a moment of quiet reflection

well, great

We're wrapping up another week, here, and I thought I'd take a break from the video editing to sit and write a little something,

to give it some focus.

What have we learned?

All my scratch vocals are recorded, and we've begun tracking drums and guitar. I personally have not done shit besides bossing these people around, wondering when I am going to begin writing this music, again.

I'm leaving town on Wednesday for ten whole days.

I spent a good deal of time on 6, tonight, recording the Rogue and then fussing with ableton's onboard effects. I think I went into la-la land/I did not speak to my roommates doing drugs the entire night.

Perhaps it was a nice break.

I heard some 80s era Stevie in the car, great synth sounds and way too much reverb on the snare. Sounded like a kitschy vibe to adopt.

My suspicion is that the best course of action at this point is to merely be patient, to allow my boys to get their parts laid sweetly, gingerly here in the lab and then to begin icing the cake.

There are of course administrative labors to be achieved during this time, bouncing tracks and making the demo synth sounds nasty. Perhaps I can find some good 80s vibe in the arsenal, here.

Whatever

I think the most important thing that happened this week is all three of my cohorts insisted that I perform this music live, offered their time and energy, further, to that end.

It's going to take 3 more minutes to finish rendering today's video in my video editing software, then I have to compress it down for the youtube and upload it. What more to say?

I got a wee bit of a trim of the old mop this afternoon and I tested negative for the on-the-spot HIV test--my paperwork will certainly be tomorrow's .jpg for the blog. The results of my blood, urine, and throat culture will be ready in 8-10 days.

That makes me feel a little responsible, which is cool.

I'd like to get some thai food

Brian will be joining us tomorrow afternoon to track 5 and 7, perhaps begin working ideas for 6. I should hassle Blake a bit to see if we can't make another playdate before Wednesday. I'll take some video of Sarah wearing the mask so we can introduce the band, formally, I don't know.

I'm not sure, really, what I have to do here besides wait and do what I know how to do and be as patient as possible and perhaps learn a shade, along the way

So, what--

I've got a band

"gals"