the new what next

it has been quite a while.  we have been enjoying summer sunshine and love and water and travels and other countries and all sorts of goodness.  the EP is finished and ready to be purchased by any interested parties.

it is $5, I will ship to anywhere in the …

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R.I.P. Jay Bennett (1963-2009)‎

some of my favorite jay bennett moments on film:

jay isn’t on camera much in this one, i just love all the crazy keys and harmonies on this track:

people don’t come around every day who treat lead guitar with this much eloquence:

“pieholden suite” was, i …

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daylight / case study

here’s one of the first recordings i ever made when i first started getting into recording:

here’s how i play the song now:

Daylight from Justin on Vimeo.
also, i just finished mixes for the “Goodbye Blue” E.P. and sent them off for mastering.  In the …

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timeline of a social networking website or service

1 ) start as a good idea
2 ) get adopted by some curious tech-savvy individuals
3 ) get adopted by some hipsters with tech-savvy friends
4 ) get adopted by college students
5 ) get adopted by the masses
6 ) get adopted by people who don’t even know why they’re …

I Ain’t Freakin from Justin on Vimeo.

amiestreet.com

Today I had a featured album on amiestreet.com.

what's new

-i work too much and create too little.

-2nd shift was invented by Satan himself.

-i love/hate my studio apartment.

untitled

art is hard.

New site birthing pains

The worst thing you can ever see on the internet is "Hi, welcome to my website, I'm still working out some kinks but please poke around and maybe leave a comment!

better with every bite

so, i've been mulling over some recordings i've been making for the past couple of months, and today i just had the liberating thought that the songs are the same songs regardless of the style of production in which they are presented. which in turn spurred the old me …

last island saturday (maybe)

well, my official time as an artist-in-residence at the CMC

Rilke

"We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us.

geniuses

well, i'm home.

redefinition

over the past few months the importance of defining your own reality has been hitting me over and over again.

Hey, Rube

the "Hey, Rube" EP is now available on the iTunes store! (in iTunes plus so no DRM...)

Here's a direct link (it will open iTunes on your computer if its not already open):

I'm also excited to finish mixing the "Hey, Rube II" EP.

what's new?

->working on new songs.

scammers migrate to facebook

i guess i'm not really surprised, but this was more of a let-down than anything.

resistance, etc. - the power of a name

I've been reading books on art and creativity, maybe as an excuse to avoid actually doing anything myself (that's a lie, but its usually the first thing people suggest when i tell them about my reading habits) and one of the things I noticed is that the first step any ...

keeping it flowing

samantha crain and i did this thing once last summer where we had a half an hour to write and record a song from scratch.

Pieholden Studios

wow...

look at all the toys.

i hope to go there sometime.

http://www.myspace.com/pieholdenstudios
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