's day songs.
new music: goodnight caterpillar - pet sea urchin, goodnight caterpillar - the radio (demo).
it's day's "the living room" is done now. it didn't really come to a perfect conclusion, but it's just time to move on. listen to tracks here.




september 10, 2007

been a little while, eh? i was on vacation. i was in california working with brendan bellomo on his film, bohemibot. i made some films of my own while i was down there: "a cinematic representation of incrementally increasing beats per second", and "babies are tape (temporary title)". since i've been back, i've started work on a new musical promotional film (music video) for my hip hop project, goodnight caterpillar. i'm assuming it will be done tomorrow. maybe the next day. look at some screen captures on the myspace.

looks like i'm going to be moving to san diego, california, for a bit. but i must first mix and master all the highway rival tracks. plus, the jason charles franklin tracks. i'm not bringing my computer for it is a desktop machine. i'm thinking it's time to get a laptop. there's so much to do before i leave. ramble ramble ramble.

i vastly improved my 35mm to digital adaptor. it's so sharp now. the only problem is that there is a lot of light loss. that's what happens when you go through four lenses and a focusing screen before you hit the ccd. i now use this camera for everything. like the videos i mentioned earlier.

is there any music news? i'm taking a break from music. kind of. i'm still writing. and still doing hip hop, but music has slowed down, due to the fact that this generation's tastes are complete shit. it's too hard to go against the grain. i'll have to wait until people wake up. mainly, i've been doing film. so again, check out my videos.

triceratops magazine has been reissued. phone me, mail me, run into me on the street and get one. super cheap. $1.00-$5.00.
today, i discovered an amazing book. it's called "codex seraphinianus". you can download a torrent from grey lodge occult review or from this link from their site. when you've gotten what you need out of the torrent, you'll have yourself decent scans of over 350 pages from the book. i recommend doing a google image search to find out if it's worth downloading. it is. i'd like to mention ubuweb. they define themselves so: "ubuweb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts." i'm going to try to get some of my films up there. wish me luck.




july 31, 2007

new birds have maps record, entitled "birds have maps" (hey! wait. what? wasn't there already a self-titled? yes. here's another. ha ha, suckers. it has a different album cover and different songs. that's good enough.), is basically done. all the tracks have been recorded and artwork is complete. needs a few more liner notes possibly. the myspace has some tracks from it. an acoustic album is also in the works.

it's day's "this is nowhere" video just got finished today. you can see it here or if you love really awful quality video, here. another one for the "it's dayvd".

"triceratops magazine" is in production again. i'm starting over and rereleasing it. issue #1 will be available shortly.

jason charles franklin has new tracks up on his myspace. they're rough mixes of the recordings at japhy riddle studios. hmm... there should be a website or myspace or something dedicated solely to japhy riddle studios, huh? maybe i'll make one. knowing me if i talk about it now, it'll a: never get done, or b: happen in a year from now.

a new invention is being crafted in my head. it's an add-on for the 35mm to digital adaptor. the digital camera's flash is blocked by the body of the minolta xg 9. i was originally going to build some parascoping system for it, but i had a better idea today. i'll take a normal mountable flash and mount it to the minolta xg 9. but first, i'll take it apart and remove the button that triggers it. instead of a button, i'll use a photocell to complete the circuit. the photocell will be triggered by the digital camera's flash. the only thing to worry about is some sort of delay. hopefully there will be none.




july 24, 2007

highway rival recording sessions are going well. super rough mixes of two of the five songs are up on their myspace. the band and i are shooting for, at least, rough mixes of all the songs before august. then, sometime in september, the demonstration record will be mixed/mastered and released.

a few more drawings have links now. "last thursday" is coming up again. time to sell more art.

i bought a cute little 650 watt light made for super 8. i got it for less than $2 because the girl at the check out thought i was cute, or she messed up with the register... because she was distracted by my cuteness? just kidding. sorry.




july 22, 2007

nothing.

it's funny to me to have a post that doesn't have news.




july 19, 2007

i finally got my 35mm adaptor working. here, motherfuckers!

i'm recording highway rival. the first session went really smoothly and efficiently.

i mastered a song off of a four-track for strigidae. mostly just cleaned up some punch-ins.




july 9, 2007

new invention.

added various band pages in the all music projects section.

