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Tuesday, August 28, 2001

Magnetosphere returns to the stage for the second time in ~1,277 earth-days.

_SPECIFICATIONS:
Sat., Sept. 1. Music begins 9:30 p.m. There is no cover.
Quenchers: 2401 N. Western Ave., Chicago (773) 276-9730.
Magnetosphere performs first, followed by Echo Seven.

_FINE PRINT:
Magnetosphere's set will be much different than our recent showing at The
Mutiny, likely featuring previously unperformed acoustic works, a soothing
blast of amped-up magneto-improv, and a couple of well-rehearsed
electric rocksongs too. Look for possible mystery guests as well.

_BACKGROUND:
Quenchers is a well-loved drinking establishment with a 20 year history.
They have one of the biggest beer selections in the city and an intimate
music room away from the racket of the bar. We hope you can make it.
posted by scott judd 8/28/2001 01:55:59 PM

Tuesday, August 14, 2001

here's a page with more pictures from the mutiny
give it a minute to load if you're on dial-up
thanks to alisa for snappin' the digi-images of us!
click here to see 'em
posted by scott judd 8/14/2001 11:19:19 PM

Monday, July 30, 2001

well, our first show back in 3.5 yrs. seemed to go just fine!
we had a blast, and felt great love from all angles. the mutiny is a nice lowkey joint.
thanks to all who came and listened, and esp. steph and donna from BLOPOP for putting the show together, and also to the doom boys for closing the night out in heroic rock fasion.
here's a few pics from our set, more to come
hopefully more shows will be forthcoming now that we've broken the silence. stay tuned.
posted by scott judd 7/30/2001 11:36:34 AM

Monday, July 23, 2001

Reminder: MAGNETOSPHERE will be rocking this Saturday (7/28) at the Mutiny (2428 N Western Ave, Chicago). We'll be playing with our pals Danny Doom and Blopop!!! We play first (10 PM), so get there early!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!
posted by Alien Rendel 7/23/2001 09:43:45 AM

Tuesday, July 03, 2001

Check out this site for a great listing of Chicago area bands (us included).


posted by scott judd 7/3/2001 02:39:43 PM

Friday, June 22, 2001

Venus and Mars are alright tonight....

Get outside and check out Mars tonight!
posted by Alien Rendel 6/22/2001 10:55:13 AM

Thursday, June 07, 2001

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast01jun_1.htm

Mankind will make it to Mars, but we're not going without the condiments!

posted by Alien Rendel 6/7/2001 10:22:22 AM

Monday, June 04, 2001

GIG TIME: Stephanie and Donna of BLOWPOP were kind enough to invite us to join them at THE MUTINY on Western at Fullerton on 7/28. We'll go on first, Blowpop will follow, and Danny Doom's newly budding trio will destroy what's left of the dump after that. Of course the good Dr. Shick will have moved to CO by then, so who knows what kind of format/lineup we'll be running with, but trust that we'll do all we can to get the ship high off the ground whether there's any bass in the mix or not.

And we're still pursuing any and all other shows we can get for the summer too, so keep us in mind if you know anybody needing a band to fill out a bar-bill or rock a party.

Finally, we're on another recoding binge and have a few more songs nearly done. Stay tuned for more new mp3's within the month, including an Alien toe-tapper from our first batch of Magneto-tunes ever, FOR YOUR SAKE, along with Scott's melancholy rocker, NEVER GOING BACK, and the newest of the Judd-jams, BUBBLE.
posted by scott judd 6/4/2001 12:27:37 PM

Wednesday, May 09, 2001

Who is Martian Luther?
posted by Alien Rendel 5/9/2001 09:55:21 AM

Tuesday, May 01, 2001

Four long-promised new MP3's are up and ready for the taking:
Click here: Listen
posted by scott judd 5/1/2001 11:24:30 AM

Wednesday, April 25, 2001

We mixed a new four-song demo last night, to start giving to clubs/bars right away, with an eye on playing shows in June/July. Anyone who needs an opening act or a band who'll play for beer at a party, please get in touch.

