Somewhere in Pelham, NH

Softball by the puddle.

Window Seat

Patches just jumped onto her new window perch. It’s the first time I’ve seen her check it out.

Morning Music

I snuck in a little music this morning. Two lyrics/vocals and a rhythm guitar. Still have a ways to go to finish off both March and April, but March is a good deal closer than it was last night.

Bruins

The Bruins trail 2-0 at the start of the second period. Know what would be nice? Not spotting Montreal a two goal lead. That would be nice.

Music Hall

Our music hall is nicer than yours.

Trash Barrel Success

I did it. I faked out the residents of back yard wild kingdom.

A couple of months ago I bought two new outside garbage barrels. Big suckers with lids and everything. While cleaning the garage I moved them from their winter home, the garage, to their summer home, outside next to the garage. We went a whole week with trash in the new barrels and not a single animal made it through the lids.

Success!

At least until the squirrels decide to gnaw their way though, of course. Until then… Success!

Two Songs

I mixed two songs last night. Let’s start with the bad news. This song is from April. You’d think it would be bad enough that after finishing the recording I realized that it’s awfully similar to a 2013 RPM song, but I had to go and put together this crap fest of a mix. I expect to be doing this one again.

http://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/tracks/its-not-easy.mp3%20

On a slightly better note, I also mixed one from March. This is the first of the RPMarch songs, and one of the Christmas vacation things. All that’s left from the original iPad file is the bass, and even that is using a different sound. I like this one… sort of. The vocals were sung in the car while sitting in a parking lot waiting for the kids to get out of karate. The lyrics are about how weird it is that so many people get so wound up about RPM, and about how dumb the idea of doing a second RPM right away felt.

I’ll probably end up remixing this one too. I have no confidence in any of the mixing I’ve done. I’ve already redone two of these things. I have been using more plug in effects and some how I just get bogged down with the individual tracks and I lose the sense of the complete song. When I go back and listen a few days later, everything is swimming in reverb, or the bass is buried, or the lead is buried, or the drums are too loud. It’s always something. I might end up remixing everything.

http://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/tracks/overkill-1.mp3%20

Nerdus Extremus

I just made a list of all 20 March and April songs and color coded it based on the state of completion (or incompletion) in which each recording currently resides.

There are two that are ready to mix. Hopefully I’ll get one in tonight.

Rock & Roll, eh?