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Saosin has posted a lengthy studio update regarding the recording of their as of yet untitled album, which will be released on October 17th:

"ok, where to start?

well, last update, i think i left you guys on the day we started guitars. so i guess i will start from there. and if i already told you some of this stuff, then i am sorry. feel to cry about it in a blog, like this girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw4gnRZpyos

so, first off, and most importantly, you may remember how last time justin and i went to our little dive bar and he kicked my ass at darts like 500 to 24 or something. well, we went back there a few nights ago, and i totally redeemed myself. i beat justin 4-0. finally justin quit and i took the championship darts throwing title.

the next night, we went back there and i swear our bar tender turned into a magician. he started pouring us shots when we got there, and no joke, no matter how fast we drank them, when we looked back down, our drinks would be full again. needless to say, we stumbled home, and i think i am still hung over from that night.

moving on, it turns out our assistant engineer phil, was just a fill in for the time being. our real assistant engineer was in japan, getting his green card papers or work permit or something. he is a japanese guy that doesn't seem to speak much engrish. well, its either that, or he is just really quiet. he is quiet and laughs a lot, but i am yet to have a conversation longer than. "hello" "hahaha" but anyways, i think he brought back some sort of bird flu or anthrax from japan. and i think he gave it to me. my glands are swollen like golf balls and i have a headache all the time. it totally sucks. (and before you open your big mouths, and try to be my mom.) no its not from the drinking. i really think he gave me aids or something.

also, our hughes and kettners have been kicking ass in the studio. they basically shred over every other amp. but for some reason, our engineers want to keep trying all the other amps before we come full circle and realize that the hughes and kettners rule and we should keep using them. anyhow, we have been shredding guitars and bass, and howard and the rest of the crew are really impressed with how good we are at guitar. in fact, they are telling us to take the next 3 days off, so the rest of the crew can catch up to us with backing up files and what not.

so, justin chris and i are not shaving until the record is done. chris and justin haven't shaved since we started tracking drums, but i just started 3 days ago. my beard grows about 5 times faster than those guys, so i think i will be caught up to them in a few days. we look like mountain men. chris' hair is absolutely horrible. he looks like he has been raised by bears. and schooled by the jewish fashion stylist and then beat up by a mongoose. but he is singing well and playing some kick ass bass tracks so i guess its ok.

justin and chris did some singing on burry your head today, and it sounds great. that is the singing i was talking about.

as for guitar and bass, we have these songs done. hew fring, sleepers, burry your head, finding home in a hooker, and radio song. i think the lead vox are done for 2 or 3 of those.

we started sexy delay riff tonight, but we aren't finished yet. we got the intro parts and the choruses done, so we gotta finish the verses tomorrow. but i think chris might lay down some sick bass on it tonight.

the songs are beginning to really take life. and all the tones are pretty sick and huge.

in other studio happenings, howard was playing a pretty funny prank on justin. we got it on video and it might go on a dvd if we get enough footage to put one out.

when justin started tracking his vocals today, justin would sing a part, then howard would move it early or late, and then play it back for him. and then tell justin that he was singing late or early, and justin totally bought it for the first 2 times, but then he caught on and told howard he was gonna kick his ass if he did it any more. so justin finished up his vocals, and they were great. then chris came in and sang some more harmonies. and the shit is sounding pretty rad.

well, its cinco de mayo and everyone else in the world is partying, but we are still in the studio, and i am sick so i am not going out tonight.

new day.

six de mayo.

so i watched king kong last night. and to be honest, i was not impressed. i was expecting a great epic film, but i guess i should have realized that it was going to be average, by the title. duh!!

so anyhow, we are in the studio now tracking guitars for sexy delay riff. and we are getting crazy with delay pedals and every other pedal we can think of. the verses are really spacy and then the chorus is a big anthem sing along. this song is one of the more straight forward songs, and we never really use very many effects, so this song is kind of cool for us. but don't worry, we will be back to shredding like dragon force in no time.

chris tracked some bass riffs over the verse of the song last night, but justin doesn't like the way it was picked. so we are gonna track the bass over with a new picking pattern.

oh chris has also been officially banned from the bathroom here at the studio. every day, without a doubt, chris arrives at the studio with a stomach full of a combination of toxic waste, bile, and a cross between baby poop and drunk squirts.

so he arrives at the studio, and he never fails to make a b-line to the bathroom and completely destroy the toilet!! the toilet is kind of hard to describe, it has a very flat bottom, not like most toilets where you can drop of a cosby kid and they escape down the hatch. this is more like an examining tray. so when you dump, it just plops down onto this sort of shelf, and doesn't fully get submerged in water, so the smell quickly fills the room and starts seeping through the crack under the door.

so anyways, chris has been desecrating the bathroom every day, and our engineer gets really sad, because chris always leaves skid marks all over the toilet and leaves the door halfway open with no match, air freshener and no fan on, so it never really gives the bathroom a chance to air out. it stinks really bad, in fact, maybe that is why my glands are all swollen and i have headaches all the time. i am allergic to chris' dump stench.

oh, i almost forgot!!! if you go to www.entensity.net there is a picture of a guy with ice cream on his dong. he is really creepy. so anyways, while i was waiting for justin to finish some guitar tracks, we photoshopped our engineers face onto that body, and sent it to his manager and tried to convince him that he was gay, and that we found it on some gayengineers.com type of site, while we were searching for other bands that he engineered. anyways, it was amazing!!!! it fits sooo well with the picture.

wow, this is great, i am remembering a lot of stories right now. also the other night, while justin and i were at our bar, some chick came up to us and she was asking us if we were in a band, and she was convinced that we were. so, justin tells this chick that we are voice actors, and we are living up in burbank because we are doing voice overs for ice age 3. so of course, she is like, "well, didn't ice age 2 just come out?" and we are like, "ya, but we are already working on another one." so she totally buys it!!! and then starts asking us how the movie is going, and what our character names are. so we got cornered. and we had to tell her that we were not actors. but for the 5 or ten minutes that we were lying to her, it was hilarious!!!! we kept looking at each other, just thinking, "i can't believe this chick believes us right now!!!"

so anyways, we told her we were in a band, and she says that she is a singer in a band too. (have you ever seen goonies? she looked like the big mamma barker, but really goth. actually, she kind of looked like that chick on the utube link up earlier in the post.) so anyways, she says she is the singer in a band. and they are trying to get signed and all that crap. so we asked her what kind of music she plays, and then she told us that she really isn't a singer, and that she is an actress. so of course we ask her what movies we may have seen her in, and of course she replies that she really isn't in any movies and that she is an actress at the local theatre. and that she really isn't in a band, but our bar has great karaoke on thursdays, and she shreds at karaoke."