This was all recorded in the last year or so, and finished up recently. 3 of the 4 songs feature the full new lineup. Here's the playlist:

You Are Not An Aeroplane
Solitary Day
Oh No
Amarillo

We'll post MP3's sometime soon, once I get my new fast web connection going at work. Our home DSL bit the dust for good a few weeks ago. Either way, the 'Sphere is near.
posted by scott judd 4/25/2001 12:50:37 PM

Friday, April 06, 2001

I just had us added to http://www.chicagolocalbands.com
you can see our page here

eventually they'll host some song samples, list all current shows, and even start selling our songs for us. please visit them early and often - seems like a great free resource.
posted by scott judd 4/6/2001 11:00:43 AM

Monday, March 12, 2001

This is a plug for my nephew Blakes black-metal band EZURATE:
They're playing SMILER COOGANS on 4/14.
Be there, or have your church burned down in the night.
RAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGKKKKKKKKKKKKKK.
posted by scott judd 3/12/2001 02:56:24 PM

This is a test to see if I can get hot links to post in our BLOG.
TAKE ME HOME!
posted by scott judd 3/12/2001 12:45:31 PM

Thursday, March 08, 2001

does anybody read this? If so, you should also check out our pal Doom's Booze Cabinet

I got beat up lots in high school by the wrestler/football player crowd. Probably because of the long hair, or the black clothes, or the nail polish, or the eye liner, or the fact that the chicks dug ME more than they dug the meatheads. One day one of the dicks told me (as he was beating my ass - in front of my girlfriend) that he was doing it because, "people like you give this school a bad name." Well, the fact is that our high school was rated as one of the top in the nation partly because of my high grades and test scores.

I feel very bad & sympathetic for Andy Williams. Like me in high school, he got fucked with on a daily basis by people who didn't even try to understand him and the school officials completely failed to protect him. Now he's stuck on television where he will certainly be reduced, classified, misrepresented, made simple for our easy consumption. I can't say the thought ever crossed my mind when I was his age to shoot anyone, but if I had, how would I have been represented in the media. I would have been an easy target, as a confirmed freak. I remember a teacher telling me she was not surprised when I got caugh drinking on a school field trip and the look of complete shock on her face when she showed up at my chuch a few Sundays later and saw me sitting out on the grass reading a Bible story to my class of 1st graders...it had probably never occured to her before that she and I had anything in common and there I was TEACHING!
posted by Alien Rendel 3/8/2001 10:09:54 AM

Tuesday, March 06, 2001

Well, we played our first 'show' in 3+ years last night, albeit in our attic for our own enjoyment. But it was a nice dry run for the real thing. Instead of playing the same songs over and over, stopping in the middle if something was weird, playing so hard we broke strings every few songs (well, that's my problem, really, not the band's), and tuning endlessly between songs like we do at most practices, we just laid out a setlist on paper and played it as if we were doing it for an audience. And we're doing it again tonight with a totally different setlist. It was pretty cool. Despite the predictable presence of a few ghastly harmonies and the occasional monster clam from one or the other of us, most of it came off like actual ROCK, with some good raging guitar breaks, a healthy dose of spontaneity along with the tightness of a band that's been practicing 2-3 times a week for months on end, and a general sense that we can actually play a planned set of songs as a unit. The set was a mix of really old songs and a few of our newer ones, and we finished it off in a clean 47 minutes. It looked like this:

You Are Not An Aeroplane
For Your Sake
Solitary Day
Count Me In
Cutting Room
Oh No
Bubble

While 7 songs in 47 minutes doesn't seem like a lot, when you consider that most of our songs are 4-5 minutes on the short side, and some can push 8-10 if they have lots of different sections or we have some fun with an open ended blowout after the last chorus, it starts to make more sense. Hell, we've improvised wacked out space-noise sessions for longer than 47 minutes without stopping or playing a single song, so I think this was a pretty good experiment in trying to play a traditional set of tunes in the traditionally allotted timeframe! The Minutemen we are not (much as we love them).

For anyone who saw any of our old shows, For Your Sake, Solitary Day and Oh No might've rung a bell, and Cutting Room is a long-standing entry on our MP3 page, but the other four are new creations from the last year and have not yet been heard outside our house. 'Aeroplane' is the only one in the demo hopper for upcoming release, but hopefully we'll record the others soon too.

Anyway, the point of all this is that we're committed to finishing up our latest demo of the current four-piece lineup (with the honorable Jon Shick presiding over keyboards AND bass keyboards) so that we can finally get it out to the clubs and book some shows.

There's also a nasty truth lingering in the form of Jon possibly having to leave town in search of permanent post-Residency employment sometime this summer (Can you believe there's not jobs there for the taking for an all-star new Doctor in Chicago? Amazing, and lame), so we're gonna make damn sure we put all our practicing from the last few months to work by getting our butts out of the house for a show or two before we lose our keyman. And of course we're hoping that won't actually happen, but it sure makes for a good excuse to get back in gear for the live show.

