Tag: Joel Nass
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Scavenger’s Paradise
Scavenging often holds a place of ignobility in the natural order. Even so, the pragmatic organism willing to submit to such measures not only survives, but also fulfills a necessary role on the deconstructive arch of life’s circle. Adaptation, ingenuity and a stomach for humble pie, stuffed no doubt with carrion, define the scavenger, and…
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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…
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working on it
The college radio campaign for Sex & Sound began yesterday, and we still have our fingers crossed as to the results. In the meantime, though, we have plenty of planning and preparation on our hands in order to make our goal of going on tour this fall a reality. We were also asked by the…
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Sell it all, baby: part II
What do you do when you need a lot of money but you don’t have nearly enough time to earn it by the hour? Sell off your stuff, baby…a lot of it. The last time Joel and I did this was in November in order to finish recording Sex & Sound. Now we are at…
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Hard to understand
It’s rare that I really understand why things happen the way they do, or why the people around me do the things they do. But sometimes the desire to understand becomes such a hopeless cause it becomes overwhelming. For awhile, this past week seemed to be going great: on Thursday we played an excitingly well-attended…
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Radio Review Drama
Last night, Joel and I listened to the very first, real time, on-air review of a song by The Violet Lights. It was on Moheak Music Meeting, hosted by former Capitol records A&R exec Bruce Rave with guests Alex Ebert, leader of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Reg B. and Rayne from Moheak’s…
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musician/roadie
When Joel’s not writing songs, rehearsing, playing shows, working, or remodeling our lockout, he’s disassembling music equipment all over our apartment floor, firing up his soldering iron and getting his amps, guitars and pedals to work or work better. Oftentimes this goes down in the middle of a Saturday afternoon, but sometimes its minutes before…
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Busy…but not busy enough
This past week, The Violet Lights played three shows, and although we had to do all that on top of our day jobs, I can say that it was fun and it was definitely exciting to be so busy. We must be closer to being able to work on music full time…right?? Thanks so much…
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a little less glamorous
Most projects undertaken by Joel and I (and any unfortunate souls we can convince to get involved!), for some reason, always take much longer and turn out to be more work than we originally envisioned. But perfectionists as we are, rarely a project we start will be finished with a half-hearted effort. In this case,…