1) alcohol poisoning? no shit. the hell you say.
2) the guitars sound awesome for my upcoming cover of Nirvana's "Something In The Way" - i was able to reproduce a similar feedback/harmonic effect that they used in the BBC studio recording during the choruses (hint: the version i'm doing is 'heavy' not like the slow, soft acoustic version on the album). pretty sure in their rendition the sound was just pat smear standing really close to the amp while they recorded it. unless pat wasn't playing with them yet, in which case i have no fucking idea how they got that sound live. damn you, Nirvana mystique!
3) new songs, right? to replace the old ones? a few are coming up through the pipeline now. so look forward to that. all are going in Grunge, i don't care if you don't think they're grunge enough. i proclaim myself the standard-bearer. so there. the new songs will have these descriptions of the songs that i am (for the 1st time) writing IN ADVANCE of posting the songs. so, yay. plus, i'll post the lyrics, so you can all read what i'm screaming about.

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My BRAND NEW fan page on Facebook - because the old one was un-google-able!
my music & books on Lulu.com - mostly everything is available in CD or print (for books) or for download, as mp3 and pdf, respectively
merch @ Zazzle.com - crappy t-shirts and posters, clothes with pictures of space on them
yeah my page on Myspace like anybody fucking uses myspace anymore, but whatev

1) ok, so no cover of Something In The Way yet, i got hit by a killer cold, and I'm too poor to buy the 5-disc Nevermind re-release, so who the fuck cares anyway
2) highly possible re-recordings of Waiting To Die and Four Fucking Chords are in the pipeline, hope the momentum holds - would continue the current stripped-down crystallized big muff sound, as well as tone and all that
3) new song I'm working on called "New Dark Age"
4) Gears 3, moment of silence for Dom

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i updated the tracks here on Newgrounds for "Something for Nothing" both the six-minute version and the full 24-minute version... they were 8MB versions, so i updated them to the 14MB versions. should sound a little better :)

in case nobody saw it on the last post (i left a comment of my own) i'll be recording Nirvana's "Something In The Way" in honor of the 20th anniversary of Nevermind. that deluxe re-release version of it should ROOOOCK! anyway, be well

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in a way, lol... "Decals (I Dont' Know)" - the latest song i posted - is actually the longest song on the lineup that will end up being the next batch of songs. it's like LoL because for most of the rest of this next album (as of yet untitled) i have already taken your advice, RiotFlash, most of the songs are 3 or 4 minutes, moving right along to the next one ina way that i really haven't done since 'Manifest Destiny' days... these songs do tell a story, so may be using more sound effects between songs, with 'Decals' being the finale of the whole thing. Idk yet, to be honest. it might just be the songs. One of them, an update on an old friend, "(Old Wave) Alkaloid Chemoreception" should only be about a minute and a half, the perfect little punk song. so riot, i hear ya... i do. what's more i agree :) with this next album i'm bringing it all back to basics, to create a new wave grunge sound.
what i've been doing lately is working on a lot of the drums up front, using the bass synth (like in Decals) and piano synths and things as a guide. this process is allowing me amazing ease-of-use for writing and composing new songs at the same time (because a lot of my older material is what i've been recording so far - songs with more or less fixed arrangements), and doing the whole recording process in reverse with the drums first and guitars 2nd should allow for a better sound mix at the end of production, simpler too....
this next batch of songs will all have some things in common:
1) real bass guitar (instead of the synthesizers in FLP)
2) new wave grunge metallic folk electronic rock - one song, "Floodwaters" recalls spiritual folk songs of the 19th century, with 21st century post-apocalyptic twists
3) single vocal recordings, no overdubbed vocals, few (if any, ghostly) harmonies, to capture my voice as is, with little or no effects (like i probably overdid a bit on my previous album 'No Standard Model')
4) for the most part, single guitar recordings, so the guitar solos will stand alone against the drums and bass, sounding like live Nirvana or Rush or Dinosaur Jr - with the acoustic/electric luna phoenix plugged into a big muff distortion, makes the whole project taste like mtv unplugged meets superfuzz big muff era mudhoney plus jimi hendrix and some bob dylan mixed with metallica for a sauce over a 3-cheese nirvana/foo fighters/beatles lasagna... fucking delicious... so soon i'll be recording in earnest. it's just been recording tests so far. i hope you'll all be as pleased at the final results as i am.