Look for some mp3's of the new demo tunes as soon as we can nail the vocals down and mix 'em (yea, yea, how long have I been saying this?), and hopefully some show dates to follow not long after.

Judd
posted by scott judd 3/6/2001 02:59:18 PM

Wednesday, February 07, 2001

We have a page at: MP3.com where you can download a couple of MP3s (nothing that isn't already available here).

Also, the folks at Rolling Stone let us put up a page.
These guys used to publish a magazine about Rock'n'Roll, but I think it went out of business or something...
posted by Alien Rendel 2/7/2001 03:01:10 PM

OK, so here's a story I told at a party a few weeks ago and was encouraged by a man named DOOM to make public. It concerns why we named the band MAGNETOSPHERE.

When I was a freshman in college in 1985 at St. Lawrence University in extremely upstate New York (15 miles from the Canadian border, in the dairy flats just north of the Adirondacks), I took a non-curriculum course in January (called J-Term, just a fun month where you take one class that is not at all concerned with your likely eventual major, basically just a month off to party and have class 6 hours a week at most, and hopefully learn something weird that you wouldn't otherwise be exposed to). Anyway, pending Reading/Writing/Arguing-major that I was, I opted for the coolest sounding science class on the list, CURIOSITIES OF LIGHT AND COLOR. It was taught by this crusty old lab-rat guy who'd been there forever and was eccentric to say the least, if not just totally boring in every way, but thankfully the subject matter of his class was pretty riveting, and he was so enthused by it that I had no choice but to get sucked in, despite feeling sure this was a guy who could put me to sleep in under 5 minutes in any other actual science class not catering to the English majors of the world, with their limited attention spans and crappy math skills.

As I'd hoped, the class turned out to be really great - we looked at the sun through polarized lenses, we bounced lasers off reflectors hundreds of yards away, we discussed corona's, sundogs, sunsets, and rainbows, as well as taking a good lay-person's look at how the human eye perceives light and color, and how that may differ from the way it really looks, right down to the old MOMMY, WHY IS THE SKY BLUE? and other such basic questions, very pressing matters for cold, hung-over 18-year old's, I assure you.

Anyway, we each had to pick a topic and do a paper and presentation on it during the last week of the class, and somehow I ended up choosing the Northern Lights (aka Aurora Borelis, and it's southern counterpart, Aurora Polaris). I read a bunch of books and papers on the subject and put together a pretty good little rap on the subject, and presented it to high grades from both my fellow classmates AND Professor what's-his-name.

For those of you who don't already know, the Magnetosphere is basically the magnetic field around our planet that allows us to have a life-sustaining atmosphere, and also protects us from the nasty, rotten, killing winds emanating constantly from the sun. Despite it's life-giving reputation and popularity with the scantily-clad crowd, the sun is really just a roiling, volatile, noxious, toxic, hyper-heated bomb-in-progress that would just as soon blind and/or fry every one of us as it would make us tan and happy and allow us to enjoy plant life, were it not for this great magnetic filter we have hovering between us and the it. In other words, the Magnetosphere is our friend in many ways, and is deeply tied to our planet's very existence, and is therefore something of a legal-guardian to all of us and everything we do (and, yes, I'm sure it's quite appalled by now, ha ha ha). The best part of this whole thing is that when the super-charged particles of the solar wind hit our magnetosphere, it's efforts to deflect them away from the planet cause it to get all excited and emit colors and shapes not commonly associated with the night sky, and this can be seen by those of us on land in the form of the Northern/Southern Lights. Unfortunately you have to be pretty far north or south to see them, it has to be VERY clear outside, and this cold, clear night has to coincide with a time when solar wind activity is at least a bit abnormally high, if not absolutely raging and directly focused above your present location (as was definitely the case when I first experienced it, as you'll learn below).