it rained on art selling day so not many people showed up. i still made $37.00. 37 is my least favorite number for the record but i didn't complain.




june 27, 2007

new artwork. i'll be selling it again at "last thursday" on alberta street in portland. last time i made around $100. i won't make as much this time because i don't have as much art to sell.

i'm in the process of modifying a camera. it'll be in the inventions section when complete.

i finally mixed and mastered the tell the truth recording sessions done here at japhy riddle studios. they sound really good. contact tell the truth if you'd like to know more about the truth. or these recordings. i'm not sure what they're going to do with these tracks because they've changed their line up, and basically moved on from this era of tell the truth.

new strange music project. heart, the monitor. very obnoxious.

and just so you know...




june 24, 2007

mike amaro and johanna kibrick amaro got married. the wedding/show was most excellent. a number of bands played including their band, tell the truth. and i backed up jake generalli on drums, bass, guitar, and oscillator (one at a time, obviously). congratualtions guys!




june 15, 2007

i'm ready to play hip hop shows. come to performances for a fun time. i'll post info here and on the goodnight caterpillar myspace. and on this topic, i'm done with a very short ep (maybe it shouldn't be called that. it's only like ten minutes) with some lo-fi hip hop from goodnight caterpillar. it's called "moth fucker ep". get it? like mother fucker, but it's just "moth" because of the whole caterpillar theme. shut up, japhy...

oh, yes! inventions. there are three inventions that have links now. they're all sound related. check 'em out. they all have examples (audio or video).

i guess you guys aren't ready for this, yet...
_________ two shorts walk into a bar...
_________ bartender - "you're too short. get out!"
...but you're kids are gonna love it...




june 11, 2007

here.




june 6, 2007

new things all over. happy hunting.




june 5, 2007

look bitches, i changed around the music section. it's almost good now. just a little more work on it. yay.




may 28, 2007

a ton of tuna!

only one more song for the birds have maps record and then it'll be done.

there's a new thing in the writing section. have fun.

there's a new thing in the video section. have fun.

there are new things in the drawings section. have fun.

i was on stanford's radio stastion, kzsu. i had fun. i got to play recordings of two birds have maps songs and one from old and gray i did some vocals on. and chose a laura barrett song to be played also, because she's the best. well, gavin knight is the best actually because he had me on his radio show. we had many laughs. it was fun all around.

another recording session with jason charles franklin today.




april 20, 2007

recording sessions started for jason charles franklin...




april 17, 2007

sorry for the lack of updates everyone (no one). new birds have maps song called "there was no meeting of flesh". the ep, so far, is:
1. apple song (sweet version) (done)
2. intimate dating is intimidating (demo stages)
3. have you ever been lonely? (no recording)
4. there was no meeting of flesh (demo stages)
5-7. (has not yet been written. there will be a drum solo as its own track, as a transition piece.)

new 'it's day' video on 'it's way'.

awhile back, i did a split with old and gray. recently i went back to california and helped to vocals for some old and gray stuff. it's really good. i'm not sure when it's going to be released. but when it is, i'll post.

i'm hoping to record a few people soon. being a recording engineer is super fun. and if you (yes, you) would like to be recorded at japhy riddle studios, hit me up.

i've been doing designs for brendan bellomo's new film, bohemibot. weapons, doors, eating utencils, alien fonts, etcetera. i may fly out to new york for the shoot in may.

more interesting things on the way. i got pumped to update my website. but i'm sleepy now. i'll do a better one soon.




february 20, 2007

new and funny goodnight caterpillar song. it's called "glider 4.0". embedded in the lyrics are every room's name in the entire game.

birds have maps news. there is an ep coming out.

bumblebee people is going to be an it's day song. yay! it found a home.

i'm also trying out singing for a band called secondary colors. the songs on the myspace are sequenced tracks, but they are a live band.




february 14, 2007

this is my valentine to all.




january 26, 2007

i'm back from california. i had an amazing trip. thank you everybody who hung out with me and gave me a bed for the night. whilst one state south, i drew lot of pictures in my sketchbook some of which are in the drawings section.

there are new music things going on. i am now part of tell the truth. a part that plays drums. this leads to the myspace but the sound and members have changed quite a bit, so this is not an accurate representation of tell the truth anymore. i'll still master the recordings i did before i was in the band.

