It's been damn near 2 years since I've written in here so I think that I'm gonna try to start it up again, we'll see how this goes. I enjoyed when I used to write on here about music so I was thinking of keeping that going... maybe get on here every week or 2 and write about some kind of album, preferably a new album, give some thoughts after a few listens and see what I think. If I like it enough, I might even run over to YouTube and find some kind of video for a song on the album for no one to hear. That is unless I think of something better or more witty to write about which is highly unlikely.
Today's celebrity birthday - 2 people are both 28 today, Lacey Chabert (Not Another Teen Movie as the fake Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Kieran Culkin (Fuller in Home Alone - "I can't sleep with Fuller, he wets the bed!")
Writing lyrics is not easy for me. I have no idea what it is. I think I just have to really look outside the whole box and think differently, get into some other kind of mindset. I swear that every single time I start to write some, it just feels like it's all been done before. Needless to say the other day, I didn't complete a full song for this reason. I did get the music done and I'm happy with how that sounds right now, but the lyrics are basically nonexistent, so that's kind of a bummer. I never actually got a chance to hook up my thing to my computer to record it or anything because I can't figure the damn thing out. I guess I have to wait until I'm home for Christmas break and my cousin comes and hooks it up because he uses the same thing. Times like these, I really miss the Fostex, that fucker was good to me. Oh well, hopefully I'll save up enough money soon to buy my new guitar. Don't know what I'm getting yet, but it's going to be an acoustic-electric, preferably with a single cutaway. We'll see what happens with that though.
Tomorrow I have a test that I'm still studying for because the shit we learned 4 weeks ago is not really ringing any bells for me. But I just decided that when I get home after it, I'm going to finish a song. I have a bunch of little tidbits of shit here and there that I always forget to write down so I remember how they go and a bunch of lyrics, so I'm going to put them together. I don't care if the song sucks complete ass. As long as I write and finish one song, it will give me the motivation to write more and hopefully record them. I'm not sure if anyone ever reads this thing, but now you know that P.J. Coombs is going to be writing music. There is no football game this weekend and I don't have any tests coming up, so I pretty much have 3 days to work on some shit that I have piled around. I wish I could say how I think it's going to turn out or how it is going to sound... I have no fucking idea. I'm just hoping it sounds remotely decent to someone because I have got so much shit that I can write about, just gotta do it now. So hopefully by the next time I write in here, I will have some sort of good news about it. But the good news for now, Phillies won the National League Championship and they are going to the World Series! Good shit.
Anthony Green of Circa Survive and The Sound of Animals Fighting (formerly of Saosin) came out with his solo C.D. Avalon a few weeks ago and this is the first single off of it. It's called "Dear Child (I've Been Dying To Reach You) and I have been obsessed with not just this song, but the entire C.D. His voice amazes me time and time again. I haven't written on here in a while but I'm going to try and write more since I'm back at school and there's lots of music coming out. The Sound of Animals Fighting also has a new C.D. out but I haven't really had a chance to listen to it. I'll write up on it when I do listen and I'm still working on my own music, hitting walls and whatnot but eventually I will write a song dammit!