All that said - here's the real point of this story. I did my paper and presentation without ever having even SEEN the Northern Lights, and my interest in doing so was at an absolutely feverish peak. Upstate NY in the dead of winter is a perfect time to pull it off, so I was primed and constantly looking at the night sky, wondering when my day would come. So there I am in bed reading one night in February, in the Rebert Dorm on the edge of campus, enjoying an old Albert Collins album with my roommate Steve Cooney, when comes a mysterious rapping at our door… It's Phil Joslyn, a very mild-mannered guy from my J-Term class, who I had never once spoken to outside of class, and really didn't know at all beyond our shared time in J-Term. He says something like, "Hey, I'm Phil, remember me from the Light and Color class? Well, I really liked your paper and your presentation on the Northern Lights and, well, you've gotta get your coat and come with me, as they're going full-blast right now, and we can watch it from the roof of my dorm." EXCELLENT!

So off we go to Phi's dorm, all bundled up for sub-zero temps, and the sky is as black and clear as it gets, and as my eyes adjust I start to see what I'd only read about and seen in picture books, an indescribably colorful pulsing and waving high in the sky, constantly in motion and always changing, coming and going so swiftly you're never sure you're actually seeing it until you see it change and become something else - absolutely the coolest thing I'd ever seen in my life. Phil and I sat up there in lawn chairs for at least an hour with our eyes pinned on the sky directly above us and it just kept coming - there was no way we could leave, even though it was completely freezing outside. I'll post a picture or two sometime soon to show you what this looks like, but needless to say it was incredible, and I was totally grateful to this humble stranger for going out of his way to make sure I got to enjoy this natural spectacle that I'd recently learned so much about. Eventually it either began to subside or we got so cold we couldn't take it any more, probably both, so we went back to our respective rooms and that was that, but it was a night I'll always remember as a major highlight, both in terms of natural phenomena and unexpected human contact.

Thankfully, it was not the last time I'd see the Aurora either - I got several more good showings that year, and even left campus once to drive out into the corn fields outside of town to view it from the darkest spot possible for maximum enjoyment. I'd never been in a darker, quieter place than the middle of a snowy cornfield 10 miles outside a tiny town in the middle of nowhere in upstate NY, and on that particular night we were sure we could not only see but HEAR the Aurora humming to us as it pulsed in and out of view - it was mind-boggling, and left us sure the original Native Americans must have been summarily blown away when they encountered this strange visitor, back before passing jets, halogen lights and blinking redlight radio towers were there to thieve off with the tranquility of a world uninterrupted by man and his machines.

Well, here's the thing that made this whole tale a truly monumentous occasion in my life: Phil Joslyn got killed that summer when he was on a bicycle tour with some friends. A drunk driver flew around a corner on a winding country road and just blew Phil away - he was killed instantly. I believe he was the only one in the group to get hit, despite having cyclist friends both in front of and behind him. I was crushed when I heard the news - even though I hardly knew this guy, and hadn't become terribly close with him even after our great Aurora-viewing time together that night in February, I felt like I'd lost the closest of friends, and the whole magneto-auroral phenomenon took on great significance for me as something to hang onto in life, and to always remember Phil by.

So, then 13 years later or so, when Alien and I were pondering names for our new band (sure as we were that we could find something more interesting and meaningful than SLUMMINGBIRDS, whatever that meant...), among my long list of backwards words, weird geology terms, and not-so-clever puns was MAGNETOSPHERE, and Alien asked me whattup with that? I'm not even sure I told him the whole story of Phil and my first experience with the amazing by-product of our blessed Magnetosphere, at least not right then and there, but once I explained a bit about what it was, he needed little convincing that this was a proper and promising new name for our new band, and that if we could aspire to SOUND like the Northern Lights LOOK, then we'd certainly be on the right track with our music. So we made it official that day - MAGNETOSPHERE was the name we'd take with us into the future. Mag-Knee-Toes-Fear (for those of you who might be inclined to say mag-NET-o-sphere, which not only sounds much less cool, but just ain't right...). I hope this helps clear up what has been a long-standing mystery for anyone who ever wondered what we were thinking picking a weird name like Magnetosphere.

See our links page at http://www.magnetosphere.com/links.htm to learn more about the Magnetosphere, the Aurora, and all the other cool space-happenings that you might be missing.
posted by scott judd 2/7/2001 02:17:37 PM

Nice work, Alien! Now we can post some blog-riffic news blasts in style - very cool.
I fix'd the falcon picture, but fear this post may blow it away again (html oddity not worth explaining).
So here goes - if you're reading this post and you can still see a majestic beast below, you know things are coming up aces.
posted by scott judd 2/7/2001 11:54:42 AM

