The Bruins were bounced from the playoffs last night.
The Red Sox have lost four games in a row and have dropped below .500.
Those are the only pro sports I follow, and they are both making me sad.
The Boston team in the new Professional Women’s Hockey League is in the finals. It’s about time I started following that league now.
This is a to do list… read the title… it is a pun, my friends. Get it? I made a pun! It’s punny. It’s puntastic.
Ugh.
The current home recording music project is to take 10 songs from the 2020 Fifty Songs in 90 Days Challenge, edit them, rearrange them, rewrite them, and completely re-record them. When I punched out of work last night I had the 10 songs picked out. One is mixed and finished. Five are completely recorded but still need to be mixed. The other four hadn’t been touched.
Last night while sitting up in bed I took one of them and got as far as finishing the MIDI music bed. Bass, drums, arrangement, song form changes, all done. This morning after I finished today’s errands I cranked out the other three. Now I have four songs ready for rhythm guitars.
Best case scenario is that I track all of the rhythm guitars tomorrow. I work in the office on Monday so nothing is happening then. Tuesday morning before work should be car music where I track all of the vocals. Wednesday is back in the office. Thursday is lead guitars before work. At that point I will have all tracking done for all 10 songs before we leave for Florida.
Yeah. Let’s see if we can pull this off.
Note: It is 99% certain that I will not pull this off. When it comes to the musical planning stage, Robert is not terribly reliable.
Unrelated musical note… one of the reasons my band’s singer quit was because he moved to Maine. He told us yesterday that he’s moved back to the Merrimack Valley. He also mentioned getting “the itch.” Now is that an itch to just have one band practice just for fun, or is it an itch to get back into the band? I don’t know but I am thinking about maybe being hopeful that our singer search could be over. It’s probably not, but if I can’t be optimistic about the Bruins anymore this year, then I’ll be optimistic about this.
A couple hours later and Miss Lily is back for more.
Is this a sign that she likes me? Laying across my lap twice in one afternoon? Weird, right?
I took a film camera out on my travels today and didn’t take a single shot. FAIL!
I think this is the camera that will go on the Florida trip, but it’s loaded with black and white film right now and I don’t want to bring any black and white on the trip, so I gots to burn through the roll… but in order to do that I have to actually do it, you know?
Get it?
I often find myself thinking in song titles. Sometimes it is movies or TV quotes, but often it’s song titles. It just happened to me as I read today’s prompt. King Crimson has an improvised instrumental track on the Starless and Bible Black record called “We’ll Let You Know.”*
When we figure out how to balance work and home life, we’ll let you know. When I am at work I am working. When I am at home I am not working. Does that make sense? That’s how it should be, shouldn’t it? Why is it so hard to do? Why is so much at home time spent thinking about work and so much at work time spent thinking about home? What’s the deal there, Robert?
It’s a problem, but it’s more of an existential problem as one rarely gets in the way of the other when something important comes up. In priority situations I am able to keep the two separated. It’s the quiet, non-priority moments that the mind wanders across the divide.
So like I said, if I figure it out… I’ll let you know.
*Just noting that both the guitarist and the drummer on this song had birthdays this week.
The song is an instrumental so there are no lyrics to tie into this discussion. Also, it was improvised on stage so they probably only ever played it once. There’s a moment in this when the bass and the drums lock together in one of the sickest grooves ever.
The Bruins lost.
Crud.
My hockey heart and hopes have been smashed against the rocks. Now the Conference Finals matchup in the East is the team that beat us vs the team from New York. I can’t root for either of them!
Crud.
This cat has been hanging around all afternoon.
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