Desolate

ah, thursday.. it's not even 8 am yet. wow.

last night was a good night, a old-time new mex rev practice with jana really flying on the clarinet. some people are pretty good at playing neat things really fast. she's a devil. or at least in league with 'em.

anyhow, i got two songs finished, 'tippy tommy' and 'Desolate'.

this one here had a difficult birth.. protools somehow got a stranglehold on it and wouldn't let go, i couldn't bounce it down and get it all finished. some odd audio property error, and i couldn't solve. so i started over, from the beginning and re-did everything.. just about everything. it seems almost against the spirit of the songaday project, but it is a neat song.

it's got one of the neatest piano parts.. in the middle break the piano and drums supply all the motion, the guitars take a backseat. i like that, it's too easy for me to do guitar driven stuff. having said that, this song has two or three guitars on it, including one neat line panned off to the side. this song used to have a high harmony, i was singing an octave up i think (wow). it was kinda neil young/my morning jacket-ish, and i liked it. it was hard for me to do, but emily had her concerns (she didn't think it sounded like neil young), so i didn't bother revisiting it on the second version. i'm sure it is better without it..

the lyrics are a mash-up between an episode of globe trekker (the arctic circle) and this nightmare-esque dream i had where a drunk indian guy tried to break into our house and he ended up curling up and falling alseep on the outside grill, which was on and he got cooked to a crisp - i remember screaming and crying and trying to revive him. very disquieting.

today is a short day at work, so maybe this afternoon'll be particularly productive.