...Licking the Knife Will Get You Nowhere

One should not be in such a Rush to taste a sharpened Tool, afterall...



...Licking the Knife Will Get You Nowhere. (on Soundclick.com)
...Licking the Knife Will Get You Nowhere. (on Last.fm)

After stealing the idea for the song title from Jon, taking a suggestion from 3D (which is what i've decide to call David DeDourek from now on to save space, ha) about writing something in an odd time signature, and throwing in a heavyish guitar riff i'd been working on... well, i've got this... about two and a half minutes of rockness.

[throws horns]


...nice kitty.

mmmm.. Chili and updates.

Heyo,
So i made some seriously tasty chili this afternoon while working on a new tune... guess i was cookin' in both the kitchen -and- the studio. I've gotten a pretty decent draft of a few different sections for the tune, and could leave it as is if necessary, so i quit for the day and came up to feeeeed.
What is it going to taste like?
Well, let's just say that a suggestion from David DeDourek to write something in 7/8 time to cure my boredom combined with a Tool-like riff i'd been kicking around and a song title I stole from one of my buddy Jon Ernst's photo captions has all added up to tasty...
mmmm.... chili.
Stay tuned and hopefully i'll have at least the draft mp3 posted on Monday yo.
Cheers!

New Song - Sunny February Afternoon

So last Friday was an absolutely beautiful damn day.
After all the cold and snow earlier in the week, there were still drifts of undisturbed white out in the yard... and then of course, as the weather is apt to do here in Calgary, it changed totally and went from bitter winter to totally gorgeous. Clear and sunny and nice, and somehow all the ways i'd felt crappy all week kinda just melted off and were warmed and replaced by this very quiet contentment... it started with a very simple acoustic thing (that starts the song)... just two strings, a simple passage... that kind of just grew as an idea along with my own feeling of... Not ass? Ha.
From earlier in the week and all the self-reflective ass kicking and discouragement and blahblahblah to this simple moment of clarity and contentment and peace into something more active, something bigger and fuller. Quiet joy perhaps. The song and I. Bright and crisp.

Anyhoodle. It turned out not-so-bad for something that grew out of nothing quite organically on a sunny February afternoon, and so i have posted it on my Soundclick page and may get around to putting it up on the last.fm sometime too. If you want to go directly to the song's page on soundclick instead of the artist page you can click either the title or the picture.

Peace and loud music,
Steve

SplatterSking - Good times at the Yard Sale

So, i finally went skiing again for the first time in years a couple Sundays ago on the 15th. A friend of mine gave me a pair of his used skis, lightly damaged, and harassed me incessantly to come out. I had a tiny bit of post-Christmas/Birthday gift card action and cash left, so i went for it despite my intense poverty.

I am so glad i did. It was awesome. I'd forgotten how much damn fun it can be. There were seven of us who went up to Sunshine and spent the day skiing and goofing around laughing at each other and generally having a helluva good time. I'd forgotten. Forgotten the fun, forgotten to freedom of it, the beauty, the purity, the rhythm.

Paulie had his camera up, and in addition to a bunch of pics he caught some pretty classic moments on video... including the absolutely perfect video he has posted of Jer coming in fom out of nowhere at high speed to put a severe snowing on Dr.T, ha... and to make it so much more priceless, at that exact moment i come in to frame and fully BAIL. Faceplanted. I was laughing so hard it was tough to breathe.

Dr. Snow & the Great Ford Yard Sale

I'm still surprised i wasn't hurt. Anyway, it still makes all of us laugh every single time we watch it. It is in fact, a perfect representation of the good times and the feeling of that day. Enjoy.