Recording Studio Fright
Tomorrow I record the vocal tracks to eight of my original songs. I've been practicing these eight songs for six weeks now. I'm sick of them. I can sing them just fine, if I stay relaxed. Relaxing is what I do worst in the world. So the vocals are pretty much doomed....
We’re Gonna Do It! (from the Laverne and Shirley song)
Yesterday Neal Alger and I recorded the bass and guitar tracks to eight of my original songs at Handwritten Recordings studio in two and a half hours. A couple of songs we did in one take. I understand this is startlingly uncommon and efficient of us, but Neal and I...
I Hear Music
Current goals: 1. Record the instrumental tracks to eight original songs this week with Neal Alger, my favorite guitarist to work with. 2. Record the vocal tracks to those songs (at Handwritten Recordings) next week. 3. Keep submitting songs to TAXI.com with the goal...
Whining, Minutiae-filled, Boring
On Tuesday I cancelled a chiropractor's appointment I had for that afternoon because my digestion felt fine. Within @#$-damn 90 minutes I had a pain in my right ankle that was bad enough to have me limping. What the hell? But I hesitated to get my appointment back...
FINALLY
Well, well. The little brown one has finally toppled. Why is Michael Chertoff the most likely replacement for the attorney general position? How did that happen?As I was watching a CNN anchorwoman greet two talking heads and ask them their opinions on the Alberto...
Dream Weight
Photo by my boyfriend, Bob. For months, maybe even years, I've been thinking that since I'm five feet, two inches tall and shrinking, my ideal weight would be 118 pounds. This weight has seemed variably far away or impossible, depending on my state of fitness. But in...
Music for Sale
I decided to be a singer in 1992 (at the age of 26), but it was four years until I wrote my first song. After that, I began performing with friends sporadically and it was several more years before I had a repertoire of originals and a real band. In my most miserable...
Yay, August Is Halfway Over
And here I am at the halfway point of August, feeling excited about the coming fall season, which includes one of my favorite holidays, Halloween. Halloween is the most widely celebrated American holiday that does not include any pressure, or even suggestion, to spend...
Help Me Name My Website
In 2006 when I stopped performing my original songs and stopped writing songs and stopped playing bass and singing at all, I seriously questioned whether or not I was "really" a musician and thought maybe it was a phase I had gone through -- in my teens and 20's and...
Dennis Kucinich For President
After watching the Democratic presidential candidates in debate, hearing/reading about the candidates in debate, reading through their website and taking in what I can of the presidential race so far, at this point my vote is going to Dennis Kucinich (If the link...
Spanish-non-Speaker
I hate being asked if I speak Spanish.
On Hillary Clinton
Yesterday I received an email from an organizer of the local Kucinich campaign, saying that if anyone wanted to attend the Democratic debate being held in Chicago tonight, August 7th, they should email him by last night. I was scheduled to work tonight, so I didn't...