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oct 22, 2007
our record is called "it's time we acted like it" it is available in cd form with homemade put together artwork. if you would like me to mail you a copy email me at fallingoffabuilding(at)yahoo(dot)com and we will work something out. thanks!
june 7, 2007
i would rather die than do a lot of things. one of them is live. but i keep living!!
may 28, 2007
we are going on tour in july!! we are releasing our record on june 20th, with endless mike and the beagle club, an amazing band!!
march 5, 2007
i'm on the road touring with the Never as keyboardist these days. i still haven't learned how to live yet. a lot has changed. that's life, things always change. this is a weird time in my life, a very unstable time. i might end up living for many many many more years tho.
thanks
love, adam
aug 28, 2006
falling off a building is at work on a record in the studio. the record will have a certain stylistic symmetry. it will come in like a lion and go out like a lamb.
i have considered changing it to falling off a bike cos i fall off my bike a lot. i haven't in a while though.
aug 28, 2006
this was going to be abandoned, that's why this website dissappeared all summer. now it's back. i've really learned a lot.
apr 4, 2006
there exist falling off a building tshirts now and you should get a falling off a building shirt. doug vanarsdall is a great artist. he drew the comic that is on the shirt. you can see it at purevolume. i know a lot of people. thanks.
love, adam
march 15, 2006
april 3 is the next falling off a building show, with lovers, work clothes, josh mccormack, and single engine airplane. it's gonnna be a jam.
march 1, 2006
i finally realised this will never work. ha. i say finally. i've always known. still, i try, and i will continue to plod on. i realised that as cheesy of a rhyme as "die" and "try" are, they are opposites. so that's..... yeah. anyhow.
leaders must either be followed or go alone.
you're only addicted if you're trying to quit.
it's not that i don't wanna live, it's just that i wanna die so badly.
i know what happened and i know what it was worth:the world to me and nothing to the world.
Jan. 4, 2006
i was just trying to be cute. that was all.
if it's killing you then it's killing me but it will not succeed. we are alive, we are alive, we are alive, and it's time we acted like it. I love you and it's time I acted like it. It's time to get on with it. I would have been destroyed, I would have been demolished, but now i'm overjoyed to be alive. i could have been convinced, the dust i am been polished, but now it makes so much sense that i could cry.
help me remember. i need to remember.
i have been healed. i won't go back.
Nov. 7, 2005
my dad let me borrow his sweet bike so now i can ride around and look totally cool. right now i have this horrid goatee in honor of moustache day, which is next saturday nov. 12. i will be playing keyboards and screaming backups in the brand new columbia phenomenon known as "dude party" don't shave this week and then come out to the boiler room this saturday (ladies, this includes you) for like 15 bands all in honor of wearing moustaches. it's gonna be awesome.
Oct. 15, 2005
falling off a building played a show as a full band with mike on drums, beth on piano, and adam on guitar on oct. 11, and this website made no mention of that show. well it did happen, and it was awesome.
i live in columbia, sc right now on yale ave. i walk to work most days, when i can. i get discouraged verily easily. but i am an artist, and that is why i am not dead or doing something else. i read "the brothers karamazov"
love, adam
Sept 6, 2005
what i am doing right now is trying to take away all the external comforts so that it can be proven that i am only held afloat by God's grace.
what i will be doing fri september 23 is opening for adam whiting at jammin java in columbia.
what i will be doing fri september 30 is playing at drips in hickory north carolina.
what are you doing now, what will you be doing then?
love, adam
August 16, 2005
Thank you so much to everyone who came to the show friday with Monet and Sunny. It was a smashing success, in my humble opinion.
I hope you guys will come to other shows please. I forgot to put out a mailing list list at the show, but now you can send your email to me from this website and join the list! so do that!
i wrote a song last night about motivation.
August 10, 2005
i hate the internet. it is so frustrating.
there is a falling off a building show in two days, with a really good band called monet madrid madagascar from cleveland, OH, and a band called sunny blunder from SC. come to this show.
July 16, 2005
it's nice to have a chance to update this website. there are two falling off a building shows coming up soon, one in july and one in august. check the shows page. i am praying to be healed of my scatterbrained-ness. it's slow coming though.
tragic moments of beauty are worth their weight in gold.
