Hi everyone - We got ourselves taped at the Expression show a couple weeks back, and while it’s always hard to pick songs out of the set that are free of enough errors to share, sometimes sour notes and rock star faces slip in anyway. Here’s “Dear Mark”

Anyway, we hope to see everyone (yes, I mean everyone) on Thursday!

So you may have heard of wordle. There are some cool applications of it (like the Obama/McCain blogs). I decided to take the lyrics of our originals that we actually play and run them through wordle. Here’s what I got:

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Anyway, it’s pretty clear that we don’t have a great theme across the songs, which I think is OK. I bet if I did some lexical normalization before running it, it would come out cool too, but that’s not really what I feel like doing right now.

See you all Saturday!

So, if you subscribe to our photostream over at Flickr, you may have found a whole slew of photos, courtesy of Dan. Thanks Dan! There are a few goofy photos of our brief recent recording session as well, but I wasn’t feeling particularly photographic that day, so I dropped the ball. We’ll eventually commission Dan to do some band shots of the three of us just standing around, looking cool, and the like. Stay tuned for that!

The recording is going really well. Dance Hall has a really cool keyboard/dark guitar solo in the middle that you may not have heard yet. Decay sounds really full because of some pedal tweaking (Eric knows his stuff). ATL and Brandon is way too fast, but it kinda grew on me after hearing it a couple times. My favorite is still Hurt Me Out. While we were doing the guitar tracks, my first take came out a little weak. When we listened to it, it was almost boring, so we turned some pedal knobs again, Eric told me to relax, and out comes this amazingly heavy, yet melodic tone. I also added a little bit of a feedback solo, because I secretly want to be Billy Corgan. Anyway, we’ll mix these down in the next week or so, then put them up on the site for all to enjoy.

Last bit of news: We’re doing another live webcast in Emeryville next week. If you want to come and see it, we’d love to have you! If you can’t make it, it will be webcast live on the Ex’pression site. Here’s details:

• Two Star Spark live at Meyer Hall: Ex’Pression College of Digital Arts (6601 Shellmound/Bay St. Emeryville, CA)
• Saturday, September 6th
• Doors open at 9:00 pm. Show starts at 9:30 pm.
• You must RSVP to us if you are interested in coming, and if you do come, you must show up on time. They won’t let you in if you’re late. Also, this is a classroom setting, so no misbehaving. The up side? You get to see us perform on about the finest live equipment around with a dedicated crew of sound, lighting, and video people.
• Can’t make it? Watch the webcast live here: http://mediasource.expression.edu/liveCast.htm

So that’s about it. We hope to see you soon!