Tag: Silver Lake
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lurk in the shadows
Three or four years ago, not long after moving to Los Angeles, Joel and I hiked to the top of Griffith Park, the mountainous island of a park that rises out of the vast urban expanse of the city. Joel pointed out to me, as we walked in the coming twilight, that the park possesses…
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hope. desire. destruction.
Early this January, sometime after 3 a.m., alone in a rest stop bathroom, I walked along the wall of electric hand driers and, one by one, pressed each of the rusty metal buttons to turn each one on. A short minute later, when they had all shuddered to a stop, I did the same thing…
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All in
Joel and I have just left Seattle, and with two shows already in the books, the tour that has been six months in the making is now officially underway. And although this tour, at first, was nothing but a thought without any plan to make it real or any reason to think we could actually…
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the quiet green haze
Last week Monday was a day that Joel has very much been looking forward to for the last three months, if not years, really. It was his last day at his office job here in Los Angeles before we leave on our our very first tour in late January. Ironically enough, with less than three…
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miniature monster
For the past six weeks, Joel and I have been hard at work on our first music video for The Violet Lights. This being the case, our weekends and evenings continue to never be quite long enough for all that needs to be done. Sometimes amusing, other times frustrating, it seems that whatever project we…
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No, we haven’t gone completely crazy…
No, we haven’t gone completely crazy, but yes, last night we did coat the windowpanes of our apartment in bright green latex paint. Well, first we actually covered them with black paper and then taped individual sheets of letter size green paper over that, realized this initial plan was not going to work, tore it…
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In the Kitchen w/ The Violet Lights
When your laptop dies and you can’t afford a new one I’d suggest just putting in the oven and cranking up the heat. Worst case scenario a little destructive therapy, best case, achieve solder re-flow and regain complete functionality. Amber was very skeptical, and not without reason… Wow it WORKS!!!
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SECRET MISSION
Over the weekend, without warning, our only computer up and died. With too many time-sensitive plans in the works and on our minds to just lay low until we could get a new one, Joel and I were off on a late-night secret mission. Under the cover of darkness and a close lookout, files were…
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Another New World
There is a song by Josh Ritter that tells the story of a 16th century explorer who had spent his life sailing the world’s oceans in search of new lands. On what would be his final voyage, a quest to discover a new world in the Arctic, his beloved ship becomes irretrievably trapped in the…