Motion City Soundtrack: My Dinosaur Life

The long wait is over! After just over two weeks from the actual release date of the record, Motion City Soundtracks – My Dinosaur Life has arrived at my door step! Well it actually landed at Royal Mail because there was a custom charge. Not so happy with that.

This is the fourth album from american rock band Motion City Soundtrack, which was released on 19th January 2010, and was produced by Mark Hoppus of Blink-182.
I paid the extra for the deluxe edition as all the album art was design by my favourite artist Joe Ledbetter! There are 5000 copies of this limited deluxe edition and this package contains:

• Hardbound 9″x9″ custom book
• Six double sided 7″ picture discs representing each track
• A signed lyric book
• Full length CD
• Exclusive bonus CD

MCS - My Dinosaur Life

On top of that I bought the beautiful 8″x36″ lithograph print by Joe Ledbetter.

Lithograph Print by Joe Ledbetter

One last comment is that Motion City will be having a few shows in the UK in March and I will be attending the last UK show which is in Glasgow! Can’t wait, it’s going to be AWESOME!!!

Motion City Soundtrack’s New Record!!!

I am back! I have just realised that it’s been over a month since my last post so I decided to drop by and mention a few things.
First of all I have to tell everyone how excited I am about Motion City Soundtracks new album titled “My Dinosaur Life” which is due to release on January 19th 2010!
Secondly my most inspirational artist Joe Ledbetter is designing all of the album art, what more can I ask for!!!

Pre-ordering became available earlier from the motion city store and a Deluxe Edition was available for those hardcore motion city fans at a price of 60 bucks.

Deluxe Edition includes:
Hardbound 9×9 custom book to hold the below contents
-Six double sided 7″ picture discs featuring custom Joe Ledbetter artwork for each track
-Signed Pulp Fiction style lyric book
-Full length 12 track CD
-Exclusive bonus CD (Features 5 alt/acoustic versions – including 1 unreleased track)

In my opinion that 70% of me wanted the Deluxe Edition for the Joe Ledbetter artwork so off course I went through the process of trying to pre-order it, except to be greeted with “Offer is for United States customers only” which I got pretty annoyed!
The anger finally came to an end later on when motion city tweeted saying “The availability of the deluxe edition of My Dinosaur Life internationally will be known soon.” hopefully this is good news that all the other fans that don’t live in the United States will get the chance to get their hands on the Deluxe Edition.

If you are interested on any of the following news talked about on this post then you can check out the following websites.
http://www.motioncitysoundtrack.com/home
http://www.mydinosaurlife.com/
http://www.joeledbetter.com/

Art, Work and the Months Ahead

Hi!

Those who have been waiting and checking for daily updates on my blog then your wait is finally over! I have to admit that I’ve recently been extremely lazy, lost and whatever else, but now it’s time for me to re-group my arms, my legs, my head and focus on what I am going to do in the next few months.

First of all I want to say that I really want to attend the Joe Ledbetter show in London on Saturday 10th October but this depends if I could get time off work, Joe is one of my all time favourite artists so if your interested in any way then check out his stuff at http://www.joeledbetter.com.

Moving on I want to talk about my art side of things which is developing a set of unique characters which will represent me.  I believe I have finally twisted and tweaked the original characters to something I would call acceptable, the next step is to select a few characters that will suit my first ever theme ”Creatures of the House” which I will develop a series of illustrations for.

A few days ago my TV/monitor failed to turn on and is now out of action until it gets repaired, for now my work will be done on a 17inch Compaq monitor which I stole from my sister but this shouldn’t hold me back from doing my work.
Lately a few inspirations sprung to mind when I was looking through some magazines and a few from just my surroundings, whether they have any direct relation to the first theme is un-clear but I have thought up some crazy designs which will hopefully interest the viewers, some of this work is available at:

• Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/11fires?cropsuccess=#/11fires?ref=profile
• DeviantART – http://fallen1502.deviantart.com/
• Photoshop Creative – http://www.photoshopcreative.co.uk/user/Fallen1502

On the more realistic side of things I am still looking for a full time job, looking more harder than usual so thats why it deserves a mention 🙂 now to bring things closer to time would be tomorrow which I am attending Open coffee then twestival and finishing the night off in the Empire with Thrones of Roll.  A few days ago I entered a twitter competition to win a hoodie but didn’t think much about it, only to find out that I was the winner, I’m still pretty psyched about winning since I’ve never really won anything in similar competitions, all I gota say is thanks baseacid and for those who are interested check out www.baseacid.com or follow them on twitter.com/baseacid.