New Song. About the sirens I hear in class at Greenville. On the upcoming Pedalboy CD tentatively titled “CONRAD.”
Verses:
Sirens in a small town
Only can mean one thing:
Some old man
Is meeting his end.
This winter’s getting so long,
Ice to water, snow white to brown.
And age is a virtue
That will let you down.
Chorus:
Time can do you wrong.
You think you’ve got so long.
But each moment that passes
Doesn’t look back.
Verses:
Life is like a string quartet,
Listen while the beauty lasts.
When its over
is there an encore?
“Have a bit of this fruit,” she says,
“Apples are good for you,” she said.
My ugly insides are showing.
“That’s the price of, the price of knowing.”
I got my replacement external hard drive enclosure in the mail today. Already got my HD in there. And life is good. This on is just firewire, not firewire usb2 like the last one. But this one works, making it immeasurably better than the previous one. That’s what technology has to teach you about life. Its great when its going good for you, but BLOWS when it isn’t. In the words of somebody else, “you can’t have the sweet without the bitter.” Isn’t that from vanilla sky or something? Whatever… I certainly get a lot of bitter and this is certainly very sweet.
I’m going to be using this sucker to record onto from protools in the studios here and in my dorm (just keep the sessions on the drive makes syncing up a thing of the past) and recording 2-3 live concerts, INCLUDING a Sleeping at Last concert (with other AMAZING BANDS as Cool Hand Luke and the campus band Berry), and the crazy like crazy band (they have horns) anathallo, and some acoustic hymnstuffs. If you don’t know Sleeping at Last, Berry, Anathalo, or Cool Hand Luke, I’m sure that that I will *not* be able to *get* those to you *at all* o r *anything* *ever*. Yeah so I’m sure I’ll be posting on the boardix when it is all Accomplished.
…I’m re-recording some old stuff. Among those to be re-recorded are One Night and Anymore. Dan I will need you to play that awesome bass riff you wrote for Anymore, because that is the best part of the whole song. Anyway more to the point, I was just working on One Night and I’m really liking the way it is turning out. I can hear a little Wilco/The Gloria Record influence in it in addition to Radiohead. A little bit different direction than the demo, but hey that’s what makes it interesting. A freaking long song though, its clocking in around 7:30 now. And you thought the demo was long!
I also love my dvd burner. I just need to get more media (I only have one DVD-RW disc). But I’m backing up all my stuff to it so in the not-so-rare event of a hard drive crash or moron (read:musician, read:matt) screwing things up, at least i’ll have some semblance of a backup of it. And I’ll be able to back up an entire cd’s worth of data on 1 disc rather than 10!!!!! w00t.
mood: kinda tired and my eye hurts.
music: lots of bad stuff on tv and in the car. Oh, and the normals.
Ok, so where to begin? I’m trying to install php as a module in apache on my webserver. I downloaded the stuff and its just this collection of binaries… no installer, don’t tell you were to put it. Anyway.
Then I have been recording my friend gary. I’m supposed to be producing this album. He doesn’t really have “songs written” per se… So I’m ending up writing all the music to it pretty much. Which makes me sad, because some of the music is good and I might have wanted to use them in my own stuff at some point. One of the songs has cool contrapuntal sad organ in it, and the other one kinda modulates to parallel minor and back every few measures. Good stuff, I might steal backk the music anyway since I wrote it and all. Oh yeah, i was also supposed to have been paid for this. Se la vie.
Oh and in the comic/absurd department, the other day I went downtown to a tobacco shop and later to a bar to smoke cigars with some of my church friends and my old youth pastor. So anyway, let THAT sink in for a bit.
