good morning!
i’ve just gone international with this blog. about time. its not a question of popularity, neither is it one of constraint. i just felt it was time. maybe it is. we’ve been writing songs in english for years now, we speak it in college, sing along to english lyrics of our favorite bands, read english books (always the wrong ones), laugh at cartoons, dont laugh at news headlines, lead pointless party conversations, do dirty talk, etc. - in english. so why not include this blog?
i hope that at least a few people can appreciate this. maybe not everybody - i understand - but considering that this band has done all their writing and half their thinking in concepts and under influences that take roots in a rather universal and international context than a regional or genre-restrictive one - it just seems right. this is not an obligation - its an invitation. to virtually anyone (who knows the language…:) )
my personal opinion as a blog-reader, music-digger or lyrics-memorizer, or whichever other side of music enjoyment you want, is that i would much rather be able to grasp all of what a band has to say than feel my way around somehow. ok. so much for the reasoning.

oh and also: no - im not desperately trying to justify this before myself. but i want everyone to understand.
one last thing: im totally lacking capitalization and punctuation discipline. but thats ok.

we’ve been writing. it feels good. so we’ll just keep going. im really psyched about some of the new material. but yeah…lets keep the cap on the bottle for now.
also: we’ve been playing acoustic shows for a little while now, firstly because jasper had been locked away in an office building for a few weeks, but also because we like reducing instrumentations to whats really necessary. and it turns out its real fun. it somehow seems to be easier to appreciate our music that way. at least thats what i’ve been told by everyone. maybe just in a bar-gig context. anyhow - thanks for the appreciation. we heart you.

the sun is out and i dont want to miss out…but just to reinforce the information you probably already have marked bright bright blinking bloody red in your timer: new death cab record on may 13!

word.
nick

Posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 11:59 in Blog.