Day5. another world

a word about the situation we’re in here. i am living in another world. i think its good to put yourself in alien environments when recording. frees you up to focus only on what you are doing. new distractions yes, but not the day to day distractions of work, the fridge, tv, no tv, answering machine etc… this is all good. thanks to dana, ski and jack for allowing me to do this this way.

alright, back into that place. only two days left.

its 13 hours later. a bunch of guitar tracks have been birthed or born or somehow now exist. today was actually the first day i’ve felt the pressure of volume recording. long hours, many notes played. some easy easy (kings theme – 1 take) and some difficult (fire escape – many different sounds needing to be recreated to keep the feel of that original demo from Desert Heights – its a simple song but the sound has to be layered to make it feel right) and some alarming (colder: Neal and I mujst’ve been on something to play that fast – sadly this may mean we need to spend time slowing it… i think i was paranoid about losing its groovy groove and ended up going overboard when we tracked it acoustic/drums style. waffle waffle. I realize two things in the process today: my best songs are almost always the ones that happen, lyrics and all, in a single night, and that i don’t know how to play my own songs becaues i record them as i write them. relearning is necessary. dana and I still managed to have fun today – food consisted of 4 egg rolls and a few drinks. i hear it was sunny.

now there’s a helicopter outside my window. not used to this city living. it’s right there. AND i’m responsible for a 6 year old boy being removed from his bed in the middle of the night. I feel rather awful about that. though its good to leave the air mattress for a night…

del taco, infa-re x-ray specs and arrested development rounded off this day.
tomorrow is the last day of this session and i’m not finished. we’ll still have a good few days work left from here. acoustic instruments, vocals and even some strings. i want to be done. we’re close.
ok, its very dark in here an i don’t have that fancy lighted keyboard. pictures tomorrow.

holy cow i just remembered the incredible new stuff on Slow motion – its getting truly good.