Charlie In The Trees

 
    We started our studio with the volatile presence of a group named Charlie In The Trees. The band seemed to be lost - looking for a genre to be a part of, yet failing to exist in any of them. They have material that came out as comedy yet some of their works would have been considered quite serious with its topic material. Mostly influenced by heavy metal artists but seldom finding the edge to be classified themselves as heavy metal artists. Some may consider them critical activists and others would say that they were nonsensical posers. They spent the majority of their studio time barely able to stand up, but were able to record enough material to release a CD named The Execution Of Mickey. This CD was an allegorical spin on the fall of Christ, using Disney's Mickey Mouse as the part of martyr. It included 14 tracks which largely incorporated music with a very insane microphone feedback technique. Here is Load The Bowl, track 1 on The Execution Of Mickey. 


    Charlie In The Trees were only together for a year and as they say in Facebookland regarding break-ups, "it's complicated". Their recordings which produced close to 50 tracks spanned from March of 2009 to the following Spring of 2010. It was crazy, but fun as well...very happy to be moving on from then.

Arrrrghh...stop the upload insanity....pleassssse!!!!

   

      Well.....my first attempt didn't work. Alas...it is probably me and not the system. Let us try another avenue:

Whoa!! There it is!

    Now I need to get onto some design issues for this blog site. I really like this narrative that escapes me whilst I try to set this new world up. Blog, blog, blog...why doesn't this guy shut up already? 4 cups of coffee and I am outta booze...that's why. Just kidding....oh my God...I am getting somewhere...I didn't abbreviate those last 2 expressions. You will never catch me saying shit like: "laughing out loud" or that I am "rolling on the floor laughing". I prefer to say:  I am about to die because I am laughing my fucking head off. By the way...are we allowed to swear on here?

What is a "blog"?

    No seriously....what is it? I took some time a few days back to research it, not only research it but compare it to other networking tools just to see how much cross-over there really is:  I think you might agree that the attraction towards blogging, as opposed to the social networks (Facebook, Twitter and the rest), is the network seems to protect the blogger from being bombarded with all the linked activities and nonsense you can't help but read from the news feed. Way too often even the dearest of acquaintances will use the news feed for their grandiose bowl movement.

    I ask the question because I am still unsure how to properly use a blog site. So now I am just creating one to see what will happen. One thing that stood out when I researched the differences and the one detail that seemed attractive for the blog side of the argument, was that bloggers experience more freedom to controlling the appearance and site changes. I can testify as can anyone that has been on Facebook for more than a year, that the changes are not merely prescribed but are rammed down the users throat. This creates an unstable environment for the user.

    Today on Facebook, I attempted several times to upload a one minute clip for my studio. Nothing significant...just a clip to give a viewer the idea of what screen I am looking at for hours on end when I am attempting to mix a song. Every attempt required about an hour of waiting to complete the upload. Then the upload window would disappear and I found myself staring at nothing and no explanation for the failure. Let's upload that clip here now to give me a physical comparison.

    Well it says it is uploading. I am a little sore from my earlier experiences...a little sceptical.


    I just want to create a site where I can post or otherwise release my creations in the studio. I am seriously looking at blogging as my tool.