Ramblings From Justin Penney

When we first started His Last Chance a big inspiration was Ignorance is Bliss by Face to Face. I lent it to Ryan as an example of the direction I had in mind. That was in 2000. I haven't seen or heard it since.

In October Ryan had a party and we were playing music in his van (the van has a GREAT sounding stereo by the way) and we listened to that and Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie. So that was another album down the drain. Both of these were sitting in his van and he always drove their Jetta when he came to practice. Well... today he finally was in the van and I wanted the Death Cab disc back so I went it to get it. When he handed it to me he told me to look to see if he left anything else in there. He did. I lifted up the CD and saw it and looked at Ryan. He let out a dissapointed "Sh*t." I exclaimed, "Yes!" and ran up the stairs and turned around and gave him the "double deuce."

I just finished listening to both of these and I'm pretty happy. Oh yeah... Chad Blinman is an awesome engineer. Even thought a lot of people don't like that Face to Face album it really resonates with me and every part of it sounds really good.

# posted by Justin @ 4:11 PM