June 9, 2005
today is my half-birthday. I am 23 and a half. sheesh. me and josh bowers, my fat friend, are leaving SC on monday to imbark on our trip of the country. we will surely die. please pray that we don't. after that i am working at lutherock and then i have to have a job in columbia when i come back. how are you doing? i wrote a few new songs.
april 28, 2005
falling off a building is a columbia "band" now.
there will be a cd release that actually has a cd someday. thanks a million, guys! you guys are the awesome.
thanks. seriously.
march 6, 2005
come to the show on tuesday. you'll be glad you did. we will play "i want that life back." i will say in it, "i wanna live again" which is a quote from "its a wonderful life" , the classic film. listen for it.
feb. 16, 2005
falling off a building is opening for NEVA DINOVA on march 8 at new brookland tavern. that is awesome. Neva Dinova is awesome. they are from Omaha. they have remarkable songs. they did a split with bright eyes. this is awesome.
also playing is Columbia jazz-pop-rockers Madison Fair. awesome.
awesome.
awesome.
if i ever have a daughter, i will name her Awesomelope.
oh yeah, and come to jammin java this thursday. we're playing at 9.
jan 27, 2005
the show in hickory was awesome. we had a drum set and electric guitar and bass and everything. I am I am is wonderful people. i made some comic strips, fulfilling a lifelong dream. and i have new songs.
jan 20, 2005
i finished some songs on tuesday which i will play this saturday at a show you should come to. at drips, in hickory, with i am i am from lancaster. life is wonderful.
dec 15, 2004
last night i went to greensboro to see mewithoutYou, the snake the cross the crown, and owen at a place called ace's basement. the website said the show started at 7 30 and i got there at 720 and saw a sign that said no re-entry so i decided i'd go get something to eat adn come back because the sign said the doors didn't even open till 8 and i didn't want to be stuck in there by myself with no one to talk to (although on second thought that would have been really cool) so i went to wendy's and got a potato and came back and at 7:55 the show was sold out.
boy, was i mad. i told the boy at the desk i'd driven all the way from asheville and he said i'm really sorry and was really nice about it but fire - codes and stuff......so anyway i went back outside and a bunch of kids were in teh same predicament as me. we weren't leaving. we came to see rock, we were gonna see rock. a girl said does somebody have a stereo and i said i've got a guitar and ran out to my car and got it and we sang christmas songs and weezer and billy joel and radiohead and elton john and others songs while waiting to be let in. the man at the door said if people left we could get in. some asshole inside had an extra ticket he sold to somebody waiting outside for 20 dollars! twice the cover charge. asshole.
still, finally, the man said he'd been able to pull some strings and let us in. there were like 7 of us left. we'd totally missed snake cross crown but owen was still playing but he was sitting down and you couldn't see him so i didn't really try to listen that hard. and i still had my guitar and the man said he'd let me back in if i ran to put it back in my car, so i did. on the way back, aaron weiss from mewithoutYou and a dude from snakecrosscrown were standing outside so i got all excited and i was like "you guys are in mewithoutYou right" and obviously the guy from snakecrosscrown was like "i'm in snakecrosscrown" and i told him i had missed his show because we were stuck outside but i really liked his music and i had campers from Huntsville (where theyre originally from) who had mentioned them as a band to me (namely, russel) and i was pissed i had had to miss them but it was my own fault. and then i told aaron that i thought mewithoutYou's album is the best album of 2004 in my opinion and when i listen to it while on trips i always get so inspired i have to write stuff down in my notebook even while i'm driving. i asked him some other questions i had and stuff. he's a very nice person to talk to.
so i went inside and started talking to the boy i'd been talking to the most outside waiting and it turned out he's my friend drew's brother-in-law. crazy. there was a boy there who knew drew who recognised me from a party in boone at drew's place when i hassled him while he was drunk.
so then it was time for their show, and they played wonderfully, but the mix was bad.
oh well. then i drove home and had to work at the restaurant at 9 am.
that's my story. i'm sorry it was long-winded. my lips are still chapped from being out in the cold so long. i am happy, though.
love, adam
dec 9, 2004
"all eyes on the calendar, another year i claim of total indifference"
happy birthday to me
i got a job at a restaurant in arden. No pizzas. Pizzas are bad news.
my life is improving.
dec 4, 2004
there is a new show coming up. Jammin Java on Friday, Dec. 17, opening for Malcolm Holcombe. Me and Eric Skelton opened for him a year and a half ago at the Rodi in Gastonia. His music will destroy your little fragile body. He is tough. He reminds me of a turtle me and my dad found in the woods one time. A big tough turtle that didn't give a crap what anyone thought of him. His music is tough too. His music flips out and cuts off heads all the time and doesn't think twice about it. (i think i'm thinking of the right guy) mr. holcombe, if you're reading this, man, how i respect you. fear you even.
it's been too long since you've been to this webpage. don't ask me how i know these things. i just know them.
in other news, i am sad and alone and lonely in asheville. if you live near asheville and you want to be my friend, i'm down.
i was offered a secondary job delivering pizza for papa john's. my parents think a delivery job is a very bad idea.
nov 29, 2004
you're the best thing that ever happened to me.
nov 18, 2004
YOU HAD EVERYTHING and now YOU HAVE NOTHING
thank you everyone who came to the show at NBT
my cd burner to burn music i record on my eighttrack to cd doesn't work anymore. someone help me!
don't worry at all, i am no longer made of bliss.
