My thoughts on music after watching The Runaways

       If you haven't already, I would go see the Runaways (for all you springfieldians, it's at the Moxie and should be at Hollywood 14 in May.) It's a great movie. Pretty graphic though. I enjoyed it. And I must say, I feel like I should change as a musician after watching it.
        There was something that really appealed to me about playing crappy loud music in front of people who don't want to hear you and are throwing stuff at you. Now there was quite a lot of drug usage in the film, and that doesn't appeal to me at all. But the actual music.
        The ukulele just doesn't fulfill my needs anymore. Don't get me wrong, it's wonderful instrument and it's portable and easy to play. It's great. But there's something about playing loudly with distortion and lots of reverb that is just so appealing. I miss my cover band days... Just playing with a full band with drums and noise and feedback. It's a wonderful feeling. Completely different than what I'm doing with the Scribbles and "solo". I'll have fun either way, it's just that I need something new. And something loud.
        Also on a completely new side of music, I've learned how to use Abelton Live. It's cool to do that sort of techno/electronic thing with midi controllers, cool synths, and all that jazz. But I get sick of the repetitiveness after like 15 min. It's still fun to know how to do though.
        Now back to what I was really talking about. Loud music.
        Not just loud music, noisy, intentionally bad music. Simple lyrics, simple chords, but loud and rebellious. And I would never do it with complete seriousness, I would take the Andrew WK route. You know that whole thing with him and the Steev Mike thing and him not being real. Personally, I think even if it's all fake and he's a group of people who trade out the role of Andrew WK, that it just makes him an even cooler "artist". But that's another blog post.
       Lately, I've just felt the need to make loud music, that you can party to. Not for me to party to. I'm not much of a partier, but for other people who are.
       I'm not sure how I will find the loud music I'm looking for or if I ever will, but I just wanted to let you know what my thoughts are at the moment with music.

Goodbye.