So I Messed With My Blogger Profile...

Let's see who comes here thanks to my awesome tastes, interests, and hobbies. Maybe a new listener or two? Maybe some new hatemail?

Maybe no one will ever click on that button thingy that makes them come in here... either way, this will be an amusing test of search engine optimization stuff. Yay!

The Last Session...

Tonight is the last session for recording at SAE with Zack and Lucain and I hope it goes a lot smoother than last.

Apparently Evil Adam is really a digital age only "band" and anything that is magnetic hates having me around. An 8 hour session was really difficult to get through on Saturday and we got way less than we hoped to done, so hopefully tonight goes a lot less... fucky.

Anyhow, there is so much work to be done to finish this CD and unfortunately too much of it is going to be done outside of the confines of SAE and the sound rooms that they provide. What does that mean? Neighbors of different places will be pissed off a few times in the next year or so.

Oh well!

Eat some steak!

The best way to have a good Friday is to ignore archaic religious traditions and have a nice drink, a good steak, maybe some romantic physical activity, and listen to some good fucking hard music. Some metal will do your rotten soul well.

I salute you, whoever is smart enough to have a REAL good Friday by doing whatever the fuck you want to.

YAY!

Reservoir Dogs Ear Cutting Scene Spoof

So we did something at work a couple weeks ago, and this is the end result... by the way, this was planned and put together in like 45 minutes. Will Bookman is nuts... hence why he will be part of the Evil Adam insanity next year! Yup, my acting is Oscar worthy, especially with my tie made out of black tape!

Last Night's Recording Rocked and More...

So, for those of you keeping track, last night's recording went swimingly well. Jay managed to play his ass off on 4 songs and did one song he has never ever played before within 2 takes. I owe him 50 bucks on a bet for that one (less than 3 takes gets him the gold).

Anyhow, I think this is going to be something special. Zack and Lucain have been producing/engineering these songs at SAE and they are doing a great job, and no matter how much hard work this has been for both Jay and myself we are still having fun with it. So now to start planning the next phase of things, guitar and vocals.

After that, then it is all about mixing and mastering, which I'll only really be giving the yay or nay on how things come together, but I am psyched for them to be done to be able to plan the next step.... MAKING SOME GODDAMN VIDEOS, finally!

I have a few folks that I know for damn sure will most likely be down to help me with that, but I have something interesting planned for the final release of this work and those videos are a big part of it. I think some form of contest may be in order for one video, maybe animated or something, however, I will need a strong grassroots push by folks willing to help me spread the details once they are to come about. Oh, the interwebs, how awesome you are.

Anyhow, I have a lot to worry about before all THAT happens. I am getting married to my Rosa Ferrer (soon to be Rosa Rosa) this year, and that is a major big huge fucking deal. I'm so psyched and happy about that. It will, however, suck all the energy and monetary resources out of me, and rightfully so it will be the most important day of my life. As such, I will have to hold on to next year as the return of Evil Adam... which is not a bad thing. 2009 is 10 years from when Evil Adam started playing live, so maybe it all makes sense for that anyway.

Oh, and Ruben Rodriguez, Angel Rosa, and Will Bookman, you guys are already in my mind for set videos that are not part of the contest thingy... that will be for complete strangers to enter. Don't worry =)

More Recording Tonight

Jay and I are recording some more drum and bass tracks tonight, and no I don't meant the techno stuff. We're laying down the foundations for 3 songs and re-doing tracks for one song we did earlier, because, well this new setup sounds better. In the next month I have to finish up an assload of guitar and vocal tracks, so I'm very glad and thankful to Jay that he can do this for me.

This CD/release/album or whatever you want to call it is definitely going to kick ass. Finally I'll have something that really sounds like a professional recording for Evil Adam, though I really wish I could have had more people on it, like you know, a full band! Oh well, here's to hoping that this recording may just help me put those pieces together for next year.

She Kills...

So I wanted to join this band, that had no name, from Wayne, NJ. They had some awesome music up on Myspace and were looking for a vocalist. The only problem was that I have no car anymore. Silly me decides to ask them to try out for them by recording vocals to one of the tracks they already had up, and I did it, and really, I dug the hell out of the track. I liked how it was before I did anything to it and then I was really happy with my contribution. They loved it too, but the lack of a car made it tough for me to say, "Hey, we're bandmates, yay!" Anyhow, I tried contacting them and had no luck with a response, checking to see if they ever found someone. Here are the lyrics to the song I gave them.

"She Kills" Lyrics by Rene Rosa.

She didn't do it, she told everyone,
but no one believed her,
as blood covered her hands.

She had been crying, so delirious.
Stumbling over bodies,
She's guilty where she stands.

Guilty where she stands.
Death covers her hands.
Guilty where she stands.

She doesn't know that it's the second time.
I tell her now,
That she's done this before.

She's got flesh under her fingernails.
She collects her self
and runs straight for the door.

Why can't I bear to run away?
I know she'll always be this way.
Everything else is so mundane.
I know this doesn't end today.

Guilty where she stands.
Death covers her hands.
Guilty where she stands.

I'll never leave her, she's my everything.
I'll be with her
forever until death.

I don't care if she can never stop,
Even though I'm sure,
she'll be drawing my last breath.

Why can't I bear to run away?
I know she'll always be this way.
Everything else is so mundane.
Every day could be my last day.

I'm guilty where i stand.
Guilty where she stands.

A Note To Trent Reznor

While I may not be absolutely overcome with every last track of this Ghosts I-IV instrumental album, I will say that the method of getting it out there is absolutely genius. Very little promo or hype was used, save for that which was generated from the damn thing being released.

5 dollars for 36 tracks, even all instrumentals, is still highly damn reasonable.

I salute you, Mr. Reznor, as though most musicians like me will never attain the status you have, we can at least hope to be able to engineer our own musical destiny without the need for the recording industry folk telling us what to do with our own music. I've been giving away my music for many years as MP3s, just to gain willing ears, and I don't think that will stop any time soon, however I know I will be putting things out there to sell as well, because really, we all need to make a little something for our effort. You're a fucking genius Trent, seriously.

What I've been up to...

So, for those of you who care, I do stuff. More work was done on the next Evil Adam release, and this past Saturday went very well. 3 songs were tracked on drums and bass, bringing the total up to about 9.

So far Jay Curcio is the only person on this recording besides me, but I'm hoping to change that. I want John to do some basswork, and if one song I have in mind gets done I would want to bring in another person who was important to this song ever existing in to the mix as well, provided we can get the logistics worked out. Scheduling is a bitch!

Also, for those not in the know, I'm writing at www.castersrealm.com . The site is primarily focused on multiplayer role playing games, but I often get to skew the news towards my demented sense of humor. I started off just doing actual news posts but I'm also doing the "blog" thing from time to time, writing pieces that are not your standard gaming site ilk.

Anyhow, check out www.castersrealm.com and let me know what you think of it, and check back here for more info on "The Root of All Evil" which should be coming out this year, but I make no guarantee of that. 2009 isn't that far away when you're almost 30. Time is a fucking asshole.