yoko kanno, gian slater, barney mcall, herbie hancock, shiina ringo, björk, joe hisaishi, christian wallumrød. my dad.
i also find inspiration in osamu tezuka's works, and films by shunji iwai and takeshi kitano.
a little bit about the songs here: Some Things Always Change - a piece I wrote for a music styles assignment back in 2008. my dad is on drums. there's a few worthy displays of performance anxiety affecting my playing in this recording.
When Sunny Gets Blue - a standard, one of my favourite ballads, arranged for my VCA small ensemble. tom noonan on alto sax, shannon busch on vocals, alistair robertson on bass.
Blue Monk - another arrangement of a standard for VCA small ensemble, lineup as above. with this one we modulated up a third or so now and then. at the end, we all play in different keys at the same time.
Alfie - an 'orchestral' arrangement I worked on for my first year recital, it turned out quite well. georgie darvidis on vocals, steve hornby on bass.
Karaboudjan - an original I wrote to play in my first year recital. essentially it's based on superimposing different minor pentatonic scales over a C-sharp minor vamp. in 5/4. i named it after the Armenian cargo liner in the Tintin installment "The Crab With The Golden Claws". tom noonan on alto sax, audrey boyle on trumpet, steve hornby on bass, my dad on drums.
Jim clip - a short 20 second clip i smashed together a while ago for a friend. he was making a cd of about 100 tracks of about 20-30 seconds length, featuring many esteemed artists in the tracks. i decided to contribute.
Watashitachi - I wrote this song for a band of the same name that was formed this year. we played a set of originals at 303 in Northcote to wide acclaim, so hopefully we'll get together soon. natasha rose on guitar, andy szentandrassy on tenor sax, leonardo caltabiano on double bass, jordan scotney on drums.
haha yeah, Ben is indeed my brother. that rubys night was quite an interesting one... even courtney didnt notice who i was when she was talking to me. pretty amusing. ahh well went off to mater christi for high school, did a year of uni at swinburne (where i met Shaun the most amazing bassist). now im with open universities studying behavioural science. being in two bands and working has pretty much sucked my time up. studying online is the way to goooo.
haha! why thank you. yearh... well ACTUALLY! i went to primary school with you :P so i've known you for a little while... pretty sure you were in the year below me though. you were with tully and all them...?
the superfuzz are playing at the tote on the 29th, $2 entry. should come along!
Ahhhh awesome, im glad you liked it :D it was so close to making my top 10...such great filmmaking for its time.
Anyways, i totally agree, ive missed lads nights a lot. I dont start uni until 9 March so im free every night/day haha. So just let me know man, and YES i will definitely let you know when we're all getting smashed again. Theres a ruby's night happening on feb 17th though :D
i saw it last weekend. i really liked it, but it wasnt what i expected in some ways.
ive just been working in the holidays and now am out of cash. started tafe this past week. doing a certificate 3 in accounting, but im going to have done the advanced diploma by the end of next year. then maybe uni! gonna be living in melbourne in 4 years though no matter what =D
improvisation sounds awesome! musical improv or drammatical? im very glad to hear youve been reading lots =D. if you can find it cheap you should get "the draco tavern" by larry niven. its just a bunch of short stories set in and around this tavern in siberia for aliens. good stuff =D. sadly i have to say i havnt been reading as many books as i used to lately. still going strong on the comics but!
well, im absolutely exhausted from christmas stuff, and i dont really have that much spending money, AND im fucking sick of knox, but you can count me the fuck in! if we have a meeting time or whatever just get someone to message/call
MARTY! Dude, i am so glad to hear you had such a good night, but i already knew it; you were partying hard from the very beginning till the very end. I got your message and that was no worries at all man :D haha ohh i didnt know about that other stuff though, how memorable :D:D
But seriously man, im so glad you were there because you really partied hard with me and it felt like such a big honour. Cant wait to party hard some more dude. Check my blog soon for photos 'n shiz. -Jim
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aaahhhh shit! well we could try places like rosebud or sorrento...but yeah, it'll just take a while to find one that matches what we want =/ god dammit
Yeahh i know what you mean man, it's easy to just be like "fuck this". Ohhh sweet i wanna check that out. And hell yes, we'll bust out this freaky movie on the next night with a few drinkies and CRES it'll be funzo
Ohh wicked sounds good :D :O thats such a good movie haha. nahh i havent done too much...i tend to study one day, then take a day off on the next...i blogged about "not giving a shit" recently, because seriously...im not letting exams drive me insane. Its just stupid. You done much overall?
Haha yeah i saw that!! Thanks man :D yeah he was the one that organized the cunt festival, and noone else showed up. I especially liked when you said his videos are gayer than him getting raped
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