Hello all!

I’m back in O-Town, and vacation was good. Montreal rocked, what a sweet ass city. Anyways, i have some bad news…I’ve been listening to alot of ABBA. Alot. I can’t stop. One of two things will result from this: a) Inuit Jargon will have several ABBA style songs, for which we will need to audition some female singers, or; b) I will start a side project with a female lead singer to make songs in the style of ABBA, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, New Pornographers, and so on…

Recording will resume this week to get the ball rolling again. There’s still alot of work to do, but I’m sure it will get done. After all, I do have ABBA to listen to, and if that doesnt motivate me to get off my ass, i dont know what will.

-Andrew

Songs of the week:
Waterloo – ABBA
SOS – ABBA
Fernando – ABBA
Dancing Queen – ABBA
Mamma Mia – ABBA
Take A Chance On Me – ABBA

So production has all but halted on my demos for some new songs because my midi keyboard was struck by lightning. The midi part of the keyboard still works, but the power adapter does not nor do the speakers that I actually hear the sound from. Instead I hear a loud buzzing noise whenever I try to power it up with the six D batteries I’m using to turn it on.

The keyboard still functions in theory, it’s just that now I can’t hear what I’m playing until I after I record it. That wouldn’t be bad if I really knew how to play keyboard, but since I struggle to even play competantly by ear, playing by feel is pretty much impossible.

So, for now, production is at a standstill on my demo tentatively titled “Space Beauty Pagent” and my three part rock-suite demo “You Sound Like (Not Shaun)/Devilled Eggs/To Be Continued”.

-Shaun

Shaun here. I was looking through my closet for something and I found all these old drawings of mine and a notepad from 1994 that I thought was blank but turned out has a bunch of things written in it. On the last page, I found what turned out to be the words to a song — an original song that I wrote.

It’s so devestatingly terrible. Below is the first song I ever wrote. All of the [ ] are corrections I added for clarity. It looks as if I didn’t read this over after I wrote it.

TIME MACHINE BACK TO EARLY 1995

“Life is like a subway”

Heading on the dirt roads
Going past the cross roads
Nearing [all] the back roads
Going up te on ramp
Cruising on the interstate
I hope I’m not to[o] late
just getting [on] the highway that
leads to the subway of life…..

Life is like a subway always trying to derail me
(du, du, du, du du du du)
Life is like a subway always trying to derail me

This, ladies and gentlemen, is proof positive that even in 3rd grade I could write Bright Eyes/Simple Plan/Starting Line/Yellowcard/Insert your favorite punk band here quality lyrics.

-Shaun

Hello all!

The recording process has slowed down and is going on hiatus for about 10 days. I’m going to Conneticut, New Hampshire, Montreal, and New Jersey, and I’m leaving Orlando tomorrow at 7, meaning I have to wake up in about 5 hours. This week i began recording what will become a new exciting version of Bloody Wombat Clamps. Unfortunately, I’ve only recorded about two tracks for it, and thats all that ive done this week. But anyways, hopefully as soon as i come back, ill get alot more recorded and we can have more sesssions to finish writing the last song to be written (working title “Barnburner”). It should rock, as soon as we get around to actually writing the song. See you all in a while.

-Andrew

Music for my trip:
Coldplay – X&Y
Dogs Die In Hot Cars – Please Describe Yourself
INXS – Kick
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Aye
Squeeze – Play
Morningbell – Learning By Musical Montage
Hot Hot Heat – Elevator
XTC – Skylarking
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
Snow Patrol – Final Straw
Of Montreal – Satanic Panic in the Attic (to be listened to while in Montreal!)

Four days into June, we’ve been chugging briskly through the recording process like a rocket powered steam shovel. Helping the process along, I just got a mic and a midi-usb cable for my keyboard to make demos of the couple songs we’ve been working on that he still has no idea how they’re gonna sound because music is pretty much impossible to describe with words (unless the words are onomatopoeia)…

As Andrew said, he made his Tears of a Clown (Magnetic Fields Remix). It makes an awesome website-only exclusive track. It’s in .m4a format, so if you don’t use iTunes, you’re out of luck until I make a new .mp3 version.

-Shaun

Wadup world!

God I hate Sway. Anyways, yesterday was pretty succesful. We layed the final vocals for Nail Clippers and the song is just about done. We also layed vocal tracks for Ice Cream Social and There’s No Chairs Anywhere (Except That One). We wrote a new song. Actually, we just turned an old song into something else. But its still awesome. Then we tried writing another song but just failed miserably. The other day i recorded an all new Bravery-esque (?!?!) version of Your Fly Is Down. I don’t know if we’ll ever do anything with it, that song always kinda sucked, and it pretty much still does, its just louder now. Keep an eye out for the posting of Tears of a Clown (Magnetic Fields remix). It’s pretty hot. Also, i hope you all enjoyed the all new Goodbye Ocean, Hello Moon. I apologize for the poor recording, but I hope it still made you all feel like you were sitting at a pool drinking a pina colada with a man with a large moustache (*wink*wink* caitlin…i know you like men with large moustaches). We narrowed down the track list for this album yesterday. Now we’re only gonna be working on about 11 or 12 songs for the final product, leaving me with about 3 songs to start recording and 2 songs left to write. Like i said, hopefully we’ll finish recording by the end of the summer, and at this pace it looks like we will.

-Andrew

Song of the day: Of Montreal – “Erroneous Escape Into Erik Eckles”