'sup APS.

The band is pretty much falling through, Trophy Scars got booked, and nobody will hire me. Isn't it at least curteous to call back someone who has gone in for two interviews at your restraunt?

Otherwise, pretty good.

Boy, that sucks hard. :(

It's impossible to find people who will be devoted to a band around here. Everyone is like "hawthorennehtiethgtsxcore".

yup... same round here. I swear, being a drummer and living within a 30 mile radius of me seems to cause an imbalance in the brain causing people to be complete dribbling morons.

So I gave up - I'm going to buy a drum machine soon and just record solo.

Maybe I should look into that, can they do double bass and odd time signatures?

You can stream Thursday's new CD from MYSAPCE!l

[url]http://www.myspace.com/thursday[/url]

[QUOTE=A_Perfect_Sonnet]Maybe I should look into that, can they do double bass and odd time signatures?[/QUOTE]

I suspect most can do Double Bass (I assume you mean Double-Kick) its just a matter of programming it right. You may have to do some with double tempo and half bars though. Odd times are different, it really depends, alot are constricted to 4/4 and swung, though most of them you can truncate the pattern length from 16 drumhits (4/4 in semiquavers) to whatever you like. Some have 32 per 4/4 pattern. Computer ones are unlimited depending on the program.

[QUOTE=A_Perfect_Sonnet]It's impossible to find people who will be devoted to a band around here. Everyone is like "hawthorennehtiethgtsxcore".[/QUOTE]

you should try to come here.If you wanna play any rock,metal or alternative first you must find someone who likes it & then round up a band.To find bass player or a drummer is almost impossible.The music they listen here is called folk.

I don't have good luck with fellow musicians, most of them are very, very crappy ones and think that modern rock and pop-rock is amazing, and the few great musicians are all occupied and into projects I don't fit in.

I guess I'll record my post-rock-metal-jazzblues-sex album will have to be on the works all alone.

In the songwriting department it's kinda flowing, some new stuff on the works too.

Trophy Scars is rebooked on their way back through, hopefully this band of mine will be ready to play. If anyone can make it to Northern Virginia (like right off I-81) on the 30th of July, it will be a good show.

if I'm in the area, I'll drop by. :p

In other news, older girls are hard work at first, but totally worth it.

How long has Song of the Month (SOTM) been happening?? I thought it only started but I noticed that according to the SOTM thread that you (Jason101) has commented that APS has been in 3... Maybe I just haven't been paying enough attention. :confused:

Yeah, I did a couple of one-offs last year when we had a couple of particularly good months, and APS was nominated in both of them... although this is the first time it's been done in its current format (ie multiple rounds).

Attn: ATC, what's your avatar from? I was glancing around some friend's myspace's and one of them had a band "Private Drive" and their picture was that kittie shooting a machine gun around. Just curious if that held any significance or not.

[QUOTE=Jason101]Yeah, I did a couple of one-offs last year when we had a couple of particularly good months, and APS was nominated in both of them... although this is the first time it's been done in its current format (ie multiple rounds).[/QUOTE]

Ahhh... ok. So I'm not just imagining things again. :rolleyes:

:( Mine didn't make the grade for the polls I assume. Can I ask why? It's not that I'm angry or anything but I'd like some reasons for justifcation

Because Aussies write terrible lyrics...


...Except for Rolf Harris - He is my Hero. I wish I could play the wobble board like him... And those lyrics, like OMG! Genius!!! :rolleyes:

[QUOTE=RunAmokRampant]:( Mine didn't make the grade for the polls I assume. Can I ask why? It's not that I'm angry or anything but I'd like some reasons for justifcation[/QUOTE]
Because I thought the others were better and I had to narrow down four out of like eight or something.

But they were all good; you all at least know what you're doing and how to do it.

[QUOTE=jurialmunkey]Because Aussies write terrible lyrics...
[/QUOTE]

Yeh I mean look at the last Australian idol winners. Thier lyrics are terrible not to mention the music, and are supposedly written by 'professionals'. And there is a new one coming this year. We'll just have to brace ourselves I suppose.

And Subtledagger: if there were like 8 nominations, why not have 2 polls instead and then have a final poll for the winners of the other polls? Shouldn't it be up to the S&L members to decide whose entry is the best. I'm not questioning your choices for the poll, I just thought that this whole thing was meant to be for everyone to choose which one they think is the best and not choose the ones that you thought were the best. I think it kind of detracts what the whole point of what the 'Song Of the Month' is.

