from now on I'll be posting over here:
http://matthewjoel.tumblr.com
check for updates frequently.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
electro-dancing-goodness
here's the deal:
latley I've taken a break from writing songs with my guitar and have focus all my musical attention on writing songs with my keyboard. The result is a new project, and a new record. I'm calling the project Bank Heist, you can visit the page here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bank-Heist/80539864171
and I'm calling the record's Final Crisis. I have part of it uploaded on the facebook page, make sure you check them out, and if you're enjoying it, send me an email and I'll send a link your way to download the whole thing.
b.heist@live.com
love,
matthew joel
latley I've taken a break from writing songs with my guitar and have focus all my musical attention on writing songs with my keyboard. The result is a new project, and a new record. I'm calling the project Bank Heist, you can visit the page here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bank-Heist/80539864171
and I'm calling the record's Final Crisis. I have part of it uploaded on the facebook page, make sure you check them out, and if you're enjoying it, send me an email and I'll send a link your way to download the whole thing.
b.heist@live.com
love,
matthew joel
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
more songs!
If you want to hear a few more songs from the new EP, got take a visit to my sixtyone page.
thesixtyone.com/tworstenemy/music/
thesixtyone.com/tworstenemy/music/
Sunday, December 7, 2008
exciting news
The EP is finished, as of this afternoon.
I am happy to announce the track list has grown from 6 to 8 songs.
I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to distribute this, but I think that how ever it happens, 5 dollars is the price I'm leaning towards selling it for.
It's possible that my near favorite part about making music is seeing how the things I write are all apart of me, and fit into my story in one way or another, even if it's unintentional, or I don't see it at first. Now I don't think I'll go so far as to label this record as "concept", but there's defiantly a bit of a story line.
here's another sample to pass the time. Some of you may have heard the demo, I've mixed it up a bit, dropped it a half step and added some other fun things.
enojoy!
...
I am happy to announce the track list has grown from 6 to 8 songs.
I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to distribute this, but I think that how ever it happens, 5 dollars is the price I'm leaning towards selling it for.
It's possible that my near favorite part about making music is seeing how the things I write are all apart of me, and fit into my story in one way or another, even if it's unintentional, or I don't see it at first. Now I don't think I'll go so far as to label this record as "concept", but there's defiantly a bit of a story line.
here's another sample to pass the time. Some of you may have heard the demo, I've mixed it up a bit, dropped it a half step and added some other fun things.
enojoy!
...
Friday, December 5, 2008
Comfort in Conflict.
Involving stories are built around conflict. With out conflict, there is nothing to be resolved, nothing to learn from, and nothing to give the story relevance. As humans in a world of prosperity, health, and resources, we need conflict. We live for it. Conflict is the force that gives meaning to our own stories. Day by day, life is lived in anticipation for the issues, problems, and disagreements that are sure to rise. Smoke alarms are installed, security systems are instigated, second keys are cut, godparents are assigned, car insurance is bought, diets are started, and savings accounts created. All of this is our indemnity, our protection against the conflict we are sure life will bring. Even as we work through and tackle the conflict of every day life we seem to be preparing for an ultimate conflict we believe to be in store, that one car accident, that one fire, the one death, the one thing that will give life meaning. Conflict is spoken of as a poison, an inconvenience, but while it does bring pain, the truth is, if this conflict never comes around, if the rising action never leads to climax, if the plot line of life is flat, our stories are incomplete, our personal legends unfinished, nothing has been overcome or accomplished. Such is the bliss and contortion of life in the depths of prosperity, and provision, as I know it. My only problem is that I do not have one.
As a first year student at briercrest, born to a pastor, raised in the church, taught with only the highest quality of Christian elementary, middle, and high school education, fed three meals a day, separated comfortably from the pain and disarray of war and poverty, I am the embodiment of this anti struggle. My life doesn’t know pain. I find my self drowning on the dry land of my life own story. Lost in the quest to complete my own plot, to work through my life’s rising action, conflict, climax, and resolution, only to be wedged, stuck hopelessly in the introduction.
As a man of faith, living through the stories of Christianity, I know that the solution to this problem lies in my connection with the biblical meta-narrative: the fastening of my story to the story of God and his people, the story of Christianity, or as I believe, all of humanity. “Creation, fall, redemption, [and] consummation” (Opitz, Melleby) should be the crucial events that define my life, my sin the conflict, Jesus’ death the climax, and resurrection the resolution. I need to choose to live, not for conflict has this western world has conditioned me to, but to separate me self, turning my back on the worldly, and in turn bringing my attention, and giving my life to a plot line that is so much more incredible than any concoction of predicament, solution, and resolve the world could put together. I need to remind my self of this every day.
As a first year student at briercrest, born to a pastor, raised in the church, taught with only the highest quality of Christian elementary, middle, and high school education, fed three meals a day, separated comfortably from the pain and disarray of war and poverty, I am the embodiment of this anti struggle. My life doesn’t know pain. I find my self drowning on the dry land of my life own story. Lost in the quest to complete my own plot, to work through my life’s rising action, conflict, climax, and resolution, only to be wedged, stuck hopelessly in the introduction.
As a man of faith, living through the stories of Christianity, I know that the solution to this problem lies in my connection with the biblical meta-narrative: the fastening of my story to the story of God and his people, the story of Christianity, or as I believe, all of humanity. “Creation, fall, redemption, [and] consummation” (Opitz, Melleby) should be the crucial events that define my life, my sin the conflict, Jesus’ death the climax, and resurrection the resolution. I need to choose to live, not for conflict has this western world has conditioned me to, but to separate me self, turning my back on the worldly, and in turn bringing my attention, and giving my life to a plot line that is so much more incredible than any concoction of predicament, solution, and resolve the world could put together. I need to remind my self of this every day.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Album Art
EP update: I've got the art finished, and all tracks ready for vocals. It's coming soon friends.
Monday, December 1, 2008
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