Saturday, April 30, 2005
i'm scared that if i go outside, i'll spend money.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
ha. i just realized that last night's post looks like a letter to matt, because it began with "hi matt." but i was just saying hi.
all afternoon, i've been listening to an mp3 on holcombe waller's myspace page. i was unhealthily obsessed with that guy as a teenager. my brother knew him in college, and slipped me his cd. he was the first real independent musician i'd ever heard, so i responded to his music the way i'd respond to bjork or bono or someone famous. i was very shocked by his accessibility, and the fact that i could talk to him at shows and stuff like that. i think i came across as a bit psycho. the kids at my shows are wayyyyy cooler than i was, when i was going to see music at their age. anyway, this is a nice new song, and it makes me feel all light-headed and dreamy.
are you ready for my new AMBIENT FOLK album?! no? me neither. back to work!
love
dan
ps: i had a nice workbreak today with yoko on a median strip in the middle of park avenue. it's the middle of spring and so far no allergies! woohoo!
ps1: do you ever get the feeling that the media purposefully articulates important news stories in boring ways, just to get us to pay more attention to michael jackson and jessica simpson? where has your love gone? your fraudulent smiiiile, the way that you faked it the day that you di-ied. je-ss-i-ca....
all afternoon, i've been listening to an mp3 on holcombe waller's myspace page. i was unhealthily obsessed with that guy as a teenager. my brother knew him in college, and slipped me his cd. he was the first real independent musician i'd ever heard, so i responded to his music the way i'd respond to bjork or bono or someone famous. i was very shocked by his accessibility, and the fact that i could talk to him at shows and stuff like that. i think i came across as a bit psycho. the kids at my shows are wayyyyy cooler than i was, when i was going to see music at their age. anyway, this is a nice new song, and it makes me feel all light-headed and dreamy.
are you ready for my new AMBIENT FOLK album?! no? me neither. back to work!
love
dan
ps: i had a nice workbreak today with yoko on a median strip in the middle of park avenue. it's the middle of spring and so far no allergies! woohoo!
ps1: do you ever get the feeling that the media purposefully articulates important news stories in boring ways, just to get us to pay more attention to michael jackson and jessica simpson? where has your love gone? your fraudulent smiiiile, the way that you faked it the day that you di-ied. je-ss-i-ca....
i just started listening to a tori amos cover of "the circle game" and i'm getting all choked up. jesus christ i'm getting old.
bleh
dan
bleh
dan
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
hi matt.
nothing i want to express terribly.
this is one of those times when, no matter how much you'd rather not, you have to focus on yourself, just to evolve safely into the next phase of your life. my day job ends in june, then a month of tour, and then...we'll see. i get really introspective in the spring. i'm all set to take my finals and graduate to a new grade, but i'm not enrolled nowhere but my own head. this time last year i was working hard to put out the cheese on bread cd, to make us a real rock band, and to write a new performance for dixon place. a year later, i'm working hard to put out my own cd, to book the cheese on bread tour, and to survive. the first moment i ask myself "what was i doing right now last year?" and my answer is "the same damn thing," is the moment when i stop everything, move to a new town, and learn a new trade. you can hold me to that.
love
dan
current music: "kissing christian" by that dog
nothing i want to express terribly.
this is one of those times when, no matter how much you'd rather not, you have to focus on yourself, just to evolve safely into the next phase of your life. my day job ends in june, then a month of tour, and then...we'll see. i get really introspective in the spring. i'm all set to take my finals and graduate to a new grade, but i'm not enrolled nowhere but my own head. this time last year i was working hard to put out the cheese on bread cd, to make us a real rock band, and to write a new performance for dixon place. a year later, i'm working hard to put out my own cd, to book the cheese on bread tour, and to survive. the first moment i ask myself "what was i doing right now last year?" and my answer is "the same damn thing," is the moment when i stop everything, move to a new town, and learn a new trade. you can hold me to that.
love
dan
current music: "kissing christian" by that dog
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
i love my teenage fans.
in a non-michael jackson way. lately, i've been listening to the same music i listened to when i was a teenager. and so talking to kids who like my songs makes me feel like a sort of dork-ass ani difranco. ("here's a little, er, snippet of the, uh, folksinger at 18...") 23...oy...
the past few days have been so productive.
by the end of this week, a lot of things will be done, and a lot more will begin. anyone want to buy me a printer? a scanner? a pony? a cabbage?
love
dan
in a non-michael jackson way. lately, i've been listening to the same music i listened to when i was a teenager. and so talking to kids who like my songs makes me feel like a sort of dork-ass ani difranco. ("here's a little, er, snippet of the, uh, folksinger at 18...") 23...oy...
the past few days have been so productive.
by the end of this week, a lot of things will be done, and a lot more will begin. anyone want to buy me a printer? a scanner? a pony? a cabbage?
love
dan
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
woosh.
i had a really fun show on sunday. it sorta deteriorated at the end, with a very sloppily-attempted new song, and a rather monotonous (but theoretically brilliant) rockabilly cover of tori amos' "glory of the 80s." i realized the other day that, since she made her last amazing record in 1998, and her first amazing record in 1992, then that means she's been making crappy records for as long as she's been making awesome records. i should ammend: not "crappy" records. just records that don't really do it for me. anyway. "glory of the 80s," a mediocre song off her first bad record, was just my way of singing "then when it all seemed clear, just then you go and disappear" to the lady herself.
the rest of the show was very relaxing. i sold three homemade t-shirts, respectively labelled, "T-Shirts R4 Faggots," "Dan Fishback Won't Make Out With Me," and "Toby Goodshank Gives Me a Boner (But Sexual Objectification is Wrong)." and they all had "danfishback.com" written on the back. chris maher bought the last one. he seemed pretty excited about it.
my new friend sammy came to the show! i like her.
last night i made stew with phoebe and dibs. it's delicious.
tonite i klezmer.
check out my fledgling website. soon most of these ramblings will end up there, and the cheese on blog will morph into something unforseeable! how exciting.
love
dan
i had a really fun show on sunday. it sorta deteriorated at the end, with a very sloppily-attempted new song, and a rather monotonous (but theoretically brilliant) rockabilly cover of tori amos' "glory of the 80s." i realized the other day that, since she made her last amazing record in 1998, and her first amazing record in 1992, then that means she's been making crappy records for as long as she's been making awesome records. i should ammend: not "crappy" records. just records that don't really do it for me. anyway. "glory of the 80s," a mediocre song off her first bad record, was just my way of singing "then when it all seemed clear, just then you go and disappear" to the lady herself.
the rest of the show was very relaxing. i sold three homemade t-shirts, respectively labelled, "T-Shirts R4 Faggots," "Dan Fishback Won't Make Out With Me," and "Toby Goodshank Gives Me a Boner (But Sexual Objectification is Wrong)." and they all had "danfishback.com" written on the back. chris maher bought the last one. he seemed pretty excited about it.
my new friend sammy came to the show! i like her.
last night i made stew with phoebe and dibs. it's delicious.
tonite i klezmer.
check out my fledgling website. soon most of these ramblings will end up there, and the cheese on blog will morph into something unforseeable! how exciting.
love
dan
