i wear the same clothes for days..

asa

cinematografik?

hello children,

chris and asa here

santa isnt real.

sorry.

So it's 5 am. I'm sleeping away. It was great. I roll over kind of violently, and hear my phone fall to the floor. I'm half asleep reaching down for it, but not finding it. Then I see it start to flash and I'm like, hmmmm.... why is it doing that. It wasn't a normal flash, it was more like a short circuiting flash. And I thought... no way, not in my 32 ounce cup of water...?? Yes. in my 32 ounce cup of water. It had been underwater for about 8 seconds. and I mean UNDER WATER. I couldn't fucking believe that it fell directly into my cup of water. I was freaking out. I tried to turn it back on right away and that didn't go so well. I kept trying, then sure enough, it came back on. And it's pretty much working like it used to. I've got it all taken apart lying on the counter here. Here I'll show you... there's all sorts of condensation on the screen. I hate it... here's some other pictures I took of everyone...

peaceAsa

hello. So here I sit all broken hearted. I'm having some tea right now. Some real tea this time. It's actually peppermint flavored. It kinda reminds me of Rumple Minze. I can't tell if that's a good or bad thing. If I was getting $#!* faced right now I'd probably be really down with it.

I actually got up before 5 pm today. 2 pm to be exact so that's been a PR for me over the last few days.

I've been working on a mustache. I shaved it on down to a pencil stache (lookin real good). Now it's all kinda evening out (lookin even better, trust me). Once it gets a little more rockin I'll post a picture. It'll blow your mind.

So I'm just killing a little time before I've gotta start singing. The first song going on the record has vocals finished. I'm very excited about it. And then I've also got the skeleton track for The Sky done. I'm gonna finish up harmonies on that today and start a new one. I love tracking vocals with Mike. We're not using auto tune this time around and I'm fucking stoked about it. Been a good time so far. I can't wait to finish more. Anyway.

I'm gonna go eat some potato chips for lunch and just try to keep it real. I'll post aging with some fun pictures hopefully.

Peace!

-Asa

Its late and i suck at sleep

hey world,

Its late so im making a post. Last time, i asked where you guys wanted us to play...so i have some updated shows here. They arent all 100% confirmed, but it is highly likely that we will be playing these:
April 14th-virginia tech, VA
April 15th-Looking for something in PA/MD/VA
April 16th-pennsylvania college show -some city in center of state
May 4th-Mt. Vernon, IL
May 11th-champaign, IL
May 12th-looking for something between champaign and chicago
May 13th-Mojoes-Orland Park, IL
May 23rd-Peoria, IL-Jukebox Comedy Club
Let us know if anyone can fill the two open dates! Thatd be a big help.
In recording news, things are going great. Asa started his vocals recently so a few songs actually sound complete...and good. Things are getting pretty boring around here. If anyone wants to visit, feel free! If anyone has a boat around here you should come pick us up (theres a dock 500 feet from the front door). That probably won't happen. One can dream!

And now for a few fun pictures...

Our Producer Mike Watts hard at work.

That's me! Excited about my dinner.

My Dinner...Or creatures from the deep.

-andy

(Asa's real first post!)

Hello friends... Asa here. Boredom is eating me alive here at the studio. Since Chris and I have been done with our instrument tracks for a while, we've devoted our time to beating the co op campaign in Halo 2 on normal difficulty. Chris and Sergio already beat Halo 1.

I've been sleeping till like 4 pm for the past few days. My back hurts.

Sergio and Andy are tearin guitars up currently.

When we recorded Wide Eyed, we would do all of one guitar tone separately, for every song. And put the song together piece by piece. This time around we're doing all of one song on guitars a day. Even 2 sometimes. So it's really fun to have a finished product at the end of the day. Instead of like a frankensteined-out version of a song. Ok so anyway.

This did alright on curing the boredom. I'll have to post more soon. PEACE!!!!!

tricks

To everyone that is curious as to when we are done in the studio, we finish tracking the record on or around april 5. We will then be returning to the studio a few weeks later to mix the record. All of this should be done before May. If I had to make an educated guess, I would say the album will be out before fall, but don't quote me on that because who knows what will happen between now and then. In the world of tjv, anything can happen.

I gotta go back to playing chords and riffs and licks now.

-s