last week i edited a few songs in anticipation of getting them all mixed last week. on sunday the 21st, we started mixing, but only got to do a little bit because of technical trouble. and then we decided to record that live demo with the girls.
so last friday, the 25th, we go in again - and again we have bullshit technical problems eating up time. lucky we don't get charged for bs. we got most of badluck edited on friday... then came back saturday another full block - 8 hours.
and of course, we got two hours of down time and lost an hour of work after a computer crash. and the drums took a while to mix. a this rate its gonna suck. but i've made some changes in the way i'm going to approach the final editing. i'm going to treat the tracks - individually - as modular items... things that don't need to be edited during the mix. we can fix them "offline" then re-import.
so we've spent half a grand in the last 2 weeks and we have two mostly mixed songs and a live demo to show for it. not bad, but i need to focus more.
friday after mixing, i went to see through the sparks at the nick - it was a cd release party with them and 13 ghosts and another band. tt sparks were releasing a 13 track limited edition cd of weird tracks and demos. i've heard like two songs at this point... i forgot to get a copy.
i shot a roll of film during the set and met up with a bunch of friends i hadn't seen in a while, and met a few new ones. socializing can actually be cool sometimes. it's better when i'm not playing on the stage.
ashby and christine chatted at his house after that, for quite a while... and then we all got some sleep for the saturday session. i didn't do much saturday night because that session ran until 10pm.
sunday i finished installing a new sound system in my truck and met up with even more new friends at rojo. viva la myspace. viva la sangria. good stuff.
and of course that leads me to the last few days... hurricane katrina. what a slut. as i write this, it is tuesday evening about 6:30pm... and new orleans is over. as ashby said a few moments ago... its like death on a stick. all those people wading around in that water. that water is death. all those frozen chickens in all those freezers in all those destroyed homes and buildings... that chicken is now floating into the city. its going to get so much worse.
the only option at this point is to get everyone out of the area as soon as possible, even if they are ok and they have a home. we need refugee camps. now.
doomsday scenario? check. i'm out.
so last friday, the 25th, we go in again - and again we have bullshit technical problems eating up time. lucky we don't get charged for bs. we got most of badluck edited on friday... then came back saturday another full block - 8 hours.
and of course, we got two hours of down time and lost an hour of work after a computer crash. and the drums took a while to mix. a this rate its gonna suck. but i've made some changes in the way i'm going to approach the final editing. i'm going to treat the tracks - individually - as modular items... things that don't need to be edited during the mix. we can fix them "offline" then re-import.
so we've spent half a grand in the last 2 weeks and we have two mostly mixed songs and a live demo to show for it. not bad, but i need to focus more.
friday after mixing, i went to see through the sparks at the nick - it was a cd release party with them and 13 ghosts and another band. tt sparks were releasing a 13 track limited edition cd of weird tracks and demos. i've heard like two songs at this point... i forgot to get a copy.
i shot a roll of film during the set and met up with a bunch of friends i hadn't seen in a while, and met a few new ones. socializing can actually be cool sometimes. it's better when i'm not playing on the stage.
ashby and christine chatted at his house after that, for quite a while... and then we all got some sleep for the saturday session. i didn't do much saturday night because that session ran until 10pm.
sunday i finished installing a new sound system in my truck and met up with even more new friends at rojo. viva la myspace. viva la sangria. good stuff.
and of course that leads me to the last few days... hurricane katrina. what a slut. as i write this, it is tuesday evening about 6:30pm... and new orleans is over. as ashby said a few moments ago... its like death on a stick. all those people wading around in that water. that water is death. all those frozen chickens in all those freezers in all those destroyed homes and buildings... that chicken is now floating into the city. its going to get so much worse.
the only option at this point is to get everyone out of the area as soon as possible, even if they are ok and they have a home. we need refugee camps. now.
doomsday scenario? check. i'm out.