"you made my head ache, you were that great, but now you're gone and LIFE IS WONDERFUL!" but the sickness just sleeps and it stays in your spine the rest of your life. (that's two bright eyes quotes)
nov 10, 2004
The first FALLING OFF A BUILDING show as a BAND will be Nov. 15 at New Brookland Tavern! it is my wish that all who are able would attend this show!! it will be great. i just got back to Asheville from Lancaster, SC where i practiced with Josh and Curt and Jessica, and we're gonna have a ton of fun playing and if you come to the show you'll have a ton of fun listening.
Be excited, cos I am!!
also Reasons For Leaving has come to play all the way from Pittsburg (well they are on tour) and the Silver Screen also will rock.
nov 6, 2004
Check out my friend Doug's plan for taking over the world!!
nov 5, 2004
I am sorry for being negative sometimes.
"I am made of bliss"
life is wonderful! come to the rock show at New Brookland Tavern in Columbia, SC on Nov. 15 anyone and everyone who is available!! this will be the first instance of Falling Off a Building as a full band, and OMG i am so excited and so should you be!! this line up will feature the amazing Josh Bowers on drums, the incredible Curtis on Bass, and the beautiful and talented Jessica Oliver on something!! rock on!! there will be two fantastic bands opening for us, Reasons for Leaving from Pittsburgh and the Silver Screen , new arrivals to the Columbia rock scene! Check it out!!
oct 25, 2004
"hey well maybe, come some sunny day, we'll wake up in some bright place where we can be safe and we won't have to apologize no more, maybe we could understand each other."
i think that applies to everyone i know. i hate the distance between people. it's impossible to know more than just barely anyone. even people you've known your whole life. but usually the reason for that is that people just don't try. people won't admit to themselves the truth about who they are and about who other people are. let's cut that out, okay? let's start actually trying to understand other people and give them the benefit of the doubt, and if we can't find any way to like someone, then just leave them alone and don't torture them with things we unfairly want out of them. it's never going to work. just let people be and just let yourself be.
oct 24, 2004
"man, that was awesome"
if that's not what you feel like saying right after a song ends, it's not worth it.
i have an idea. how about not treating people's opinions as worthless until proven worthwhile, and instead put the burden of proof on yourself and try to reach out to them and understand where they're coming from instead of trying to judge them according to your own standards you have created? cos everybody has tried to make themselves who they are based on their own life, and so you don't know everything there is to know about it, but you can try to put them in the best light possible and things will turn out better for all concerned. i heard someone once said "forgive yourself little, forgive others much." i like that.
love, adam
oct 19, 2004
I'm gonna go to Atlanta today and see damien jurado and richard buckner.
does anyone think we should call it fallingoffabuilding as opposed to falling off a building? as in no spaces? would that make things better or dumber?
you people never answer my questions. i doubt as you even read them.
name suggestions for the kitty are still accepted. (but they would probably be eventually rejected) "i get dumped enough in real life." HA!
chew on that, squirt.
oct 17, 2004
I GOT A KITTY!!!
also there are two new shows on the PERFORMANCES page. Check 'em out. and they don't know it yet, but the band I Am, I Am! from Lancaster SC is gonna play with me at the new brookland tavern. maybe. anyway, rock on folks. (name suggestions for the kitty are accepted)
oct 11, 2004
october is my favorite time of year.
i had a three day "tour" this past weekend. Columbia, Lancaster, Hartsville. it was beautiful and fun. i love music, i just love to sing for anyone who's willing to listen. and thankfully more and more people are willing to listen.
thank you to everyone who came to jammin java thursday night and to the other folks who couldn't make it but were there in spirit.
