Myspace Blogs/Band Update

[esedler8785]

First I did not know if I should start a new thread with this or just put it under what's going on with the band, so for now new thread and I'll let the moderators of this board decide where it goes.

There are 3 new myspace blogs on www.myspace.com/straylightrunband
since January 26th and Will's update(that was mentioned in the tours section)
First a band update by John, then a Shaun rambling, and just now I realized John wrote another blog in response to some comments and such.

Anyway here's what is said in the band update and for the rest just go to the myspace and read the blogs, they are always entertaining.

"Long time no blog

Once again, it has been awhile since my last web log. I really do enjoy these but I think I'm just not cut out for constant internet living like some people. I feel it's very difficult to maintain an active internet life and an active actual life as well. It seems sometimes it has to be one or the other and actual life always wins out in the end for me. I have missed blogging and reading all the great responses though and so I've come back for more. I also felt it was time for an update on what the band has been up to recently lest you all begin to think us lazy or dead. We've been spending a lot of time in Will's super studio which is contained inside the coldest and noisiest rehearsal space on Long Island. We've been arranging a bunch of new songs and then immediately getting to work on demoing them. It's been really exciting to hear these new songs coming together and I am growing more and more eager for the time when we will record them for real and release them on an album. I feel like these new songs are in some ways very different than anything we've done but at the same time also sound more like Straylight Run than anything we've done before, if that makes any sense. I think our songs are starting to develop a consistent sound while still maintaining their own unique identity i guess. We're also working on getting our live CD/DVD finished by the end of February. We've decided on releasing it as a live CD of the Patchogue show with a DVD that will have some documentary style footage of us doing various things from the past few years as well as some live concert footage from our last tour. I'm very excited that we've finally figured out what we're going to do and I can't wait to get it done and out there for all to see. The other thing we've been up to is trying to plan out our upcoming tours in march and april. We're going to do some headlining dates before the MTVU tour but we've had a very difficult time getting the supporting bands in place. As soon as that is finalized we will be announcing all of that and hopefully soon after we'll also have an official announcement about where we'll be playing on the MTVU tour. I hope everyone is happy and healthy and generally doing well in life. Talk to you soon!

Love,
John"

so this kinda fits all spectrums which is why i made it a new thread...

I cant wait for the dvd/live cd to come out that's going to be awesome.

[carkey]

yeah thats going to be awesome. i love that they actually use the blog things to keep us updated or just to say hi or some other-ness. and yeah i went and looked last night and i saw there were 3 new updates and i thought that my computer messed up and that they were old or something

-carla

[Ellieisomghawt.]

yay! for very good news.

[bigR34]

tour, live cd, wooooo hooooooo...cant wait

[carkey]

we just got home from australia. it was sweet! we got to hang out with kangaroos and koalas.

we will soon be working on a new record. more info to come

since we won't be touring much this summer, Check us out on mtvU and mtvu.com !

www.mtvu.com/uconnect/campus_invasion_tour/



thats from their myspace

-carla

[esedler8785]

she got to it before me but heres more..via the blog

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

stupid myspace


ok so does anyone know where to find a button that says somethign to the effect of "accept all friend requests"? because in the little help pop up window, tom says you can do that. and that'd be sweet... because right now we have to just check the "select all" thingie, then accept people page by page, which is waaaay too slow. and i figured we could just work hard and muscle through it, but we're falling way behind. so where is this magical button??

oh and we're back from australia and it was soooo sweet. i've got a bunch of pictures to put up and they are sweet too. it'll be 99% us playing with animals on the second day. oh and maybe some from the sydney aquarium because that was awesome too. we saw a giant turtle get pissed at a shark thing and bite him on the tail. chomp.



enough

-w

one more thing..they are officially "unsigned" under record label..

[carkey]

they added a few pictures from australia on the myspace

-carla

[esedler8785]

new blog...

