I finally have hope about my recording device. A guy who lives upstairs has all this recording equipment and invited me up with my recorder. My ongoing problem has been volume. It is never loud enough unless I sacrifice sound quality a lot. He ran the mics through a preamp and it sounded great. It sounded like a studio recording. A preamp will ( Read more... )

My insane upstairs neighbor has grown eerily quiet now that I've started yelling things out. He is content just pacing.

Now I've had a little too much wine. I'm playing chess and talking to myself. I'm still winning most of my games though.

I'm drinking wine from the vineyard I'm working at this summer. It is actually very good. Among the best I've had, not that I'm an expert. 2004 must have been a good year.

I am listening to the new tori amos album and I'm really struggling to get through it. I don't understand how one goes from boys for pele to this. After the bee keeper and this shit, I think she has given up. It must be too much of an investment to write a song with a soul.

We have come full circle. 3 years ago my upstairs neighbor was clinically insane. I now have a new crazy. This is his first night here and he is already talking to himself and yelling threats to his neighbors. He is talking about bringing a chain gun here tomorrow and killing us all. He has been yelling that he has spent his life killing people. " ( Read more... )

No one writes music sad enough for my liking.

My new upstairs neighbors make very unappealing sex noises. The male must have TB because in the middle of his night time creature sex sounds he has massive coughing fits. I suppose I can tolerate the female, but she only encourages her consumptive lover, driving him to a frenzy beyond his respiratory capacity. This apartment complex may as well be ( Read more... )

Is it wrong of me to have let out a yip of joy upon reading Jerry Falwell is dead?

For the first time in a couple of weeks, I listened to the recordings of the songs I'm working on. I hate every one. I deleted all of them. I don't understand why my music is so bad when all my influences are excellent musicians. You would think that I could at least write a mediocre song. Maybe one or two of my songs are good enough to be ( Read more... )