Lancaster is a town full of talent and awesome people. i never would have thought lancaster south carolina would be so cool. the Midnight Rooster in Hartsville is an awesome place and hartsville people are awesome and good listeners.
last night i went to the Courage Riley reunion show in columbia (well sunday) it was nice memories. i hope they're not serious when they say they won't ever play again as CR, but i bet they'd fight me to say they are. afterwards i drove to lutherock and arrived there at 3:30 am and like 6 friends from this summer were there asleep in the main room and i tried to just collapse immediately but i was kind of wired. but either way i was so happy.....
i woke up this morning and me and my good friend nathan took a hike to the top of a mountain and had such great talks. I had tons of good talks this weekend.
as i was driving back home to Arden, finally the tiredness of my lack of sleep the night before hit me. but also what hit me was this burden for the whole world. i want to help people and share with people so badly. i love people and want everyone i ever meet to be happy. i want to do what i can, and i wish i could do more.
love, adam
sept. 29, 2004
i get paid in a day.
sept. 16, 2004
Asheville, as a town, is fantastic.
They have open mics every night. I have heard some great music at these things and met some pretty cool people. I really like doing music. also there are really cool bookstores that sell comic books i like, such as Drawn and Quarterly and stuff.
i found the bell jar by sylvia plath at one of these bookstores and have read it twice. it made me feel horrible, but in a good way. i recorded some of my songs and added strings parts to them, as in keyboard strings. rock on.
sept. 2, 2004
I added an mp3 section, so you can download songs i have written and recorded for the purpose of listening to them or stealing them or whatever and share them with your friends please. I have worked very hard all day today and am tired. goodnight, hope to see you either in lancaster or hickory.
love, adam
august 28, 2004
today is the day ben walker goes from being a single man and jeannette chaffey goes from being a single lady to the two of them being husband and wife. so congratulations to the two of them. what a pairing. it's amazing.
falling off a building is officially relocating to Asheville, NC, because i got a job up there. falling off a building will be making many more appearances at asheville open mics. and hopefully after not too long, some solicited shows.
two new shows are added to the performances link today, so check that.
after i move into my new apartment things will get less crazy, in hopes that they will get WAY MORE CRAZY.
love, Adam
august 16, 2004
YAY! today is the day you can go listen to adam sing on purevolume.com, by clicking here. i saw a boy on the street that looked like Nick Hornby (the boy, not the author) and it made me sad that it wasn't him. today i hung out with rachel, whom i haven't seen in like a year. last night i hung out with adedokuns and that was pretty cool too. i am in the USC library, it is one of few computers on which i can actually update my website. so i have written this news item that will probably embarass me later and i will want to change it.
august 9, 2004
although the sweetest summer, my feelings hold me back.
i hope everyone had a good summer who is reading this. it's looking like i might be living in arden, nc this fall, fulfilling my life long dream of living in the mountains in the fall. i love being tired and i don't want it to end. i wrote like 5 songs only this summer. i am trying to post more songs so you can listen to them. two of my favorite artists, Richard Buckner and Damien Jurado are touring together. no more news.
june 17, 2004
in a year i'll be dead and you'll be married.
falling off a building is all about a boy screaming or singing quietly with his piano or guitar. check out the links page, if you're bored.
june 16, 2004
Do you realise how dramatic we're being?
Camp is going good at old Lutherock. I haven't actually had campers yet though. Now I am a lifeguard. I took this week off so I could see Pedro the Lion at New Brookland Tavern last night and me and Kenny could make some progress on "Escape", which we did. My plan is to make real CDs of it and stuff and have a CD release experience in the fall. We'll see, folks.
Love, Adam
May 14, 2004
When I said "it hurts" I really wasn't kidding. If you think I was joking, you're crazy. It hurts a lot and it's not going away anytime soon. I made this bed and I will lie in it.
May 8, 2004
Make that, yes, I will be playing at Jammin Java on May 15 with a country band called the Black Bottom Biscuits which in my humble opinion is quite a fine name for a band. I graduate college when I wake up in 6 hours. Congratulations to me. I decided I wanted to have a last minute graduation party so if you give a crap at all about me come to the Carolina Bagel underneath cornell arms at 2 pm tommorrow the 8. you don't have to. its just a dumb idea i had. Rock On.
May 6, 2004
It hurts.
May 5, 2004
On my old website, this was a place for personal whining and stuff. On this website it will be a place for actual music-related news for me. But I am personally the one making the music so I guess things that happen to me affect the news of the "band."
I might be playing a show May 15 at jammin java before I go away for the summer at Lutherock. This whole "Falling Off A Building" thing will prolly go on hold for most of the summer (not that it has been terribly active anyhow) since I will be working at a camp. But maybe I'll come back with songs. Thank you for reading this, anyone who read it.
April 15, 2004
It just so happens I have many concerns.
April 4, 2004
Please come see me play at the USC school of music recital hall on April 10 at 7 PM. I will play songs from my upcoming "album" which will be called "Escape". Who knows what else will happen. right now I feel pretty dizzy for some reason. maybe i've been staring too long at the screen.
So anyway.
talk to you later
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