this world is a mess, so let's make our lives a blast.

On any given day, when I have some free time, the site in my bedroom is one of a cluttered mess.  You may see 4 or 5 guitars littering the floor, a piano in the corner, a trumpet, microphones, my normally neat pedal board in complete disarray….it’s controlled chaos.  Due to some unfortunate situations I found myself in during the January month of oh’13, I found myself in need of a complete personal overhaul.  The result has put me in the most comfortable, positive state of mind that I’ve ever been in. I’ve never been more confident, I’ve never been more creative, and I’d be willing to argue I’ve never been happier.  There’s something to say about really going after what you want in life and no longer settling for complacency.  And that’s why you’ll see my room in the shape that it’s in.
    I’ve created a makeshift recording “studio” and am in the process of demoing the most ambitious thing I’ve ever done.  I can’t wait for people to hear it, and if you’re reading this, I really hope you give it a chance.  I guess this change in mindset really started in the fall of oh’12 when I stopped being dirt poor.  I just couldn’t relate to the music I used to make anymore.  I found my tastes changing a lot-almost reverting to an earlier time in my life.  Ska, punk, and country became mainstays in my car, and I became obsessed with big chunky guitar sounds.  Then I heard a song that probably has had the most profound impact on me since big d and the kids table put out “fluent in stroll.”  That song was “southern comfort zone” by brad paisley.  I’ve never been so amped on a song for so long.  Where is all this going?  Well, I am so friggin stoked on life right now that I want to create music that embodies it.
    A friend of mine said something along the lines of music not always being something that makes you feel happy, but rather is something that is just supposed to make you feel.  Now I can completely agree with this statement but when you go to a show, you plan to have fun at the show, don’t you?  The problem with overly upbeat music, a la foxboro hot tubs, is you tend to lose any real point that may be being made by the music.  So why not try and combine the two?  Let’s really “feel” or really think, and let’s have a fucking blast while we do it.
    I’ve combined every influence in music that I’ve probably ever had, and am digging deep into my back catalog of songs.  If you’ve heard my old music, hardly any of those songs are going to survive.  But I’m resurrecting some very old ideas, and I’m combining some new ones and….fuck.  I’m just very excited.  I have so many brilliant ideas for this project.  Some will turn out as excellent as they are in my head, and I’m sure some will fall flat.  But the point is, you gotta go after what you really want in life.  I’m tired of complacency and it’s time we all started making our own luck.  This world is a god damn mess, so let’s make OUR lives a blast.

-jc
make your own luck.

    attatched is what will serve as the intro to this collection of songs.  It’s not done yet, there’s no drums and there will probably be some more instrumentation, whether it be keys or a horn line….but…take a gander…give it a go.  More to come.


https://soundcloud.com/nextweeksweather/intro-demo