there's only two fingers left to break.

empty signals for empty heads - we are without faces (december 31, 2007)

dedicated to cookie cat

all songs available below in mp3 format

1. 19201516
2. Bobby Collected Body Parts
3. There Were Doors in the Trees
4. A Well Adjusted 6 (you are also a 6)
5. Honey, Everything is Fine!
6. we are without faces

For more information, you might want to look here.

misinformation.

http://blog.pennlive.com/afterdark/2007/12/beautiful_orange_aqueduct_brin.html

I'm not sure how this all came about. But really, we aren't playing that show. We are not. It's not the writer's fault though, we've been listed on the venue's website. Which I also fail to understand.

By the way, "we are without faces" will be online in two days. I'll post it on here and the myspace.

a well adjusted 6 (you are also a 6).

I just found this picture. Apparently last spring I enjoyed hiding behind trees. I should take that up again.


Anyway, the Empty Signals song is remixed. I decided it would make more sense to combine the two songs. So I did that.

"A Well Adjusted 6 (you are also a 6)"




About two years ago, I was in a band called Fingernails and we had a song called "Eyelids". The version recorded at the time was terrible, and I think it was one of those things I just did by myself. Josh, the only other member, may have written a bass part for it. If he did, I don't think we ever recorded it. Anyway, I recently discovered that I seem to have this strange attachment to the song, and I feel I should give it another a chance. Assuming I can effectively alter the arrangements, there's a possibility of it ending up on the next Beautiful Orange Aqueduct release. So I'm working on a demo, and it really sounds nothing like the original.

And unfortunately, I cannot pronounce the word "better" while singing. Even worse, I was told that I sound like James Blunt on a new track I demoed called "Cellophane".

god dammit. i sincerely hope not.

cellophane.

I had intended to post two new Empty Signals songs right now, but I just realized that one of them clips. I think it's the drums. Or "drums". If recording the sound of a water bottle being thrown into a door counts as percussion, then yes, it's the drum parts that clip. These two songs go together, and I don't feel right posting one without the other. So I'll get those online tomorrow.

i'm so tired of all of the flowers you bring
and i'm sick of the words in the songs that we sing
could we shut it down, or just turn it off
rename all the children, reclaim what was lost


Beautiful Orange Aqueduct. We are doing things, but it's hard to say exactly what things. The album has a name.

Text message. Fucking infomercials coming up through the floor. Rooftop activity with Modeselektor.

you have all the time in the world.

thoroughbred spinal cords.

A video to remember the days of Saltzee.


"Let me tell you a little story about Back in Black."

you can never have too many lice pictures.

While I have no idea as to what made me announce "we are without faces" when it was still incomplete, it will be online soon. I got rid of three of the songs today, but they all sounded more like a Green Tea Project sort of thing anyway, so they will probably resurface. Lots of happy synth leads dancing around the stereo spectrum. Down-tempo beats manipulated and pulled apart. I missed the point with those.

To the man who continues to bother me at the park everyday-
Please stop. I. am. not. doing. anything. wrong. Do the giant headphones put you off? Your accusatory actions are really unnecessary. I drink coffee and listen to music. I'm well aware other people my age use the area for other purposes, but I do not. So I'm glad that's cleared up; I'm sure you'll read this as soon as I post it.

There's a duck with one wing on the shelf over there.
I recall telling someone that it's actually an eagle.
I shouldn't have done something like that.

running in the half light.

Things are happening.

There's really no new stuff that's ready to be posted just yet. Sorry. Appy-polly-loggies.

"It kind of feels like someone put the world in Photoshop and turned up the saturation."

That was definitely an accurate statement.


but now i can see that there's a way out
go slowly.

/

hey man, slow down
idiot, slow down

please stop your complaining.

