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Penitence

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About Me

People, I think, need to get in touch with their creative sides, if only for their own pleasure and entertainment, if only to understand what goes into creative works. Putting you're heart out on a page, in a song, in a picture, or on a canvas can be a scary thing. It can also be a wonderful thing. I think everyone owes it to themselves to experience that fragility, that vunerablity. Music is often presented as entertainment... and much of it is entertaining... but most of that is not just entertainment. The words of Sublime, of Bob Marley, of Rage Against the Machine, and of many many others are prime examples of people who entertain, but also heal. Their intent is to reach a higher understanding collectivley through music. Through Expression. I think there is no personal higher calling in life, no other thing more worth while. We are only here for a small amount of time. But the things we create, those things are immortal.. and will touch and teach people long after we are just ashes and dust.Changes may take up to 2 mins to show on your profile

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/16/2005
Band Website: Here!
Band Members: I guess I need to be more clear... All music written/performed by Paul, Vocals by Paul... all live. So far. Recording will be completed in a, er, couple months if I'm lucky... then you can all hear the difference between live and polished.
Influences: Velvet Underground, The Pixies, Radiohead, Sublime, No Knife, Allman Brothers, Green Day, Unwritten Law, Dashboard Confessionals, Further Seems Forever, Steve Miller, The Jealous Sound, The Anniversary, Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil, Lyle Lyle Crocodile..., Smile, Get up Kids, Jimmy Eat World, Weezer, Bob Marley, and Death Cab For Cutie, Homegrown, 311, Jack Johnson, and of last but NOT least, Mr. Ben Harper. ************************************************************ ********
Sounds Like: You tell me.... please
Record Label: None! but if you want to produce me..
Type of Label: None

My Blog

I'm BACK!

I'm back, I have a lot of work to do.  Expect two new songs to be recorded within the week, at much higher quality.You can catch them here soon, and let me know, I think that I've moved forward a...
Posted by Penitence on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:44:00 PST

Distalled. New words.

So this is always my stepping stone here.. It's the place between a song having no form to having some form. I always revise and revise because I am never satisfied.. but once I can play a song throu...
Posted by Penitence on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

More songs to come!

One thing I do love about trying events, when things are hard and things just aren't right, I seem to be inspired more. You know I think most people are the same way, it's just different for different...
Posted by Penitence on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

What is music...?

Many people have a lot of misunderstandings about music, or mabey that it's just music is seen so many ways.. it's much like religion.. it's what you use it for. Music can just be conductive.. IE.. s...
Posted by Penitence on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Lots of new faces!

It's nice to see so many people coming by my site recently, especially with the new song, I'm very interested on your thoughts! Oh this was really for the person that clicked the "My mom told me if I...
Posted by Penitence on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Iambic Posted today

So for those of you who care, Iambic was posted today... I fought with the whole idea of putting it up at all for a while, I was sick while I recorded it... and the mastering got screwed up.. there ar...
Posted by Penitence on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

San Diego Homebound! Come see me play.

All you guys in SD.. I'm cruising home for the weekend to party/record/love SD.... so hit me up.. the show is posted for friday, which is right me-thinks... those who are SD locals or who can make it ...
Posted by Penitence on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

****I am Jen****

SO! Uhm I love weekends, get sooo much feedback, get to meet so many people, and I have time to spelunk myspace to ping people and see what they think.. Sooooo... if you haven't heard her Go hear I ...
Posted by Penitence on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Escape Me Demo... released

Yah sooooo go figure.. I was looking around my computer and found an old recording of one of those songs I haven't finished/recorded completley. So I'm calling it a demo. It's one verse, and one bri...
Posted by Penitence on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

New versions coming..... update to page

Obviously I made some changes to the page.. Hah.. I think I do this whole thing more for myself than for anyone so hah. Uhm.. Bridge was updated today... it'll be better mastered by the the start of ...
Posted by Penitence on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST