Crushing Krisis

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I’ve gotten to the point where i’m just leaving a fork in my box of precious precious cheesecake so that i don’t have to rinse off a new one ever time i decide to have a piece. Leaving me here alone for more than a day or two is rather dangerous, because everything loses all semblance of order without Matt around to make me feel self-conscious about it. I practically have the door barricaded with discarding clothing, shoes, and shopping bags, not to mention the musical war-zone. And, i’m still denying that the bedroom even exists, let alone how much it needs to be organized. I mean, didn’t i just clean before i left for Florida? ugh…

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So, now my fingers smell like the dull metal of my guitar strings, and i am in no mood whatsoever to record a Trio. Of course, i’m never in the mood to record one, and that’s sorta the whole point of recording them. But, rest assured i won’t be using too many alternate tunings today… no sir…

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Now there’s two of them… i mean who stands in front of a window for twenty minutes having a conversation? I at least sit down in front of the window half nude, rather than standing (and if you were wondering about the logistics of it, we have lower ceilings than the houses across the street, so my third floor apartment is lower than theirs (thus they can see into mine)).

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Rather than writing bunches of new songs, i seem to be writing bunches of little indy-ish snippets, none of which top two minutes in length. The first in this trend was “More Than That,” which appeared in the 12.3 Trio. Now there’s more… “Can’t Cure Love,” “(another) War,” “Impact,” “(this is what you) Pay For It,” “Spineless,” and more! I’m not sure if i’m just not putting in enough effort, or if all of these songs really want to be ineffectual little snippets. Maybe i’m just turning into the acoustic pop version of Guided By Voices… god knows i have the tape hiss down pat.

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So… this week there’ll be a Trio… i’m just not sure of what magnitude. I missed it two weeks ago because i was busy packing and cleaning, and i missed it last week because i was at home. But, aside from not being around to record it, i’ve sorta hit an impass with the songs themselves. You see, i’ve played every song that wanted to be played without interspersing enough filler, so now i feel as though i either need to write new songs, play filler, or repeat some old ones. And i really don’t want to do any of that. Out of my 100+ compositions, i think it’s fair to say that i wrote a decent 33%, and from that third of the songs there’s only a few left. That’s not to say that all of my other songs are crap, but they just aren’t as solid or well thought out as the others, partially because i never had enough time to develop them. So… there will be a concert this week… it’s just the content that’s up in the air.

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