tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12563847985489116352012-02-16T12:10:40.799-06:00A collection of thoughts and ramblings and a few other things.Greg Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15713752277056783030noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256384798548911635.post-34784256098709945542011-09-28T09:01:00.001-05:002011-09-28T11:08:05.516-05:00

My first solo effort self titled "The Shark" came out yesterday. I'm excited about it because it represents the culmination of a lot of musical ideas I've had floating around for a while and also represents a significant amount of time spent over the last few months hammering out those ideas and developing them into something resembling songs. I'm still putting the final touches on a physical

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Gonna be trying to do some cleaning up around here over the next few weeks.  I'm going back to the studio to finish everything up this Friday!  In the meantime, gotta make everything look nice and consistent so I can effectively try to promote this record.  Being an independent artist is like being a record label and an artist all at the same time so I'm grateful to my Sphere Music Group family

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So everything is pretty much done, the usually eternal mixing process cut short by my desire to just really try to focus on the basic elements of each song and make sure they are heard. The rest is just icing on an otherwise well crafted cake and I want it to be able to speak for itself. Too much mixing might result in it sounding stiff and inorganic. I can't believe I forgot to record vocals

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Well, this is it. All features and guest musicians are arranged, all songs are written and demo'd, the recording sessions are planned and scheduled. Rehearsing with EyeJay Thursday to get the drums down and then after this weekend, if I don't have a full album recorded, it won't be for lack of trying. No turning back now!

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So work on writing for my project has been progressing nicely. I've got most of my album done being written, just trying to crack the last two songs for it and go back and refine what I've written so far. It's always funny to me how the process of creating songs from scratch feels like cutting and pasting a collage of ideas and mashing it flat and trimming off the dangling bits until you have

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Alright, well it's been a long time since I posted anything here and I recently was invited to get to try google + so I figure since this is a little more visible through that at least, I should come in and dust things off.  Some things have changed, others haven't but you probably didn't even notice anyways, did you. All my hard work and effort gone to waste... Okay so the last thing I worked

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Here are some photos of Dru with EyeJay and myself, The Shark

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but working to produce creative content is one of the most fulfilling forms of work I know besides good hard labor. The work I do on an every day basis I don't really care for all that much. It's interesting enough to do for money...There isn't enough joy in life lately, or ever really. There is always too much despair. I've been reading a lot lately, or at least a lot compared to where I'd

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So the last day of Comicon was an interesting one. I didn't do a whole lot and part of it was just a mad scurry to find any last minute cool things to get for people. I did go to a panel for Doctor Who though and got to hear David Tennant give his farewell to the show and talk about the last specials that will be airing. Also, Russel T Davies was there which was cool too as we got to get a lot

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So I hate to say it but comicon is pretty much almost over. There's not much to do that I haven't already done or much to say I haven't already said. The costumes have been great, a brilliant mix of terrible and awesome and at least the ratio of Rorschach's and Jokers to the rest of the costumed crowd is a bit more balanced. Even so, there were still more of them than anything and seriously if

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I accomplished quite a bit today. But before I bore you with things like Ron Jeremy texting on the pee soaked streets of San Diego or using my will power to alter reality so as to make absolutely sure I got to see Warren Ellis, I think we should take a moment for what I'd like to call the Shark Consumer Corner.First of all, Hotels.com is the worst. With the exception of one person who was

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There is something that I haven't figured out yet how to express that is held within our temporal interactions. That spark, that flame, going back to the days when we were cave men and women discovering how to create, how to change, how to take hold of this life that we are given; this life that we must take and grasp by its lowly but still intimidating and intimate horns that provide fear and

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all it takes is wind in your faceand then you know what to doyou have to continueto push forwardand do the things you dowith gustoparticipate in this human raceand be the thing you were born to bedo the things you were brought up to dopush that race into its placethank you for everythingyoure welcome to anythingI have created and sharedanything I've dreamt or darednothing is the counter

