we communicate the words more and more in more defined ways than ever before.

i'm sure glad i brought tea in to work today.

the dead texan is seriously one of the best cds/bands i have ever heard in my entire life.

here is a little bit of info on them. (from wikipedia.org)

The Dead Texan is the audio/visual duo of musician Adam Wiltzie and Greek video artist Christina Vantzou. Wiltzie is better known as one-half of the ambient project Stars of the Lid, opposite Brian McBride. Vantzou has done work for MTV Netherlands, and a promotional video for the band Interpol. Her work was also featured in the June 2006 edition of Tokion magazine.

As of yet, there has been only one Dead Texan release, a self-titled CD/DVD package. The music is very similar to that of Stars of the Lid: long, droning, ambient soundscapes with Stars-esque instrumentation. The songs on The Dead Texan, however, are generally shorter, and lyrics can be heard at times. Indeed, the songs were initially intended to be released as another Stars of the Lid album, but it was ultimately deemed, as Wiltzie put it, "too aggressive."

(from southern.net)

As a live sound engineer Adam Wiltzie has worked with Labradford, The Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev. He currently lives in Brussels, recording and working at live shows across Europe. It seemed inevitable that, given the extended process of recording Stars of the Lid's albums, Wiltzie would turn to solo recording. Adam Wiltzie did collaborate with Bobby Donne of Labradford on the self-titled Aix Em Klemm album, however The Dead Texan album presents a collaboration of a different kind.

The Dead Texan is a continuation of Mr. Wiltzie's nocturnal musical fumblings. Many of these songs could have been beginnings to new SOTL tracks, but he felt they were too aggressive for the new Lid record, which is still being recorded as we go to press.

Christina Vantzos is a filmmaker and video artist whose work has been shown in film, music and art festivals in Baltimore, Kansas City, Chicago and Brussels. She has accompanied musicians as a VJ and is working on a video documentary on teenage life in Scotland. Although Wiltzie began composing and recording the music on his own, he dabbled with combining his music with Vantzos' videos; this eventually became a mutually collaborative project with the composition of the music and the creation of the videos becoming simultaneous. Both mediums played off the other until audio and visual came to support each other seamlessly. The DVD is divided into seven sections which add up to a half hour's viewing time.

here are images from the dvd (which is also, by the way, absolutely amazing)

and this is one reason why i would absolute love (if they make another album) to spend a bundle to see them play live. not only is the music absolutely beautiful, but so is the atmosphere itself.

this is why i love it.
the music itself is haunting. there is something about the way it collides together with a million different tones and emotions, escalading at heights that are not foreseen. songs such as, "the 6 million dollar sandwich" hit you like a ton of bricks. for those that have heard stars of the lid, it is similar. the difference is the way it all is displayed. in my opinion, while stars of the lid is definitely ingenius and beautiful, it comes across in a simple form. it has the same mindset as an eno record, considering it is soothing to the point of feeling as though you have reached zen...as if you are meditating or experiencing an out of body experience. with the dead texan, it is something else entirely. it can be the music to place at a funeral, the music to place at a wedding, the birth of a child, being broken up with, losing your life to...it takes many formats in so many ways. for example, i put "aegina airlines" on repeat one day after i had experienced the ultimate heartache. i was walking downtown in a zombie like state, feeling solace in the enchanting piano notes cascading through an underwater dream land. i've had many moments where "glen's goo" at my last job brought me to the point of tears, helped me realize that i hated where i was, and look for a new position in life. there is something magical about this album. i know there are many that will probably laugh at the fact that i am putting so much stock in, well, a piece of music...a piece of art...the thing about this is, i see it as a statement of a life. i see it as a portrayal of someone's cycle in full force. if the members were to pass on tomorrow, it would be as if we knew everything they have lived. i love that about this album. it makes me feel as though i know these people, and that in a sense, they know me for having made such an amazing work.

that is all i suppose i have to say. happy friday!