Posted on Tuesday, 15th September 2009 by Stephen
That’s what they tell me on YouTube. “They sure as !@#$ don’t write &#*$ like this anymore!” Or some such statement. Is it true? They also say that fairly new stuff like Oasis’s Don’t look back in Anger is genius. I know that’s not true – Noel Gallagher said so himself. So what gives? My [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 26th August 2009 by Stephen
And stuff. So far it’s been ok, but it looks like I may not be learning a lot in my computer classes! What a shame. At least I get to chill with wannabe nerds. That in itself is worth the time, methinks. Getting started with Java took me like ten minutes… bleh. I was hoping [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 15th August 2009 by Stephen
It’s finally here! After lots of work, etc., I have finished my first album, If Music be the Food of Love. It will be on iTunes September 15, but you can download it right now at www.imbtfol.com, or right here at Seventeen Pencils. I’d like to thank Michael Golus, Joshua Mayfield, Caleb Sherer, and Joshua [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 23rd July 2009 by Stephen
One of the hardest things about music is actually feeling it. It’s too easy to just write what sounds decent, and not really put my heart into it. So when a song can really make me feel deep down, I’m intrigued. In my experience, the emotional quality of a song has to do with escaping [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 21st June 2009 by Stephen
And this is why it’s thrilling: I get to write about all the stuff I think about all the time! That is good news indeed. The other thrill-type aspect is that this site has had the fastest development time of any I have worked on up to this point. Of course, I didn’t have a [...]
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