the rats are in the gas mask. i hold tuning forks up to volcanos.

is this it's day material? i'm not sure. it's on the myspace for now, but it might end up being used for something different. whatever the case, it's not finished.




december 14. 2006

i'm recording tell the truth in my studio(my room). they are really good. you should listen to them on that link to the left. i've worked with them before. a little bit of mastering on some of their demos. they're my friends, and they're awesome, and i love them.

remember that band, birds have maps? they recorded one album that pretty much rocks. they broke up. right. but new releases are on the way. new releases? i though the first album was never really released. that's true. it should be, huh? anyway, two new records are on the way. and by on the way, i mean within the decade. ha ha ha. i've just recorded a demo of a song to be on outputopia, the birds have maps's second album. you can download it hither. some parts are missing because pro tools was being a full blown cocksucker (i don't want to explain so i'll just be vulgar). anyway, you can download it, but there are beeps in places where there are parts that couldn't be exported from the session. it sounds as though i'm being censored on the recording, but i assure you, i'm only saying "spends" and "away". the track isn't mixed or processed very much. the guitar tone is very dry and plunky, the edits are not perfect, there's a really good section missing, and the snare drum needs some work. it'll be dynamite when it's done though.

there's also a new it's day record coming out. 8 of the 10 tracks are finished. you can hear a sampler of them on the myspace. i started to work on the official it's day website, but i got frustrated and stopped because i'm not very good at web design. it'll happen eventually.




december 08, 2006

i'm going to an oscillating innards show tonight. I'll probably need two sets of earplugs (that's a compliment, gordon).

updates to the music section. you can now download the legendary gunn high school open mic performances that me and jason did a few years ago, under the japhy riddle subsection, + more.

new artwork.

i 've updated some of the links on old news posts but from now on i'm not going to do anything like that.

i'll be in california on december 19th. i'm gonna playing a few shows there as well as working on a music video, and other things blah blah blah, this news is boring.




november 27, 2006

updates to the video section.

p.s. - kate bush rules. at least her work from '78 to '82.




november 16, 2006

endocument.

updates to the music section.




november 10, 2006

it's amazing how much i update the news now. that's what happens when you have no friends. i'll have plenty soon (just kidding) because of these pants (and the neat little layout in which they can be seen).




november 9, 2006

...and i record another traditional just for fun. a minor note: birds have maps tracks have had their bass boosted. thanks to charlie mezak for noticing they lacked the proper amount of bass. the tracks have been updated on this site but not on the myspace. okay, that's all.




november 5, 2006

to the beach, yall! okay, here's a hip hop song. it's a demo. it's goofy, not serious. it's waiting for you to listen to it. and you might as well become myspace friends with goodnight caterpillar.




november 4, 2006

more drawings are up. only one of them is new and not all of them can be enlarged. it takes a lot of time to do this kind of work even with advanced tools.

i finally have some video editing software. i got adobe premiere pro. i like final cut better(so far), but since i don't have a decent apple computer yet, i figured that i'd get pc video editing software. and speaking of editing... i just edited a "movie" that dawn riddle (sister), heidi alexander (sister's friend), and i(sister's brother) made around 1993? 1994? by edited, i mean took out the dead space between the improvised dialogs and actions. yes, they're jump cuts, but i figure that the picture looks so shitty(lot's of shots are too dark, too bright, backlit, and framed badly) in itself, that it doesn't matter. i won't say too much about the "movie" because i don't want to get you all out there excited, for it is too embarrassing to put up on this website.

i got rained on so much today.




october 28, 2006

hardcore anyone? x-ray x-rated, i hope that's glue up your sleeve. the instrumentation is: 1-string guitar, bass, keyboard drum beats, and vocals. just good fun music. not very serious. i don't have a name for this stuff yet.

a funny fact is that duct tape has so many uses but it's actually not good for ducts at all. and also there's a store called the "door store". i looked it up because of a brilliant skit from olde english comedy. it's a different door store than the one in the movie but get this... the door store (the one i looked up) specializes in chairs and other fine home furnishings but they don't have too much in the way of doors. isn't life great?




