You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.
Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?
I love digestible art, but I make what I think is organic and realistic, and therefore it's incomplete and completely tangent oriented. I try to keep with what I am thinking about that day - which changes too fast.
I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording.
I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.
I've been creating work by silk-screening images of arms and legs and heads and objects on paper - like drawings of vegetables, guns, hats, whatever - and then also printing sheets of patterns, colorful polka dots and line drawing patterns.
I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.
It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to earth.
Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.
I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh.
Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A) I believe that, or B) I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.
That's why I started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away.
Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with singing.
I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the hallway. I dropped my pencil. I just aged a minute."
I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.
People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.
I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.
I think alot of vocalists believe in the sound, or the way they sing it - it's interchangable.
There are people who seem to be on the verge of going either way, and something kicks in to support either the visual or the auditory. Maybe if you are in a rush for success you follow the one that is the most successful, and the other falls to the wayside.
Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the window.
More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up!
A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.
Gross things sound funny and set people up to listen to something a little uninviting.
