i've established the closest thing i can possibly have to a routine in spite of having no money, no obligations, and no physical people within many miles. it's helping me from completely losing my mind (though just barely, as the intensity with which i maintained my IM connection last night showed). basically i get up in the morning, eat breakfast, and write some songs. then i spend the afternoon recording them. then i go to cafe moro (which has internet) to mix and listen to and refine them. then i go home and night and write more music.
it's better than being dead.
i went through all the videos i shot back in may last night, and salvaged about nine of them from the pit of horrible sound overload-land. which means i can post them to youtube as soon as i have internet.
which reminds me...i spoke to the road runner lady today and got all my shit squared away for getting real, constant internet installed...on august 14th. why in the name of the seven undead fucks does it take them ten days to literally drive one mile to my apartment in a van and say "here's a thing, stick in the wall. what's your MAC address? thanks!"?
obviously i'm annoyed because no internet means an even more tenuous hold on sanity, but also the closer i get to the beginning of classes the more i actually need that internet to do real things, like type up lesson plans and respond to emails from the office and all that fun stuff.
anyway, i'll let you know when the videos go up.
i recorded myself playing contra and posted it on youtube. that explains why i have to put those all those potential dates on a waitlist.
Just checked out your new songs. Way to go for maintaining the sanity to be musically productive. Is that a glockenspiel on Delicate and Kurtzweil (the latter of which is, by the way, just wierd enough to be mesmerizing)? Did you know you sound like Bob Dylan on Better to have loved and lost?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the listen.
One good thing about not having internet, for me, is that it would force me to engage in society. As long as you don't mind spending three buck on a cup of tea. :)
a glockenspiel?! i wish. it's just a cheap 2-octave bell set.
ReplyDeletei wanted the bell part on delicate to be more involved, but i did it in pretty much one take, so...
interesting comment about bob dylan...i actually thought that song was a pretty hardcore jayhawks ripoff :)
thanks for the feedback. hopefully more coming soon.