Tuesday, February 06, 2001

OK, Blog is officially our news page now, so you can be assured that you will know everything that happens with the Magnetosphere just as soon as we feel like telling you about it. Sadly, I seem to have blown away Scott's falcon pic below. I'm not sure what I did there, but maybe he can fix it so you all can see the majestic beast.
posted by Alien Rendel 2/6/2001 10:48:04 AM

Friday, January 26, 2001

this is a peregrine falcon.

these birds nest in downtown chicago

as well as in cliffs and canyons out west

they used to be endangered

they're just off the list, and boucing back

a pair nests on the north-east side of the

federal prison at clark and van buren

in the big air-vent at about the 8th floor.

there's a parking garage across the street

where you can view it about eye-to-eye.

i hope to get down there with a borrowed

camera with a boomin' zoom and take some

shots of them.  they raised young there last

year, before i realized you could get such a

good view from the garage.  once you see

one of these birds, you will never want to

walk by without seeing them again.  check

it out if you're downtown, look for the one

bird that looks like a true expert flyer, and is

generally bigger than all the pigeons (and quite

likely killing one of them on the wing over a

busy intersection).  see the links page sometime

soon for some good raptor links.  aside from

the magnetosphere, raptors win the coolest

thing in nature award from me.  runner-up?

for the time-being anyway, THE BLUE-FOOTED

BOOBY.


posted by scott judd 1/26/2001 11:44:55 PM

All MP3's have been replaced with new, better copies.
Delete your old one's now, and take fresh copies.

And be sure to get NINE SHINY DIMES in it's new hiss-free flavor.
It's much better now, thanks to SoundForge's handy noise-reduction analog. I measured and stripped that crude, cheap-mic-on-the-cheap-fourtrack hiss completely out, and didn't freak out what remained either.

Trust that the new songs will be as sonically pleasing as possible when they come (Clay's four-track is much quieter than our old one, we have a new sorta-fancy mic, and we're slowly dabbling with digital noise-reduction to clean up some extra slop here and there - we prefer to leave the HISS all out and the BUZZ all in, don't ya know), and we might even sound like a real band playing together too at times. Between having a full lineup for the first time in 2 or more years, and having both new and old songs to put to record, we hope to unveil some new and occasionally lovely sounds into the free world in the coming year. Let us know how we're doing if/when we actually cough up the goods.
posted by scott judd 1/26/2001 11:38:12 PM

Monday, January 22, 2001

OK, no MAGNETO-BLOGging has occurred in a while, so here goes. We've been playing with some good regularity lately, and are working hard finishing off all recording works-in-progress. This means getting Dr. Shick up to speed on all the tunes we may want to play when we start doing shows, and finalizing the arrangements on some of our new songs too. We have a few tunes nearly in the can for release here on the website sometime soon, featuring the new lineup of Allen and Scott on guitars, Clay on drums, and Jon on keyboards and Fender Rhodes Bass Keyboards. This last was a gracious gift from Jason Hinkle (of VERYSIMPLE.COM and BALDWIN BROTHERS fame), and it is working out beautifully so far, allowing Jon to hold down the low-end without us having to employ a fifth member or make Judd play bass all night (which wears him out...). Stay tuned so you can hear what we're talking about for yourselves. At this point we hope to be ready to resume playing shows by March or April. Thanks to anyone and everyone who's beamed us their love and encouragement to take this band out of the attic and back into the outside world. Kudos also to Kelly18, Today's My Super Spaceout Day, and other rocking local pals of ours who keep on playing shows and inspiring us to join them out there as soon as possible.
posted by scott judd 1/22/2001 02:19:52 PM

Monday, January 08, 2001

OK, it's official - the new Netscape 6.0 sucks. Most especially the new version of Composer, which makes you choose from only 4 fonts and corrupts the character spacing in HTML that was created in the previous versions. Up until now, I had used Netscape Composer for all my HTML needs (including most of this site), but I am now on the lookout for a better program. Suggestions? email me: alien@magnetosphere.com
posted by Alien Rendel 1/8/2001 12:21:14 PM

Yes, I'll have the blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, egg & blog, please.
posted by Alien Rendel 1/8/2001 12:00:23 PM

this is an html blog test

with an image embedded

simple stuff, but i'm just wading in...

that's a harris hawk, for those of you keeping score at home:




posted by scott judd 1/8/2001 09:32:39 AM

Sunday, January 07, 2001

It's becoming apparent to me that BLOGging is catching on. I'd read about it in WIRED, and I've seen it on some of my frequented websites, so with little further investigation I visited Blogger.com and setup our own BLOGable page for Alien and me to keep the site current with vital and other kinds of information that we can upload from anywhere. It is my great hope that both of us take the time to post from anywhere we go where internet access exists, whether we're sneaking into your home office during a keg party to get on your AOL and write something about how nice your party has been, or taking 2 minutes during a work appointment to put your employer's corporate bandwidth to some use other than PURE EVIL.

