"im on the brink of disaster, staring down the consequences"

there are 3 new albums coming out that i'm super psyched for. and yes, nate, you totally know all 3 of them.

im going to give you (and by you i mean the 'nobody' that reads this crap. it just makes me feel good to address the posts this way) the run-down on what im psyched for about these albums. this is secondary to the fact that i need new music BAD. well, not that bad. just burned the new travis from nate, and thats an awesome album. as tall as lions is a pretty good album. and im getting into a few albums that i have that have just been sitting around (newest switchfoot, newerish brand new, newtastic keane, newesque landon pigg). and yes, landon pigg is an unfortunate name. quite possibly the worst name ever, aside from "shithead" pronounced "shi-theed". but i digress...

jimmy eat world - chase this light (middle of september 2007) so, the thing that pisses me off about this is that they don't have any new songs up anywhere. i mean, come on jimmy. give us a little taste. but i still can't wait for this. my hope: take the direction from (songs) futures, 23, kill, polaris. so basically, 23 is one of the greatest songs jimmy eat world has ever written. its up there with 'for me this is heaven' and 'cautioners'. and if they can use that direction, which was kind of backtracking to their "clarity" days in style, to push forward down that road, i feel like this new album could be fucking ridiculous. stop trying to be all 'hard'. yeah, you love the heavy guitars, and most of those songs come across totally kickass live. but you guys are better with harmonies, pianos, and 30 melodic lines running all over the place.

cartel - cartel. (8/21/2007) they have a single "lose it" on their myspace page, and i've been listening to this thing non-stop, only switching over to mae's myspace page to listen to their two songs off their new album. this song is short, but its good. real good. a little more "pop single" than their last album. not that they are getting away from their sound, because its still pretty pop-punk/emo, but i'd say its a little more up-beat than their last album. which is good. its got some pretty sweet mixing choices with background vocals kinda in and out and the sound breaking down and building up where you wouldn't normally expect it. which i am hoping means that the writing has matured a little but kept the core talent these guys have. i'm going to predict they are HUGE this year. not that they aren't already. ok, they're pretty fucking huge. however, i have a feeling they'll be MTV's new poster-children of the emo scene now that joel madden (you know, i don't even know the name of his band, to the point that i have to google it right now...good charlotte. goddamn it) got nicole richie pregnant and the time of a new found glory and simple plan/hoobastank/etc is over. so yeah, these guys should be huge. and they are awesome. and im not 100% convinced on whether them being MTV's poster children is a good or bad thing. good for them because being famous will help them $$-wise. but it may also make them shitty in the long run. so hopefully they don't get too huge. hmmm... maybe i hope this album doesn't go big. shit.

mae - singularity. (8/14/2007) so i am obsessed with "brink of disaster" as you can tell from these lyrics for the title and end of the post. that song is fucking awesome. if i could have written 1 song ever in my lifetime, it would totally be 'for me this is heaven'. or maybe 'evaporated' by ben folds. however, this song is still awesome. and the other song they have up on their myspace page from the album (sometimes i can't make it on my own, or something like that) is pretty awesome as well. i didn't love it the first time i heard it. i liked it. was like "ok, i know you're pushing in a direction, and this is an alright direction to go. just keep it 'mae', mae." but that song grows on you, definiately. so i'm pretty pumped that this album is going to be a keeper. and by keeper i mean in my playlist for the next year or two. and i'm going to see them live with one of my newest favorite bands, as tall as lions. unreal live. opened for copeland and they were sick. so i'm psyched for that.

so thats the rundown. buy these albums if you are reading this and you're not someone who i talk to about this shit all the time. and then save some money for my 'album' whenever we're done with it. or even start it, for that matter. and then we've got to get 11 songs written. which, if you know me, will never happen. what? what's that? is that the sound of depression backing the dump-truck in? nice. time to go cry. but only until these albums come out.

"to break hard would be better, tonight i'll do what it takes to fail"