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The Final Pre-50/90 Song

A little mini-suite. I had my 10 songs underway for my June album in a month project and like a doofus I threw together an extra song at the last minute, and made it three songs in one. (I then added two more, because I’m dumb).

Mostly this was an excuse to add an acoustic guitar (my Takamine 12-string) and a Gibson electric (ES 335 Pro) to a project that had been 100% Stratocaster to that point.

One night recently my two step kids and I all had a really difficult time falling asleep. That lead to some anxiety among the kids who thought that the inability to sleep was a sign that there was something wrong with them. I reassured them that it happens to all of us once in a while and that they should just relax, and then I wrote a song about not being able to sleep because of nightmares. I am a lyrical hypocrite. Accept it, I have.


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Here is the iOS mix.

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June Music is now as done as done can be. It’s 11:45pm on July 3rd. 50/90 officially starts in 15 minutes. I, however, will wait until morning because I am exhausted.

G’Night everyone!

The Second to Last Pre-50/90 Song

This is a June throw away. I wanted to put 8 bars of acoustic guitar on one of the June songs. When I finished I just opened a new project and threw down the first things that came to me. A vocal with some live and let live lyrics, a ton of reverb, and a ton of delay later…

we have a throw away.


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For completeness sake, here’s the iOS mix.

Back Yard Wild Kingdom Moment

I am working from home today. When lunch time came I decided I’d cook the last hamburger out on the grill. A little cookout for one, if you will.

In one hand I had a plate with the burger on it along with a couple of grill utensils. In the other I had a little tray table I use to place all my stuff on while I grill like a grilling demon wannabe.

I put the tray table down while I opened the garage’s back door. Immediately upon opening the door a dragon fly blew past. Good! I’ve been hoping to see those little buggers. Dragon flies eat mosquitoes and we sure could handle a drastic reduction in the back yard mosquito population. Welcome back, dragon fly!

As I took my first step toward the open door I saw something even better. Probably only 20-30 yards away, flying slowly, almost casually, across the far end of the yard was a great big honkin’ red tail hawk. Right there, as large as life (literally). It landed on a low branch of a tree near the edge of the woods. It sat there for a second, just long enough for me to get a good look and for him to notice there was a great big two legged sucker walking out of the building. It took off into the woods and I quickly lost sight of it.

As I grilled up my lunch, I kept an eye on the trees and on the sky. I saw a big butterfly, and a bluejay, but that was it. I told myself that if the hawk came back into the yard I was going to give it my burger.

Maybe if I feed it, it will start killing off the damn squirrels that eat all of my bird food.

June Music Leftovers

I set out on June 1st to write and demo 10 songs. When June ended I had 10 complete songs and three more that were still incomplete. As of this moment, all three of the extras have been recorded. One has been mixed, I posted it the other night. The other two had vocals recorded yesterday and today. One of them is in three separate parts but will still probably be only five or six minutes long. No prog masterpieces here. The other one is just a little thing for 12-string and vocal. Nothing complicated. If I can mix them tonight, then I’ll have a clean slate for the start of 50/90 tomorrow.

Snooty American

I don’t mean to be a snooty American, but right now I just can’t help it.

The USA has been eliminated from the World Cup, right? Can we go back to ignoring soccer for another four years? I know that the rest of the world lives and dies by soccer but… Urgh! It’s so desperately dull! It makes watching American football players standing in a huddle while the game clock ticks away seem utterly thrilling.

The worst part is listening to the pompous asses talk about how uncivilized we are for not giving a rats ass about the latest one to nil after penalty kicks decision where half the players in the match commit Greg Luganis (sp? Sorry, Greg) caliber dives that make even P K Subban roll his eyes in disgust.

As my very good, lifelong friend Larry said today when an email conversation turned to soccer, “Piss Off!”

The Annual July 2nd Post

Hello everyone, and welcome to the annual July 2nd post!

John Adams was the first Vice President of the United States. He was also the second President of the United States. Unfortunately for his legacy, he was also the first “one termer” President. Oh well, you can’t win ’em all.

Of equal significance, he was also a Masshole! My Peoples!

Prior to being elected to a Federal office (prior to the existence of “Federal” as a political concept), John Adams was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. As such he is also a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Given all that, it’s safe to say that President John Adams knew a thing or two about Independence Day. Included in what he knew, was that our Nation’s birthday, the literal Independence Day was July 2, 1776. Not July 4, 1776. If Adams had gotten his way, all of the United States would be at the beach having cookouts today instead of two days from now.

Why?

July 2nd was the date that the Continental Congress voted to declare themselves independent from Great Britain. July 4th was the day that they ratified the document that spelled out their reasons for declaring independence, what we now call The Declaration of Independence. According to Adams, when the document was ratified, we had already been independent for two whole days. He pushed to have Independence Day celebrated on July 2nd, not July 4th.

Given that it is roasting hot outside and all of us are stuck here at work, I am fully in agreement that July 2nd should be the day we celebrate our nation’s birth. In other words, I wanna go home!!!!