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| Could the title be any more blatant?
But anyway bookmark it! Updates on the progress of the new album,
videos, photos, song clips and wonderful blog entires written by me and
Miller.
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| Yes that's right, the post the entire world has been waiting for the
long awaited new Dead Skunks album is actual underway and we got some
recording done for it this very day! Here's a short clip to keep your
vaginas moist and ready for skunkable action!
CLICK HERE
Look forward to the full thing, available when I can get Miller to sit still for more than 20 minutes! 
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| Just thought I'd post up a new song I wrote rather
spontaneously this afternoon in about half an hour or so. I thought
while I was happy with it i'd whip up a quick demo of it together and here
it is.
The parts that have vocals are pretty shitty since it's
me doing them. My idea was to have the verse's sung in a monotone voice
heavily distorted then come in with the other vocals in a powerful
clean voice but sadly I don't have the powerful clean voice so it's
just the distorted vocal crap. 
Enjoy!
It's too meloncholy to be Dead Skunks and too ... rock song to be Glasswing so this goes in the mysterous NEW PROJECT folder.
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| What is Drawing?
The discussion we've been having in art Theory for the past few weeks
is an age old question. What is art? Or as the art tutors would say
'What is Drawing?'. Now many people would consider drawing in the
artistic sense to be how the dictionary defines it, which is...
"to compose or create (a picture) in lines."
Now the art department has decided that this is too restricting. Why
can't drawing be stretched out further than the dictionary definition?
Well it seems they decided on this. Drawing is now anything and
everything to do with art. Silversmithing is now 'Drawing with metals',
sculpting Clay is now 'Drawing with clay', writing music is now
'Drawing with sound' and so on. Yep that's right we need everything to
be confusingly vague. I'm sure calling every single thing we do in art
'drawing' that involves creating will help us express ourselves more
freely.
Baking is drawing? It's like a
mix of sculpting and painting. You have to get the right mix and make
it into the right shape. Sculpting and painting are drawing apparently,
so baking is drawing by their logic.
Fucking is drawing? Why the hell not! If sound can be drawing then why not the creation of heat and friction.
"What are we doing today?"
"We're drawing today"
Is making everything so vague really helpful to anyone? Hell no.
Sound is art. Music is not.
Now even though he would say that sound can be called drawing they do
not accept popular music as art. Why not? Because 'it wasn't created
specifically for a museum'. Seconds later he contradicts himself and
says that 'Art doesn't have to be found in a museum! You can find it
anywhere you look!'. Uh-huh... So how is any kind of music, good or
bad, not art? Answer: My question was ignored! Smooth.
I say this because later this year we are going to be told to write an
Essay on art that inspires us. Of course I asked if I could write an
essay about how my favourite musicians inspire me to do my own work.
This was DENIED! I could however write my essay on Holler's fucking
slides in the Tate gallery or that woman who didn't leave her bed for
something like a month and left all her body fluids in it and sold it
to a museum. I could even write it about a film director. Beds full of
menstrual blood, urine and shit of several weeks is a great topic for
an essay but one about how Yoko Kanno inspires me to draw and write my
own music isn't. Isn't that special.
Ceiling Menstruation
In other news it's that time of the month again when the ceiling at
work has it's monthly period of water from the club upstairs. Oh it was
a fun was this time, I poked the gagging tile with my poking stick and
the fluids wouldn't stop coming out (thank god i'm only talking about a
ceiling). Wonderful how nobody wants to take responsibility for
cleaning it up. It'll probably end up going on the pile from previous
months.
I should start selling the old ceiling parts that came down in packets
of 4. It looks like wheatabix after it's had milk on it for about a
minute and probably tastes just as good. With a nation that's concerned
more about the fat content than whether or not it tastes good i'm in
for a nice pile of money.
Until next time. Ciao.
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