btw i'm an asshole that dumped his girlfriend because i just couldn't fucking deal with it, but i'll still be recording the song i wrote about her, and "Floodwaters" which she was there for the inspiration for... if that makes any fucking sense
still finding myself looking for the perfect woman... not some fucking fling. not sex. not friends with fucking benefits. namely fucking.
i don't want a million women. just one. the perfect one.

"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all." -Isaac Asimov

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here's a list of songs i'm working on, in no particular order

(old wave) alkaloid chemoreception
chickenshit
food & drug
nakedness
i'm not supposed to know
decals (i don't know)
your own grace
kicked
floodwaters
4$hame
like hallelujah

..and, here's a list of some stories i'm writing:

runner
sugarcube
twin flames (yes, like the song :))
little black hole
rogues
life is a temporary position
paranoid monkey, OR: redhibitory devolution
if i even believe us
nightfolk
testament
first to wake

so, yeah... that's where i've been lately.

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new songs are pouring out of me like ice cubes of whole milk plopping out into a pitcher of hot coffee
grungiest, funkiest, punkiest, clearest, loudest, purest...

is it safe to rip off ambrose pierce? i think so. the other reference, the lines in the 1st verse of "I'm Not Supposed To Know" is, well... I won't tell. ends like, "by the tongue / by the tongue or by the teeth, there are things in this world so dark they glow" hee hee! lol :P

[+RØSS] is new-wave post-modern funky dystopian power grunge pop punk progresso-sludgy distorted acoustic metallic garage psychedelic rock n' roll electronica..

new stories... ditto
the weirdest, the most normal, and the craziest.... planets smashing, into each other, by a comet and a small black holes, all in separate universes, even separate planets... lovely... nervous breakdowns by harbinger of destruction characters... and life is, still, as always, a temporary position.

just you wait and see/hear/read!

Something new, soon... i promise. "i'm not supposed to know" will rock you.

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(PS: Our sun is small compared to the majority of stars in the universe. could we be microscopic-sezied to other forms of life, just as our size perspective has microscopic life. Awesome.]

new songs are pouring out of me like ice cubes of whole milk plopping out into a pitcher of hot coffee
grungiest, funkiest, punkiest, clearest, loudest, purest...

new stories... ditto
the weirdest, the most normal, and the craziest....

just you wait and see/hear/read

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(PS: i promise the moon)

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SFM's available for download here, on the album MANIFEST DESTINY on Lulu.com

"Saving Face Machine"
music & lyrics by Ross Allaire, aka "Gunshy, aka "[+RØSS]"
written 2006, recorded 2007

i hate sentences that start with 'i'
but you love anything that's all about you
and that fact didn't occur to me until recently
when i shook my head in the utter disbelief of the way it used to be
when i was sleeping

i had a dream about you and you were somebody else
i had a dream about you but you were somebody else

if i learned anything in school, it was to not give a shit
and be no one's fool (or tool)
because you say that this world is an open book
but i don't understand the language that it's printed in
and done with disappearing/reappearing ink, as well
i swear to god
(that's all he's good for)

i had a dream about you and you were somebody else
i had a dream about you but you were somebody else
i had a dream about you and you were robotic
i had a dream about you but then it all went to hell

a world war starts tonite
but you're busy trying on new clothes
how did you want it?
what did you expect, kiddo?
i'm just a sullen freak
but you're the freakin president

and we were made to be apart
only after these events we know
didved we stand, united we fall
that at least spares us the torture of saving face

i give you gold... and nothing!
lol

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