Robeo and Julietech: The Musical!

During the past few months, our school has been writing the script for our end of the year musical. The story: Romeo and Juliet with robots, set in the future. I've had the honor to help write the music for the production along some of the other students. The middle school and high-school (only 20 students) will be creating every aspect of the musical including performing it on May 27th. It should be pretty impressive to see but most likely not as impressive as this (put link to A Very Potter Musical).
The auditions are going to be March 2nd for all of you Springfielders. They will be held at the Vandivort Theatre from 7-9. You will need a prepared vocal solo if you plan on having the role of Robeo or Julietech. You will also need to know how to dance if you want any role. There are 5 speaking characters if you want to get to act. Email me at joe.flea2b@gmail.com for more info.

Recording...

I'm sure most of you know me as a member of The Scribbles, a band of three 7th graders with ukuleles and glockenspiels. Well after more than a year of playing shows and selling merchandise (right now it sounds like the band is breaking up but it's quite the opposite), we are going to be recording a full length album! Fellow Scribbler, Olivia Bacon, has a photographer father and owns a gallery where producer Justin Woods works. Justin owns Monarch Studios where the Scribbles originally recorded The Robot Song. He was generous to give us a screaming deal to record somewhere from 9-12 songs.

Hopefully we will start recording sometime in April and or May. Right now he is finishing up the New Monsters Collective record. The whole process will be rather exciting to be a part of. I've always been interested in the different aspects of recording. There are so many different things you can do now with all the technologies available.

I'll try to keep you posted on all the details and when we finish it. If possible, I will try to video tape the process and post on this web-log. Check my twitter too for more updates.

A Blog Dedicated to David Bazan...

Thanks to a $10 gift card from Mitchell Johnson, as repayment from all those days I paid for his mudhouse smoothies and muffins, I was able to buy the new Bazan solo album. The album is great but different musically and lyrically when compared to his earlier Pedro the Lion work. He was known as a christian artist and payed in many christian music festivals (though still an alcoholic) but this new album is all about changing and questioning his religious beliefs. The opening track starts with synthy experimentation and a bit of piano. Then it builds into his lyrics describing the story of Adam and Eve and how it's "hard to be a decent human being." The song goes on to question the logic in how this evolved into the culture we have now. Most of the other tracks take concepts of christianity and question his faith in them. He also hints at his alcoholic ways and how different his family has made him. If you have ever loved Pedro or any of Bazans other work, I would highly recommend this album to you.