"random TV and some new jams

has anyone seen that snickers commercial where the dude is singing and playing guitar...i think he talks about waterfalls of caramel or something. i think his guitar is strung righty but he's playing it lefty. well actually i'm pretty sure he's not playing at all. oh! also, in semi unrelated, and even more so, nerd-dom, has anyone seen the Tmobile commercials in the weird cell phone lab? the one with the realestate agent lady, or the lame business dude, or the squeeky cheerleader. well yea the only thing they have in their lab is an Avalon 737 channel strip. i think they have some headphones plugged into it, which i assume is plugged into the 1/4" DI, and they tweak some knobs before the camera pans into the subject in the middle of the big laboratory pit.

yea its 2:30am and i'm far too tired. we're working on some new jams. hot new jams.

-william thomas noon"

[esedler8785]

new oneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee yay.

"Sunday, July 16, 2006

yo it is SOOO hot

i'm pretty sure the world is coming to an end. its getting way too hot. i need to start riding a bike more often so i can stop contributing to the global warming that will kill us all. overly dramatic? i believe so. i before e. except after c, and at random other times i think.

ok so we're getting absurdly excited to record. we found a 1/2" otari 4 channel reel to reel tape machine that we're buying this week. it'll be really cool to do some recording to analog tape, i think that's going to be super fun. and i got an old PL-20 mic(which is the same as an RE-20) and i was so amped to try it out on some vocals for john and michelle, and definitely kick drum as well. but i noticed some weird clipping or overloading tyep noises on a quick recording we just did and that's no good. i'll have to hunt down the dude that sold it to me. fun times on ol' e-bay. still need to find an apogee psx-100 or rosetta 200. oh digital conversion, how complex you are!

i should shut up now. the past few days we've been working on a really fun new song of michelle's. its pretty rad. its actually really interesting to have john and michelle both writing seperately in addition to together, because they seem to both out-do each other with every new song. its fun to see happen.

ok i've got a ton of stuff to do, i should go to home depot tomorrow and get some wood to build a box for my neve 1272's and to fix the ol' glockenspeil.

ok peace out home slices.
-will"

[[::april / 03::]]

and then he said.. support the format


hell yes
y'all know


you shoulds.

[Sully]

ya i got that bulletin

[carkey]

Straylight said:

the past few days we've been working on a really fun new song of michelle's. its pretty rad. its actually really interesting to have john and michelle both writing seperately in addition to together, because they seem to both out-do each other with every new song. its fun to see happen.

-will"

that makes me oh so curious and interested to hear what it sounds like.

i would love to hear some new songs

-carla

[[::april / 03::]]

i hope this doesn't end being a war cd.








sister vs. brother. ahah.

ooo, we should all makeup clever, never-gonna-happen cd titles for the scenario that blog talked about...

[esedler8785]

hmmm cant think of any good clever cd titles..ha.

anybody else?

[carkey]

Straylight said:

it's time to bring the noise

[/u]

anthrax and public enemy anyone?

aaaanyways, yea we're getting ready to head into the studio. we're going to be setting up our own studio actually, just outside philadelphia. so you KNOW i'm stoked. i just sold my old pm-1000 console, hopefully the channels that i had racked up will be ready in time... its only been SIX MONTHS!!! let's see, picking up the otari 5050 this weekend, our rosetta 200 should be shipped out by monday. (side note, its POURING, this is some serious storm action... seems like we have angered the gods...the god of ...rain..and thunder...oh i guess that would be thor?) anyways, yea. good times. time to get down to business.

oh. here we go. we don't have all the info yet. but i dont really think i can't wait to mention this one. we have one show scheduled right now. its a festival. in september. in south korea. yea. it sounds weird to say, but weirdly awesome. we're playing a festival in SOUTH KOREA. that's insane.

ok time to start packing up some drums. maybe if you're (un)lucky, i'll post each drum i'm bringing to the studio....ooooh what a treat.

-will
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so thats exciting... south korea?! wow.

and they are setting up their own recording studio outside of philly

-carla