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PILOTS 2007 Demo

Chase — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:24:48 +0000

After graduating from Greenville in 2006, my band (which was then referred to) When Sorrow Fails when on tour. After tour we buckled down, wrote some songs we were proud of and recorded with me using Greenville’s studios (thanks to my favorite prof., Mike Johnson!) Before we took the weekend to track the songs, I called up Matt Goldman (the guy who did the Chariot, Copeland and others) and got him to mix the tracks for us. His mix was sent to Alan Douches at West West Side Music (Converge, Mastodon, Sufjan Stevens) to master and the result was pretty satisfying.

I’ve made the EP available online here: http://stlpilots.bandcamp.com/. You can download it for free in many formats including high quality mp3s, FLAC and others. I’ll be uploading our 2008 three song, and the final full length once it’s finished. So keep an eye out.

Wisdom Teeth

Chase — Wed, 23 May 2007 04:44:22 +0000

So, I got two wisdom teeth out on Friday. The top two. I got them pulled, I think. I was knocked out, so I don’t remember or was unconscious (which, if the latter’s the case, then both because how can I recall what I did not comprehend?) It hurts some. I have Hydroco (Vicoden – Narcotic) and 800mgs of Ibuprofen to take every 8 hours or so. Fortunately, the drugs work. I hardly notice my mouth except when opening wide or chewing when the drugs are still strong. So no complaints. I think next month or so I’m going to get the bottom two out as well. Those might be more of an ordeal, but I hope not.

I had asked a few friends who had gotten theirs taken out, and one in particular, one who used to do drugs and smoke weed and stuff said that afterwards he felt the highest in his life. Needless to say, as one who’s never done drugs, and has never been drunk, I was excited to feel this way. But, after “waking up” I only felt overly happy and a little woozy. My roommate Matt Scheer said I was pretty talkative. More than usual. I felt like I was doing it on purpose in the hopes to say something ridiculous and hilarious for them all to crack up about. No feeling of being high, and nothing ridiculous came out of my mouth. Oh well, maybe next time I’ll be one some harder stuff…

Over the weekend I didn’t do anything particularly chill. I walked around the St. Louis Zoo for hours on Saturday with Ian and Mandy. Ate Imo’s for dinner, which I was surprised I could handle. I expected to be on soft foods all weekend. Came home and hung out with Rob till late in the evening.

Sunday I woke up pretty tired, and more woozy than even. I sat around, sewed some jeans, watched the Pianist, which I was unfortunately uninterested in while it was going on, and messed with Matt’s guitar. I had planned on going to church most of the day, an early service, a 10am service, and an evening service at 7pm. I forgot to set an alarm, slept till 10:25, then felt too woozy to drive to the evening service. Lame, but what can you do.

I hadn’t thought of this till today, but all my equilibrium and balance systems are in my head, pretty close to where my top wisdom teeth are. I was thinking that I was woozy ’cause of the Meds, but it’s cause of the teeth. The only noticeable effect the meds have had are with tiredness. I still feel pretty disoriented even now (Tuesday night.) I wonder when I’ll get back to normal. Work gets uncomfortable when I have trouble standing up straight. I hadn’t been able to work overtime the past two days (or rather, didn’t) ’cause I felt this way. This weekend is a 3 day weekend and I’m going home to see my family. I hope to be a-okay for that. We’ll see.

Monday night we went to slackers and I sold a bunch of cds (including the awful new Copeland) and bought Curl Up and Die’s entire catalog and Breather Resist’s Charmer. 6 cds, 6 bucks after a 28 buck trade-in. What a deal. Hot damn.

The new Copeland record…

Chase — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:30:28 +0000

…is absolute drivel. It’s abysmal. The lyrics are completely uninspired and vague for no reason at all. I don’t believe a word Aaron Marsh sings. It’s gross that, with the packaging for the album, they compared him to Sufjan Stevens and Jeff Tweedy. I’m disgusted, I freaking can’t stand this record.

The brand new Brand New

Chase — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:37:11 +0000

Last week I heard, and then bought, the brand new Brand New album. I highly recommend it. So does AP, they gave it a 5/5 and along with a review the one-liner at the top read: “America finally gets it’s own Radiohead.” Wait a sec. That’s quite a heavy-hitter of a word to throw around. I had to check it out as I am usually appalled at comparing anything to Radiohead save Wilco. Wilco was always the “American Radiohead” to me. I gave it a listen, and it’s incredible. Brand New has come of age. Gone are the ties to emo-pop and Taking Back Sunday and in place is a very serious, mature rock band who new what they wanted to do when the entered the studio. This album sounds like Copeland meets Cursive or rather Copeland’s band minus Aaron plus Tim Kasher. Go to their myspace to hear a couple songs from it.

I’ve got a cool idea for this art project I’m starting. We throw a lot of stuff away at work. Cardboard, scrap metal, bad screws, old drill bits… I’m gonna use some of it for this picture of Jesus I’ve got in my head. I think it’s gonna turn out pretty good. More updates to come…

the ep

Chase — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:11:10 +0000

Okay, okay.

Brandon Ross is apparently the only person who wants to know, but he’s enough…
We’re gonna go back to Greenville in two weeks and records 4 new songs, and do some more overdubs on Terror, and send them to be mixed by Atlanta’s Matt Goldman. Matt produced such great sounding records including Copeland’s Beneath the Medicine Tree, the Chariot’s two releases as well as one of the guys who worked on the new Underoath cd. He’s done many other records before, and seems to be the perfect fit for this EP. More details will come in the next month or so. In the meantime, check out Kate’s blog.

Okay, okay
Chase