Vanishing Point

I watched Vanishing Point for the first time today. I really enjoyed it. I noticed how there is much less dialog in older films. I love it. Everything really focus on scenery, story, and action. Things like the naked biker girl. She had long blonde hair, very 70s. She road on her bike under the desert sun. The scene spoke a lot about simplicity.

The movie starts off in Denver, Co and travels all the way to Cisco, California. The famous 1970 Doge Challanger is one of 3 cars that I have ever wanted. Watching him travel through the deserts of Colorado, Nevada, and California is simply stunning. I was just sucked in.

Got Camera

Well got my camera this past Saturday. I spent most of Sunday shooting random stock footage to use on a later date. I spent some time with Miss Melea and had ice cream with her at Cold Stone. We discussed some ideas for a practice movie I wanted to do before I shot my film "Body in a Dumpster". It's like a gay romance hetero twist. I guess.

After that, I went over to Ben's where we journeyed into a sewer and shot random footage there. Then we when to Dancer's Ranch drank a beer, waited for the stripper to show some boobs and we left immediately after. We discovered that you can get in free if you get there right at 7pm. Its a litte creepy though looking at all the old guys sitting in there car waiting for the place to open. I learned that Sundays does not have the best selection but it is not like I really enjoy strip clubs anyways. They did break my $10 bill into a bunch of ones so I could get some change for laundry.

One more day of grinding

We woke up around 830 this morning. I crashed on their floor while watching The Midnight Skater. Tony is a big of a horror freak as I am. He even collects all the old Troma distro stuff. When we woke up we listened to the rough mixed tracks the night before. All we have to do today is record the vocals. So I am hoping we can get this done as soon as possible. I never sleep well when I am not in my own bed.

They took me to breakfast this morning at this place Idaho Springs. We had these awsome breakfast burritos with gravy smothered all over them. Tony told me that it was fat kid food.

We Grinded

So recording went really well. In fact better than I had planned. Aaron and Billy road up here too. We met Tony and Dennis at the liquor store and bought a 30 pack of PBR, and some ale in a can. We then drove over Robby's house where they have a really awesome jam space in the basement. I was in luck and they had some cables, sound blankets, and they already pretty much soundproof the drum room but we put more up anyways. I also had an added bonus of an excellent snare mic that Dennis had already attached. It sounded so amazing. We recorded all the music tonight. I guess we are crashing over at Tony's place which over in Idaho Springs. But first they said they are taking me to the bar for some food.

Whoregrinding up in the mountains

I'm heading up to Empire, CO to record a demo for the band Whoregrinder. The band itself features members another band from the highlands called Blud Klot. I packed my car up with my Digi 002, monitors, some mics, cables, and some sound blankets. Hopefully they have more mic cables since I really don't have that many. I am supposed to meet Tony up at a little liquor store just on the edge of town.

Heavy Bimbo

I just finished a track for a new noise/punk band I created called Heavy Bimbo. I was listening to a lot of Massonna, Flying Testicle, and Mike Patton stuff lately and created this as a new outlook for me. I used to have a noise project called Kwaidan several years ago. This is not a continuation of that. This is something completely new and all new material will be recorded. I will then shop around at small labels to look for a proper releases of an album.

A few notes on this project, I will only use a computer to record and maybe sequence. All sound will be generated from an analog source, whether it be toys, scrap metal, or other instruments, I want to keep this project as organic as possible.

Rare Piece of Vinyl

Aleister Crowley -the original wax cylinder recordings

Tracklisting:

A1 The Call Of The First Aethyr (Enochian)
A2 The Call Of The First Aethyr (English)
A3 The Call Of The Second Aethyr (Enochian)
A4 The Call Of The Second Aethyr (English)
B1 La Gitana
B2 The Pentagram
B3 One Sovereign For Woman
B4 The Poet
B5 At Sea
B6 Fingernails
B7 The Titanic
B8 Collects From The Gnostic Mass
B9 Vive La France

There is no record label that released this. No history of release. I heard about him making these recordings using an Edison Wax Cylinder recorder around the turn of the of the century. I have heard mp3s of his recordings, but this is something that is very unique.