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Sunday, October 25, 2009
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Yo Gabba Gabba
Jonathan showed me this. I laughed, hard.
I have decided this is all my kids are allowed to watch until they are 25.
JAKE
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Been a While!
I just saw that my last post was July.... Dang.
I talked about starting a personal journal a bit ago, but didn't end up doing it on this last run. I think I was too busy getting between 2 and 4 hours of sleep everyday and spending the other 20-22 hours either in the sun playing music and walking around in the sun or driving a van and trailer. Oh well I guess- maybe I'll start on The Almost tour.
To update you on Where I am Now (maybe a few will get that pun?), I'm typing on my phone in LaGuardia airport(NYC for those playing at home) listening to Thrice's "Vheissu" and waiting for a flight back home. The band and I flew out to NYC from LA, after we finished a 7 show run on the Vans Warped Tour, to do our first live TV performance on MTV's "It's On with Alexa Chung".
To sum up the past week and a half, the word "suprizing" comes to mind.
I had heard many, many, many, horror stories about doing Warped in a van. And by no means was it easy on my body, but the response we got from kids at all of our shows was enough to lift my spirits and transcend the physical drudgery. And I met a lot of amazing people!
I also had a good amount of skepticism in the live TV performance. There is a stigma attached to bands performing on the small screen, because it never really seems to come across the same. Rooms are different, crowds are smaller and more syndicated, there are cameras in your face, the sound is usually no better than a drag queen who is on a 30 year nicotine buzz singing through a set of Coby knock off headphones, underwater. And to say that I and the band wouldn't be a little bit nervous about our own performance would be like Perez Hilton denying his over frosted tips and lip gloss, or his affinity for the color pink and pathological fabrication. But that's neither here nor there.
I, As well as my comrades, felt very pleased with the final product. We had fun, we got across the vision and sound we wanted, given the medium. Its hard to say everything you really want to say when you have a strict, three minute window!
And now that I have been on both sides of the fence with MTV, I'm getting a better look at how this business works. From LA to NYC. Maybe one day I can make a difference?
I hope you can check out the performance on mtv.com if you didn't catch it on TV. I'm very proud of it, and feel like I am really growing into my skin as a professional musician.
Happy first weeks of school to you all!
JAKE
I talked about starting a personal journal a bit ago, but didn't end up doing it on this last run. I think I was too busy getting between 2 and 4 hours of sleep everyday and spending the other 20-22 hours either in the sun playing music and walking around in the sun or driving a van and trailer. Oh well I guess- maybe I'll start on The Almost tour.
To update you on Where I am Now (maybe a few will get that pun?), I'm typing on my phone in LaGuardia airport(NYC for those playing at home) listening to Thrice's "Vheissu" and waiting for a flight back home. The band and I flew out to NYC from LA, after we finished a 7 show run on the Vans Warped Tour, to do our first live TV performance on MTV's "It's On with Alexa Chung".
To sum up the past week and a half, the word "suprizing" comes to mind.
I had heard many, many, many, horror stories about doing Warped in a van. And by no means was it easy on my body, but the response we got from kids at all of our shows was enough to lift my spirits and transcend the physical drudgery. And I met a lot of amazing people!
I also had a good amount of skepticism in the live TV performance. There is a stigma attached to bands performing on the small screen, because it never really seems to come across the same. Rooms are different, crowds are smaller and more syndicated, there are cameras in your face, the sound is usually no better than a drag queen who is on a 30 year nicotine buzz singing through a set of Coby knock off headphones, underwater. And to say that I and the band wouldn't be a little bit nervous about our own performance would be like Perez Hilton denying his over frosted tips and lip gloss, or his affinity for the color pink and pathological fabrication. But that's neither here nor there.
I, As well as my comrades, felt very pleased with the final product. We had fun, we got across the vision and sound we wanted, given the medium. Its hard to say everything you really want to say when you have a strict, three minute window!
And now that I have been on both sides of the fence with MTV, I'm getting a better look at how this business works. From LA to NYC. Maybe one day I can make a difference?
I hope you can check out the performance on mtv.com if you didn't catch it on TV. I'm very proud of it, and feel like I am really growing into my skin as a professional musician.
Happy first weeks of school to you all!
JAKE
Friday, July 17, 2009
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