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So this has been somewhat of a whirlwind of a year. The kind that picks you up and moves you around a whole lot but you still end up set down no better or worse than you started... The theme however as Sean says is "tangible progress". We'll see...In other news, I am in San Diego at Comicon! Holy shit! Anyways, it's been pretty cool so far. The novelty isn't quite there as this is the

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I just read through the war of art by Steven Pressfield in one sitting. An hour even. I think that if I am capable of this, you are too and if you have ever had a feeling that you were not doing what you should be doing with your life, you are doing yourself a disservice by not reading this book and learning why.For real.Resistance killed my push up test. Along with everything else I have

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So I am going to try this. I have been doing some push ups every monday and wednesday with some regularity after each kung fu class anyways so I think this will be a good intensive way to help build up my upper body strength and hopefully build my endurance up a bit more anyways. I'm not in terrible shape but I'm not in great shape and there's no such thing as too good of shape right? I just

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Okay, so I was talking with Justin today about religion and atheism and there's a few things I want to clear up for anyone who reads this and anyone who may have a misconception about what an atheist is.First of all, an atheist does not "believe" that there is no god or supernatural power. There is no room for something like "belief" in the mind of an atheist. All a belief does is allow your

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So Thursday was a busy day. The morning saw information imparted by some independent creators about an organization they founded and how forming such an organization has helped them realize a success in comics that they otherwise might not have found. It was called the Antidote Trust and I will look into it some later.From there it was to the Doctor Who panel (sans Russel T Davies who is

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so it's only been one day and not even a full day and already my eyes have seen more than my brain wanted to bother processing. At the Marvel booth, we saw a mock up of the iron-monger. Ed Brubaker and Humberto Ramos stood idly around chatting with people while Matt Fraction and others signed autographs off to the side. The DC booth was a whirlwind of activity that I barely spent any time in

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braaaaains...

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Alright so today has been okay so far. I went to the zoo for a while and took pictures before my camera finally said "FUCK YOU GREG, I'M DONE." and promptly turned off. I then remembered that with these new fangled technological devices it generally helps to charge them. Seeing as how I haven't since I got it, I suppose it's to the camera's credit that it lasted this long.I'm off to downtown to

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Well I am sitting in here in the hotel. The wireless is up and running so hopefully I will be able to diligently record the events of the coming week for you all here. My companions and I are going to chill here for a bit before heading to downtown and getting an idea of where everything is at, the layout of the convention center and all. Once I have it set up, I will post a link to a public

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In real life you just have to make do with what you're given and what you take for yourself. I don't enjoy taking things and I hate being given them even more. The color of the sky has been unnaturally blue lately. Where has all the pollution gone? I've been seeing lots of beautiful days lately and I'm not happy. It must be the weather. It must be the environment. They found a lot of plastic and

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So, if you have never heard of Salvia, you probably don't have any friends that do drugs or spend time online researching naturally occurring chemicals with hallucinogenic properties. So, it's a good thing you read this blog! Now then, to start with, let me give you a little background. I'm not really into drugs, especially chemically manufactured ones because of the additives and risks

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Okay, so sorry there haven't been any illuminating half-truths or incoherent and vague ramblings lately. I've been reading a lot of science news still though and if you look over on the right side of the page there, you'll see a gadget thing has been added to display news items I come across that I decide to share as an rss feed. I'm going to start sharing any cool articles I find about

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I was at wizard world recently and picked up the first hardcover volume of supreme power, having recently come to J. Michael Straczynski thanks to his run on Amazing Spiderman and also from reading a few issues of Squadron Supreme. I thought I'd check out how that whole supremaverse reboot began. Turns out it is a really good read but it isn't just the work as a whole that brings me to this

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Some things you will see in this blog:(coming soon!)uneducated, philosophical pseudo-scientific ramblingspoetry?stuff that's more enlightening than what you'll find here.discussion and ramblings that may intersect with what you'll find heremaybe some stuff about writingmaybe some musical stuffmaybe nothing at all! piss off!Some things you will not see in this blog:Intelligent DesignIntellectual

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