Sunday Bloody Sunday

We rehearsed yesterday evening. It went well. We ran a couple of newer songs (at least, new to Chris and Paul), such as An Empty Space, and The Great Gatsby. Then we ran some old classic tunes, and had a discussion about when we would like to perform next. The magic date of March 26th was selected, both because Jon will be getting married toward the end of February, and Tori will be gone the beginning of March. We're going to try and get an opening slot at the turf club.

The Backdrop that dboring painted for tha band will have to be redone. It fit the theme of City Sorrowful (it was a black city siloutte that had grafitti art at the bottom, and random images painted towards the top meant to evoke the mundane banality of day to day life, with random words painted across the sky, both political in nature (Rwanda, Leonard Peltier, Mumia-Abu Ramma, Iraq), and emotion in nature (Fear, Hate, Anger, etc.) Thematically though, it simply will not work for our new name, Ocean Over. So the entire thing will be glossed over and redone, hopefully to better encapsulate the sound we are develpoing.

Hopefully, sometime this week, Dave will be able to e-mail out the rough mixes for our four track E.P. Then we can comment on them, get them finalized, and hopefully have them ready to be pressed in time for our first show, in March. We'll see how it goes though...

Celebrate Good Times

Tonight, in place of a normal practice, we are going out to eat at Khan's Mongolian buffet, to celebrate our newest accomplishment, choosing a new band name. Broken was taken by a band from California, City Sorrowful was too clunky, and we went through a lot of names before settling on Ocean Over. The whole process took roughly six months. Some of the rejected names were:


Model State
Model Citizen
The Shallows
My Damn Self
Lost Cause
Tantalus
Whisper
The Flaming Pink Doilies
The Forgotten
Angry Chair
Distraught
Speck of Dust
Mote
Stolen Solice
Aileron
Lucid
Crawl Space
Well
Ruminant
Albatross
Fluxotine
Arms of Sleep
Rivulet
Shoe
Absence
Either
Subtotal
Abandon
Further
BOG
Desperate Measures
Conspiracy of Thumbs
Six Strong Elephants
Leafy Spurge
Something Without Hands
Back Condition
Floodlit Garden
Walking Winter
Artery
Blue Snow
Brain Virus
Bluesome
Bluetone
Bluesomething
Garden Light
Flood Light
Undercut
Hellochip
Riverfall
Iceflow - Ice Floe
Arctic Meltdown
Antarctica
Katabatic Wind(s)
Ice Sheet
Ablation
Abyssal Plain
AntiCyclone
Aphelion
Ice Stream
Iceberg
Inversion Wind
Magnetic Ice
Oblique
Pack Ice
Polar Plateau
Proglacial
Sleet
Subglacial
Trench
CitizenPrime
HANDOVERHAND
bag of mice
Lost at the Grocery Store
Snoutoyster
Pool of Snouts
Two Ducks and a Bone
Hydrofall
Hydrosnout
sleepy/hollow
penknife
The Is
unlisted
daydreampt
maglev
bee
Lemming Convoy
Northern Flashlights
People Are Idiots
the north
North Coast
Nothing North of Here
Titanic Bionic Jew
Northern Jew
Two Jews North of Here
Dave and the Gentiles
The Christian Jew
Jesus Likes Peperroni Pizza
Surrounded by idiot Goyem...
Cold Already
City Dreams
Migration Check
Spnning to Infinity
Building to Infinity
Spinning Infinity
Building Infinity
Model Life
Liquid Cold
Concensus Form
Diet of Words
technical abandon
Ventriloquist
Obligatory Compliment
Soothsayer
Empty Bottles
Quiet Sing-a-long
After the Sun
nah fig
lurf
periphery
the tenth part
godot
engineer
Future State
Life Lease
Leasing Life
Vote for Pedro
TimeBox
Model Machine
Machine State
State of Machine
Like The Machine
Model City
Aqua State
Broken State
Liquid State
Partial State
Solar State
Solid State
Wasted State
The Warring States
paper state
State of Nate
Straight State
Perfect State
Corporate Kid -- Corporate Kyd
Corporate State
Corporate Law
Compliance
Safe From Harm
Memory Fire
Simple City
Pull Me Under
One Last Nail
Unfurled
Mojo Pin
Low Cast


Now do you see why we're celebrating?

Entry Number One

We are a band. Our name is Ocean Over. We make Noise. You can listen to us if you like. If not, then we hope you have fun doing something else, and we're sorry for wasting your time. We will update this blog from time to time.