Is Liz Warren Busy Right Now?

Shit.

Seriously… shit.

President Biden has apparently announced that he’s dropping out of the election.

We the people are completely fucked.

Are we going to get another primary? Are we going to just ignore the primary system and go back to the old system of just having state delegates pick the candidate at the convention? The convention starts on August 19th. Can we swing a new primary by then? What is my Senator, Elizabeth Warren up to right now? She got a presidential primary vote from me once before, can she get another one now?

I’ll happily vote for Vice President Harris if that’s how this works out, but I think this move more or less guarantees a win for the orange nazi goo boy and fascism, and it probably signals a quick and painful end to this American experiment thing.

American democracy had a good run, I guess.

Fuck
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Three Down, 47 to Go

I mixed another song. The 50 Songs in 90 Days Challenge count is up to three now. Three songs finished and only 47 more to go. WOOHOO!

I screwed up my morning routine one day and it became a cheesy song. Enjoy my goofiness!

Sunday Guitar

I think today’s band practice is going to be cancelled. I think we need to start planning on a different day and time.

In place of band practice I have done a ton of work on 50/90. Well… maybe not a ton, but a really good morning’s worth. I have added tracks to six songs. There might be time for more too. We’ll have to see.

Additional good news. Whatever was wrong with my stomach yesterday has cleared up. I knew it would, it just took most of the day. Here’s hoping it doesn’t come back for a while. A long while.

For now though, here are the obligatory guitar pics from this morning’s goofiness.

325/365
325/365

2024 50/90 Challenge Day 17/90

17 days in. It was a pretty good day. Let us recap.

I started the day by putting vocals onto five songs. That brings us to a total of 15 songs with complete vocal tracks. In just over two weeks? Epic.

Later in the day I also added lyrics and melodies to two songs. I was just about to start working on a third song when I ran out of time. That was it for the day. Any day that adds vocal tracks is a successful day in my book. I am pleased.

Car Music and Other Weirdness

I woke up with a weird stomach today. I was able to eat breakfast, but drinking water has been… odd… which is… odd. Something I ate yesterday is unhappy today. I am willing to bet it was the gross/amazing Chili’s kids meal pizza. That’s a pretty safe bet, I think.

It didn’t stop me from doing a great big honkin’ car music today though. I took the five songs worth of lyrics and melodies I worked on yesterday and sang them all while sitting in the empty(ish) mall parking lot. Excellent. Now I have to figure out if there will be any time for any more music today. Not likely. I have to help my father with something and do the food shopping and possibly go on a home office shopping trip today. We’ll see what comes along.

First pointless photo is my car music view:

The second pointless photo is the clock downtown as I drove past it on the way home:

And now, completely unrelated to everything else… Cats!

Robin
Lily in silhouette

2024 50/90 Challenge Day 16/90

I did so much yesterday that I might have lost track of everything. Let’s see if I can remember it all.

I started the day by putting rhythm guitars onto two songs. I also put lead guitar onto one song. I played poorly, as usual, but I felt pretty good about it and if that ended up being all there was I would have been happy.

At lunch I started two new bass/drum ideas on my iPhone. I felt pretty good about that too.

After work I had a little time to myself and I went a little nuts. I wrote lyrics and melodies for five, count ’em, five songs. Holy crap!

Later, just before I went to sleep for the night, I mixed one song. That’s two songs finished and a measly little 48 to go.

Now that is a productive day, friends.

Two Down, 48 to Go

Heads up, folks. It’s time for another new song. This was the 12th idea I started for this year’s 50 songs in 90 Days challenge and it’s the second song demo finished.

Two down, 48 to go.

So far it’s the only song that started out on guitar. Everything else has started out with a MIDI bass guitar part and was built up from there.

This one is okay… I guess. Maybe it would be more accurate to describe it as almost okay… I guess.

Kids Meal

Fact: The cheese pizza from the kids meal at Chili’s is simultaneously revolting and AMAZING.

It is a marvel of modern culinary science.

You (probably) heard it here first.

Also, for the gastric bypass crowd: 23 grams of protein in that little sucker? Nice.