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So this kickstarter business is taking forever. It's supposed to take up to 21 days to process and of course we're still in that 21 day period but i get impatient and always expect things to actually happen quicker. My account balance is almost 5 grand, but my disbursable amount is -279! So I can't access it still and I worry that it won't right itself even if i do wait the 21 days i'm supposed to. Trying to be patient but it would be nice to have that money to pay some of the composers rather than take it out of my own savings, which is what i've been doing so far. I had to take out of savings this week just in case because i had a check out to a composer and my rent check. They still haven't cashed my rent check! And I got paid a couple days ago, so I didn't HAVE to take out of savings. But now that i have I want to put that money to my cc instead. I'm currently obsessed with the cc and the savings but cc definitely takes priority. I think after this next payment i'll be under 2 grand! It hasn't been that low since err... 5 or 6 years ago? Before i moved here i think i was holding it at about 1,500. So, I'm super excited about that but waiting for them to post my new bill before i pay. Patience.
Working really hard on 3 of the composers pieces right now and still waiting on 2 of them. 1 of them tried to back out of the project and i basically refused to let him. So he's working on it but also stressed because he's in his last semester of his masters. I get it, and i don't want to rush him, i can't wait to record his in june but i need to know he's working on it. He sent me a quartet of tenors, no vocals. Fine. Whatever, as long as i have a piece and i like it. But now he said his teacher is pushing him to make it better, which is good i guess, i want his best quality work, but it adds more stress for him and i feel bad about that.
The other one turned something in and i didn't care for it so we talked, he's going to take another stab at it with a new sound concept in mind. But I hadn't heard from him in a couple weeks so i just emailed. He's the type to write it in a couple days, he writes simple and fast. But he needed the reminder so now he's going to try to do it by or on Saturday=)
The 3 I'm prepping for recording are going pretty well. I'm going to workshop 1 at the house concert this sunday, i'm excited about it. It's the title track and it's one of the easier ones for me to perform. AND I think i finally got my amp situation figured out so it won't fuck up hardcore on me like it was before.
One is going great because i keep sending samples to the composer and he keeps giving me feedback on what he wants, which is great! But I also worry that we won't have it ready by the 2nd weekend of May when i intend to record it. But I'll keep on it.
The 3rd one caused all kinds of frustration in terms of technology and it's going to be really hard to perform live. It has a lot of fast pedal stuff and switches between voice, sax, and a sampler. The sampler has been the biggest issue so far. The first one i got was pretty simple but didn't like me using my own sounds and wasn't very user friendly. I returned it and got a better one, but this one has to be hooked up to the computer and took me forever to figure out! It's more user friendly in the editing program but i'm still having some latency issues and it took forever to figure out how to hook it up to the pedal! And even then i don't think i have the tempo sync right yet. But I don't really have to worry about that for recording, just live performance.
In other news, life. I've started spending time with a percussionist. He is not who I thought he was going to be. I originally just tried to booty call him but he insisted on spending time getting to know me first... ok. Well, now it's a little confusing, because we're friends. And, he's way more genuine and deep of a person than i anticipated. I'm enjoying my time with him but it's also a bit distracting when i'm not with him and i want more time now that i know him but we're both busy people so... trying not to get greedy with him. And also trying to stay an arms length away, i don't have time for something real, and i'm moving in about a year! But if i can stay removed this will all work out well.
Ash and I are talking about moving in together again. We have very different standards of living though, and disagree on what we're willing to pay for rent, she's willing to pay WAY more than i am. She currently pays $200 more than i do a month. No thank you. So, we're working on it. And I think we will figure it out, if not i have the backup of staying where i am and getting new roommates.
OK, back to work, less than 2 hours left to practice before i have to get ready for work! Ooops.
Working really hard on 3 of the composers pieces right now and still waiting on 2 of them. 1 of them tried to back out of the project and i basically refused to let him. So he's working on it but also stressed because he's in his last semester of his masters. I get it, and i don't want to rush him, i can't wait to record his in june but i need to know he's working on it. He sent me a quartet of tenors, no vocals. Fine. Whatever, as long as i have a piece and i like it. But now he said his teacher is pushing him to make it better, which is good i guess, i want his best quality work, but it adds more stress for him and i feel bad about that.
The other one turned something in and i didn't care for it so we talked, he's going to take another stab at it with a new sound concept in mind. But I hadn't heard from him in a couple weeks so i just emailed. He's the type to write it in a couple days, he writes simple and fast. But he needed the reminder so now he's going to try to do it by or on Saturday=)
The 3 I'm prepping for recording are going pretty well. I'm going to workshop 1 at the house concert this sunday, i'm excited about it. It's the title track and it's one of the easier ones for me to perform. AND I think i finally got my amp situation figured out so it won't fuck up hardcore on me like it was before.
One is going great because i keep sending samples to the composer and he keeps giving me feedback on what he wants, which is great! But I also worry that we won't have it ready by the 2nd weekend of May when i intend to record it. But I'll keep on it.
The 3rd one caused all kinds of frustration in terms of technology and it's going to be really hard to perform live. It has a lot of fast pedal stuff and switches between voice, sax, and a sampler. The sampler has been the biggest issue so far. The first one i got was pretty simple but didn't like me using my own sounds and wasn't very user friendly. I returned it and got a better one, but this one has to be hooked up to the computer and took me forever to figure out! It's more user friendly in the editing program but i'm still having some latency issues and it took forever to figure out how to hook it up to the pedal! And even then i don't think i have the tempo sync right yet. But I don't really have to worry about that for recording, just live performance.
In other news, life. I've started spending time with a percussionist. He is not who I thought he was going to be. I originally just tried to booty call him but he insisted on spending time getting to know me first... ok. Well, now it's a little confusing, because we're friends. And, he's way more genuine and deep of a person than i anticipated. I'm enjoying my time with him but it's also a bit distracting when i'm not with him and i want more time now that i know him but we're both busy people so... trying not to get greedy with him. And also trying to stay an arms length away, i don't have time for something real, and i'm moving in about a year! But if i can stay removed this will all work out well.
Ash and I are talking about moving in together again. We have very different standards of living though, and disagree on what we're willing to pay for rent, she's willing to pay WAY more than i am. She currently pays $200 more than i do a month. No thank you. So, we're working on it. And I think we will figure it out, if not i have the backup of staying where i am and getting new roommates.
OK, back to work, less than 2 hours left to practice before i have to get ready for work! Ooops.