Status Report. . .

Between the 5 members of the Look Machine, we live some very busy lives. Oh my goodness, even Ian has a full time job now! No lie, last night at practice he said something about stopping by my house "after work," and I realized I had never heard him say anything like that. We also have a large amount of wanderlust.

Last year, Collin went to Thailand for a month (or more?), and right now he's somewhere in Canada. On June 16th, Ian is going somewhere for a week (I don't think he even knows yet), and then going to NEPAL for the whole month of August. I'm going to England and either Scotland or France between June 23rd and July 1st. . . Isaiah goes to New York state just about whenever he can, and David goes down the east coast regularly. Looming in the horizon of the Look Machine's life is Collin's desire to travel the world for a whole year (yes, one who year, probably in a year, if we don't make it by then) and my plans to likely move to either LA or NYC to attend film school (again, giving the Look Machine it's chance to hit first).

Between all of our busy lives, it can get frustrating trying to schedule the amount of practices and shows that a band needs. Case in point: we're going to be recording a full length on July 6th, 7th, 8th and 13th, 14th, 15th. Those dates are safe. However, we learned alot on how to polish a song when working on our Target Sessions, and need to apply that same treatment to our other songs. Plus we have some partially formed songs that we still need to work on. OK, so it's a month prior, we have time right?

Wrong! Starting a week ago, there is NO TIME until July 2nd that all 5 members will be in town. Not one day. We practiced last night without Collin (great practice by the way. . . ) and next week will be without me and Collin. Then the week after that will be without Ian, then the week after that without me. So our plan is to practice all day on July 3rd, then actually to practice all day on July 6th as well and start recording on July 7th. And we have that show on July 16th too, where we'd like to work up some of the new songs and some fun cover songs too. Hopefully it will all work out, and it's fun working on everything, and I think we're actually remarkably good at working on stuff when not everyone is around.

Last night we worked on Ian's new song (posted previously on the weblog), and it's really sounding fantastic. Adding the bass and drums, and some more arrangements really punched it up -- can't wait to hear what guitar magic Collin will be adding. We then revisited Congregation, and rearranged that one a little too to make it exponentially better. I even gave Ian a guitar idea that he was happy with, and make the second verse more diverse.

All in all it's a good creative time for the Look Machine, and it's definitely the best band I've ever been in. I think we've put a lot of work into growing as musicians and we're kind of forging a new sound, which is fun. I love the music that is played, would listen to it and enjoy it if I weren't in the band. I hope it catches on because I don't want it to end.