friday random elevenish: “conference call vs. leaf blower” edition
By the time you’re reading this, there should be a small army of leaf blowers scraping autumn off of my property. I also have a couple of phone calls Friday morning, so that should make the work day interesting.
It’s been, as they say, a week. I’ve been a little on edge emotionally, and again, I don’t quite know why. I channelled some of that into a couple of hours this week building a drum track for a tune I’ve been meaning to record for about a year and a half now; it didn’t make the first record, but it’s a favorite of a couple of people, and to do it right, it ought to be released at a certain time anyway.
It was the first time I’ve really did any serious work with MIDI, and while the resulting effort isn’t complex, it fits the song nicely, and, more importantly, isn’t just a loop I dug up somewhere. I’m figuring I’ll put some time into building the rest of the track this weekend, getting a lot of the hard work out of the way before that part of my mind gets occupied by….
Yes, I’ll be participating again; in the past, I’ve generally had a pretty decent output, and at least two or three keepers out of the exercise. Hoping I can channel some of this generalized emotional baggage into something creatively worthy this year; plus, I hope to write a couple of funny ones. I’ve got a few back-burner ideas, though the interaction with fellow participants always inspires further ideas. I look forward to what I end up conjuring out of the aether.
Anyway – tunes otherwise. This week’s “Discover Weekly” from spotify seems really influenced by the pop-punk tastes of my youngest child, who spent some time picking the tunes in the car the last couple of weeks. #7 gave me a laugh, and #11 is a tune that has been popping up in different contexts in my life over the last couple of months, enough to ensure that it was certainly “a thing”, though a thing that I completely missed at the time:
- “Neopet Graveyard” – Gully Boys
- “Plea from a Cat Named Virtute” – The Weakerthans
- “Rats” – Joy Again
- “When You Sleep” – My Bloody Valentine
- “Stay” – Buddha Trixie
- “When U Call My Name” – DOGBRETH
- “Ivankkka Is A Nazi” – The Network
- “:(” The Garden
- “Psycho Killer” – The Wrecks
- “Alrighty Aphrodite” – Peach Pit
- “Teenage Dirtbag” – Wheatus
- “Blood Related” – Kurtis Connor
- “Chicken Noodle” Small Crush