That said, let me BLOG on into this past weekend as lived by me and my beloved brothers of MAGNETOSPHERE:

The holidays took their toll, and it's been some time since we had regular magneto-time, so without hesitation, Alien, Clay and I had a pair of weekend meetings (Dr. Jon is STILL in the holiday spirit, celebrating Kelly's birthday this weekend and next anywhere but at Cape Judd!).

Saturday saw us just getting back into it loosely, starting off with a long insane improv jam that by all rights we probably should have taped. We then worked through a few songs proper. It went great and felt so good to do again after a bit of a break (as is usually the case). It was the first Jon-less playing we'd done in a while, so it sounded a bit naked, what with no keys or bass-organ, but we didn't let that bother us. However, hang-overs, lingering holiday colds, and other elaborate winter weekend excuses left us a bit breathless and sweating after an hour or so of the rock, so we took a break and ended up catching some of NEIL YOUNG LIVE AT REDROCKS for free on the satellite tv, which was thoroughly enjoyable, though not enough to keep us through to the end. We headed back upstairs during PEACE OF MIND, and put in another short session. This one culminated with the fastest, longest version of our new song BUBBLE ever. The open ended part at the end went on for at least 10 out-of-body minutes and, again, was probably one for the archives but, alas, we were so psyched just to be PLAYING that we didn't bother with any pesky recording. That would be taken care of on Sunday.

Sunday we were at it by about 3, mic'ing the drums and guitars quickly and dirtily, and getting set to do some tracking with no vocals (good thing - I don't think either of us 'singers' has much of a voice on a Sunday afternoon at this time of year, not to mention that we don't have adequate facilities to get real vocal tracks while doing the instrumentation). Once again we started with a big improv session that bred some interesting stuff. I mostly hammered some slightly blues'd-out off-the-cuff rock riff while alien and clay pushed us all over the sonic universe, occasionally abandoning my post to wig out with the guys. But, tape was short, or so we thought at the moment, so Rendel taped over it despite my feeling it should be kept (clearly not a feeling I expressed vividly enough!! NOTE TO SELF: GET SPINE). From there, Clay suggested we try out another new one of mine that we'd done to good effect only once before, a song with no real changes or lyrics (PERFECT for a Sunday!), just a somewhat promising collection of cool sounding home-made chords with a chugging rhythmic groove. We ran off a pretty long, loose version of this pending classic, though I suspect this will become an educational version for us rather than the base-tracks of a future mixdown. We then moved into a couple of versions of Amarillo, one of Allen's nice melancholy freshies. The second take beat the rocket fuel out of the first, and out of us as well, it seemed, and that was it. We hauled the four-track downstairs to have a listen, deemed it keep-able, and we segued immediately into Sunday night cartoons and ordered a pizza, ending our re-entry into the hallowed zone of Magnetosphere.

We'll listen through these again sometime soon, maybe let the Dr. take a crack at adding some key/bass tracks, then we'll mix 'em down and you'll hear them right here. Someday. Could be weeks or months, if the past is any indication, but suffice it to say, this BLOGging is intended as simple evidence that we are committed to write, record, encode and share as much music as we can in the coming '01, as well as to get our collective arsenal in gear and do the do in public. At this point, we have two nearly finished cuts (Solitary Day/You Are Not An Aeroplane) almost ready for mixdown and release, and one tentative one in the rough-cut stage (Never Going Back), so between those three and what we worked on today, there could be a nice chunk of new music up and available in the near future.

As the sleazy-servant-turned-master-of-the-universe in the classic shipwreck flick MAROONED liked to say, "Lez hopeso."
posted by scott judd 1/7/2001 11:02:09 PM

this is a test to see if my updated template takes effect
posted by scott judd 1/7/2001 10:15:41 PM

herein lies my first blog post. may this be the first step towards the gravity-free existence i have long sought, where all form is replaced by sound, and all sound replaced by hot sauce, thanks to none other than BLOG.
posted by scott judd 1/7/2001 09:59:22 PM