Be Neon With Me

indie

stop ruining people’s pictures. they don’t want you captioning them with indie. trust me.

Who has actually been here (Me)

I've actually been here too

this was the first time i’ve ever worked on a record that wasn’t just “here is a collection of songs we wrote at practice and now we can finally afford to record them.” some of these were just guitar loops and ideas that i had for years but never ended up using for a band and the others we songs that came together as improvisations during the last few years of touring. "autotonsorialist" was a guitar loop i wrote for my old band Talk Slower from like 2007 but that band broke up before we used it. when i first started the one hundred year ocean project I would play this loop with different lyrics live but abandoned it after a few shows. the looping riffs is just mostly me trying to write something as great as Form of Rocket’s "My Name is a Killing Word" the riff that repeats in “if and when i die” is something i wrote in 2004 with a friend right after i graduated high school. my roommate had a 4 track and we tried to write and record some stuff but didn’t really put much effort into it after the first time we got together. i had always remembered and played the riff and decided sort of impulsively to try to build it in the studio. i originally wrote “thanks” as a 30 second song for a proposed comp 7” of all the bands that lived or practiced at my old house The Handsome Woman in Willimantic CT. the idea was for all like 14 projects to do super short songs on a 7” called “Do You Want Something From Across the Street?” (we lived across from 2 24-hour gas stations and a pizza place). I have the demo of it I recorded years and years ago. Maybe I’ll put it on something later on. working on this record made me never want to rush to finish a recording project and also find comfort in being unprepared when we go into the studio. i definitely prefer letting things build naturally now rather than over thinking every song we write or trying to micro-manage the writing process because a part didn’t come out the way i thought of it in my head. - d

Fucking amazing

I’m sure if dave sees this he can post the lyrics. Idk why Greg has to be such an asshole. - d

You came over with a week of hangovers, but honestly there’s not enough room on the globe. I need a need. I need a need. Oh god, there’s another missed call on the phone: another chance thrown down, stomped out; another job another friend. How does it stop? For some money. Two slices a day won’t work. We both used to live off one bag of rice in a whole month. Anywhere you can enter is a new domain. Anywhere you can write is a canvas. Anywhere you can leave your things. Anywhere you become a home. Anywhere you can drive across. Anywhere you become a road. You think there’s no way to read the future. You think we’re alone because you only know the past. Not reading enough to think that hard. Not speaking to others enough to know how to talk. We don’t hear we just walk around smiling at signs and leaving our stuff on the ground. Stop talking. It’s distracting from action. The people you brought here need silence— Lock yourself somewhere, but get the kids out first. Barricade the door. Set everything on fire. Wait 51 days. They’ll do it for you. You can’t talk about it yet. You can’t sleep through ‘til noon. You can barely feel weight of your house keys. You aren’t well enough to walk. You just cough instead of nod. I keep counting your blinks as a win. We don’t give to keep our stock. We don’t see inside the dark. We don’t even get excited when we eat. Not in the woods behind their house, not in jail if they get out. I don’t care if they don’t catch me, i don’t care.

thank you !!!! these are awesome!!!!

travel, love, live

~mostly nature~

where is this. I've been someplace similar

Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses (detail)

Beautiful