RPM Challenge Day 18/28

Yesterday was day 18… what did I do, what did I do…

I put rhythm guitars onto two songs. They were both easy songs but I struggled with them for some reason. I was hoping to get to three songs (the only three songs I had that still needed guitars) before work, but I only managed two.

Later in the day I added a new song idea. This makes 17. By the time the day was over it had MIDI bass and drums, a MIDI guide track for the guitar parts, a MIDI piano track acting as a guide for the melody, and lyrics. Nice. Spoiler alert for tomorrow’s post, it now has guitars too.

After that I finished the lyrics and melody for a song I started working on the day before (at least I think it was the day before) and then added lyrics and melodies to two more songs.

That’s it for day 18. Tomorrow (day 20) is a day dedicated to music as it’s my annual oh-crap-I’m-not-going-to-finish-so-I-need-to-book-a-vacation-day day. Today (day 19) is an in the office day so who knows if I’ll have time for much tonight.

The current state of the project (including work I’ve already done today):

  • Zero songs complete
  • Zero songs ready to mix
  • Six songs ready for leads (be they sax or guitar or both). Five have vocals and one is a planned instrumental
  • Five songs ready for vocals (which I expect to record during my day off tomorrow)
  • Five songs ready for lyrics and melodies
  • One song ready for rhythm guitars
  • Three songs ready to exist because I have 17 songs in progress and I want to get up to at least 20

They Were Asking For It

trump, the felon in chief and first rapist of the fascist states of america, yesterday claimed that Ukraine started the war with Russia. Despite, you know, the solid fact that Russia started the war when they invaded their neighbor.

Given his rapist history, it’s no wonder that the fucker claimed Ukraine was asking for it, just like I’m sure his rape victims were all asking for it. Obviously. I mean, they all had vaginas so of course they were asking for it.

Also, about half of the voters in the nazi states of america agree with his statement.

We are so beyond saving.

Here’s a cat picture to enjoy while we still can.

New Morning Ritual

It is really hard to act like life is normal and progressing nicely or anything like that when every morning one of the first thoughts I have is, “I wonder what fresh hell the nazis got up to last night.”

I mentioned in a post yesterday that I wished I could have joined in on the 50501 presidents day protests yesterday but I couldn’t. I will join in on the fun on the 28th when we do that boycott all business thing, but that’s really nothing special. I think there are more days that I don’t spend any money on anything than those that I do. It’s just going to be another Friday for me.

When New England, New York, and New Jersey secede from the union and form a new nation together, who should we elect as our first President? Elizabeth Warren or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? I’d be good with either of them.

RPM Challenge Day 17/28

I keep doing this. Before I get a chance to write up the previous day’s events, I have already started recording something today. It’s throwing off my whole summarization vibe. Maybe this year will be the last year that I do daily posts like this. I used to do them on the RPM Challenge website itself, but that functionality no longer exists. Oh well.

So day 17 was yesterday. What did I do? I recorded vocals! I managed five songs. My performance sucked and the sound sucked worse. I think there might be something wrong with the microphone I keep in my car-music backpack.

After that I added another song idea. We are up to 16 songs now. I also started on lyrics and melodies for one song but I didn’t finish. My next shot at car music (my code name for vocal tracking) is the day after tomorrow. I need to write a bunch of lyrics and melodies before then. I also still want to get up to 20 songs, so there is still an absolute mountain of work left to do and very little time left to do it. 10 days to go.

No Kings

There were presidents day protests in Boston today. I would have joined them if I could, but I had to work. Today is a holiday that I don’t have off. Sucks. Not that I recognize the sitting president at all. The fascist states of america can have him, just keep his nazi ass out of my Massachusetts, please.

No Kings on presidents Day. Except maybe for the Los Angeles Kings, but that’s something completely different.

Busy Monday Morning

I woke up at 5:30am, did my exercise, ate a quick breakfast, went outside to do some car music, put vocals onto five RPM Challenge songs even though “singing” made my throat really sore, came home and took the fastest shower in human history, logged into work while I was still trying to get dressed, and hit the ground running at 9:00am. It’s almost 11:30 now and I’ve been super busy at work the whole time.

Happy Monday, everyone. Hope you’re having fun.