Monday, May 28, 2007

Slow Motion Highway

I drove on the Hanlon Parkway in Guelph on Saturday. I never drive on it, and it inspired me. Now, if any of you lucky souls have not had the experience of driving on the Hanlon Parkway, you life is indeed better than mine. This "highway" has stoplights. Many of them. Usually these are red. The speed limit is indeed 70 kilometres/hour. It irks me a little to start driving on a four lane highway and then have to stop. Perhaps this is because I am too used to driving fast, and I should suck this up, but regardless, it irks me.
Now, while driving this highway I was listening to Wilco, as I am prone to do. Perhaps this was also part of the inspiration. Anyway, I am in process of writing "Slow Motion Highway", and somehow I think that this might be an appropriate title for an album. It speaks of slowing down, of taking time, of waiting.
Waiting has always been interesting for me. Often God answers my prayers by saying, loudly and clearly "WAIT!" When I don't wait, there are problems. It also scares me to wait. I can remember as a younger boy than I am now, my mom asking me to wait for her in the car while she ran into the bank. Without fail, I would conjure a story in my mind of some misfortune that would befall her while in the bank, meaning I would have to wait for who knows how long.
I'm praying that God teaches me to be patient. I'm also praying for a good song, and a good album.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Rock Lives.

"The LORD is my Rock!" Psalm 18
God is my Rock.
God is alive.
My rock lives.

From now on, I want my rock music to be for my Rock. I'm sick of everything else. I just want to play, and not be part of the music world. I want to play for my Rock.

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Rock Music

Tonight is the rock show. Something tells me this is the last time I will be part of rock music. Like a chapter of my life is over. I think I'm ready to move on though.

Rock is dead.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Song for Sina

On the weekend I had the opportunity to play an acoustic "Song for Sina" to the girl herself, Sina. It went over much better than I expected, and today we were able to get through it pretty easily with Feedback. Sometimes I think that Weezer doesn't inspire me anymore; however, playing this song is proof that it does. Punk style, easy four chord progression, simplistic scale solo, and wonderfully cheesy but heartfelt lyrics are, among other things, reminiscent of Weezer's Green album, or some of the things Rivers did for the Summer Songs of 2000. I don't really know, but perhaps rock still lives and perhaps I can make a go at writing it.
In other news, I hope to write enough songs over the summer to make an album, and my plan is to record it in September. Please stay tuned for requests for musical aid, encouragement, and criticism. I also hope to get some songs up on Purevolume once I have my own computer, with high speed internet. This is another thing that should happen during the summer, which I am terribly excited for.
I hope this summer turns out to be as good as I am anticipating it to. All the best! God bless.

Monday, May 7, 2007

Feedback. Get Stoked.

Feedback plays this Saturday night at Emmanuel Christian High School. This is indeed a stag and doe type evening, so bring any disposable income. This promises to be an amazing event, so call your friends, check out www.al-janea.com, or just feel free to show up. The evening includes, among other things, a poker tournament, various games, and a jousting-ish event that involves mild physical aggression (all in the name of fun, of course!) So, come on out, support our music, support two awesome people that are about to get married, and prepare to rock.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Where are You?

"Where are You?" has now been finished and demoed for the guys in Feedback. I'm not sure where it is going to go, but I like it. Kinda emo though, which I guess is ok.
In other news, I'm enjoying my new (to me) Ibanez AE. The action and neck warp is improving, and it sounds good in "Yellow" and "Fight or Flight". I suppose this is all for now.
Good day!

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

welcome to The Amitie

This is the blog for The Amitie, a name under which I write music. I took my name from Van Gogh's "Bateaux Ste. Maries". This is a painting that I like, and Amitie also means "friendship". I suppose this is how I'd like you to feel while listening to my songs, like I'm your friend, and I'm telling you a story about my day. I also suppose that the purpose of this blog is to tell you about how writing is going for me, and maybe even post some lyrics, or stuff that I am thinking about. I hope you enjoy!