All of my past posts have just been videos and me talking about them, so today, I'm going to take some time to talk about a new album I purchased a few weeks ago that has been playing non-stop on my iPod. The album is none other than Panic at the Disco's latest album "Pretty. Odd." It is crazy because this album is insanely good and so much different than their first album. That can be a good thing and a bad thing. On their first album, everything seemed to be a song you could dance too and was really synthesized. Don't get me wrong, I was a big fan of the album, but I like their new one even more. The album really gave me a whole sense of the Beatles. The first song is kind of like a "we're back, don't worry" kind of song and there is a sound of a crowd applauding which just echoed "Sgt. Pepper's" to me. As of now, I don't have a favorite song, but I am between two songs, one of which is "Northern Downpour." It is a slower acoustic song which features backing vocals by the entire band. The other song that I consider a top song is the last of the album called "Mad as Rabbits." This song has co-lead vocals with usual singer Brendon Urie and guitarist Ryan Ross. It sounds a lot like a song from the 70's featuring a tambourine in the intro. It's really a great way to close out the album. Those people who know me are well aware that it is rare for me to listen to a song beginning to end, let alone an entire album. And this is an album that I listen to beginning to end, so it is quite crazy. So if you read this, and were not a fan of Panic's first album, I'd still tell you to give this one a chance. There is no synthesized instruments on the album, anything that is orchestra, it's actual people playing the instruments. So yeah, check it out. Summer is coming really soon so that is pretty exciting. I'm going to be working, working out, and doing school work every day of the week so the weekends will be much appreciated. I intend on finally working on some music/recording some music when I can as well as purchasing a new guitar sometime over the next few months. And there will be a possible music project of one Patrick Coombs with Gregory Bucelli coming, we'll see. Me and him (well, me and you because I'm sure you're going to read this) were talking about rocking out so maybe something will come out of it. Maybe a little acoustic, a little electric, some dual vocals, definitely going to be a good time when there is time, haha. I've been working on a few songs here and there lately, nothing too crazy, nothing really new either, trying to finish up past shit that I started and got little pieces all over the place. There was an older song I had written called "What She Doesn't Know" that I'd like to do some work on, possibly have me and G lay it down and throw some drums into it, see how it sounds. So right now, I have no idea what summer holds, but I know it is going to be enjoyable and filled with making a lot of money which will be a new thing for me and couldn't have come at a better time because I am so broke and I need to save up a lot of money to have here next year. I have to support the beer fund especially for football weekends. Anywho, that's probably all that's really good now, this was quite a long post, so I don't want any complaints from Lauren that this was a lame or boring post because that is something she would say! Just kidding, but yeah, that's all I got.
Today's Celebrity Birthday - Kal Penn is 31 today and his movie comes out Friday (Happy Birthday Kumar!)
So I was going to write a post about my favorite music videos and put them up here, but it is really hard to try and figure our what your favorite music video is. There is the "Cute Without the E" video by Taking Back Sunday which is basically Fight Club crammed into 4 minutes. There is the Weezer video for "Perfect Situation" which is really only one of my favorites because it stars Elisha Cuthbert and I am absolutely in love with her. And now my new favorite music video is probably "Jaded" by Aerosmith because it has Mila Kunis in it, and if you're a guy, and saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall, you would understand why she is now on the top of my list of famous women that I love. And then, of course, the Blink-182 video for "Always" because I like the way Tom chose to make it. However, since I can't figure out my favorite video, I decided to post my least favorite video of all time, which is the Sugarcult animated video for their song "Memory." I love the song, I actually just learned the acoustic version of it a couple of weeks ago, but this video is absolutely horrendous and never should have been made because it is that damn stupid. This post is for Greg Bucelli, for some reason he has a boner for this ridiculous video, so Greg, enjoy, this one's for you pal.
As all of my closest friends know, I am a diehard fan of both Taking Back Sunday and Brand New. And anyone who knows those bands knows that there is a feud between them that dates back long ago, so I'm going to do my best to explain it before I put the videos on here. John Nolan (old guitarist/singer for Taking Back Sunday - he left and formed Straylight Run) and Jesse Lacey (lead singer and guitarist for Brand New) had been friends for a long time. When Brand New were recording their first album "Your Favorite Weapon", John had supposedly messed around (kissed/banged/licked whipped cream off of, not if any of these or something else) with Jesse's girlfriend at the time. This sparked Jesse to write the song "Seventy Times 7" which is actually one of my favorite songs ever written by Brand New. And contrary to popular belief, when John wrote Taking Back Sunday's answer to that song, "There's No 'I' In Team", it wasn't too make the feud keep going, it was more of an apology. Of course there were other things, Brand New's shirt which stated "Because Mics Are For Singing, Not Swinging" talking about Adam Lazzarra's (Taking Back Sunday lead vocalist) on-stage antics swinging his microphone around. Taking Back Sunday then released a shirt which said "Proudly Swinging Since 1999" which I actually bought at one of their concerts. Anyways, all has been resolved between John Nolan and Jesse Lacey and their bands (Straylight Run and Brand New) often tour together. And now I am being rushed by Lauren to put these two videos up, so she'll smile.
This video is Brand New's "Seventy Times 7" featuring John Nolan.
Now this video is Taking Back Sunday's "There's No 'I' In Team" featuring Jesse Lacey
Screamo history being made back then... smile Lauren!!!
