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Steven and the Chipmunks

[Sep. 1st, 2005|12:27 pm]

Current Mood| too cool Current Music| Stever - Gonna Love You ('til you love me too) As soon as the SecretAgents ended in Harrisonburg, and I moved back down here to Woodbridge, I knew i wanted to put together a band or do something musical with other people. That's pretty much what i always want to do. So i put an ad up on Craig's List and got a few responses. 3 were from people older than me, like near if not in their 30s, 2 guys and a girl. My fourth response was from a girl who was my age and funnily enough lives very close to Stan. I decided to meet up with her, and was wondering what stuff of mine to bring over to her for her to listen to. My most recent demos were the collection i did last year called September Rocktober. Although nicely recorded, the drums and vocals were pretty sad considering i was neither sober nor completley comfortable performing, alone, my own material. I also changed keys of the songs to facilitate me hitting the notes, which completely changes the feel of the songs - for the worse, i'm afraid. Anyways, i wanted to have better quality versions of my songs for others to get a better understanding of my stuff, plus i had some new songs i was just starting. So i started making new demos! I only made 3 before i met up with Kelsey (the name of the singer) so i made a CD with them and just threw on my September Rocktober stuff to complete it. It didn't work out between us (although apparently she just joined a rock band with alot of Zeppelin and Stones influence - cool!) but that's alright because i'm going to meet up with two guitarists/singers soon. In the meantime i finished up all the new demos i wanted to make. Some of the singing on it is sped up (allowing me to hit notes i can't) so they have a little chipmunk-feel to them. It doesn't get in the way too much, and i'm pretty proud of them. I weeded out the old songs i'm not that into, boiling them down to just "rock" songs, and put 3 of my new ones in also. They're now available if anyone is interested in hearing them. Just ask me, or you can use the 'Get File' feature on AIM from my screenname, thanost81 Comments: brittany: uh oh, looks like somebody's got a case of the moondays. I just noticed that your "current music" on this entry is one of your own. Welp, who could blame you?!?! HAHA Britt

One and one is two

[Sep. 4th, 2005|4:50 pm]

Current Mood| calm Current Music| Paul McCartney - One and One is Two Yesterday was a big event in my family. My cousin Carlton (son of my father's sister, Besty) married his long-term girlfriend. This is only my second wedding i've ever been to - i went to my friend and JMU roomie Jim Lunsford's wedding to his longtime girlfriend Julie Tewel in December 2004. Carlton's was pretty weird, but in a nice way. I haven't really seen him and his brothers in awhile and they all look like grown-up versions of the perpetually 8,10 and 13 year olds i remember them as (or something like that.) I got to see my dad's side of the family (minus cousins Jason and Melissa back in Arizona) all together so that was nice. I'd never met Laura, Carlton's bride, before, but she seemed pretty cool. She went to JMU, so she can't be all that bad! in fact, apparently she ran into stan on a bus once, and recognized the similarity between his face and Nelson (Carlton's brother.) Pretty freaky! Anyways I of course hope them the best, considering there are some other events going on in their immediate family which isn't all that fun. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Dove! Comments: brittany: Wanna go to a third wedding, looking for a date to an October wedding. PLEEEEEEAAASSEEEE!!!!!! Britt

The return of a champion

[Sep. 13th, 2005|12:53 am]

Current Mood| jubilant Current Music| BSB - Nobody But You Just this once, i'll allow you all to jump for joy, dance, even cry with overcome emotion. Yes, GITRMEN, or to be more precise, Ex-GITRMEN, has come back to the family. Well, it was always in the family, but it's come back to the person in the family who hasn't had a car for a year. A YEAR, folks. The Beatles put out 4 singles and 2 albums in that amount of time back in 1964! For the past year, stan had the car, which i suppose made sense. I still had school to finish up, he had a real job, and a few years before when i took a year off, i had the car all to myself. But stan decided enough is enough and bought a new car - a "champagne" 2001 Mitsubishi Galant. A nice step up, but please, how can one compare with GITRMEN? this is the car that laughs at the word 'pickup,' trembles at the thought of a hill, remained at the same "work"-shop for 6 months, went thru at least 3 different engines, blew smoke thru it's steering wheel, etc., etc., etc. This one is going down in history with the likes of the Batmobile and the General Lee. And now that it's back in my sole position, i promise... nay, i VOW to get lost in it on my way to places nearby as much as possible! Comments: stan: A few GITRMEN stories you forgot: front door has to be opened from the outside, back window was in the down position for 5 months, and I made glorious love to Richard Killiam in the backseat. -Stanus brittany: No excuses to not come to h-burg now!!!! MwaHAHAHAHAHA!!! ~Britt

;-)	[Sep. 16th, 2005|3:26 pm]
Current Mood| tired Current Music| Bob Dylan - the times they are a-changin' Comments: anonymous: WHOOOOOOO, that Bass is CHERRY!!!! stan: Once upon a toine! -Stanus brittany: Why does it say that your location is Harrisonburg? ;-) Britt

take me out to the ballgame

[Sep. 22nd, 2005|7:47 pm]

