sunday snowy sunday

A bass, a bass amplifier head, a 4x10 cabinet, a pedalboard, a bassdrum, a tom and a floor tom, a hihat stand, a cymbal stand and a drum stool. That's what we had to carry down from my place on the 4th floor to the car - to rehearsal and back again. No wonder there's no room for anything anymore in the Crib Of Love, I have too much stuff.

The iCoRy rehearsal went pretty ok - considering that carrying and setting up the gear took about 2 hours and we could only rehearse for like 45 minutes because Mr.A had a train to catch :))
In his defense, for those who don't know what a cool dude he is, he was in such a hurry that he actually called a cab BEFORE he counted down the last tune ! :))


a short and crappy "let's groove before the rest arrive" jam. I love Janek Gwizdala, did I ever mention that? :P


** LATER EDIT

I was messing around with video options on my youtube account and I managed to delete the vid above. Yay ! Go me !

Anywhooo, we are preparing for this:



It will be awesome, OR ELSE !!!

You already know the next line

BE THERE OR BE SKWER !!!!!

I am working on the video promo, so stay tuned - we'll be spamming yo' asses in no time !!

wörkie-wörkie time now.

laterios gonzalios !

on air numero zwei

What I like most about appearing on LIVE television is that it takes me about one minute to repeat myself 3 times, telling the same thing over again using different words and different types of shoulder shrugs without having answered the moderator's actual question. Oh, and that usually my sentences make sense, I just tend to mumble the last few words, so there's always an aura of mystery to what I am saying.
Today Big Z and me were invited to talk about zee singlecut bass yet again, reiterating what has been said about us winning the competition the thousandth time. This time live. Yay. Me being sleepy and sort of hungover. Yay.

If this experience has taught me anything, it's that :

01. If Dana promises me chocolate in order for me to want to appear on live tv, I better make sure my demands are met. I am expecting one tablet of White, one tablet of Nussknackers and a bag of Chokotoff. I know you are reading this :P YOU BETTER DELIVER !!!! :P

02. Underneath the apparent chaos and cigarette smoke in the broadcast room - there is order and a Hery ! \m/ hats off to the dude for that, I know I couldn't do that type of thing :P too hectic for me. I am a calm and peace loving individual, sort of like a hippie. Without the long hair and the patchouli stench.

03. Live TV is no biggie if you imagine that you are in your safe place and you picture a giant, dancing teddy bear instead of the moderator.

04.

the last one I just made up, I didn't actually learn it today.

I am tired, today's work is postponed till tomorrow.
Relax slippers on, loungin' mode set, engage !

laterus, peepz

smooth promo preparatör

The thing I like most about giving an interview is that about 10 minutes after I have uttered all the b*llshit I could come up with regarding the given subject, my mind simply erases all and the blissful ignorance returns me to the state of not caring who sees me mumble incoherently on the local tv station. Oh, and I guess my mom thinks it's cool to see me on tv. So it has its perks. Today the interview was bass-related, so I actually HAD things to say. Thank God.


unrelated rakenroll face


I am working on a concert poster and video promo for the GODMODE/iCoRy gig coming up the 21st of february. We want as many kids there as possible, so eye-candies are a must :)

That's about it, my graphtablet awaits me. And tonight I'm gonna go see Grimus play.

cheeriöz, young padawans !

the art of drawing without an eraser

Ach, filming random stuff is fun.
I call this one "sup Bodhisatva"



P.S.

Today I had a major, life-changing decision to make. I was at the local store, dazed and confused, like I usually end up if I don't leave the house for a couple of days, when it entered my field of vision. There it was - the fruit juice stand.
All kinds of varieties screaming at me in yellowish and sometimes red coloured cartons. Vitamins, vitamins, vitamins !! No preservatives !! No bad mojo for your fragile boo-boo body ! Just the way we like it.
But today something was different. There was a new carton staring back at me. Still in a yellowish fashion, but with a taste of purplish-pink.
It said - *brand name* + MILD JUICE !!
I was awestruck, afraid and bewildered at the same time. We all fear the unknown but sometimes the novelty renders us defenseless. As was the case today. My life flashed before my eyes, I was transported back in the days when we had to dissolve chunky almost jelly-like thick liquids in vast amounts of water to obtain sweet, liver-murdering fruit juices - with natural-identical aroma, of course. I started pondering if I would be making a mistake by purchasing this product. Is the "MILD JUICE" a threat to my fierce manhood? Will it soften my character of steel? Will it make me less of a person? "MILD"
Then I read the fineprint underneath - 'reich an natürlichen Vitamin C. Vitaminquelle aus 10 weiteren Vitaminen' Fuck. They got me. I bought the shit.

I gotta eat something, all this vitamin-talk has made me hungry :P
that's life.

laters, amigos !

P.S. numero zwei
the fuckers at the store put the bootleg Nussknacker (Nuskracher) chocolate right next to the real deal. You got me first time around, but now I got my eyes on you !!

honest balances and scales belong to the Lord

As someone once so wisely put it "I am on a seafood diet, I see food and I eat it". Ditto. Yet another few victorious pounds added to my beloved physical entity !



I'm throwing a party at 69 !

Rejoice in these wonderful news, while I haul my ass back to rotoscoping !

zippitty doo-dah, y'all !

immerse your soul in Love

Thom


pöppet


I've just ordered one of these graphic tablets



hopefully it'll arrive soon and I'll be able to draw at home, too, not just at work.
Though nothing can really beat the Cintiq at the office.
I am not much of an artist but I do like sketching and I do have fun spending hours shading. On top of it all, I think I've just spent my last monetary resources on the tablet, so it'd better work.

On another note, "hemoptysis" is almost ready, I just need to touch up the lyrics and track the vocals. I don't think it will be a chartbreaker, but I definitely think it's gonna be a step up from all my previous stuff, both composition and production-wise. That's what I love about life, things keep evolving, I'm always learning new things, even if I don't realize it. Yesterday for example, I learned that if you put your Tele on a guitarstand near the door, you can knock it down when opening the door.

that's about it for today,
straciatellaz to y'all

four brothers, a bathrobe and jackie chan movies

I really dig Janek Gwizdala's expressive playing, he's starting to become one of my favourite bassists.

I hope the weather will soon warm up, I am sick and tired of this cold. It takes about 6 seconds till the mucus in my nosey-nose freezes stiff after I step out the door. We don't like that. I like the word 'mucus', though. Reading it in hungarian makes me think of puppies and teddybears.

I am off to bed.

night, kids !