i might just quit this music stuff...

and become a theoretical physicist. really. since i'm still waiting for the replacement iPod to ship, the pages are flying. just turning over and over. this week was A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. i can't claim to have understood everything in it, but it definitely revived that side of my brain. i mean, 4 dimensional space-time, a finite universe with no boundary, the big bang and the big crunch, what more could one ask of a book?

okay, onto the real purpose of this blog. things are still progressing with the album. did my friday afternoon album run through on the drums [not to mention the fundamentals i've been forcing myself to do during the week], it went well. maybe it's not completely realistic to think this, but i really believe i could track the drums in one take.

the last big step to complete [pre-studio anyway] is cementing the lineup for the string quartet, which is inching ever so close to the tape. as it stands now, the quartet will be an X chromosome only type of thing. i've had the sexes mixed in the group before, but figure there's going to be enough testosterone in my snare drum alone to give the album balance. plus, an all girl quartet is much more aesthetically pleasing in terms of liner photos. but really, the females i've worked with just seem to have less of an ego about things. i almost think women are a little higher up the life ladder than men. ALMOST. one thing holds me back from publishing the names of my future cohorts, unifying quantum mechanics and gravity is easier than coordinating the schedules of 4 working musicians.

in the meantime, i've been working a lot on producing the antenna lodge album. i decided to have a moment in the album that would quite subtly [the addition of the adjective quite to subtly yields a firmer stance of the word, or very subtle] destroy your speakers. you'll want to turn the music up to figure out what's going on, and therein lies the rub: turning up this part will push your speakers to their limit, but you still probably won't know what's happening. i also managed to turn a buzz roll into a synth keeyboard loop. thank you mooger fooger.

also this week, [this is what happens when i put off writing i guess, posts get longer and longer and i start over using transitional phrases such as also], i secured a piece of gear that may come in quite handy for the future. i traded a sushi dinner and dessert for a slightly !@#$%^ laptop. it wasn't liking Win XP so well, so restoring ME with the factory CD has it up and running. don't really see much need for it now, but if i can save up for the digidesign 002, it will probably get a lot of use live, furnishing the drums or strings depending on how i decide to perform live with majnun. but this will mean I will need to eventually install XP on it, so i'm just hoping adding some memory will help it handle it.

so that's enough. my brother made a slight mention to my apparent lack of blogging skills, i can't have that. you'll notice i have added a few links, customized the titles of some sections, and added text in a place that wasn't that easy to find. so to allen, showing pictures of your shaved legs pedaling a bicycle doesn't translate into having blogging skills.

music listened to while typing: the Pixies-surfer rosa/come on pilgrim