october 27, 2006

new artwork. new section started. new music. nuclear bomb. okay, the new music is technically old music (traditional(i've only heard the simon & garfunkel version)) but it's a new recording. i'm not sure what i'm going to do with this. i just wanted to make it. be warned: the vocals are not perfectly in key. i just did them and had fun with the whole thing (at 4:00 in the morning of course).

okay, wow! i just went through (and am still going through) a bunch old cassette tapes. i found some amazing stuff. for starters, a maxit for pet album that had been overlooked. it was our fifth recording i believe. not that many people know about maxit for pet anyway. i found some improvised hardcore that me and jason cirimele did. i don't ever remember recording this, which is rare for me. i have a pretty good memory. i found a tape of old azura ideas. this dates back to before we had written any songs. it's just me playing guitar or bass and occasionally singing or humming. it's not much to listen to but it gives you an idea of where i was coming from when writing azura's first songs. there's a recording of prog song i wrote on keyboard during my days in nightfist. but the one that tops them all is a tape that's labeled "perry hern & joyson - hairy perm". on it, is something called "project dental - the meaning of life in 12 easy steps". now i've never done any drugs, but hearing this has got me to question that. it's jason cirimele and i doing a one night stand band and the last track (being the title track), is completely ridiculous. the tape is stopped and started such a great amount of times. many of the times in mid sentence. it's mostly just talking, but we sound drunk and stoned. i'm guessing it was sleep deprivation. the track is over nine minutes and never seems to have a point. i don't remember recording this stuff at all but i'm glad i did. anyway... i have more tapes to go through now. see ya later.




october 25, 2006

okay, more video. i guess i've been doing a lot of that lately. the newest, "gh-177", was really a test to see if i could do a certain kind of special effect. the title was the result of hitting the keyboard and then adding a number. it'll be up on youtube shortly. this film is not to be taken seriously. it's only cool because it's so lame.




october 24, 2006

the "float from the fields" video is up on youtube now. other videos will be put up there too in good time (or even bad time). this is the link.

minor updates.




october 17, 2006

i spent the last three days shooting and editing a music video for an it's day song from the newest record, "the living room". look in the video section to watch. I'll be performing this song and others in november. i'll post more information about it when it gets closer to the time. the music video that brendan bellomo and i are working on, should be completed over winter break. okay, that's all for now. enjoy.




october 13, 2006

new goodnight caterpillar song. I don't think it's complete-it's so short.

new mp3 on the it's day myspace from the upcoming ep or full length (i haven't decided at this point), "the living room".

a few link errors have been eliminated on this site.




october 8, 2006

some updates. video, drawings, um... i can't remember if there's more. happy hunting.




september 27, 2006

i stayed up until 4:30 in the morning mixing and mastering the birds have mass record. besides some tracks being more quiet than others overall, this record is finished. now all i have to do is find new band mates so birds can play shows again. the sample mp3s here and on the myspace have been updated with the new better mixes. check them out.




september 23, 2006

website now has more working things. "art" and "music" sections have begun to be useful. "contact" works.

a couple day ago, i saw busdriver in concert. if you haven't heard of him, you need to get on that. best hip hop show ever. he's amazing live. kind of shy though when i talked with him. he represents what hip hop should be, in my opinion.

sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.




september 20, 2006

new website. version number 3! nothing works yet except news.

i have moved. i'm now residing in milwaukie, a town just south of portland, oregon. i have no more bands for the time being. check the bleiachra myspace, though. the tracks for the split with buckle are up there. the 7" will be released some day. we need to work out the money aspects first. records are expensive to press. i am no longer friends with jason cirimele, so any collaborative projects still pending are cancelled or will be released unfinished. such as a hip hop album we were working on. fuck hip hop though. it has so much less emotion than rock. nevertheless, i'll continue doing it just for fun.

it's day. the "its day" ep has been re-released with new cover art, and with professional printing (jungle digital imaging). it's selling for $5.00. contact me if when you would like one. the splits are now going for free to cool people (people I run into on the street that seem neat). "veril's antidote", the full-length, will be released when enough copies of "its day" sell. i'll begin performing again maybe. the new music video is on delay. it'll get worked on more over winter break.

birds have maps. birds have very little mass. the band, although not officially broken up, is at a standstill. i'm still writing for it. the first record will still be released after I get all the kinks out.

sorry for the lack of updates. i've had no internet until very recently.

to the beach, y'all.