It's a boring night when everyone else is asleep by 9...

So the past few days I've found myself driving through some pretty rural areas of South Carolina, and this has reminded me how much I like to drive. I am easily impressed by the beauty of nature, and you might be surprised to see how beautiful the great state of SC is once you get out of the suburbs.

In other news, I've written some new songs as of late, but only one has made it to Soundclick so far. I did this weird thing where I recorded drums with 2 OH's and then went back and played only the snare drum with the recording (remember I only have 2 inputs). I would like to say that I'm such a machine it worked perfectly, but actually I had to align almost all of the hits perfectly so it would sound better. Either way it came out sounding pretty decent. I am especially proud of some of the guitar sounds I got. Here it is.

You know, one of the best sounding recordings up there is that ludwig snare test, which is funny because I didn't plan any of that, I just played some random stuff on drums and then added some guitars with minimal mixing. It always seems to be like that, I think it has something to do with being able to free myself up mentally when I'm not trying to nail something systematic.

Tonight Kristi, Oliver, and Lucy all went to sleep before 9, so I have been laying here perusing musical things on the internet. I was watching Andrew Osenga play "When Will I Run" on YouTube, and that reminded me of this old bootleg of Vertical Horizon I have covering "Fast Car" and then going into their song, "Wash Away." Does anyone else have this bootleg? It is incredible, and it got pretty popular on the internets back in the day. It was back when VH was still more of an acoustic rock jam type thing...so good. Not that I don't like their stuff that got popular, I do. Oh, and here's the vid of Andrew Osenga, also amazing...




I think that's all I've got for today. Tomorrow is Kristi's and my 2 year anniversary, so it should be a good day...but man, I am getting so old.