After about two weeks, I’ve finally gotten back to the songwriting thing. Since Five Seventeen laid down his bass track, I’ve just let the thing sit even though I knew I still had to a) redo his parts, b) redo the intro solo and c) write some goddamn lyrics for the thing.

Well one and a half out of three ain’t bad. I’ve put down quite a nice bass part, I think, and more impressively I did it quickly. Three takes, maybe? I’m getting better at this playing with the tape running thing – once upon a not too long ago I’d have needed a dozen takes to get anywhere close to the same results. I tried messing around with the intro but nothing really satisfactory was catching my ear. I’ll give it a day, come back to it tomorrow. As for lyrics… ha. Whatever.

What’s made me happiest about this is that even after leaving it alone for a fortnight, I still like the piece. I do hear more performance mistakes than I did before, but I can live with it. The song and arrangement itself I still think works. Unprecedented.

I have decided that triumvirate of little instrumental pieces I did aren’t going to get any better, so I may as well dump the from the recorder, mix them down and encode the things for all to hear. No need to make them out to be any more than they are – some short, off-the-cuff ideas that didn’t easily morph into something more fully realized. But not bad for what they are.

np – Luna / Romantica

frank yang is senior vice president of brightstor™ solutions at computer associates international
frank yang is a poster boy with a difference
frank yang is the recruiting editor and jason baum is a staff writer for sportsfever

Well there you go. I’m a more interesting person than I’d thought.

Look yourself up on Googlism

np – Yo La Tengo / Electr-O-Pura

Is there anything more arduous than the last two hours on a Friday where the weather is grim and you’re not especially busy at work? I think not. We’ve already taken an extra-long lunch and still the day creeps by. All the higher-ups are away at a presentation so the inmates are running the asylum. When the cat’s away the mice will… well, basically sit around and do nothing.

What started as a steady rain this morning has turned into snow. The weather forecast in the newspaper didst lie to me. I think I need to buy more long-sleeve shirts for the winter.

2 hours to go.

np – Dubstar / Disgraceful

I don’t think there’s anything I can say about these that they don’t say themselves. Thanks to Kyle for the links.

George Dumbya Bush
The George W Bush Quote Library
George W Bush – Not A Crackhead
President Moron

All hail the chief!

“We are the sons of no one, bastards of young.” — Paul Westerberg

np – The Replacements / Tim

Better Days

Some happy news – A friend of a friend of Jody Porter of Fountains Of Wayne reports that FOW have just signed a deal with a subsidiary of Virgin Records and the new album will be out in a couple months. All production work is complete, it just needs to be slotted and marketed. I am surprised they’ve latched on with a major label again, but hope that they at least get some good tour support so they can make it up to Canada before they’re dropped again.

Cynical? Me? Never.

Addendum – I’m reading on the Ivy mailing list that the new FOW album is called ‘Mexican Wine’.