Expedition to Pitchfork Music Festival 2010

FRIDAY:

Woke up around 3 am. Drove from Cola to Charlotte to catch a plane to Atl, then to Chicago.

Meet sibling(s) for lunch, followed by:

-Liars

-Robyn (Very cool; after that, I think a Robyn workout tape is in order)

-BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE

-Modest Mouse

Very long day.

SATURDAY:

Got some french toast fantasy for breakfast. Then:

-Real Estate

-Delorean

-Titus Andronicus

-Raekwon (Brought out some surprise guests to dance to some classic Wu Tang songs; cute)

-The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

-WOLF PARADE

-Panda Bear

-LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (Best dance party, ever)

Meanwhile at the fest, a photographer found me and labeled me as "the most fashionable dude (he's) seen all day." Thus producing this:

S-S-S-SUNDAY:

Bagels for breakfast. Then:

-Cave

-Best Coast (Only talked about weed and all things vulgar)

-Washed Out (A true chill bra chill - kept asking the crowd how chill they were feeling)

-BEACH HOUSE

-Local Natives

-LIGHTNING BOLT (I came home with a forehead bruise! Still can't believe how crazy it was)

-Surfer Blood

-St. Vincent

-Here We Go Magic

-Major Lazer (OH My GOWd)

-Neon Indian (Most cool stuff / denim on stage)

-Big Boi (had the same special guests to come up during a TON of old school Outkast songs)

-Sleigh Bells (Shortest set :/ )

-Pavement

ANYWAYS

I just got home home a few hours ago, being tuesday night. Already miss em / it. Already some what sick of the island again. Twas a fun weekend.

lookee here

This afternoon, after a good mindless rummaging through my closet, I became reunited with a teeny lost object shoved underneath some jeans and a box of toys. It was my 9x14 cm moleskine sketchbook guy. I had this thing, sometime in the midst of sophomore year, like two years ago now, and filled it with doodles and visual mind drools until it was lost and forgotten.

ANYWAYS, here's some scans:

(only 3 days till p4k)

its called rock 'n roll, mom

I recorded some sounds yesterday. Not really any music, unless, maybe if you're deaf and have very strong patience for things that are dumb. The whole file is about 30 minutes long, without any breaks, so I couldn't put it up to stream any where, but if you're extremely dedicated here's a link to the download:

~CLINK HERE!~

These sounds were made originally, when Brady and I tried to jam a few days ago, and realized we had no instrument cables. So we put a mic into an amp, and played some things into that. Thanks errybody.

FOUR DAYS TILL PITCHFORK OMG

hair gel

I went to JAZZ KAMP at FSU for a week, a few weeks ago. It was fun.

the cool parts:

the not cool parts:

etc.

I mean, who can really deal with kids like that, besides themselves? Jazz is stupid. Its fun, but stupid.

Back from the slums, it be the Wu

I seem to go on blogging hiatuses and kind of just let everything I need to blog about pile up.

Anyways, first thing to mention:

On Tuesday, June 29, I will be performing at the corner perk in Bluffton (next to Monster Pizza). It starts with OOPS (I've made a whole new show up for us, its going to be real wacky)

followed by BABYVILLE, whom I'm pretty sure only myself and one other person in the world has heard this. Its Kieran Daly on lead everything and should be real excite. And headlining is good ol' YMC. I guess we'll be playing pretty alright too.

Coincidentally, I'm in all 3 bands. Why?

Hopefully, I'll get someone to take some pictures or something. I'm really excited, its my first show like this in a long long time, so come out! A show this interesting may never happen again!

Now I know its kind of dumb to blog about high school art projects, but since school's been out, I've gone through these projects and thought that at least these ideas were particularly funny or just something I would've done for fun. Which, in a way, is sort of what. Can't say I really got good grades on these, because I never always did what was asked.

