I've been getting frequent and unexplainable headaches for the past three days. The first occurrence seemed to have been triggered by somebody asking really stupid questions that didn't further the discussion and were for their own personal stupid curiosity in one of my lecture classes, and they just keep returning at random times. Specifically, the pain comes from the left side of my head and emanates around the rest of my skull. It's the kind of headache that I consider hitting my head against something to relieve. Three Advil does a good job of getting rid of it for a couple hours, and then I return to this state where I feel like it could hit at any moment, and if anything aggravates me at all, it could come back at a moment's notice. I have one right now.
I haven't typed on this in a while, but since the last time I did, we've finally put together a complete line-up for atta boy. Dave is on guitar, my brother Sam is on drums, and I'm on bass and occasional keyboard. Both Dave and I want do vocals. I like that it's a three piece. A good tight set of people who can work well together. A band of five has way too many opinions flying around.
We've completed our album concept for our first effort. It's going to be called "sojourn". It's going to be six tracks long, which tempts us to call it an e.p., but calling anything an e.p. is generally lame, I think-- especially for our first effort. I don't want to explain any further about it though, because I want to leave room for anyone who listens to it to interpret it for themselves. If anybody thereafter asks me what it means, they forfeit their own interpretation. I actually don't know if I should even tell anybody. The album has a concept though.
We start writing for the first track next weekend and continuing the weekend after that. We hope to finish most of, if not all of, track one in that time. Track one is going to be called "Eyelids". We might post rough boombox recordings on the myspace of us working the song out. It will be completely instrumental and about five minutes long.
That's about it for now.
