more album cover stuff

so my buds are getting a couple songs pressed on a fancy, one-sided seven inch in ITALY WHUUUUT??? so awesome. i'm not really sure if i'm allowed to reveal the label or details etc...i don't think it matters probably. no one looks at this shit anyway. tumblr is really a better audience for art/freelancing nowadays but i kinda like posting on blogspot still maybe because its like a diary that i'm not worried about anyone looking at/judging, yet still on a public forum. INTERNET: INSTANT PERMIFICATION. plus i don't wanna jinx it??? but anyway here are the notes from our brainstorming meeting about the cover design. it was a silly meeting and they made me a really yummy vegan dinner which was super nice. and their dogs are suuuuuuper cute and barked the entire time. i love them so much they are seriously some of the best people i have ever encountered. i stole the "BOTTOM LINE" tactic from Tao Lin's seventy-minute interview with Brian Sweet because that's silly:

(ok give me three words that you would use to describe your ideal album cover go)

chaz: 1. Gnarly 2. Occult 3. Slime
BOTTOM LINE: Comic-Booky Evil Swamp

liza: 1. Bugs 2. Possessed Serpents 3. Serpents w/ a Plan
BOTTOM LINE: Cute,  but Evil... Spooky but like Scooby-Doo. BOTTOM-BOTTOM LINE: EVIL SCOOBY

*Quetzalcoatl shooting snakes out of his mouth/head
-THE GOD - thunderbird, but evil
-less melty, more lightening
-simple, yet detailed
-illustrative or graphic style

jungle, aztec, american south, kudzu

*babes
*60s, 70s Italian Western + Campy horror movie set in Mexico
*Look at DEATH DEALS, Cafe Con Leche, Ines Estrada
*traditional Mesoamerican and/or Aztec style

ziggaurat or pyramid. centipedes coming out of top. other bugs.

**include band name in some way
BLACKANDWHITE!!!!


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that's all of the notes. oh man. this is going to rule. i hope i can pull it off. challenge willingly accepted, albeit nervously. there are lots of things to consider. they also gave me a Killed By Death punk music compilation for cover art/musical inspiration. excellent. OH they also gave me a thrift store shirt with aztec-style drawings of animals. they were prepared. i like that they know exactly what they want. it makes it extremely easy to deliver.

ah yeah. gettin changed ya'll.

i ran into a couple old lancaster/philly acquaintances the other day at the coffee shop where i work. there were also a couple other philly people in town that same night but i ended up not going to their show unfortunately (i'm a dumbass). it was such an odd coincidence that i haven't been able to shake this feeling of unease about the whole thing. i can't really put my finger on why it was all so unsettling to me, but i think i kinda know. haven't been up that way in a good little while and haven't really reached out to anyone that i knew from back then. made me think about burning bridges and how much that sucks for everyone involved. i don't like doing that to people. i got kinda good at it but the negative aspects of it have been catching up to me recently; moving to a new town and being so focused on myself has been really good for me in a lot of ways. however, so much introspection has had me facing up to a lot of feelings i set aside for the sake of my own heart/head. i'm kinda glad these things have been catching up to me because i really need to face them and think about them...move past a lot of it. i've had plenty of time to ponder about what i really need/want, and the way that i treat people and how i treat myself. i wish i had had this head on my shoulders back then because i think i could have avoided a lot of mistakes, but in a way i'm super glad i didn't! because i learned a lot and i've grown a lot since then. i don't think i'd be the same person that i am now. don't get me wrong...i almost let some shit break me. i think i lost a lot of my sense of "people are basically good". i'm warier now; it's harder to let people in. i feel closed off a lot of the time, and i have zero patience for bullshit friendships or relationships with people that don't actually care about me. i'm super awesome, and i know it. i think the fact that i know that makes me less approachable. i'm pretty insecure about a lot of shit but what makes me smarter than i used to be is now i know that EVERYONE is insecure. i guess the point i'm getting at is that, out of all the coffee shops/breakfast spots in richmond these philly dudes couldve gone to that day, they chose the shop where i work in outoftheway churchill. and i happened to be running upstairs during my baking shift to grab eggs and butter right as they were coming in. otherwise, we would have missed each other entirely. its hokey, i know, but that is some fucking strange shit that made me think really hard about how tiny our planet is, and how i can't think i can avoid someone forever. and when i finally see this person again, i can't be afraid to say, "hello, it's so good to see you," without throwing up all over myself.
i wish my scanner worked. i guess i could go to the fine arts building but my key card isn't activated yet plus i don't really feel like i belong in there. hopefully that will change. i'm pretty stoked on how the cassette cover turned out, but i know i can do better. can't wait to see what i can start churning out. can't wait to be done being afraid to make anything.

death to videodrome

great lil review of the 'ticks here

nervous ticks cassette