Like the previous two EPs, the 08 Demo is free to stream and download. I can’t wait to finish up our new LP and get it up on the bandcamp for everyone. But this is good for now.

I also made some sweet artwork to look like an old scanned LP cover. Check it out:

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.

Also, since I’m without a loop pedal after selling my loop station and I imagine Matt will be using his Line 6 delay (which has a loop), I’m looking for a new looper. After seeing Young Widows, and hearing how great the guitarist Evan Patterson’s loop pedal sounded and how logical it functioned, I’m in the market for an Akai Headrush as well.

I was almost certain I’d win one of these the other day on eBay. The pedal was at $50 with 17 hours to go and I bid $160. Still lost the auction in the last 30 seconds. Nowadays I get beat by someone willing to sacrifice more dough than being more deft at the last minute bid. I didn’t want to spend more than $200 on it, but the guy who won did. Oh well. They seem to go once a week, I’m sure I’ll get one soon enough. I wish the A B box from Lehle wasn’t quite so much. It’s about $230, which is quite a bit for a pedal that just turns your signal on and off. It’s supposed to be pretty dang good from what I read. I think Matt has one too, and he hasn’t ever complained, though his isn’t an A B as much as it is a signal splitter. I can’t wait to try both these pedals out once I get them.

I can’t wait to play music again more than anything actually. Once the holidays are over we’re supposed to start making beautiful music again. I’m so excited. I hope it will boost my overall satisfaction with life, and help me feel like I’m doing something really worth my time. I hope I’m not over-thinking it, and setting my hopes up too high. I’d like to write some new songs, record a pretty good ep, and get it out there. Maybe even get some indie label interest. Either way, I’m pretty stoked to fire up by rig again. I haven’t played it but once for some recording since finishing the God Will Break Your Wooden Ships Wedding March ep for my wedding this past August. It’ll be good to play again.

This is the first personal, “journal-like” entry since the inception of chasemacri.com Congratulations on reading it, and to myself, on writing it.

Here’s this weeks goals:
- Finish reading “It Still Moves: The Search for the Next American Music”
- Remix one Pilots/When Sorrow Fails song (or, I’d accept re-tracking guitar/bass)
- Write the first section of my Dashboard article (or make notes of High Fidelity portion)*check*

So, whomever’s reading, keep me accountable.

- Nashville, with M. Good.  Well, near M. Good.  And eventually the Futures.
- Hampton, back home, which is where I will be some day.
- Atlanta, internship with M. Goldman.
- Chicago, internship with Chicago Recording Company (I have an interview for the position as “intern” in March)
- PA., with J. Brit.  I forget what city he lives in, but I was more thinking when he goes to grad school, we could get an apartment, and I’ll be his roomy.

I’ve also been thinking a lot about this communal living thing.  I want it to happen, but it seems like most of us want to let life live us rather than the other way around, sort of.  I think we need to make it happen.  It’s just unrealistic without some grinding of gears, and teeth.

I feel like this band is going nowhere.

I’ve been praying a lot about healing, I want to see it happen so bad.