NEW ALBUM IS HERE-

NEW ALBUM-  The Gardes:  Le Renohvation Alights   available for streaming on SPOTIFY-
available for purchase at:  http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thegardes

                                   Available now on Itunes and everywhere-
                                               www.facebook.com/thegardes

Simply put-

If you came to this from the Gardes' site, welcome.  Check out:
www.facebook.com/thegardes 

This, for the foreseeable future, will be the home of up-to-date
Gardes' news.  Some of the website is, we'll just say, archival...

I suppose if everything was proper, it would be advertised on the site,
but I've always toyed with most of the website stuff myself, for fun,
for purpose, and for some stalled out hours that felt like excruciating
time wasted and pulled-out-hair-headaches.  All for sharing music, etc.
with the world.

Now, though, I don't have much time to hang around a computer, and if
I do, I'm choosing not to all that much for a while.  We've always been
such a D.I.Y., rickety operation anyway, and never really had anyone else
(a trained professional) maintain our onlineness.  It just felt like dabbling
with another artform and media to me.  I'll be focusing on creating or
bringing what is made into fruition from now on and may be little involved
with any kind of regular online updates or maintenance.  Though I will holler
out still and check e-mail, etc. and all of that kind of stuff and I may get back into
it, I'm going to trim some of the fat off my time.

Here's an article I like:  http://musicians.about.com/od/beingamusician/ss/musicmistakes_2.htm

Well, that wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but it's the gist.  
Promotion is a racket, self-promotion is a bit embarrassing. 
Sometimes it feels alright on a good day, though...

Well, I went and looked for it again, but came up with nothing, so I'm going to
hop off here.

-Brett

No More Weekly Regular Posting For The Time Being-

So I managed to get this out on a regular weekly basis for nigh 6 months or so, until
finally it legitimately slipped my mind by almost Thursday for the first time due to
real life catching up.  I am keeping my writing time away from the computer for the
time being (I have to be on a computer enough anyway).  But I will be making random
blog postings in the future... so here's to the future...

another-

late nite Tues./early morning Wed. post.

The Columns Of Rome

The Columns Of Rome...

Oh-

For the past 6 months or so, I've been faithfully and punctually making a blog post
every Tuesday.  I've been hitting my own deadline.  This was all on my mind earlier
in the day, and then... I've almost slipped up, I admit.  I went out to visit some friends
I haven't seen in a while and now getting back it hits me... it's the wee hours of Wed.
morning, technically (I'm dead sober, or alive sober, more like it), but to me it's still Tues. night,
because I'm a late nighter and I haven't gone to bed yet.  So we'll just go ahead and call
this another Tues. post on this blog. This one counts.

There's a Gardes facebook page coming together:  www.facebook.com/thegardes

I'm not sure if I've ever posted this before, so here goes.  I was looking through my
archive of images and such, and here is my portrait of legendary bluesman, Watermelon
Slim, as he sat, once upon a time, reading a book in my living room. ;)

This is the Type Of Typing That Gets Caught By The Web

What nonsense or mundane activity or eye-popping news
goes here?

Post happy Facebook twitter fingers?

I saw a digital headline today on a giant screen just dropping in
to the ACM@UCO out of curiosity.  (That's the Academy Of
Contemporary Music- I guess it's Oklahoma's version of
"Rock N' Roll School."  I wanted to read it but I didn't have
much time.  Digital news talking about musicians' music
suffering because they're inundated with managing all this social
media silliness, which is fun, but yeah, it gets in the way, and this
blog has been fun to me sometimes, but lately it's just felt like an
unnecessary trivial pseudo-obligation.  I haven't made much
time lately to do any real writing, except last night I was focusing
on a letter of sorts to an individual, a long letter, which I plan
to continue for various purposes.

I have a book of poems I've been working on on and off since
Christmas of 2005 that I'd like to focus on for a few months
and fill, because lines come my way at unexpected times, but
I haven't put many of them to paper.  I have many notebooks
filled and short stories in the works and done, too. Things in
perpetual progress.  Much on the backburner.

I realize when I type fast and follow my thought patterns,
I use commas a lot of the time where conventionally periods
should be.  Some girls think that guys get periods, too.  They
actually get exclamation marks, and that is usually just
a reaction to PMS.

The new Gardes album is pretty much done, sans mastering.
Although, I meant to record a couple of basic violin parts,
then found my neck is broken, and so now I must seek a string
player or get it fixed.  And Aaron may be adding a bit more,
possibly.  So... new Gardes record!  Release date has not yet
been set.

I bought the new Shins vinyl record today on its release date, but
unfortunately it skipped, a manufacturing glitch, so I must trade
it back for another one.  Tomorrow is looking up!

-Brett