So, i took the day off from blogging yesterday to do nothing. Sure, i went to work and all that, but otherwise it was wholly uneventful. I wound up sitting on my ass watching NBC reruns and eating salsa all night. Very productive.
It’s just that after spending so much time busy with friends nearly every day, a night to myself becomes entirely meaningless, even though it’s what i thought i really wanted. Sometimes i start losing touch with my “identity” when i’m flitting from person to person and from place to place, but then i get back here and realize that i haven’t got the slightest clue at what was missing. So, maybe i’m just possessive of my free time and want to make sure that i totally waste some of it on my own, or maybe i really do need time along here and there to recenter. Who knows…. anyhow, it’s off to work with me.
(changes to be made to UMS: drop backing vocals from all but the following “resisting advances,” “unstylish clothes,” “remember them too,” “they’re under my skin,” “little black dress,” “where we begin… the sin,” “just a kiss,” and from “miss you anymore” through the end. Also, i have to re-EQ the bass slightly, as i’ve received several negative comments about it. further suggestions will be taken into account when i remix the song on Friday. if all goes as planned you’ll have a similar shot at critiquing the mix of every multi-instrumental song on the demo, with “Never Say Goodbye” up next.)
[both songs are unmastered incomplete mixes from my demo sessions]
[so, enjoy them for what they are]
[more soon]
Studio tonight sucked because i hardly got anything done, and ProTools ran out of memory so i couldn’t bring home a demo demo cd as i intended to. However, the songs i got down the past two nights hold up to relisten (although i have to say that some of the excess in UMS and NSG is starting to actually feel like excess), so it looks like all that’s left out of my original plans are decent recordings of “Other Plans” and “Crashing.” However, i had two separate people ask about the studio mix of “Hold On Me” today, so i might record it just for uploading purposes. Any other requests? I only have the studio until Sunday, and that’s going to be a clean-up day, so if there was another song you were hoping to hear in sparkling digital format now would be the time to ask.
Oh, yeah, and i start my co-op job tomorrow morning. I’ve picked out my outfit for the day, but otherwise i’m utterly in the dark about what my day will be like, and i’m sure i’ll have lots of interesting things to say about it after i get back from the Studio. I think it’s sleepy-time…