Just a suggestion for next time maybe.

It's needless red tape. Burt and Nick would probably be best choosing the best entries for the finals to avoid popularity outshadowing merit. Also, whittling down 8 or 9 entries wouldn't be so bad in a vote, but if 15+ songs are nominated? It would be a disaster.

For one thing, it would take forever. For another, there should be more output from now on in the nominations threads so we should be getting more overall songs, and that means we'll probably have more final choices then four. I will also probably be talking to some other members like Nick or Jared or whoever and getting their opinions on songs, not just Jason. I really don't want to leave it forum-wide though because voting would take too long and would probably be unfair.

Once nominations come around, you can IM me if you want and we can discuss which songs are better than others; I'll try to take other viewpoints into consideration. I really won't be making the final decisions here.

I just wanted to make note that board activity is greatly improving, as well as the quality of critques and frequency thereof. Personally, I've been trying to critique the songs which have no replies yet, as to keep the less popular users, or songs, from getting, or being discouraged. This new critiquing policy is sending S&L on the up-turn, and it's looking good.

What I'm trying to say is, we're getting a pretty good community going here.

I agree, it's looking like things are shaping up since we've changed the routine here. Hopefully it continues.

I'm thinking of bumping required crits up a bit. Are we getting a number of song threads with zero replies or lots of bumps?

Yeah, kudos on the change of policy, mods. It's worked a treat. Also, well done to the guys that have dug in and done the crits and who have kept things ticking over round here - as APS said, we have a community here now.

Personally, I think we're okay for the moment with one. There will always be a few songs that have to be bumped for whatever reason, either they're just not picked up on by users, or the piece is so plain it doesn't really leave the critiquer much to be enthusiastic about, and it only seems to be a few songs that are slipping beneath the radar really.

Thing is I try to crit songs with no crits but often I seem to find really boring songs that I can only really give a couple of lines on. But despite this I'll add my congrats to the mods, S&L is much better and despite the usual jackasses that turn up there are enough people around who are posting songs and willing to take criticism and improve.

Tickets to Sonic Youth in July... YAy!!! :D

Oooh, nice.

There are hardly any decent gigs around here... we're right off the main UK tour route... the last even semi-decent band we had here was The Julianna Theory, and I was working that night, so couldn't make it.

Taking Back Sunday came through a while back, but I refuse to ever go to a gig where I'm the only one not wearing eyeliner.

It's called Guyliner now. A few days ago, I went out on a limb and walked into our mall's Hot Topic, where I proceeded to ask if they had Welcome the Plague Year's cd or any Joshua Fit For Battle. The girl with dyed red hair wearing all black looked at me with the most confused look I've ever seen (I walked in wearing my preppiest attire, seeing as how I was interviewing for jobs), and then tried to sell me Taking Back Sunday. I gave her a blank stare followed by "No". Isn't that store supposed to be "all about the music"?

We should try and get the new people to participate in the community thread.

Haha, we don't have anywhere like that over here really... bit of a shame really, as the only place to get anything that isn't a tracksuit or preppy as hell is online, which is all well and good, but sometimes it's better to be able to actually see something before you shell out on it.

Yeah, the new guys posted a little bit a few pages back... there was a debate on splitting the forums according to ability or something, and a few of them took part. It's nice to have this forum alive again... the last time I actually genuinely looked forward to posting like I do now was way back when it was you, me, zep, mozz and redwonder. Those were good times.

I guess our memories differ on what were good times and what weren't Jason.

Haha, Jason, as for most of our opinions on mozz, refer back to the first post in this thread.

Those times totally blew.

[QUOTE=pixiesfanyo]I guess our memories differ on what were good times and what weren't Jason.[/QUOTE]

:lol:

You're never too old to run away.

Is that the title of the new linkin' park album.

Skczzzzchhhh

If you change run to fly.. it could be the new Michael Jackson concept album. "Ooooo There's a ghost, me and blanket are scared!! Shimoana... ehHee!"

Michael Jackson jokes died when Jesus was nailed to the cross, Aussie.

Yeah something like that. :)

I was thinking of quitting my job and taking a few things and leaving for someplace else, but that was a couple days ago and I've since fell into the mediocrity that is an 8 to 5 job and a steady paycheck.

Woe is me, haha.

[QUOTE=pixies]I guess our memories differ on what were good times and what weren't Jason.[/QUOTE]

Haha, I guess so... mind you, it was about the only other time this forum has seen this many posts, despite 90% of them turning out to be spam.