If I could, I would force you to the outskirts of our oh so reassuring suburbia. Nuclear family. Nuclear family. Nuclear family. This is what you wanted, right? Because everything has come together so fucking perfectly. I will be the vultures that pick your scabs and eat the skin from your face, and I will be the decay that sets in as your organs cease to function. The cancer in our lungs is the same, but I hate every last thing about you. Did I get under your skin? I meant to be as a parasite, crawling up your spine and feeding on our indifference and our inability to make sense of each other. Your masks are in the basement now; I put them there and dissected each one until I could understand the ways in which they function and tear every inch of hope from our lives. The benign sense of self I once knew. The childish pictures stored up in my head. I am well aware that none of it is real, and that nothing will ever live up to the time of now faded comfort, but you gave me every reason to cut my insides to pieces and let go of better things. This will be the end of you.

thanks buddy.

bobby collected body parts.

recording vocal parts for the new empty signals ep.

I suppose I'm just going to upload the tracks as they are finished. Today I managed to get one of the older ones into a more compact format. The first version dragged on a bit too long, and it wasn't very interesting. Anyway, it's called "Bobby Collected Body Parts", and you can listen or download it in the box.net folder below.

I don't actually know anyone named Bobby.

turquoise hexagon sun.

Empty Signals is not a project for singles, but I've decided to release one of the tracks before the rest of the album. You can listen to it over here. To be honest, the other tracks aren't where they need to be at this time. That should be wrapped up soon, but there's still some vocal and guitar tracks to record. Anyway, that's the album cover above. I have this thing for black spray paint right now.

Beautiful Orange Aqueduct may be working on some new recordings soon. There's a lot of material I've had around for a while that I want to include; a lot of brand new stuff too. There's not much to say about that yet, as we really haven't worked it out. Well, I have ideas, but they will probably change. I'm also into the idea of doing a new version of "It Always Feels Right". Most of the other songs on the demo that we recorded over the summer don't really represent where we are now. Things were obviously going to be different due to the whole losing a member thing, but I'm looking forward to hearing how these new songs sound. But I haven't even worked with Kevin on most of them at this point. So I really don't know what I'm saying. Everything could change drastically by the time it's all recorded. The only thing I can say for sure is that I won't have to emulate the string parts on my keyboard this time. Which is really exciting.

Today is a holiday. A very non-vegan friendly holiday. I don't much care for tofu turkey, so I suppose I'm at a loss.

Also.

The only safety is in The Safety Cupboard. I recorded a vocal track for "we are without faces" in there. I have no idea as to what made me do that.

we are without faces.

we are without faces

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I was unsure if I was happy with the new Empty Signals material for some time, but it seems to have turned out well and I have put together a new EP called "we are without faces". There's a promotional video above, and I hope to have that online within a week or so. It's very much in the same head space as "thisiswhatwedowithstaticminds", but I feel the song writing has improved and the recordings are much better. The vocals will no longer clip the hell out of your speakers. I apologize for that. For some reason I always felt it was essential to process my voice to the point where it would exceed reasonable volumes. I have stopped doing that.

There's not much to say about Beautiful Orange Aqueduct right now. Kevin likes this one jazz song that I wrote a while back. That's about it.

Other things. Other things drain the fucking life from me. But I've rediscovered The Moscow Coup Attempt. So that's good.

sunshine. sunshine. sunshine.

you give me miles and miles of mountains, and i'll ask for the sea.

Beautiful Orange Aqueduct is once again looking for a drummer.

I am twisted up and coiled like the knots in your tree.

Here is a video from the show last Friday. It's now Monday. Irrelevant. Anyway, I think it went well. Especially considering the circumstances. Not that circumstance, the other one. Why the hell am I being lame and cryptic? I have no idea. Stop. End.

November 2, 2007 - The Bernville Grange

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Charles Bukowski, Damien Rice, black lights, and seven candles in an orange room is the perfect substitute for sleep.
And now, more than ever, I'm crazy about those jazz harmonies and chord structures.

New Sigur Ros album today.

chapstick.

I have spent the night recording bits from AM radio stations, and processing them to the point that they don't sound like anything. It's not really musical. Or even interesting. It just felt like the right thing to do.

Last night, in order to get in the right headspace for something I'm working on, I read a book by Miklos Nyiszli. He was a Jewish prisoner who was made the assistant of Dr. Mengele at one of the Auschwitz crematoriums during the Holocaust . In horrifying detail, he wrote of the experiments in which he took part. I cannot comprehend how any human being could be as malicious and disgusting as Mengele, and the entire book, while important, was extremely unsettling.

