Did the nazi Cheeto really concede? When did my phone’s autocorrect start capitalizing Cheeto?
Whatever, he’s evil and he’s gone. Fuck him right up his orange ass.
I played guitar tonight. At first it was stress relief but then it was celebration.
I mixed a song today for the re-recordings volume four. This song has been recorded and uploaded to my alonetone account three times, which (I think) ties it for the most re-uploaded song ever.
It was written in 2008 (I think, it might have been 2009, but I’m pretty sure it was 2008) and it’s a little ditty about what a putz The Boy King George W Bush was. We didn’t know how good we had it when we were stuck with that schmuck for eight years.
Check it out, the first ugly clock downtown picture of the year!
That means I left the house, which means I either did car music or had to drop a package off at a UPS drop box, right? Well how about both?
I started with car music in The Loop parking lot. I did four songs, all for volume four of The Great 2015 Re-Recording Project. All of them sound… eh. Oh well.
I then went to a UPS drop box near my old apartment but the box was overflowing with packages. Any clown walking by could have just dipped in and stolen a bunch of things. I decided to wait for another day. Tomorrow? We’ll see. Tomorrow is a work day. How depressing is that? Today is the last day of the Christmas long weekend/vacation season. It’s all down hill from here. BOO!
That “BOO” was meant to express displeasure. It was not evidence of a ghost. I just thought I should clear that up. You’re welcome.
I don’t understand how the neighbors haven’t complained yet. Not because of the noise, because of the awful playing.
While strumming angrily tonight my fingers on my right hand started getting a smidge numb. Weird.
The last time I did car singing I finished what I had planned quick so I did a re-recording too. I didn’t have rhythm guitars down so I was working off an old scratch track. Tonight I put the guitars down… all of them… oh, so many tracks.
Four tracks of fat finger flubbing rhythm guitars (two takes, each with two mics for a total of four tracks)
Six tracks of lead guitar. Three takes, two mics each. One take was my usual guitar sound, one was a cleanish sound, and the third was tons of fuzz and feedback and… and… slide.
I am the worst slide player on Earth but don’t fret, I only used it for noise, and I’m probably going to play the two tracks backwards. You’re all safe. Trust me.
11 months in a row with at least 10 new songs demoed out and uploaded to two sites for safe keeping. December doesn’t have much to write home about (the first couple on the playlist aren’t awful, but that’s all) but it’s done. Also, it’s done by the 28th, just like February and every month that’s followed. I am such a nerd.
Here’s the playlist from hearthis.at which displays but only plays track one:
And here’s a link to the same playlist on alonetone which plays fine but doesn’t embed.
Up next is to do a little work on the fourth (and final?) round of The Great 2015 Re-Recording Project, and then start thinking about January.
New song alert. I mixed two of the final three December songs this morning. I can’t work on the last one now though as it’s time to punch in to work and earn a living doing actual stuff.
I already miss Christmas.
I have three songs to mix and then December Music is done. I want to finish those before I move on to the next thing. The next thing being re-recordings volume four. I want some of that done before New Year. Part of me wants to skip the album in a month for January to recharge the creative battery for RPM in February, but another part of me wants to do another 10 songs in January in order to have the 10 songs/month streak last for a full 12 months. I’m also going to switch back to the ES-335 and keep messing with different overdrive pedal combinations. I put the Keeley D&M Drive back on the board. Let’s give that another spin.
In other words, after I mix the last three songs I don’t know what I want to do next.
Typical.
You know, I still have no idea what Boxing Day is supposed to be, but here’s a Boxing Day “gift” to all you good folks out there in internet land.
A new song! It’s bad, but not as bad as most of them. I can almost… almost… live with this one.
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