The Apocalypse Suite
Hey guys, long time no blog. Sorry about that — life kinda intervened and things went completely loco. However, my music and my dreams for a future band are still on my mind every day as I try to find some inspiration for what I’m doing.
The good thing is, I found something!
I’ve been getting back into collecting comic books lately, seeing as I now write at least three comics (two of which are comic books along with my webcomic). I found out the hard way that webcomic formats and comic book formats are vastly different in how it’s all laid out and planned out. The only way to relearn how it’s done is to immerse yourself in it and now I have to wonder why I ever quit.
Maybe it’s because I never had much money as a kid.
Either way, I picked up the first collection of The Umbrella Academy (by the super-talented Gerard Way) and fell in love with not only the comic, but the title. It’s like, when I read it, a light turned on in my head.
Thing is, I tend to write a bunch of shit and hope to find a few things that are cohesive and then tie them all together into a lovely little thingymahoozit. Well, I realized that a lot of what I’ve been writing alludes to or somehow parallels the end of the world (namely “The World Ends With You” and “Kingdom Come”) and realized that these along with some of the other things I’ve been working on, all share this theme. So — and this is just an idea — I’m trying to put together eight of these songs and make them into an EP named…you guessed it: The Apocalypse Suite. I think it’ll be incredible if I can get it finished.
Now, I understand and realize that a lot of people pay homage to a lot of other people in a lot of their work, but I really REALLY hope that if this does happen, if this does take off, that Gerard doesn’t hate me forever for it. It’d be a very heart-crushing day if I learned that my idol wishes I would get hit by a truck or something.
Anyway, here’s what I’ve got done of The Apocalypse Suite.
ACT I
1) (Can’t think of what to start it with)
2) The Gathering Storm
3) Kingdom Come**
ACT II
4) The Hinge of Fate
5) (Can’t think of this either)
6) Breaking Dawn*
7) The World Ends With You**
* = First draft
** = Second draft, requires some jam-work
Now, I don’t want to make it be two CDs (I’d get laughed out of…well, anywhere) but I do want to separate it into two acts of sorts. We’ll see how it goes. I’m excited about working on The Apocalypse Suite and hopefully I can get a band together who really wants to make this stuff happen.
But first, finals.
xo.
j
2 years ago