John Lennon in the College Tower

Gay For Fagan.

After some international pressure I have decided to update my blog with plenty of random, insignificant goings on in my life.

1. I have been hanging out with many boys, including the bass player from our band. I also have gone on several "dates" with the owner of the local record shop. And this guy who wears lots of buttons, sports jackets, an emo comb over and has a funny nickname.

2. The Quiet Ones are hoping to release an EP called Nite You Surprised Me with five new songs including one by David Totten. The track listing so far includes: 1. Don't Know Why, 2. Hard To Xplain, 3. Why Does Love Feel Strange?, 4. Smoke, 5. Oceans In Your Eyes. We need money for it though and also need money for more copies of Your Inner Ear.

3. We are definetely going on tour July 10th-23rd. We will be going all over the NW from God forsaken North Dakota to Montana to Washington, Oregon, and northern California. It will however just be an acoustic tour with David and I.

4. David and a coworker substituted for a local DJ on Monday night. Some of you may have heard it on the internet. David's pick were all southeastern, including some Chattanoogans.

5. We hung out with Paul and Capria last weekend at Capria's parents' house in Polson MT on the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes. It was pretty awesome. We had a fire and made smores. And talked about why certain parts of the fire produced light and others didn't. It was really fun and I plan on hanging out with the Jaussens again in a week and a half.

6. My new guitar from Goodwill is like brand new after only 25 bucks of repair. Isaac's mouth would water if he played this guitar, its a Neil Young like emerald green hollowbody with gold hardware and a big wammy bar with pearl inlays on the frets that I spent less than a hundred bucks on.

7. Whenever I get enough time, hopefully soon, I have Sam Beam's phone number and will call him and interview him about his band Iron and Wine.

8. I received Ben Elkin's album in the mail yesterday (I sing on some of it) and its really freaking good. I was extremely impressed. It sounds like Ben soaked in a lot of good influences in the past two years or so. The arrangement has really driven me and I think Mason and I are going to replace a lot of the keyboards on the future Quiet Ones album with real stringed instruments instead of the Flaming Lips style mellotrons we have now.

9. We are playing at The Other Side on Sunday night, although we are the first out of four bands so I don't know if it will be to a crowd. Andrew Stewart helped us out with the posters and I think they are the best posters this town has ever seen. Talks are in the works to play at the Old Post with my favorite band here.

10. I'm writing about three songs a week these days. Most of them go in the trash but every once in a while there is a Mason-worthy tune.

11. Camper Van Beethoven played here the other night but it was 17 bucks and I didn't have enough money. Mason suggested offering five just to hear "Take the Skinheads Bowling". Which was a good idea, but I decided not to.

12. ALL I CAN LISTEN TO HAS BEEN STEELY DAN. I love Donald Fagan's voice so much. I had four days off this past weekend and all I didn was figure out how to play Steely Dan songs. I got "Any Major Dude Will Tell You", "Barrytown", "Do It Again", "Reelin' In The Years" (including the guitar solo) and some more. David and I want to either cover "Reelin' In The Years" or "Any Major Dude". Having Michael McDonald and Donald Fagan sing at the same time is a double treat. I still think Mason should start a cover band called Neely Dan.

13. I'll let you know if I forgot anything.

Posted by john at June 1, 2005 01:51 PM | TrackBack