mellow mood

do any of you trey fans out there know if "mellow mood" is a trey original or a cover? i'm guessing cover, but you never know with our old boy.

i think something may have happened electronically in my apartment complex over break because i was wailing on the epi dot last night and the hum was almost completely gone. this sort of confirms my hypothesis that the problem is/was caused by either: 1) someone else's electronic stuff on the floor above or below me 2) shitty wiring in the complex exacerbated by someone else's electronic stuff on the floor above or below me. maybe someone moved out, or hasn't come back yet, or whatever. but whatever the reason, for now at least, my amp sounds like a space dragon. it's great. the reverb is killer, and could probably substitute for THC, if i was still into that sort of thing.

anyway, i don't want to talk about music too much because the time i've had to work on new recordings and mix the old ones since i got back is so scant it depresses me to think about it. so far classes are looking good, though teaching 4 hours a day instead of 2 1/2 is a little difficult (and the same thing three times in 4 hours, no less). i do like the feeling that maybe, just maybe, my classes are long enough to actually accomplish something this semester, though.

today was the last really big day (or so i hope) for plowing through all the beginning-of-the-semester organization and paper work filling-out. with that behind me, i'm ready to queue up about 10 cardinals shows in winamp, hit shuffle, and rip into figuring out this course calendar.

actually, as much as i was looking forward to diving into the new cardinals' material when i got back from ohio, i've been listening to phish a lot today. i had 7/26/98 on earlier, an AUD/SBD matrix, and it was really, really solid, both sound quality wise and show quality wise. the first set ends with a particularly good "Good Times" and the second one starts with a spot-on cover of "La Grange". the second disc seems to be missing the last encore, which was "Bittersweet Motel"...that sort of pisses me off because i love the hell out of that song. fortunately, i just recently got the Bittersweet Motel documentary, so i guess that's a decent...umm...what's that thing that makes you feel better? consolation. that.

now i'm listening to 12/29/98, also a SBD. the first set was great...velvet underground's "Rock and Roll", "Funky Bitch", "PYITE", and "Horn"...the second set is a lot slower and funkier, which is okay, but i'm sort of sleepy as it is, so i sort of just wish that Trey would shred the shit out of something.

going to try to finally get the car in to get worked on tomorrow. it's getting close enough to my cardinals mini-tour that i can't really put it off anymore. i'm still thinking, though, even if i do get it fixed, that i'll rent a car to go out to oregon and seattle. partially because i might be going with a friend of mine, and i would sort of hate for the rotors on my car to explode again and have to die knowing that my laziness had in fact killed more people than just myself.

i'm beat and i don't know why. i've been sleeping from 11pm to 7am pretty regularly and i can't seem to muster up the energy to even waste and entire night playing starcraft, let alone doing anything constructive or social past like seven. this makes me uncomfortable. maybe i've reached the point where i need so much diet coke just to be functional that i'm dysfunctional by default.

speaking of PC games, and for my three dorky-madden-screenshot friends, i haven't been posting screenshots of the new preseason mostly because we're getting absolutely pwn4d. i was a little fed up with 4 seasons of near-total dominance and outlandish performance by our team, so this year i've resolved to set the difficulty level on the game up a notch. the result of this so far is an 0-4 preseason and four really shitty games. we'll have to see if things get better in the regular season, or else we might be looking at a miami dolphins-esque season this time around.

buckeyes. fuck. that is all.

i've changed the EP tracklist around again (big surprise, i know) based on some of the songs we played over christmas that i think should be on it in their current forms. also, i'm taking caroline off, because, really, how many officially recorded versions of a nine-minute delta-blues murder ballad does one need? i think the answer is "one".

i kind of miss being home, but at the same time there are a lot of excellent people around here that i generally just never talk to because i'm a reclusive loser. trying to get better at that. also trying to get better at not being too lazy to cook decent meals for myself. it's all about quality of life. dude.

on that note, i'm off to pay some dude a ridiculous amount of money to make sushi for me. peace out.