Are you artists who just one day write, discover a riff, lyrics, etc out of something totally unexpected or do your processes involve a lot of work and time? It’s a mystery, really. Sometimes I’ll write a song through and through like Tao of St. Peter, other songs like Can You Take Me take forever. If I had any idea what my process is, I would do it and be done. Like I said,...
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Luxury, comfort, choice, and distraction can glut the imagination and can cool a hot blood braggadocio. What I mean is, it’s amazing how plenty can lead to nothing. It’s in deprivation that creates need, and need hones the mind to search itself and we call the search yearning, and the yearning creates urgency. Urgency creates the energy to grasp for something beyond ourselves, and that...
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There is a fair amount of static about when we're going to deliver Ursa Major. Most of it, I suppose, is entirely deserved, since I keep setting these deadlines and then miss them. Here's why: It's very hard for me to write and be self-critical at the same time. I think that slows me down. Also, I want to move into a totally new time, and that's also hard to do when people hold your...
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I am so entertained by the current threat/fear proposition in the ongoing banking bailout debacle: that we must keep bonuses in place so that these talented minds won’t go elsewhere. ‘Course James Gorman from Morgan Stanley wants to call them “retention awards.” May I suggest, just let them go. Or in the words of banking, ‘do not retain.’ Our constitution sets out that...
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- Dove over board in rough seas to save favorite sweatshirt - Got the worst jellyfish bite you’ve ever seen - Enjoys moving walkways and composting - Watches TV and is terribly ashamed of it - Drove a mini van at 123 mph according to the highway patrol - Is bad with names - Remembers, songs, paragraphs, blues prints etc. in one viewing ...
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On election night, I sat in a room in New York with 12 friends and listened to President Elect Obama's acceptance speech. Sober, measured, and elegant. After a night of celebrating the joy as swing states came in one after another, the room was dead quiet and tears rolled down my cheek and I looked around and noticed that no eye in the room was dry. We were so relieved. I walked out onto...
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I am totally freaked out at how many people are finding and listening to these songs. There's a line in the song Red Star "the system shut us down now, we find each other in the underground". There's also a line in Non-Dairy Creamer that says "I sincerely want to thank you all for listening... I thank you all." That's what I have to say today. I'm currently nursing a sore throat which I hope...
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My life is measured out in albums I have loved. We try to make those albums. On November 18, THIRD EYE BLIND is going to release three new songs from our up coming album, Ursa Major. It’s been five years since we put out our last album. Since then, the options on how to release music have exploded. Yay! All of these options made us ask: What’s an album? How does one want...
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Yesterday was the first day of fall and oh do I feel the world changing all around me. I went to the Treasure Island music festival in San Francisco this weekend. I went to see the kills and the Raconteurs—they were both so good! And nobody clapped. Those poor sad hipsters. They are so nervous about having their choices impugned they could barely risk a cheer. Lets get back to fearless...
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