It has finally come. Recording. Crap.

Now that I have my G4 installed and ready to go, we're finding some of the same issues as on a PC. So much for using PC as our scape goat eh? heh. There's nothing else to blame, except that I am honestly having some problems with my mac, which needs attention. Of course, i've been raised on PC (from working DOS -> 3.1 -> '95 -> XP) so i'm not exactly sure how to check some of the background system files... I'm going to ask a few mac friends to see if they have any idea of what's wrong. Just my luck eh, that my mac has problems. At least it's just the beginning, and i don't have many things on here anyway.

We've started recording and we're working on one of our songs called "Perseverance". It's sounding pretty decent for a demo, so hopefully we can crank more of it out this week and have a good skeleton by thanksgiving. Speaking of songs, i've been working on Built on Sinking Sands (see below). I know I should be working on finalizing my parts for the existing songs, but I can't get this one out of my head. We have the basic chorus melody, plus a really cool pre-chorus that i sing. It's looking pretty good, except that the lyrics that i wrote last month are being tweaked and some parts completely changed. I wrote that as a stream-of-conscousness excercise, and now working on the song i realize that it needs to be changed.. and some of the lyrics just suck too ("Singing songs by day and livin' it by night / What more could a guy ask for?" -garbage! only Dashboard could pull a line like that off and make it sound good :) )

Speaking of dashboard, I feel guilty that the new song isn't exploding as I thought it would. Yes, people know about it, and yes it is very big compared to most bands out there, but in terms of mainstream my 14-year-old-sister world music, it didn't exactly spread to all their Kazaa folders. I'm kinda happy though, since it looks like it won't be like the John Mayer tragedy that happened to one of my hardcore JM friends. JM is so big in the pop world that he's now filling the ACC! Crazy man. We went to a smaller club just a little while back. My sister now listens to him, and FAST FORWARDS THE GUITAR JAMS. And she has the sheer audacity to that while i'm present! What is going on with this world? I thought at least JM can bring his incredible jazz and blues guitar background into the mainstream, and build a greater appreciation for it. Instead, it's goes something along "yea yea ok just play 'Your body is a wonderland' and take off your shirt cutie pie."

...Sounds like most gay guys out there eh? The parallelism between my 14-year-old sister and the gay mentality can be uncanny at times! (Abercrombie/American Eagle attire, Pasting abercromie models across desktops, MSN crazy, Colin Ferrel and Justin Timerlake...) Someone needs to write a Soc paper on that one, ladies and gentlemen. Don't forget to pay me royalties for the idea once your make your millions though.

On a side note, Arnold Schwarzenegger is now Governor-Elect of California! Californian's excercised their right to throw out the current governor Davis after about a year or 2 in office. heh. I know that they were pretty pissed off at him at the massive power outage and their deficit, so lets see of arnold can do anything. what kills me is that one of their slogans was "Another Recall" (refering to getting people to vote for a recall of the current governor.. but man, all i thought was his movie, "Total Recall"). Hey, if some actor guy named Ronald Regan can be President of the USA, then why not Arnold for governor?

God bless America!!

Take care,

RE

"...and all the "Best Deceptions" and the "Clever Cover Story" awards, go to you. You will be back someday, and this ackward kiss that tells of other people's lips will be of service to keeping you away" -DC