Empty Signals. I have a lot of stuff that I should upload. As far as that project goes, I stopped creating a while back and started spilling the things inside my broken head on to an audio track. That's all it is. Press record.

they want nothing more than to cut you up into a thousand pieces

the oh so noble council meets daily to pray for your demons

Anyway, it's far more honest than anything else that I am responsible for, and I suppose that's all that really matters.

Listen, if you have faith in some sort of god and all that, great. I'm not saying it's an unhealthy thing. I'm simply saying it doesn't make sense, it's unintelligent to trust anything that much, and I don't believe a word of it. So leave me the fuck alone. The parties addressed will more than likely never read this, but that felt like an appropriate way to get that out.

I meant to do more with this page tonight, but blogger is not allowing me to upload this. I'll try again some other time.

"if you remove your face, you'll look more like what you want everyone to see."

SRXT

If you insist on ripping off every piece of music that reaches your ears, then fucking leave it on your hard drive where nobody else can hear it.

open fields and falling leaves
on aging papers in shopping carts
i woke up here unaware
a broken frame built from useless parts

you never did the right things, man
trapped inside and so afraid
everyone, let's come together and watch
today his face decays

New Beautiful Orange Aqueduct song. If you actually want to hear it, come to the show on Friday at the Bernville Grange.

Coffee and cigarettes.
Burning candles.
Purple light.
Void. void. void. void. void. void.

cover your face, dear child!

The quality isn't the greatest, but this is the best I could come up with for the time being. Hopefully I'll figure out a way to upload it as one file at some point. Anyway, here it is. Guaranteed to fill you to the emotional brim with warm fuzzy feelings and hope for a promising and fulfilling future.

cover your face, dear child! (part 1)

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cover your face, dear child! (part 2)

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cover your face, dear child! (part 3)

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oh no, here they come for you.

"cover your face, dear child!" is finished. It took 12 hours for Veoh.com to upload/process it.

And now the audio is out of sync by about 5 seconds and the video quality looks like shit.

YouTube is not an option. The file size is too large, and files on YouTube generally don't look half as good as other video hosts. I tried Google Video, but for one reason or another the upload client needed for files over 100 MB will not allow me to log in to my account. As much as I don't want to do this, I'm more than likely going to upload it on to the Beautiful Orange Aqueduct myspace in three parts.

I hope to have those posted here sometime later today.

ice age coming. ice age coming.

The Kid A pumpkin. He lives in my room.

And here is a video from the other night after Origins practice. Brandon performed an NWA song.

trapped in your words. it's uncomfortable in there.

broken fingers.
There's not much to say about that one. It formed upstairs and then leaked out of the basement last night. I hope it brightens your day.

"Cover your face, dear child!" is almost complete, but more recently it's taken on a life of it's own. The general focus is still on the band and the new material, but there are several more surreal sequences. Well, the music is still there, and that's all that matters really.

By the way, Beautiful Orange Aqueduct is playing at the Bernville Grange on November 2. First show since we recorded the new demo, and we hope to see some of you there.

nuclear family. the good old two point five.

we'll lock you in closets and write off your words
you selfish child, you wolf crying shit
nothing is wrong, stop all your crying
we will not stand up for you
we would much rather sit


here.

or here. options are a good thing.

you have all the time in the world.

I don't expect many people will bother reading this, but I don't mind all that much.

However, the fact is that you are here, so you might as well keep staring at this page.

The new Beautiful Orange Aqueduct demo has been done for about a month or so now, and I'm still not sure what we are doing with it. We planned to record some of the tracks again later in the year in a proper studio, but none of that has happened yet. For now I've come up with a film to promote the new material. It's called "cover your face, dear child!". But it's not done yet. Hopefully within the next few weeks.

I'm also now a part of Origins. Quite a different creative environment from that of Beautiful Orange Aqueduct, and I think I need that right now.

New Green Tea Project song here.
Through the Hole in the Tree. It's like a field. Well, that's what it's like for me anyway. A field where the colors are all fucked up, and everything moves backwards. It's nice there. That's what I was going for.

Now I will rely on tea and all it's caffeine to get me through the day without sleep.

In Rainbows. I am so very happy about that.