This is a Black Santa Claus transforming into a Neapolitan Ice Cream Cone

An alphabet in the shape of Cats in Jars

And the rest

RHYTHM

I did another project for school, involving me making a video. This is for math class, and has little to do with math, but its freaking awesome.

A RHYTHMIC OPTION from Garrett Burke on Vimeo.

By the way, I got A's on both of these projects.

Now its time for me to jam (YMC's back in town, woo!).

Enjoy!

A REALLY TURKEY ADVENTURE

2nd installment of our movie projects, for Mr. A's film class. Its not as legendary as A WHEELY IMPORTANT ADVENTURE, but its still funny.

PART 1

A REALLY TURKEY ADVENTURE PART 1 from Garrett Burke on Vimeo.

PART 2

A REALLY TURKEY ADVENTURE PART 2 from Garrett Burke on Vimeo.

Everyone liked it at school. Hoorah.

Its one of those 3-poop days...

I guess you can call this a collage, or my admittance to the chicago scrapbooking festival... cause that exists.

I did this while bored at work:

Magazine clipping, papertowel, scotch tape, stamp ink

2010

Andy Jams

So my friend, Andy, or Andrew, plays piano, amongst other things. He always plays these little Andy-Compositions (or Andy-diddies, rather) in the band room. We also never really jam with him. So in the midst of of plotting our second movie project (sequel to 'A Wheely Important Invention' for you veteran Nwwt Bwwts readers) I told him, "yo andy, I wan das songs."

SO Brady and I 'recorded' it. Along with accompaniment from myself on drums, and Brady on guitar (though inaudible, in is case).

Here they are:

Andy 1 by G N 8

Andy 2 by G N 8

Andy 3 by G N 8

BUTTONSWAS

Here's some things:

Prom was fun. I bought two packs of mustaches for all the guys. Errybody was lookin real purdy.

Played some things. Here's a cool pictures, courtesy of my pal Brady.

He takes the coolest of em.

Saw a giant rainbow today.

This is my last month of school for this year. I've been mega busy with this stuff, but plus that stuff too. After all the tests and jive, I'ma planning on giving myself a pretty good summer. Then I will wish everyone good tidings and continue with one more year of high school.

I started playing trumpet. I ain't good at it.

I got my omnichord back. It's not fixed. :( However, I am glad to find out that it wasn't my fault, it being broken. The adapter I used to power, which had thought killed it, though it did actually kill it, it should not have, to my and most american's knowledge. There was something weird with it, like the power part was reversed compared to most electronic things, but seeing as it was made in 1980's Japan, it was too unruly to fix. Not really sure what I'm gonna do with it really.

Speaking of eBay, I almost made another purchase this week. I was watching a video of the Gorillaz on the Colbert Report. This one. Anyways, the keyboardist has got this rack of synths and stuff, and let me tell you - I'm obsessed with analog synthesizers. I've been trying for the longest time to find one for a reasonable price. So whenever I see one in action, I go look it up. This one is called the Korg MS2000; it usually goes for like $600-700. I saw one on eBay, that day, for $200. So I nearly freaked, and declared that I must have it. To make a long story short, I lost it. I wasn't home when the auction ended (ahem, school) though I was the highest bidder when I left. It still only went for $320 though. I'm upset.

I got a real version of Ableton (FINALLY). The one I had during the 1st republic (the time period before the hard drive revolution (I've got my AP Euro test in two days; I'm into calling things by names like that)) was mega faulty and... well, it was stolen. The one I got now, yeah its got less instruments, and I've gotta spend time putting all my old projects back together (thanks for summer), but this one's got so much more audio effects. I've got my reverb so outta control (or extremely controlled, rather) that every snare sounds like a freaking gunshot. It rocks!

Everything is making me more and more excited for this summer. i.e. new releases: LCD soundsystem, wolf parade, broken social scene, and erryone else...

I was gonna post a jam we recorded this week, but internet's too sloooooooowwwwwwWWWW.

So I'll do that tomorrow.