All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

Tonight, Phantom Scream, Five Mile Town, and Ashore will be at No Future Cafe starting at 8pm. Come on out!

Our band, Phantom Scream, will be be playing at The Airliner in Los Angeles this Saturday, March 22nd at 5pm. Please come, listen and hang out with us! (Shows)

Are you in the LA area? Then come and listen to our newest music! 4:45pm at The Airliner in Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles). (It’s a little over a mile east of Dodger Stadium.)

Call or text me at 626-485-5484 if you’re coming!

My bass amp could use some color. So, I want stickers for this Sunday’s concert and the ones that follow that.

I’m super stoked that I heard back from Maya Desai at Automattic (through Matt Mullenweg) and should be getting some WordPress stickers by then.

I also emailed Heather Champ (for Flickr stickers) on Monday night, but haven’t received a reply yet.

If they exist, I think I’d want a Twitter, Jott, and Upcoming stickers, but I think that’d be it.

Can you help me out?

Update 5:42pm - Add a Firefox sticker to that list!

We’ve got our first show of the year! It’s at the Airliner Club in Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles). Please come and partake in our latest music on Sunday, February 10^th, 2008 at 4:45pm.

Update 2/6/08 - Here’s the Upcoming event link.

Thanks to the inspiration from Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Paul Stamatiou and Carlton Bale, I’ve made our CD to be available for download - as long as you use Bittorrent. All the details are over there.

Please spread the word by blogging, Twittering, or whatever else you use to communicate on the internets. Link to the Phantom Scream blog post. Thanks!

If you have any other comments, let me know.

Update 2007-12-04 9:14am - I updated the post so you can download directly. Why? To cater to those who just don’t use Bittorrent. Thanks to Fireside Media for donating a lot of bandwidth for hosting this file. You don’t even know.

Prepare for bullet points.

• I’m so into photography right now, despite having a simple point-and-shoot digital camera. I’m now selling prints, taking more photos and stepping up from Paint.NET to GIMP. Oh yeah, I love the Epic Edits Photodump Flickr Group.
• I’m getting used to bass guitar. In my opinion, Phantom Scream is undergoing awesome change.
• Target sells Dunkin Donuts coffee! Actually, I’ll want to check Albertsons, CVS and Ralphs - they’re closer to me than Ralphs. (Redlands Daily Facts) My friends now see me as a coffee junkie.
• I’m still using CallWave and Jott, which are both still free at the moment.
• I’m off the GTD wagon. I haven’t given up.
• My mom and I are catching up on CSI: Miami starting from Season 1. We’re on Season 2 right now. We just love how almost every line of Lieutenant Horatio is epic. You can’t forget about the sunglasses, either!

Oh yeah…I officially have my Associates Degree!

We finally setup a Pure Volume account for Phantom Scream: click here and have a listen!

Lend us your ears - and $5.

Over the period of two Saturdays (June 30^th and July 7^th), Phantom Scream (my band) went into the studio to record tracks for our upcoming five-song EP (demo). From the recommendations of a few friends, who are also in bands themselves, we went with 459 Audio Recreations. In addition to the experience, he records local bands at relatively inexpensive rates. Considering the equipment he uses, it’s amazing!

Here’s some notes I’d like to pass along:

• Bring your own snacks and drinks. Plenty of water is a must.
• I’m not sure if this was specific to our situation, but the tracking room and lounge were toasty! If a fan won’t mess up the recording, bring it. Otherwise, a couple towels and spare shirts would help.
• Print lyrics for the audio engineer, so they can mark it accordingly for spots that need fixing.

Note: I wrote this a week or so after recording, but never got around to posting it.