Ataxia is the thing with feathers.

This Film Is On

Briefly, I wish to mention my band.  For those reading who are unaware, I am a member of The Woodrow Wilsons.  Generally, I play drums (with brushes), though I do play ukulele on a song.

set up to record some basics.

Anyway, lately, and rather suddenly in my mind, we have gone on a really strange tangent in which most things are suddenly turned on their heads.  For example, we are a pretty acoustic band and tend towards the quieter end of the dynamic range.  This past weekend, we were recording some overdubs for our debut album and Chris said “Hey, can you play some feedbacky guitar noise on this song?”

For the uninitiated, the answer to that question when posed to me will always, regardless of context, be “yes”.

Then, last night at practice, maybe it was just a weird mood everyone was in, but basically there was just a general theme of us doing things I didn’t really ever expect us doing.  We didn’t really play anything that we had already written; we worked on various new things and discussed a lot of ideas (mostly in terms of instrumentation) that I didn’t see coming.

I like being in this band.