ok. wow. november disappeared! some things happened. i remember having a birthday and going to oklahoma for thanksgiving. i’m pretty sure we went on vacation to west texas and did a lot of hiking aroud the davis mountains and enchanted rock but i know there was very little time spent in the studio doing the things that need doing. creative work is sometimes the victim of trade-offs. it happens.
the world has finally cooled off enough temperature-wise to allow me to get out and use my new birthday drillpress. i’m back to building instruments. i whipped together a ukulele from a kit that i’ve had lying around for a couple of years and i started a flat backed lute.
i’m going to test my french polish skills on the both of these so that i won’t screw up my guitar that i’m also building in the background. moving my production for gluing and simple work inside allows me to get stuff done during the week. i can’t really sand in the house but with the few hours i can sneak off into the garage on the weekend i’ve been making some real progress. i also get a lot of help from the dude and that makes it double fun.
my album has been simmering. i’m listening and re-listening to tracks that i thought were in the can and deciding that they still need work. better now than after a release, but it is still frustrating.
i spent some time in the studio working on some music for a theater production up in the great white north. who knew that covering stevie wonder could be so much fun? certainly not i! of course i cut my finger rather badly while cooking tonight and as a result didn’t get things done up as neatly as i would have liked, but this is the way of things. i got a lot of help from my new production assistant. he’s really good at finding keyboard shortcuts in applications and discovering midi functionality that i didn’t know existed in logic.
more frequent posts will be forthcoming. i’m actually back to doing things again, so let’s see if i can’t make a go of this blog.
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