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Okay, so. I woke up late today, but that is okay. I got to work and was exhausted because I didn't get to sleep until about three this morning. The day was kind of dull, it wasn't very busy but it was nice. Everyone was just kind of goofing around. Nathanael and I were talking about recording plans, and what I need to do in order to record on my laptop. Now I am home. And it's so beautiful outside.
I want/need to get things done tonight but I refuse to let this nice weather go to waste. So I am going to wander down Bank, and I need to get hairspray and I will get a coffee and I really wish I had a real reason to be lurking around downtown, but I do also need a blank shirt .. yes that is it, I will go to the market and then I will come back.
So the game plan is:
Go to the market.
Come home, paint/draw that fly for the main page of my site. Do the homesick and octopus paintings for Derek and make that smoking print. I don't know what that's going to be on yet, but anyways. Then, probably take a break and do something like tea or guitar. Then write a cd review and contact Keavin again. Then contact Express and Exclaim. Then email Nathanael's dad. Then call home. Then do Rachel's deer painting if I have that piece of wood like I think do. Then work on Nathanael's band art stuff. Then start designing a sleeve. Then do our album artwork. Then figure out how I'm going to make that constellation photograph sweet. Then work on my site. Then plan out the concepts and layouts for two new paintings I want to do. El Bosco has inspired me. So has back home and Easter.
I will probably do like three of these things but as long as I make at least a start on some of it, that will be good.
I really am becoming a collaboration whore. This band Amnesia Amnesia asked me to do guest vocals on their full length, which they'll be recording in the next two months, so I get to go sing in a studio again, which is exciting. I hope I have a sweet part.
I'm really really excited to record with Nathanael again, last time was so much fun. And now we can do it pretty much whenever we're all free, because we don't need to go back home to do it. We'll probably end up recording at Brian's. Maybe Krys and Paul's but probably not.
Plus Richard is back in Ottawa finally, so he should be getting back to me tonight or tomorrow about shirt prices. I should go to No Other Way's house tonight to get our money, goddamn. They're just really scary. Maybe if Jude is here early enough tonight, I can make him come with me.
I wish we could write like a fucking mission statement and business plan for what the hell kind of music we will soon be writing, because everyone's all stoked on Between The Buried and Me and Today I Caught The Plague and Fall of Troy but we can't quite pull off writing that insane prog math metal and still be catchy yet. But that is sort of the plan. I need to talk to my dad.
We're in transition right now and we're still stuck in that catchy prog pop band area but writing mathy songs that just aren't making sense and are nowhere near as good as what we're capable of writing. I know we have it in us. I wish we hadn't released Glass Ceiling because that song sucks and we can do better. We really need to learn to take things one step at a time, and wait until that step is ready and established before moving on.
I feel a change, and I feel like it's going in the right direction.
And I'm psyched for merch.
I wish I was better at screen printing so I could just do it myself and not have to pay somebody. That really kills me.
OKAY downtown in a tank top and caffeineskin.