Sorry if you are actually reading this and I offended you.
SIke, got you, you thought I had feelings... dummy
So, let's see here, Since the last post of course not too much has happened. Turned down the few band opportunities I have had. Not really the right fit, I'm wondering if there is going to be a right fit. I really don't have the resources or the knowledge to start up my own band in portland. Where do we pracitce? How are we going to line up gigs? Let alone actually make music and be organized enough to play something of a set. But my music making days are actually only beginning. My parents are bringin' up Sean's drums, so I'll actually be able to record more of a beat into music as opposed to the kick drum every quarter beat that is annoying during actual music. I really don't have room drums, so I think I am going to set up just the kick drum, snare, hi hat and a symbol. Be ?uestlove style, try to learn some funky hip hop beats I guess. I suppose I'm a musician of opportunity, being self taught my "skill set" is sort of all over the place. I think I can find the hip hop beat in me, I jammed with CO one time on a really funky beat for a long time down in the Val. It was actually almost more natural to me than jammin on some rock stuff. Next
instrument comin my way will be special k's bass. It's a little jacked up but playing it at his place has convinced me it will be sufficient for a groovy bass in some songs. Plus, like I said musician of opportunity. I want to go to an open mic night with my acoustic. The problem is that I don't sing, it makes me nervous, I think/know I'm bad and carry can't a tune... and it's hard to do while playing guitar. I don't have that much concentration. Maybe though I can just go up there and play some guitar and drink some beer and they won't kick me off stage. I need to find one in a semi-acceptable place and I think I'm going... oh there is still that set list problem. Hmm, I need better defined songs. I need to work on this album idea more. Adam may remember me trying to record crap guitar parts and mix 'em with fruity loop beats and being excited. I guess not much has changed, but I feel like I'm alot closer to actually making some sort of make shift record. When I come back down to the val, I'm gonna have to be organized and put some friends on instruments and singing so I can come back here and get some work down on a record. Anyone got good record names?I hear crickets... I suppose if people were reading this we might get further with that question.
Now, on to this idea of fashion. If anyone thought I'd make a mark on the fashion industry, I would say there were harder drugs around than I thought. It seems however that maybe that's a direction I should explore more. I said a little about my collection that I'm putting together well to update a little; I'm putting it together and I'm going to work hard on it. Whether it gets actually make, I get any money, turns out our labor supply is some sweatshop and I get arrested and sued... who knows. At least if I get sued I'll give adam some work maybe. Or I'll go to jail because adam is a drunk pre-drop out fake lawyer who says that he'll defend me "sonny bono *hiccup" So that collection is going to be called the simplistyk collection. As of now I have about 13 or 14 designs that are basically 5 peices of art in a few differen
t colors each. I'm thinking those will take care of shirts and sweatshirts for the more part. They are kind of gritty, darker, rock music and graffiti type peices of art. I'm kind of hoping to view the shirt as a canvas of sorts, place the art where I think it should be...kind of like you do a wall to play a peice of graff I suppose. I wonder if that will turn out bad for me in the end because even though I don't want to I should be viewing the shirt as a shirt and put the peices of art in conventional places. I never have fun following the normal conventions though.Secondly, I met up with a fashion designer lady named Cat here in portland. She has a little studio off of burnside, and she is going to turn it into this killer fashion botique of sorts. She said she's going to have a permanent run way in the middle of the place, and she making a really really cool line called "Painted on Collection" so that's where I come in, I'm one of the artists painting some stuff on some of her garments. I have three ties, two are really nice one is a goodwill clip on style vintage one, and she wants some graffiti, dirty whatever I want kind of art on these ties. She had a fairly big rack of ties already done and let me tell you I'm in the company of some freakin cool artists. They use the tie so well, I'm hoping I fit in when I turn these in. Right now I have the white nice one and the vintage one done... I think they are prety cool... will anyone else? A cool addition to this story is that for her showing of this collection, 2 months or so, she wants to hang up some of my paintings. Yes, I talked her into it I think, but at the same time this is exactly the type of thing these are going to be good for! Her unit has 30' ceilings or so, SO TALL! It has a loft upstairs and then the store is downstairs but the whole thing is open. Plus it has full length complete front windows. Well she is building racks and manequin displays that sound awesome and then the colors of music series is going to go above them. Yes, that's right. For the first time, Bob, Jimi and Zappa will join forces to complete the painting series I think I'm most proud of. Plus, the guitar player is going to go in between a column and a window and will be framed perfectly and be the FIRST thing you see when you come in because it's straight ahead from the door!!! YES! that painting is so bold it needs to be somewhere like that for full effect.
Anyway, for the one person that is still reading this.... you... thanks you..... Now go do something more entertaining than reading this crap!
Pst... Not to be rude there, but I have updated all pictures and music lately... here are the links.
Pistol River Music Project
Simplistyk Studios
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