Current Mood| tired Current Music| Nirvana - Clean up before she comes Last night, Stan had a few people gathered to goto a National's baseball game. The group consisted of Toine, Brandon, Richard, Me, and three of stan's former TJ classmates Janelle, Cassie & David Hechtman (see pic #1). It was real cheap ($5) but the game itself was real boring. Of course, i'm pretty biased, considering i already think baseball is a boring game to begin with. Highlights of the evening were toine falling asleep on the metro, richard's "turbulance" into toine's lap, and the golden moment: Toine hitting on a girl (see pic #2.) A new Nirvana cd is coming out. When i say new, i of course mean not new, but kinda. It's going to be called "Sliver - The Best of the Box" and it's going to contain around 20 songs culled from "With the Lights Out" the tremendous Nirvana Box Set that came out last year. The cool parts about this new single disc is 1) Frances Bean Cobain (Kurt's daughter) is picking the cover and 2) there are going to be 3 previously unreleased songs on here. The Nirvana Community (read: me) is going crazy trying to figure out what the 3 "new" songs are going to be. The possibilities are 1) unreleased stuff we've heard before on bootlegs, only this time in better quality (which most of the original box set was) 2) completly unheard or unknown stuff (which only 1 song from the box set was for me) or 3) a mixture of the two. I'm guessing it's going to be either the first or third of my predictions. Til November 1st i'm buzzing! Continuing this thread, NSYNC is coming out with a best-of a week or two before the new Nirvana one. Unfortunately it will have NO new songs and NO publicity from the band. Sounds like Jive Records is trying to cash in... Update on the bass: I cut a vinyl tile found at Home Depot into the shape of a new pickguard and put it on!!! Exciting, i know. Comments: stan: A few GITRMEN stories you forgot: front door has to be opened from the outside, back window was in the down position for 5 months, and I made glorious love to Richard Killiam in the backseat. -Stanus brittany: I didn't even get to tell you that I got an email from the internation nsync fanclub that told me they were coming out with a best of CD. I fgured though that since I already had all the other CD's that there was no need for me to have this one, especially because there is nothing new on it. It was still exciting to get an email, I haven't heard from them in years. Britt

Big Trouble in Little China or Because You've Missed My Music Rantings...

[Sep. 28th, 2005|8:47 am]

Current Mood| a'ight Current Music| *NSYNC - Sailing Last update i mentioned 2 new "best of" cd's that are coming out in the next month or so. The first is Nirvana - Sliver: the Best of the Box. It's a best of of With the Lights Out, Nirvana's amazing 3 CD/1 DVD box set of late 2004. What's interesting is the tracklisting and the cover have finally come out. The cd will contain 3 "new" songs, previously unreleased, and amazingly, unheard in the nirvana community. 1. Spank Thru (1985 Fecal Matter demo) 2. Heartbreaker (First Nirvana show, 1987) 3. Mrs. Butterworth (1988 band demo) 4. Floyd The Barber (Live 1988) 5. Clean Up Before She Comes (1988 home demo) 6. About A Girl (1988 home demo) 7. Blandest (1988 studio session) 8. Ain't It A Shame (1989 studio session) 9. Sappy (1990 studio session) 10. Lithium (1990 KAOS radio show) 11. Opinion (1990 KAOS radio show) 12. Sliver (1990 home demo) 13. Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991 boombox demo) 14. Come As You Are (1991 boombox demo) 15. Old Age (1991 studio session for "Nevermind") 16. Oh The Guilt (1992 studio session) 17. Rape Me (1992 solo acoustic home demo) 18. Rape Me (1992 studio session) 19. Heart-Shaped Box (1993 studio demos) 20. Do Re Mi (1994 boombox demo solo acoustic) 21. You Know You're Right (1994 boombox demo solo acoustic) 22. All Apologies (1994 boombox demo solo acoustic) Track #1 - Spank Thru is the song that started it all. Seriously. This is from the famous Kurt Cobain demotape called "Fecal Matter." He gave a copy to Krist Novoselic, and this is the song that perked his interest in starting a band with Kurt. That band? Nirvana. I was wondering why no Fecal Matter material appeared on the Box Set, especially since Fecal Matter artwork was included. Now i see why... it was a tease and taste of this best-of cd. Well it worked. Interestingly enough, about a day or two before the tracklisting was released, i was thinking "wouldn't it be awesome if Spank Thru from Fecal Matter made it onto the Best-of?" And then I almost KNEW it was going to make it... and then it did. YAY Track #9 - Sappy was pretty much guaranteed to be on this box, considering it's a highly-liked song in the Nirvana community (it's my favorite Nirvana song.) What's cool, is it's a "new" version, and not the well-known version that appeared on the original box-set. What makes it even more awesome, is it's the early version from a studio session that no one has heard, outside of the band and the producer. Exciting! Track #14 - Come As You Are is from the same boombox tape that Butch Vig heard and went on to use as a blueprint for Nevermind. It also contained Smells Like Teen Spirit (released on the original Box Set and this Best-of) and Old Age (a minute-long version is circulating the internet) as well as other demos that haven't been heard. A weird choice for this CD, but interesting. The Tracklisting looks alright with the big exception of the live version of Floyd the Barber. I have no clue why it was put onto the original box set (no other live versions of songs were released that were not previously unreleased/unheard songs) and i seriously doubt most would rate it as one of the top 25 songs from the box-set. The other cd that i talked about, *NSYNC's Greatest Hits, also just recently released it's cover art.

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