Tomorrow I'm leaving the town that can't sleep,
the town the smells different every five feet,
the town that thinks vertically,
the town where you can cross the street even when it says to not cross,
the town where you can meet everyone,
the town where everyone doesn't wait to know you,
the town that is as empty as it is full
the town that gives you dreams and shows you nightmares,
the town that inspires you to give up,
the town that encourages you fail,
the town that right before you die something good happens,
the town where something good means something big,
the town where big things happen to small people,
the town where small people come to leave small places,
the town where you learn to trust yourself,
the town where you can learn to be alone,
the town where you see things happen and then disappear,
the big apple.
the town the smells different every five feet,
the town that thinks vertically,
the town where you can cross the street even when it says to not cross,
the town where you can meet everyone,
the town where everyone doesn't wait to know you,
the town that is as empty as it is full
the town that gives you dreams and shows you nightmares,
the town that inspires you to give up,
the town that encourages you fail,
the town that right before you die something good happens,
the town where something good means something big,
the town where big things happen to small people,
the town where small people come to leave small places,
the town where you learn to trust yourself,
the town where you can learn to be alone,
the town where you see things happen and then disappear,
the big apple.
What a great weekend. The Hamptons didn't happen, but plenty of other things did. Here's the pic's:
List of the places we visited:
Chinatown
Center Street
Me and Mandy up in the Empire State Building
NYC City Hall Park
Mandy and Mr. Colin Farrel
Me humilating Ted Turner and Donald Trump
Me rocking out with Jerry Lee Lewis
Strangling Bush, Finally
Jon Bon Jovi gets all the chicks
Looks like Mandy is in the case at the Central Park Zoo
The Cute and Cuddly Polar Bear
The Squid and Whale (movie reference)
List of the places we visited:
Monday night the supergroup Mikey's Dead was offically born, with the members being myself, Jeff Knowlton of The Break Mission, and Jason Dehenzel of Me Versus the Monster. We began recording our 3 song EP, mind you this was our 4th time ever playing together. Smash Studios engineer Bill Wathers engineered the session, which ran until 6am. I'm going back into the studio to begin the overdub process so hopefully in the near future we'll have some good sounding tracks for everyone to enjoy.
Here's some pictures :
Here's some pictures :
Mikey, the bird that we killed.
Me and Jason.
Jeff.
Me and Jeff.
Jason, Bill and Jeff.
Labels: Music
Everyone, meaning the few people that view this page, should check out my latest round of web creations.
1. The Portrait of Mary About Section - This has a new bio as well as it has bios for each member which is new.
2. The Portrait of Mary Media Section - This is now all dynamic and also has photos. I spent a lot of time on this one, especially making the photo gallery work.
3. The Portrait of Mary MySpace Page - Got control of this from my drummer today and gave it an overhaul.
As you can see all of my attention has been towards my band Portrait of Mary, it's mainly because we are almost back to school and we're getting ready to start playing shows all the time and need a good web presence. Any comments on these sites will be more than helpfull.
We also applied to the Star Tomorrow Show, but after seeing a friend of mine who got accepted's contract, I'm not so sure if we'd even want to do it.
1. The Portrait of Mary About Section - This has a new bio as well as it has bios for each member which is new.
2. The Portrait of Mary Media Section - This is now all dynamic and also has photos. I spent a lot of time on this one, especially making the photo gallery work.
3. The Portrait of Mary MySpace Page - Got control of this from my drummer today and gave it an overhaul.
As you can see all of my attention has been towards my band Portrait of Mary, it's mainly because we are almost back to school and we're getting ready to start playing shows all the time and need a good web presence. Any comments on these sites will be more than helpfull.
We also applied to the Star Tomorrow Show, but after seeing a friend of mine who got accepted's contract, I'm not so sure if we'd even want to do it.
Labels: Web
This has been the craziest week all summer. NBC's Star Tomorrow has taken our studio by storm. It's been awesome, in the past few days I've met 14 time Grammy winner David Foster, Mick Jones (from Foreigner), Edgar Winter (the guy who wrote Frankenstien and is playing with Ringo), and Rob Tannenbaum (Editor of Blender Magazine). It's been nuts and eye opening on what it's like to work on a TV production. There is so much start and stop and the way they make reality-tv is sometime not so real, they will plan things, redo things, and in general play things up a lot, but hey it looks good on TV and that's all that matters. There have been some amazing acts and very talented people, and hopefully my band Portrait of Mary will get a shot at it, I'm made friends with the casting director and hopefully we may get a chance to be "Stars"... Tomorrow.
Labels: Music
Mike Patton, formerly of Tomahawk, Faith No More, and Mr Bungle to name a few is at Smash Studios (my place of work, the pieces are slowly falling together) this week with his new band, Peeping Tom. Then the NBC show 'Star Tomorrow' will be in and the place is gonna be super crazy for a week, should be an interesting few weeks followed by half of the employees and all the interns leaving the studio, sucks to be the owner.
Labels: Music
This is a photo that I took in NYC just outside the W 4th St subway station. It was a pretty muggy night and I was lucky to hold the camera still for this long of an exposure. The tower in the back is the Jefferson Market Library. I'll slowly add more NYC pictures and stories as I go along.
I, Benjamin John Lindell, being of sound mind and disposing memory, do hereby make, publish and declare this instrument to be my first testament and post. I hereby christen my 'blog' thingy.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
