We have about three weeks left in New Orleans before Erik and Christina's lease is up and we head out. Now that I have finished recording New Morning I hope to be able to finish writing and recording another record before we leave. I'm excited becuase it's probably only gonna be guitar, it's fun to record many tracks with all kinds of instruments but at a certain point it gets really tiring playing all the tracks on a song. If you haven't listened to New Morning yet the best song is probably "Sign on the Window" so at least give that one a listen.
Erik is driving his car back to California at the end of the month and Christina and I are going to go with him at least part of the way, we are going to take our time camping along the way and hopefully make it up to South Dakota and Idaho.
I also need to finish writing at least the words of my new book by the time we leave and hopefully lay it out so I can figure out where illustrations would go. This is all a lot to do because our friends Zach and Martin are coming to visit next week and my friend C.J. is coming to visit his brother right after! Busy days!
Sunday, September 12, 2010
September
Saturday, September 4, 2010
This must be the day when all of my dreams come true
Haven't written anything for a while, sorry about that! I would like to feel confident in my ability to write something compelling and coherent but since my camera broke I feel like nothing is quite blog-worthy. At first when it stopped working I said to myself, "Good! Now I will write about things instead of just putting a bunch of pictures of stuff," but . . . I'm still scared to bore anyone with a giant block of text.
Today we drove across Lake Pontchartrain to Mandeville and then rode our bikes a few miles over to the Abita brewery and we took the free tour. There is a rail-to-trail bike path that runs along the north shore and it was surprisingly nice to ride a bike on a path with neither traffic nor potholes. Any street in New Orleans is a pretty bumpy ride so it was a nice to be able to ride a few miles without getting all rattled around.
Before going on the causeway I was really excited about it for some reason but it turned out to be pretty boring. It's almost 24 miles long and you can't see one side from the other at least on a semi cloudy day like today.
My new record which is a cover of Bob Dylan's album New Morning is done but we haven't taken the picture for the cover yet so it will probably come out sometime next week depending on how the photo shoot goes.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Rollercoaster Fever Ride
It was probably too much to ask to try to hit the ground running when I got to New Orleans, I guess my body decided I need a break. I'm on my way to being better but I was pretty sick for a while there, the weird thing is that the whole time my fever would come and go unpredictably, one minute 98.6, wake up two hours later from a nap 102.3!
Around Tuesday I decided I just had to start pretending I was better because laying around waiting didn't seem to be doing anything. I think the walk to go get a snowball, trampoline badminton and nighttime swimming the last few days really did more than all those days of trying to sleep.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Made It To New Orleans
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Checklist
I have a one way ticket to New Orleans on Wednesday night. I've been super busy getting everything done, I shipped my bike to San Francisco last week, I went to the beach (twice!), I moved out of my apartment into a temporary Andrea-shaped vacancy at my friends Pam and Naomi's house, but there's still so much to do -- bind books, ship books, read (library) books. It's hard trying to fit everything in but it's nice knowing that by Wednesday night it won't matter what I got done or not.
Monday, August 2, 2010
And The Possible Gets Larger
My new record is out! As you can probably see above it's called And The Possible Gets Larger which is a quote from an unreleased Everything In Pen song. Download it/listen to it/remix it/make fun of it:
http://patrickweaver.bandcamp.com/
I made a few cd's but not that many, if you think you want one maybe there is already one with your name written on it!
I made this record very quickly and I don't think that I like it as much as Jonathan Richman but it was nice to be able to make something quickly and I think that it is at least pretty fun.
It has 12 songs:
1. Thunder and Lightning
2. Don't Walk That Line
3. This Show Costs Five Dollars
4. Forever
5. In Alaska
6. From Out Behind The Clouds
7. Firecracker
8. Takin Off
9. My Heart Still Beats
10. Same Make, Same Model
11. When I Walk Among The Giants
12. A Chance Like This (Just Once In A While)
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Positively Bleecker Street
I wrote a children's book with my friend Jess! It's called Positively Bleecker Street and is about walking down Bleecker Street and the things that happen there. The first printing was 10 copies but I think I've already gotten more requests than that so we'll probably be making some more. Naomi helped me bind the first ones today with a stab binding, which looks great. Let me know soon if you want to buy one, they cost $15.
I don't know when the next ones will exist but you can read it right now at positivelybleeckerstreet.com! (Link works now!)
Here it is in the store:
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Roof Show
Here are some pictures form the 4th of July show on the roof, I played the "Jonathan Richman/Roadrunner/Sister Ray" medley with The Nuclears again, it was fun!
Photon Dynamo and the Shiny Pieces:
The Nuclears:
Monday, July 5, 2010
Thunder and Lightning
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Thunder Thunder Thunder
I'm making a new album. I usually write the whole thing and then record it over a few days after all of the songs are written but this time I wrote and recorded one song first to be the single so that my friend Juan could make a music video for it. I'm probably gonna record the final vocal take on that tonight or tomorrow along with a "b-side" to release as a single maybe on Sunday or Monday and record the rest of the songs over the next week or so unless I decide over the weekend that half the songs aren't good enough and start over. While I was making "Jonathan Richman" I was thinking that after that I would make a "country/folk" album but once I finished "JR" that idea seemed less exciting and I began making a "60's girl group" album. After writing those songs for a while I became more excited about "rock 'n' roll". The album, which may be called "When I Walk Among The Giants" or may be called something else, is sort of a combination of all three of these ideas although some parts might not seem to fit. Also since I haven't recorded it yet it could turn out completely different. The single is called "Thunder and Lightning", watch out!
