There’s no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn’t be – bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.
ALAN PALOMOThere’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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I think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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So I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head – that’s where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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You start reverting back to that state of mind where you’re having conversations with yourself, and that’s where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.
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I would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.
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I have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.
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I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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Things are changing at such a rate that you really can’t get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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“It’s not where you got it from, it’s where you take it.” To me, that’s just an integral part of why I even bother making music.
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I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base.
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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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