Discouraged
TAXI report: I have submitted six songs to TAXI.com for consideration as background music for tv shows/film/commercials or as a song that could be recorded by another artist. They have been returned with the note that these songs were not what they were looking for....
“Suck It, Jesus”
So on September 8th, Kathy Griffin accepted an Emmy Award with the words, "Suck it, Jesus. This award is my God, now." And that event has caused believers, free speech supporters and atheists alike to respond to each other's responses. At www.suckitjesus.com [NOTE: no...
Scary Movies?
I believe it's never too early to start preparing for holidays, even Halloween. So, as I get ready, I wonder: what scary movies would anyone recommend this Halloween season? I'm asking about genuinely frightening movies that make it hard for you to go to bed later,...
Why Have Children?
I attended a wedding last June and today I received word of the bride's pregnancy. I stared at a jpeg of the ultrasound in shock. I was surprised at how soon she got pregnant, but I also just felt baffled at the universal, almost without exception, desire of people to...
Process
I guess there are more steps than I anticipated: I counted making the recording of these songs as one step, when really there are also the steps of listening to the mix, evaluating it, deciding what songs (or parts of songs) to re-do, rehearsing more, going back to...
How The Song Recording Went
I warmed up my voice at home and ran through each of the songs before I left for recording studio Handwritten Recordings on Monday afternoon. The recording session went very well (eight songs in two hours, Tom L). I still felt nervous, but I was able to avoid the...
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...