Monday, May 10, 2010

Excuses, Excuses

We now graduate from having a Burgeoning Blog to the next stage of blog-evolution: the Neglected Blog. And in only one month! We are quite proud.

There is good reason for the neglect, though! Jody and I have seen the end of a major project, as our dear friend James Mitchell heads to sunny California. I've worked closely with James on a metric ton of music for 5 years now, and I'm really sad to see him go. He was just accepted to one of the nation's most competitive art schools, so we are sad to see him go, but thrilled for his success.

All of our work so for has pretty much taken place in James' apartment. Until last week, his attic was home to a world-class studio. Over the years James has let us camp out up there, sometimes for weeks. He's definitely going to Heaven. But since we knew that the studio wouldn't be in Chicago forever, we've been in there working as often as we could.

So... what blog-neglect excuses have I given so far? Job ending, tons of studio time... Right! Also, I moved. AND, we're going to try and set up a smaller, but similar studio setting to the one James had. Here's Jody chilling in the new studio:



Green! Specifically, Peppermint Leaf Green. So says the paint can.

After a couple weeks of moving and painting, we're finally ready to take a breath and work on whatever we can while we assemble our studio. Currently, we have everything but a computer. It's pretty sad: in 2010, a studio without a computer is like a shotgun without zombies. Fun, but pointless.

During the last rotation in James' studio Jody and I wrote songs at the rate of about one every three days. A few of these songs have lyrics and everything, all waiting for that magic vocalist to enter our lives. In the last two weeks, we created 5 distinct, semi-finished works. None got more than three days' work, so don't judge too harshly.

<a href="http://thelivedebate.bandcamp.com/track/the-fisher-king">The Fisher King by The Live Debate</a>

<a href="http://thelivedebate.bandcamp.com/track/going-up">Going Up by The Live Debate</a>



Please, as always, let us know what you think, of the music, the studio, anything! Thanks for stopping in to see what we're up to. What are you listening to right now?

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7 comments:

  1. The Fisher King is good stuff, excited to hear the words that go with it when the time comes. Going Up reminds me of Caribou a bit, with a Muniz twist of course.

    Not really up your guys alley, but I've been rocking The Japandroids very hard as of late and The Ruby Suns as summer approaches.

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  2. Also, let's make music videos k?

    http://vimeo.com/5324878

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  3. If we only knew someone who is familiar with Flash...

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  4. Jody's super smart art teacher says...
    How familiar with flash are we talkin?
    What are you workin on?

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  5. I can do linear, non-interactive stuff much better than I can do the actionscript-boogie that is developing for online. Using flash as a linear format is a lot easier.

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  6. I'm listening to Huey Lewis and The News. You guys need to find a Huey Lewis, he might actually be available, send him an email: Huey@thenews.com

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  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_RVm9BTUig&feature=related

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