The weather seriously has been beautiful lately. I don't remember having more than one or two days like this in Columbia this past fall. Makes me glad to be back in the gorgeous upstate for sure.
This morning Lucy was pretty pooped from the dog park, so she didn't even wake up when Kristi left. That was nice because I didn't have to get up until 8:30 when she decided it was time. By the way, Lucy snores so loud. Between Lucy's snoring and Kristi's talking in her sleep it's a wonder I get such good sleep. I guess it's a good thing I'm a heavy sleeper.
Lucy and I went on a walk and then I finished writing my song. I recorded a pretty good scratch track of it, but I don't feel like converting it to mp3 and uploading it tonight. Also Cubase is doing something weird where it isn't rendering part of the vocal track correctly...I'll have to figure that out tomorrow. I use an old version of Cubase SE because the new version costs money and I have no issues with the old one. Really i would love to have a version of Pro-Tools and an interface with at least 6 more inputs, but the MobilePre and Cubase has held me down for quite a while now. There is so much musical equipment I want eventually, and it is all so expensive. I try to piece stuff together bit by bit over holidays and when extra money finds me, but it takes forever. If you'd like to donate please let me know.
I went to work a little before 1 and stopped to get Kristi something she needs for school on the way. I listened to the new Bebo CD on the way. It is pretty good, typical Bebo Norman stuff. The thing I like about him is that he seems to just do his own thing and he is talented enough to where one of his songs gets popular every once in a while. I don't think many people know how many CD's he actually has. On his new CD he's got this song he wrote as sort of an apology to Britney Spears for culture bringing her down. I know, I thought it would be cheesy too, but it actually is a pretty good song. I love the album artwork for the CD. It is really clean and simple, but not in an obnoxious way. I like the fonts, the black and white, the lines, everything. I also love Bebo's stuff because of it's general simplicity and smooth production. By the way, if you want to hear some amazingly smooth production you should listen to Augustana's new CD. It is one of the most amazing CD's I've heard production wise. Everything just kind of melts into everything else, and it doesn't have the normal scooped sound most pop CD's do. If you want to hear what I'm talking about listen to the vocals on track #2 or everything on track #4. I never know the titles, just track numbers.
Work was pretty typical, I spent time cleaning up rooms and the catwalk and did a few other random odd jobs. Tim, Joe, and I went to Moe's for dinner and then set up the stage together afterwards. None of the volunteers showed up which kind of stunk. Around 8:45 I offered to just finish it by myself tomorrow. Usually I leave around 8 so I was ready to go, and since Joe has alot to do tomorrow I figured I could just do the rest myself.
I got home and talked to Kristi a little. I put a few finishing touches on the scratch track and played it for Kristi. She thinks it is a little on the sad side, but says she likes it.
Tomorrow I guess I'll go to my psychology class, and then probably come home. My micro teacher cancelled lab, so I don't think there's any way I'm going to sit around for an hour and a half for lecture. Lets not forget I got a 102 on my first test. I told Kristi I need to figure out how much priority I need to place on my Greenville Tech classes, because I apparently overachieved way too much on the first few.
Tomorrow I'll try to post the mp3 online for anyone that wants to listen. I will also post a scratch track of a hymn I rearranged a while ago. I recorded it for the worship team down in Columbia but then left before we ever really used it. I wish I could do full band versions of these songs, but alas I don't have enough inputs to record drums. I think the scratch versions are interesting to me because I have all these ideas of how full versions would sound floating around in my head, and it makes me sad that other people can't hear them. Like I said, let me know if you want to donate...
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